Gelato auto fast buds

My first grow. Growing one gelato and one Mexican airlines in my converted wardrobe 😂. Germinated gelato seed directly in soil and popped up in a few days. Looks strong. The Mexican airlines I germinated the same time is growing a bit faster but early days! Using plagron light mix this grow with mainly biobizz nutes and atami cal mag.

All going smoothly so far. The gelato is coming in to her own and growing away no problem. Reacting well to amount of light and nutes so far. Lowered the light a bit this week and added bio grow to the nute schedule and no bad reaction so far. Transplanted her this week in to the big pot. Went fine so shouldn’t be any bad reaction there either hopefully. Maybe next week I’ll start with a bit of LST.

Going okay so far. She’s looking healthy and taking to nutrients well. Strong but not growing as fast as I’d like. Humidity and heat levels seem to be within the right limits too so I’m wondering what could be holding her back. Might be the light as it’s a cheap LED one from some Chinese company so prob not the best diodes. Think I might get a better one for flowering stage. Will be worth it if it helps grow bigger yield!

No complaints this week. She’s reacting well to LST as far as I can see and she’s starting to take shape. Lots of new growth appearing and beginning to see the early signs of flowering. Started some defoliation too so that the extra growth gets some light on it. She’s soaking up the extra water and nutes nicely too and doesn’t seem to be showing any burn of deficiencies so I’m happy 😎

Happy enough this week. She’s growing nicely getting good n bushy. Some pre flowering signs but not really budding yet. Not much else to say. Slow n steady really. Got a new light for flowering it’s a spider farmer sf-1000. Nice having white light instead of the purple. Def makes it easier to take pics anyway!

I’m happy enough this week. She’s really flying now. Reacting well to the new light and turning in to a proper bush! Think she needs another bit of defoliation in the next week cos it’s getting dense as fuck up the top n no light will be able to get through. One thing that I’m not too happy about is the amount of time it’s taking for her to flower. She showed signs about two weeks ago n it’s been very slow progress since. Ive a Mexican airlines plant right next to this one under the same light and they were both started together and the ma is flowering big time. Not as bushy tho so this gelato will prob yield more but not be finished as fast. Sure it will take as long as it takes I suppose!

Started the week with some defoliation n she blew up again after that! Grew another 10cm in height and got even bushier than before! Outgrowing my grow space now and is about 10cm taller than the Mexican airlines I have next to it. This makes it a bit awkward when it comes to changing my grow light height but so far it’s not causing too much hassle. She’s clearly flowering now n I can see plenty of colas and lower bud sites appearing. Looking good 👌

More vertical growth again this week. Another 10cm higher! Got even bushier again too she’s a beast. Buds r growing nicely too so no complaints really. I struggled big time trying to keep humidity levels down to normal amount. Was even reaching 80% at times so I bit the bullet n bought a mini dehumidifier for the space. It’s doing the job so happy days

Buds r maturing nicely and loads of colas on her. Tips of leaves r showing nutrient burn so I halved the nutes and will see how it goes. Think that terpinator sent it over the edge with all the other biobizz nutes too. It better make the buds stink!! Another couple weeks n she might be ready!

Went low with nutrients this week because of burn on the tips of leaves then finished the week with a proper flush. I overdid it with the nutrients but will know for next time! I think I'll just feed her water til harvest now cos she seems to be almost ready. So basically cut out all nutes except bloom n topmax with terpinator n small bit of calmag too. Starting to get a really nice sweet smell. Not a million miles away from ice creamy smell!

So that's a week n a few days of flushing done and she's looking ready for the chop! Beautiful colours in and around buds now and absolutely covered in trichomes. I can't post close up pics of trichomes unfortunately cos I don't have a camera with the magnification it needs. Just gonna wait another few days and harvest then. Happy days 😁

This plant was a beast from pre flowering right through to harvest. As it was my first grow it really made things easy for me! I did a lot of research before and during the grow on different sites and examined others a lot on growdiaries but didn't expect results this good. Must be top class genetics from fast buds. This smoke is nicer than most I've had and I've been to Netherlands a few times! 11 and a half weeks from germination to harvest. Then two weeks of drying at 50% to 60% humidity and about 20 degrees Celsius. 97g of buds that are nice and dense, smell like ice cream and are sticky as fuck. Happy days 🤩 Thanks to all who helped me with questions and for the likes n positive comments. Also growdiaries for the platform. It's a massive help for newbs like myself. 🙏