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She’s growing lovely, got them into a nice 4 day wet dry cycle already so I’m hoping for lots of root growth. Watered so far with Ecothrive Biosys, was going to water yesterday but the pot didn’t seem light enough and the ladies aren’t telling me they are thirsty yet. Surprised by fading on both Fastbuds 1st node leafs. Maybe introduce a light feed next.
Day 16 - Let her go a full 8 days before watering, finally the pot was light yesterday. Woke up today with an explosion of growth, I could top her later today but I don’t want to stress them at all. Will look at some leaf tucking and lst when she is a bit bigger.
Update - Day 20 - Wasn’t going to water today but she looked a bit dry. Fed some biosilicon and Magne Cal+ then thought why not tie her up? She’s getting big quickly so why not. 😀
She’s flying up this week!
Got a bit caught out and should have fed pre-emptively as the day I decided she needed some nutes she then decided to drain of all colour!
Perked right back up now and feed should be starting to darken her up again 😀
Had a yellowing issue where all the older leaves drained in a day so she’s had plenty of feed , it’s stopped but not getting any better. Removed some deadish fan leave and she’s growing nicely and flowers growing rapidly growing. Amazing smell of black currant when I took off the fan leaves, beautiful!
Supposedly easy to grow....This has been a bit of a disaster, started off promising but after soil issues and a flush she still won’t take any nutes on board. Leaves looking bad but she’s close to harvest so I’ll just plough on. Flowers are packing it on although they seem quite airy as opposed to the rock hard buds of the GSC.
She is still going strong bless her, not quite ready yet but she is packing it on 😀
I forgot to mention all throughout this grow she smells absolutely wonderful, an amazing strong blackcurrant smell that is even stronger when removing the odd leaf.
Buds still seem airy but getting bulkier, nearly all trichromes are cloudy now so not too long. The main cola is struggling to hold the weight!
Can’t wait for the sensual delight of harvesting this beauty! 😍
Sorry for the delay in updates, I was forced to drop my gardening for a while due to outside influences.
Luckily the 24 hour light schedule was enough for all my grows to complete in 8 weeks, admittedly it would have been nicer to see how much more I could have grown them but they have served their purpose 😀
Had to harvest sooner than I would have liked but most trichs were cloudy. The flowers initially seemed quite airy but firmed up over the last week and could have gone on to much more I think.
Harvested in paper bags for 5 days and the smell is fantastic, lovely blackberry/blackcurrant smell and taste. Dry weight just over an ounce which I won't complain about in 8 weeks.
Takes 5 mins or so to hit you and it really does hit you. Nice heavy stone, perfect for the evening where you have nothing you need to do. Great for sleep! Will definitely be growing this again in future. Well done @Fast_Buds 👍
@Zannabis7 Cheers pal, good luck with yours too pal. Already lightening up, was hoping the soil would provide at least 4 weeks nutes but she definately needs some grow nutes next feed.
@eightleggeddj, What are you growing in? Did you start in a hot soil? I have never had a plant make it to 4 weeks without nutes. Anyhow, she looks great.
Cheers buddy, they are getting plenty of love, conditions are nailed on, established a wet/dry cycle and shortly going to improve the grow room adding a drainage shelf and drip trays so I don’t have to disturb them by moving to water. I learned a lot of things for my first grow so I’m trying to minimise stress as much as possible. Partly the reason I was a bit unsure as to whether to top them.
Cheers buddy, just had a look at what you’ve got on the boil 😁 looking good, I’m definately looking at growing more Fastbuds if they carry on like this!
@eightleggeddj, Looking great! One thing for you: If you want Calcium to your Ladies best, You'll want to go with Calcium Carbonate instead of Calcium Oxide. Your plants have a very hard time absorbing the CaO thats in Magne-Cal +. BioBizz recommends West Coast Horticulture's Chelated Calcium and Magnesium supplements: http://westcoasthorticulture.com/fertilizers/ Or a cheaper option is Expert Gardener's Tomato and Vegetable 12-10-5 which is time released Cal/Mag + Nitrogen + Zinc and it works well with BioBizz nutes too!!
@eightleggeddj, I always steal a Bud prematurely to test out! Sometimes I feel bad taking it before it's ripened but I cannot seem to help myself from wanted to get a glimpse of Her taste!!
Looking great!! I ran into soil lock out during late flower on all the grows I started with Plagron Light-Mix, But in there defense I was not monitoring PH back then. I now utilize a cheap 3way meter from Amazon that monitors light, Moisture and PH in soil. This thing is not super accurate, but it is close enough and is reading from the root-core. I run organic nutes so PHing the growing medium is important, and this guy will get me close enough to avoid problems!!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071S8R17G/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
@eightleggeddj, If you're running organic nutes, using a biotic supplement like Great White from "Plant Success" to develop a healthy bacterium in your grow medium (if the organics you're using dont already have them) will work to balance your PH naturally. I mix my organic feedings without really worrying about PH and then keep an eye on the PH in root-core to let me know if it becomes a problem. I use Advanced Nutrient Up and Down if soil gets out of whack to adjust feedings and balance it out. Haven't had to worry about that in a while though, because BioBizz nutes are great for healthy bacterium!
@BudKingsGrow, see now that is some great info you just gave me, cheers pal. Everywhere I go I hear you don’t need to ph in soil but then I found out this soil goes very low in flower hence the issues.
I’m trying to be as organic as possible, I was using bio silicon to up the ph based on some advice I read when I found out about the soil issues. What do you use for adjusting ph? I was considering Advanced Nutrients Sensi PH Perfect nutes going forward to try and minimise problems.
Looking very good this week! Be sure to give your Ladies love every day! May sound dramatic, but the more time you spend with your Girls, the better you will know them and spot problems fast 😀 Keep up the good work!
Hi pal, thanks for following. This is one of three seeds I planted. The other two are Girl Scout Cookies and Jedi Kush. They are growing in an old water tank cupboard about 600x700x1800.
400W Hps Dual Spectrum in cooltube
6 inch Rhino thermostatic fan outlet
4inch tt fan inlet
10 Litre airpots
Plant Magic Soil
Dolomite Lime
40% Perlite
Clay pebbles in base of pots
Ecothrive Charge
Ecothrive Biosys
Old timers Grow
Old timers Bloom
Old timers PK
Bio Silicon
Organic unsulphured blackstrap mollasses
Cheers,
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