HSO - Blue Dream

D2. Germinated above soil Thursday, April 16. All my diaries seem to start on Thursdays... Only a half pot of soil because seedling don't need a lot of space and it saves on numbers of pots. Whenever they're ready I can basically transplant into the same pot. Some blue dream fems from Humboldt seeds. Me and my friend enjoyed my blue dream auto enough I wanted to grow the normal version. Bought a 3 pack of seeds from Attitude seedbank in the UK, always great. One of the freebies this time was another blue dream auto, so I'm thinking of doing it outdoors. Autos are really good outdoors in northern Canada due to the fact we don't get 12/12 until Sept 20 so we have long daylight hours and the auto will finish before the snow.

Love growing multiple seeds of one variety. Can see the differences already. One doesn't appreciate the lower humidity where I live. One doesn't even care and is pumping along. D10: can see one of the blue dreams is already more vigourous, putting out its third set of leaves while the others are on number two

D14: the one that complained about the humidity is the smallest. The biggest is just trucking, every day seems bigger than the last and it's a nice pheno so far. It'll be cool to the differences after the veg. D20: one plant is much bigger than the rest.

D22: talked up the pots with some fresh dirt, and give them a blast of water. Headed out of town for the weekend and make sure they were all set up. They're looking good accept one's a little twisty D25: a little droopy. I think I had my LEDs turned up to bright for the seedlings. They went in before my trip and I never dimmed the light.

Topped them last Wednesday, they perked up from the repotting and took off on branch production. Thinking about some lst soon to let all the branches be on the same level. D31: trained them down D33: pointing back up to the light. Recovering from the training. Trying to keep the branches even for now.

D37: trimmed a few leaves and small side branches to direct the growth. Not sure when I'll start to train the untopped one. Nice growth so far but I had to turn down the led panel a little to get some stretch.

D42: growing nicely. Good number of branches, leaves are prayin a little bit. Managed to get a little bit of stretch on the plants in veg by turning down my LED panel a little. I think this weekend the plants will either get topped again or lst a bit. Need more branches. D44: topped and trained and defoliation. Also reported to a 6inch square. They will fill up this pot and go into the 7 or 10 gallon next. Lots of work. Kinda mutilated the one that I didn't train, want it to produce branches now. Nice even canopy so far with a decent amount of meristems

D50. Their home has been repurposed as the drying tent. They are on a storage rack with the panel hung a over them. There's no climate control. They're doing okay, got nice green growth after repotting them. The one I bent over and mutilated has lots of nice branches and has recovered good. When I handle them they smell slightly gassy D53: with no fan in the temp ghetto setup, there is a little smell coming off the plants. It's gassy and a little skunky. It's nice and gives me hope they will all be dank. Gave em a shot of some fairly strong organic fert mix, they all look really green and perky with lots new bright growth. Really nice and I wish I could give them more room right now to spread out.

D56: everything is very happy, putting up some nice growth. They had a spurt over the last week and a half but I feel they are filling the pots pretty quick. They'll have big pots soon. One plant is variegated which is cool. There's a few leaves with the yellow variegation. D61: pretty sure they've filled the pots. One plant has started to droop a little. I might move her to her 10 gallon sooner than the others even if it means further away from the light. I don't mind a little stretching, just gives more to train.

D63: growing nice. I think they've filled in their pots so they'll get transplanted next week sometime. Took a couple cuts to give to friend as well. D69: left for the weekend and they all looked very root bound when I got home. Transplanted yesterday on day 68 into 10 gallons, one is in a 7 gallon. They perked up overnight but it'll take a couple days to get rid of the yellowing and look normal again. Probably stunted them for a week and a half with my little vacation.

D70: went away for a few days last week for fathers day. And when I came home the plants were root bound and quite yellow. Transplanted two day 67. The last one went into the green crack's 10 gallon pot so it's still a little yellow as it went in a day after the others. It should look better tomorrow. They're praying really nice, the yellow has mostly gone away. They rebounded in two days and are looking great. I have them still under the HPS bulb to get a little vertical stretching, then I'll switch to MH. Probably give them about a month total under 1000w before I flower them. D71: tied them down a little bit to even them out. I am already noticing a little stretching which is is nice. Also picked a few older leaves off that weren't getting light. Bent and hst one branch till it cracked to get it out of the way. They recovered and pointed up in four hours...

D77: picked a few lower leaves. I like to do a slow defoliation with a few lower leaves that don't receive light instead of stripping them all at once. Plants are growing quite a bit each day now, installed the net to help train them. You can see how much they've grown since they were root bound last week with the yellow edges on that one plant. It's grown two sets of leaves in a week. Seriously go look back a week and look at day 70, compared to this week's day 77. They're growing like a weed!! Sadly those leaves will always have the yellow edges. One is more sativa looking than the others and another one has the burnt tips I always get on good bud. It also happens to be the one I picked out early as my favourite. Got a good feeling about that one so I'll take a few clones of each just in case. I call it my greenhouse burn. I think they'll go into flower when they fill the net. I want some bigger yields from these plants, I'm not concerned with the timeframe. Usually I flip between 60 and 75 days. D80: they are growing soo much now that they are happy in the bigger pots. Literally an inch each day. I worry what flower will be like haha

D84: growing like crazy. Having branches twist and turn in the net, picking the under leaves and suckers off. One plant is a little more sativa and stretches an inch a day, it's the one with bright green growth; super aggressive. I might regret my decision to wait until the net fills up to flower. The way things are going they might get switched to flower for next week. I've got 8-10 nice tops right now on each plant, so if I can get a few more than a dozen, and even out the inside so it's not all popcorny I should be able to hit my goal of 200g off of each. D90: I think the net is pretty much full. Back left is still stretching like a mad man, getting trained every day. Going to switch the tent to flower in the next couple days.

