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Starting a new grow for outdoors, but since the weather has been so unpredictable I'm starting them indoors till it stabilizes outside a bit more. Basic indoor setup like my other grows.
Using up some leftover seeds I had from a previous test grow that I never got around to documenting that year. My friend is using the same batch of seeds I am, was during FastBuds buy 1 get 1 free sometime last year or the year before, I got half they got half 10 seeds total. One of their three plants came out sickly like mine did. This happened to me on one other FastBuds grow and once on a Dinafem grow, I notice it only on autos?
Cant find my ideal medium of coir right now, so using the promix stuff, its not the professional lineup just organic tomato n veg from big box store, same stuff I used for all my other indoor grows. only thing is, if you don't use a soil mycorrhizae or inoculate the mold comes in strong and hard, previous grows I used a bit of voodoo juice. the mold took out one of my other seeds I was trying, My amazon order came and got these guys watered in the mycorrhizae, but it was a bit late the sick plant was hurting for about a week before it got help :( weird thing is, it was fine when it first sprouted then all its adult leaves got weird. My friend said theirs is back to normal now, just needed to grow out a bit, but it is a week or two behind its sisters in terms of size and vigour. I did have three airline seeds planned originally but one refused to germinate. I use the soaking in water with a drop of peroxide till they sank then wet paper towel and mild mild heat "ontop of router" in a sealed container, popped once a day for fresh air. once I see a tip coming out it goes in the soil ASAP.
Maybe I'll be closing this diary with only one plant at the end, maybe it will comeback and surprise me. No idea what to expect from it just yet, will wait and see.
Will move them outside next week sometime, hoping to update this every Sunday, inside they are getting gaia green in there mix to give them lots of food before they hit a deficiency, and outside I will be giving them Acti-sol fertilizer + a test fertilizer. will be feeding them every water outdoors with this test nutrient. Will revel what it is at the end of the grow if it works out :)
Any idea whats happening with this seedling??
could it be it's genetics?
my handling of its germination?
its environment?
whats it look like to you?
cheers,
m0use
ok week two a little early on this one but should be normalized by next week, sundays sundays sundays.
The sickly looking plant from last week has made a fantastic comeback. It's looking like a brand new gurl after getting some more adult leaves on it without them going all weird. giving it the same amount of water and everything, so whatever. I also topped the healthy auto, it was on its 3rd node and wanted to try something new with it. As long as i get 1 oz off the plant I'm ok with it.
They where also transplanted outside today and the roots where looking healthy, seems the poked yogourt container was working out well. saturated the transplant soil hole in Root Rescue Mycorrhizae Bioinoculant and then again after it was planted, I feel this will help avoid any shock. tomorrow will be overcast so its best for transplanting today.
Well this week was fun,
The starling birds who nest beside my place have seen to take a liking to pecking and plucking my plants.
The good none mutilated plant from last week got a ruff beating. it took off about 50% of its leaves. so I bent it down into a mainline type plant, and topped it again down a node because the birds destroyed its main cola. the other sickly looking plant is doing well, its looking strong and mighty, would not say its sickly any more.
Week have been great on these. I have decided to pluck out the side branches in the mainlining plant. it seems to be into its 2nd week of preflower, I feel next week will be full flower :) I will let it just grow naturally after this week unless something weird happens. Birds have fucked off and I'm happy for it, removed the mesh and bamboo spike defence. using the tallest plant as a height for reference on the dairy, I'm sure it will catch up once it gets going.
Started the Mysterious Nutrient and will revel at the end if I think it helped out a lot after the dry/cure. I have base line expectations for this grow using the same nutrients and medium. So will know from the yields I get and compare them to last years grow and other plants I've grown outside from years previous.
These plants have been beefing up a lot, they are well into flower now and will be doing this for the next 8-10 weeks, plant #2 is more bushy and solid or compact whereas plant #1 is a bit more airy and sprawling, could be different pheno types or the result of the mainlining. over all no pests or problems, will keep them going as is. May need some defoliation for plant #2 as its preventing its bud sites from getting a lot of sun. will see how I feel about this later in the week.
I've added the normal Acti-Sol Tomato & Vegetable 4-6-8 fertilizer for my outdoor plants. There was a bunch in the soil premixed, so its past the 30days and time to top up. This will help it out in the long run. aiming to feed it once every 2 weeks with this stuff mix it into the top soil and water it in along side the weekly feed of the other "Mysterious Nutrient"
This week has went well for one of the plants. the mainlined plant "plant #1" has exploded in size and now dwarfs the single cola plant "plant #2". I also defoliated #2 plant to try and increase how fat it gets.
One weird thing with plant #1 is one of its main colas split on its own, and I did not top it. this can been seen in the video. Don't know why this happened, not angry that it did.
Have also been noticing that plant #2 is very indica like with how compact the plant is. even its nodes are compact vs plant #1 that is more airy and spaced out.
