Auto Blueberry

Hey fellow growers! I'm starting a diary for Auto Blueberry (Lowryder#2 x "original Blueberry mother") by Southern Oregon Seeds. I started 4 of them off in a soak of BioRhizotonic on 1/19/18 (start date), about .75ml in one cup of ph'd 5.8 water, for approximately 21 hours. Put a black sock over the entire cup and put it on top of my HLG-300 QB (Quantum Board) for warmth. Then 2 days later, I got two plates and a paper towel, dumped the biorhizo water onto the paper towel and squeezed out the excess, and put my seeds on top of paper towel on one plate. I alligned the seeds to where the tap root would come out in a horizontal position. Then I put another plate on top, and put this ontop of my QB again. On sunday the tap roots appeared, but they are not that long yet. I decided to plant them on sunday, 1/21/18. It has now been a full week since the seed soak, and they have not come up yet. I will be patient. Starting 1/27/18 I will water once a day. Lets see how it goes!

So I had 4 other blueberry autos going, but they did not sprout after a week. This is my first grow indoors after a 6 year hiatus, so there might be some grower errors on my part. I heard that a seed soak with just water is enough to germinate the seeds. I used Biorhizo 4ml/l, so around 4 cups in one liter, 1ml per cup, if my math is correct. I did not give it 1ml/cup, I diluted it by 75%. But still maybe that was overkill, I do not know. The next possible error I could think of was after the seed soak I put them on a moist paper towel on a plate using the seed soak solution they were in to wet the paper towel. I then put another plate on top to "black out" the seeds inside, I know germinating seeds are to be kept in darkness. I put the plate by the two week old auto blue berry. Maybe the light seeped in? I do not know, couldnt tell. Around the second day all the seeds had cracked open, small tails. I moved the plate on top of my QB because I was getting worried about the possible light leak. I think the heat from my QB might have been to much (around 85f) for the seeds, maybe stunting them I do not know. After that I moved them into a cardboard box, sealed it, and left it for another day under the light. Then I planted the next day. I watered with Advanced nutrients grow a and b, 150ppm (500 ppm scale). I later found out that advanced nutrients uses the 700 ppm scale. So I was feeding at 210ppm. Ive seen many growers feed at 700, 800, 900+ on the ppms! And thats in the seedling stage too, day 1! Maybe this version of auto blueberry from Southern Oregon Seeds couldnt handle 210ppm at this atage, I do not know. Need more seeds to know. Anyway, the one and only surviving blueberry is starting week 4 today.

So, this week I did a tea with advanced nutrients PH perfect sensi grow a and b, great white, molasses, terpinator, and roots excel gold. I bubbled it for about two days. I also add two drops per gallon of BTi, for the fungus gnats trying to colonize in my coco. I got azamax and actinovate ( a biological fungicide) and did a soil drench on the blueberry with both of these products. I have yet to spray them. I havent seen a gnat in 3 days. Anyway I water everyday in coco, contrary to popular belief, I water every day (my perlite ratio of coco to perlite is 3:1) until runoff. If you water every other day like soil, you will get soil results, I have heard. Coco is considered hydro. It makes sense to me to water every day in coco at least. She doesnt look sad does she? Anyway, I began to lst her today, well see how she turns out.

The blueberry auto is doing quite well. She was real bushy so I defoliated all the biggest fan leaves and she did get stressed for like a day or so. She responded well to the lst I did this week. I'm going to switch to 50/50 veg and bloom nutes on 2/16/18, for about one week then 25/75 veg and bloom the second week, then by week 3, all bloom. Never tried this but Im giving it a shot. The bdm is getting stinky! so it will be hard to tell the smell on this blueberry!

She was looking sad for one day, I didnt water the next day. She blew up that day. I checked my runoff the day after she was sad and the ppms were 1090. Only 40 ppms higher than the input (1050) so no nutrient buildup. I dont flush during transitions; flushing is for the toilets or only when theres a nute build up.

The blueberry is getting tall. I have to raise my lights a bit. She'll stretch all of week 3 too. This plant grows fast. Nothing else going on now but my BDM might not get enough light because of blueberry, damn, oh well.

I had to lst more of her branches because I didnt want to raise the lights. I see clawing on the new growth by the flower sites, must be the ppms. The old growth isnt doing it, but I do see some of the tips of the old growth pointing down, creating a hook, thats signs of over-feeding. Also the new growth is a bit dark green. Always checking runoff ppms as well.

So the blueberry is doing nice. It looks like she is starting to fill up. Lets see how she does. The runoff ppms were getting to high (lockout) so I added this product called slf 100 to reduce salt buildup. Ive been using too high ppms thats why im getting build up. Seagreen is supposed to help but I dont like the results of it so far (good thing I got the sample bottles). Slf 100 looks promising, it did reduce the salt build up. Week 5 flower, starting pk 13/14 tomorrow.

The blue dream'matic will get harvested on sunday and the blueberry will have all the spotlight next week.

Her buds are filling up but shes missing some density, I messed up on this one (high ppms) in the beginning. I learned from my mistakes though.

Well she is getting close to her chop date. I messed up on this grow awhile back so Ill have to order more of these seeds and make an accurate judgment on them, some time in the future. The smell of her is citrusy not blueberry at all. When I rub the trichomes it smells like a citrus based cleaner, very sharp smell like that.

Ok so I checked the trichomes and they were amber to milky 20/80. So she got chopped. No smell to it even with using 30ml/gal of terpinator almost all throughout the whole flowering period. It did say on SOS website that the smell was lost on this cross.

I wasnt impressed. It could have been the way I grew to (a few mistakes along the way). Ill be looking for some new strains to grow soon!