D91: I think they've filled the net, good growth in the comparison from last week. I'm going to take a few clones off of them today or tomorrow, then I'll flower switch to flower on Sunday, probably day 95. They have a few more days to recover from the final defoliation and cloning and stretch above the net. Hoping for a great yield off of these three blue dreams. The bigger one has 13 big tops and a lot of smaller branches filling in the net.

D98: this is day 2 of flower. They have switched over in two light cycles, they are nice and bright green now and stretching a little faster. I'm going to keep my MH in for the first week and a half or so. Staying MH through the start of flower can minimize stretch and give a more compact structure. The three blue dreams have all been a little different. I took five cuts from each before flower just in case one's a banger to keep. Back left was more stretchy, faster growing with more branches. A bigger pot and it wouldve taken over the whole net in no time. Back right was very apical dominant, and even though I trained her she never really 'grew' more branches. She only produced more via topping. Even now, there is little evidence of side production, I'm hoping the colas are nice and big because of this. If so this may be a very nice SOG cut. Front right is similar to back left but didn't stretch as much, a little more compact of a plant. Front left is covered in another grow diary. It's an In House Genetics, Terple. D101/f5: stretching constantly. I'm feeding every second watering, and they love it, bright green everytime I do. They're sucking up the nutes. D107: first week of flower done and it's a forest of stalks. Got probably a solid five inches of stretch, decent node spacing. I hope they all fill up with bud, that would be spectacular.

F8: lots of stretch in the first week of flower. Back right is a little taller than the others. Because they've been stretching I've been keeping the suckers and lowest bits all trimmed up. A little bit every couple days to prevent shock. I've been feeding every 2nd water with fish fertilizer and thrive bloom. F12: nice little bud formation already at a week and a half. Back right was more stretchy.

D15: stretching is complete. They grew about a foot over the net. Doubled in size, with back right doing a little more than that. Bud production has started, a little bit of crystally resin too. Excited to see how they swell. Still feeding every second water and the plants are still consuming the lower leaves. I think it's due to age and light tho, not due to flower yet. This is good, I sometimes end up with underfeeding a bit of a yellow plant in mid flower.

F22: the three blue dreams are doing very well. The back right one that stretched more is coated in crystals already. They all have the same bud structure which is good. I like seeing fairly consistent phenos from seed runs. I have clones of all of them just in case one finishes better.

F28: 4 weeks in. Probably 6 to go. They are all kind of different as the flower. Back left has a lot of coal has but nothing remarkable about the size of resin. Back right has a lot of resin and is fairly tall. Front right has very thick buds already and a decent amount of resin but not as much as the back one. kind of surprising because the one closest to the fan was fairly unremarkable and normal-looking in veg now it has the chunkiest looking buds.

F35: growing well. Back left has has nearly all the stems flop over in the last week or so. They're just laying on top of each other on the net. Back right is slower but way more frost. Front right is getting thick and looks good. Other than the floppy one in the back they're all really nice so far. Still giving water nearly every day, feeding a little bit every second.

F42: it's been cool here lately which has caused some nice colour on the front right. Ones still floppy and getting hungry and the other is getting too heavy for it's own good and is leaning on the tent. The thick purple one is really nice. Was a real sleeper in veg being pretty normal looking.

F49: 49 days of flower. Probably 20 more? I know blue dream goes a little longer and the buds on two of the plants still look young. I'm gonna have to do a close up shot next weekend to figure out just how close I am. I harvested the terple day 50 and that caused a ruckus in the net. All the plants are a floppy mess but I'm not concerned. The net package I got actually came with a larger upper net but I never installed it like an idiot. Getting the Terple out of the gross space caused everything to fall over but it's all right because now all the side buds are exposed to light lol.

D56: still all floppy. They look good tho. Swelling up and looking straight up delicious. Took some pics with my Nikon. Noticed some cool trichome colours. Possibly only 14 days left. Harvest day 70ish is my guess which is a week over what they say it should be. Some of the side buds on the back right one are the size of baseballs. Also noticed that the trichome stalks are purple even though the plant is all green/yellow. The front one is rock solid with that beautiful purple colours. Definitely doing this exact cut again. 110%. Back left went yellow instead of purple, side buds aren't as big at the back right one. It's kind of a medium plant.

D63: This is the final week, it will be harvested on Wednesday which will be 70 days of flower. One plant is fading away hard now and should look like it pretty easy trim. I've been watering every second day instead as well. they have swollen a little bit but look relatively the same to last week so I know they're pretty much done.

Front right yielded 124 g. Back right yielded 88 g and was a bit leafier. Back left yielded 123 g. Plant was bigger but lower buds were more popcorny. Front right with the nice color ended up being the winner. I'll keep a cut of it and try again later. They all had a combination of citrusy kind of fruity kind of gassy smell I think but my nose seems to be off according to my friends. One downside to the strain is the weak stems.