Plants are thickening up and everything is going well with them, some new height with it but I feel this will be its pinnacle for vertical growing, or maybe another 5cm over the next few weeks.
Gave it its extra Acti-Sol feed of 4-6-8, every two weeks, seems to help :)
This week was normal, had one issue with what I thought was an iron related one, added some vinegar into the water to help lower the mediums PH down and unlock the iron, as I know its abundant in the mediums mix. Seemed to do the trick. I have never PH'd any of my outdoor grows before and I feel this was needed because of the extra mystery nute, it can be a bit alkalizing. Did a little bit of LST and cleaned up some of the larger fan leaves that where blocking the lower nodes, they have gotten fatter and gained some height since this. plant number 2 has not gained any height in a while but is getting fatter.
Ok, so this was fun, I was playing around with plant #2 and it snaped off a larger branch, I then chopped the whole thing down and will dry/cure it. This will go towards the end totals of this harvest it will be done in two parts though. It was getting thicker and thicker, and I'm hoping that plant #1 will follow suite but its looking like it will stay a bit skinnier.
I messed up my fertilization this week. It was Mexicans turn to get feed and the other next week, but I thought it was the other way around till i checked this dairy. I have feed them today and I will do one more feed then let it use up what its got before harvest at the end of 13 weeks. will be a week or two dry and can then post the numbers. also going to stop giving it the Mysterious Nutrient for its remainder of the weeks.
Over all the plants are doing well, bit of yellowing on plant #2 on some of the large fan leaves, this is expected I think when its entering its end stage of life. Having much better luck with it this year then previous. I'm thinking this will be a good hull once its all over. hoping for 1.5 oz a plant min 2 oz ideal. Will have an idea once plant #2 is dried as its was about 1/2 the size of plant #1 granted much thicker in terms of bud I feel.
Finished up with a bit of light LST, just organizing the branches so more sun gets in at them.
One last thing I have noticed is that the root balls on autos outdoors "all autos from my growing experience regardless of breeder" don't grow as strong at the surface, or maybe they don't repair themselves. When mixing in fertilizer into my photos top 1" of medium I noticed I'm getting into some good surface roots, but autos is not as rooty and a lot easier to work in. Don't know if this is a bad thing or not.
nothing much has changed, I am letting it use up any feeds that's in the soil and it seems to be doing just fine. I move it up on the ledge as my balcony was getting crowded between all the plants. just waiting for a week or two more before the chop. Saw a bit of powdery mildew on some of the leaves so I'm watching it and keeping it well vented. If it shows signs of spreading it will be a chop asap and dry. will rinse in some hydrogen peroxide for a quick kill and let it dry/cure exct.
This is its last week, still no feeding going in, lost most of its fan leaves and when I was away got a bit too dry, Will have to see how it turns out after a propper cure. Should have chopped it a week or two ago, will know bettering for next time. still have a few seeds left. Next weeks totals will also have that ammount I got from plant #2 as well.
First off, there was two plants but one got Powdery Mildew bad and I chopped it early, I did not include in the end totals. but it dried to 27.5g just shy of 1oz
Growing this was a fun experience, most 420Fastbuds strains I have tried I have had some issues with. It has lead me to have a bias against this company. However, this was a pleasant surprise. A few weeks into transplanting it outdoors a bird fucked it up and took out the main branch growing upwards and in turn topped it for me. I then proceeded to mainline it and the results were amazing. A high yield, my highest from an auto. dethroning last weeks harvest of UK Cheese Auto from another breeder. Just goes to show my skill set at outdoor and growing in general is improving. The main negative I had with this grow is how airy and loose the buds where. This could be from its genetics or from my growing practises. The other auto I grew was not as bad but it was a different strain so hard to compare. I will know for sure if it was my growing habits hen the rest of my photoperiod strains come due. If any of them are airy then it was probably my fault. But have had this same result for all the seeds so far. guessing it would love an indoor environment way more.
Over all it was a nice strong grow and responded well to everything I threw at it. I gave it a lot of LST and at one point the main stem cracked and I wrapped a bunch of garden wire around it to help secure it in place. despite all of that, it never once hermied or grew a nanner. it was a champ at taking stress and abuse, this should not go unnoticed.
There will not be a smoke report on this as I do not plan on giving any of it out for smoking because of how the buds look. From previous plants it was reported to be very sativa like with pine and lemon. Good for a day time smoke. I will render all this into butter and make edibles. I have done this before from another previous grow outdoors and can say they are strong. Defiantly got some panic attracts and crazy dry mouth and eyes. This strain is defiantly not for me, but would be good for an advanced user who likes higher THC strains. Funny I also grew 420Fastbudss LSD-25 and it's also a high THC strain "no dairy of that one" and loved it in a tincture. Granted a lot of problems with the plants sprouting or making it past 2 weeks, very sensitive but worth it if the buy one get one deal is on.
Over all I will grow the leftover seed I have from when I purchased, I'd advise to grow it indoors only for best appeal.
Cheers
m0use
m0use
