1st Grow Fast Buds Blue Dream'Matic

@BudXs, I agree that lights are important to a certain degree. If I was growing even in a a 4x4 I would build my own quantum boards for it. In a 2x4x6 foot tent, my king Blurpies the plant next to it as well as the plant under it. I also rotate the plants every couple days to try to give them the best spectrum I can. Indo this until they become too big to do so easily. I also spin them about 4 times a day to make sure all sides get the best light I can give them. I will be adding a side blurpie that is about 30 watts just to try to fill in the bottom better. My mentor has played with this over 2 grows, and swears that he gets more density than before. The light is an important factor, but you could have the nicest light, and still burn seedlings, and miss your first opportunity to feed tea, or over feed, and it could really suffer. Would my grows be better with a a better light? Of course. But using the right nutes at the right times will trump a better light. I honestly try to force my girls to stay short. I got the 6 foot tent thinking it was going in a shed. Then my wife decided it would be better to move it into our closet. I will pull my lights to 24 to 28 inches at about 20 days to facilitate the stretch, but as soon as I lower my lights, I ride as close to the top cola as possible. I have a Laser thermometer that I check top cola temperature with to make sure the top cola stays at around 79 degrees. I let the Mars down to about 14 inches for awhile. I want her to stretch, but not get really tall. My first grow I had to zip tie my lights to the tent supports. I ran out of headroom. I am not saying light isn't important, but most mediocre lights do the job. Spiderfarm, Mars, Vivaspectra, they all do the job. If I had a commerical grow I would be using better lights, and co2. Since it's a small tent, I like to believe that the attention I give them makes up for a better light. I could have got better, but my mentor grows under a Mars 2000 and a King. Helping him harvest/trim a Blue Kush at 12.5 zips made me a believer. I didn't just believe the guy. I helped harvest 2 plants before I even got my card. When I started, my mentor gave me a milk crate with everything I needed except the tent light and fans. I am not a religious person, but I was blessed. If you can find legal grow rooms, or Friends in High Places groups on Facebook, I would be happy to share more. I belong to about 15bcanna pages, but those are the ones mod, and admin on. That way, I can private message you, and not run up huge threads on my diary.

@LeafTucker, i dig what ur sayin. One point i have to disagree with is the order of importance you place a few factors. Genetics yes, nutes yes, but light, light is the food. Its what the plant eats, not nutes. Nutes are vitamins that will help release the full potential of the genetic, and it is up to you the grower to perfect the enviro and not fuck up fertigation. Check @Nobody1 's article in the copywrite contest, decent read, will add to your aresenal

@BudXs, and as a side note, I bred fish for 5 years, and bred Huskies for 6. I have always loved controlling the environment and ecosystem. It's a power trip I think. Teasing white Huskies out of two red Huskies because I couldn't don't with my white male was one of them. I had to breed the white males daughter with another red before I saw white Huskies. So playing with genetics is something I have done for 20 plus years. Dogs and weed,y two biggest passions.

@LeafTucker, Sweet bro yea Bluedream is always been a favorite with the friends an family over here lol. Everytime i run it its always the first 2 disappear lol. But yea i love the smells from the BD its always very fruity and danky smelling my last one i jus did had super skunky notes almost to bad point like oh my god tht reeks lmao. Tht was sumthn new ive not run into with the BD b4 they were always super fruity but this one had sum xtra funk 2 her lol. But still some great smoke. Well shit bro gud luck with ur grow im down 2 watch the girls do there thing n see how they end up come harvest time.

@FrostyBlaze420, Blue Dream almost smells like candy... Thanks brother, I appreciate the kind words.

@Tripledrop, thanks man, Fastbuds gets all the credit, them and my mentor. Pretty stoked

@canamatoes, thanks brother! Pretty proud really. I put alot of time, and energy into learning, and I stoked beyond belief. I can do better, but feel for a first grow I did alot right.

@Mr_Motalovah, I am trying. Found a good guy who has amazing skills, and put the time, money, and effort to try to pull off a good first grow. His Blue Dream looks killer. It's about 10 days ahead of mine. Hoping I still pull the colas he pulls without pruning the bottom. Otherwise, I have a perfect example of why to do it, and learn from it. All in all, I am totally stoked so far.

@Fast_Buds, your genetics certainly are. Thank you for making me look good. I know that it starts with the seed. That's why I was gifted Blue Dream'Matic as my first. What a start, huh? Very, very good strain. Checks all the boxes. Tastes good, nice heady light high that then drops into your body. Very nice hybrid!