Fastbuds Six Shooter

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I bought 10 Six-Shooter seeds from Seedsman, only ONE germinated. That really soured me on Fastbuds, but Seedsman was awesome and replaced them immediately. Anyway, this thing has looked wonky from the start and I wasn't sure it'd survive so I didn't start the journal until week 3. It also has 4 branches at the first set of true leaves, 2 branches per side. Day 17: Topped, 1gal @6.5ph, .5tsp Grow Big, Big Bloom, N-Cal-Mag Day 21: 1gal @ 6.5ph, .5tsp Wholly Mackerel, Grow Big, Big Bloom, N-Cal-Mag. I popped off some of the little side nodes forming since I'd yank them later anyway. I'd rather it spend it's energy only on growing branches that I'll keep. I'll be honest, this thing is weird: it's SUPER bushy with leaves growing in twisted or with chunks missing, and some branches have alternating growth while others are symmetrical.

Day 22: First major defoliation today, this thing is such a twisted mess. Completely broke off one of the top to branches trying to LST, one day I'll get the hang of how to do this, lol. Day 23: More defoliation, mostly pulled off leaves that were growing upside-down or completely trapped under larger leaves.

Day 28: Pre-flowers starting to show up Day 30: It's finally starting to look like a normal plant. It's pretty short, but I ended up growing out the branches on the first node since there were FOUR coming out there instead of 2, and I've LST'd the crap out of it since then. Right now the branches are barely clearing the lip of the pot. Bushing out and starting to stretch, flowers coming in nicely. Everything is going according to plan...

Day 38: I've kind of been waiting to see if this thing was gonna stretch, it seemed to be growing kind of slow, but it shot up noticeably overnight. I'm really happy with the even canopy, should provide good hefty buds without any larf.

Day 45: This thing is becoming a beast, major stretch happening, lots and lots of good bud sites developing. I'm having to pull leaves pretty much every day in order to get light lower down into the canopy. It's also been drinking more than a gallon a day for nearly a week.

Buds filling in very nicely, good amount of trichomes on leaves. Maybe I should have pruned a few more branches early on, it seems really packed and I'm having to defoliate a lot down lower. THIRSTY plant, still taking a gallon every day or 2. Smelling like melted plastic and incense, but in a good way That's the kind of thing I suppose you can't say anywhere except in the cannabis world!). I've never smelled anything like it.

Fattening up nicely, looks like it's showing CalMag def., which I've heard can be the case with higher power LEDs, and maybe a little light bleaching on the top leaves. This light STRONG, I moved it up a couple inches, recalibrated my ph pen and gave a tbsp of CalMag today, will see if things improve.

The leaf problem seems to have been light burn. The leaves that were originally starting to look bleached have continued to die off, but all of the leaves that were healthy and green continue to remain that way. I've never owned an LED capable of doing that before, and I've had them nearly on top of plants for weeks (when the plants got too tall for my grow space). Live and learn, I suppose. I think it's still going to give me a pretty decent yield, it's probably going be about a month before it's ready for harvest, pistils haven't even really started to turn brown yet. Smelling like incense and melted plastic.

Going to chop this one today. The temps in my tent have gotten up to 84 sometimes in my tent this week, and this thing didn't like it. It started foxtailing a little because of it.

Absolute beast of a plant, grew very vigorously the whole way through. It really didn't like the light being too close or the temps getting a bit too high near the end, but it was still an easy and fun grow. I like that it finished in the advertised time, most strains I've grown go weeks longer. If it wasn't for the horrible germination rate, I'd grow it again in a second.