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Starting this diary at week 9 as I had side-grown these FastBuds whilst running some Dutch Passion. Will keep this updated with comments as I go along and also pad out the photos and numbers once I've got them all.
Daily OBS today showed rapid growth from the rear left reaching a whopping 26". Towering over 7" above the other three. No idea how this happened but she looks amazing! Also started applying the PK today for the final 2 weeks to pack on the weight.
The girls have just come off a two day flush in preparation for a solid week of nutes prior to the final flush and dry.
Depending on how far behind the big girl is at the end of the week we might keep her going on nutes for maybe an extra 4 days or so. The big girl is now a whopping 29" high and the rest are 20.5" tall.
Did a little bit of trim and low leaf popping just to get rid of the light starved leaves and also to get rid of the leaves that are blocking light to new bud sites.
Trichomes are really looking nice with the purple coming through strongly in one of the girls. Hard to see under the grow light though!
Had another trim this week to try and give those bud sites some light and room to grow. Probably going to need to find something to cool the tent down during the daytime as it's getting pretty toasty in there. The girls all seem to be tolerating it well though which is good!
Fingers were absolutely covered in resin after I'd finished trimming. These girls seem to ooze it. Hopefully the trichomes show well in the photos that accompanies this week
Also has anyone had any experience with the purple colour not coming through in some of their plants? I'm not too fussed whether the colour comes through or not because the smell is amazing and they frosty af, but i was just curious if the colour development is hit or miss with these genetics?
Stay safe everyone and happy growing!
Has anyone had any experience with the purple colour not coming through in some of their plants? I'm not too fussed whether the colour comes through or not because the smell is amazing and they frosty af, but i was just curious if the colour development is hit or miss with these.
Ive grown my fair share of purple and pink strains and its all a roll of the dice with seeds. With clones you are getting the same genetics as the mother plant so the only variation comes from environmental stuff.
The purple strains ive grown wound up being 50/50 and the pink strains ive grown i havent gotten even the slightest bit of pink.
As far as purples go, if a strain is geneticlly predisposed to going purple, you can try to bring it out more by having lower temps. Dont go too low, but night time temps of like 65F has brought out the purple in some of the purples ive grown.
All in all while purple looks cool, i personally think the high on most purple strains is lacking a little in comparison to normal green weed.
This is week 12 of the grow and that means we're beginning week 1 of the Flush. However i will be asking a couple questions to the community regarding the back two plants and the leaf quality in general.
Yo fastbuds, or other growers who've used fastbuds in the past. Why do my back two plants' nugs look not ready compared to the front two? They're at full term but not sure whether I should just keep feeding them or just flush with what I got. (L is imma, R is mature)
Hey buddy :-) every genetics is different 😍🌱
Look with a microscope 👌If the trichome heads are about 70% milky and 30% clear, you can start with the flush. If the trichomes are about 70% milky and 30% amber, it is a very good time to harvest 👍🙏🏻 but do not pay attention to the leaves of the trichomes on the buds 👍
This is how the girls look after their first week of Flush. Can definitely see that they're using up the remaining nutes in the leaves as quite a few of them show massive deficiencies in nitrogen. Which is fine at this stage in their life. They're gonna get one more week of Flush then they'll be chopped and dried. Can't wait for Harvest week guys!
Overall this was a very simple cut 'n' dry grow. I was really impressed with how hands off I could be with the plants and just let them do their own thing. I was perplexed that the purple didn't show up in all four plants (though the 3 that didn't go super purple did at least have some light purple undertones).
This crop does need to sit and dry out first though before I give it a full review. I also left the dry weight empty and I'll be coming back to fill that in once the bud is all dried and trimmed.
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