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First week of 3 FastBudz LSD25 Auto’s.
I am growing in a Stealth Box made by StealthBox in Vancouver, Canada.
These boxes are extremely high quality and perfect for having a discreet setup. The unit comes with a built in fan & carbon filter, full spectrum 3000k LED quantum board, trellis hooks, drip tray pan, locking door and a built in timer. They did a wonderful job thinking of everything for this compact little grow environment!
Here is more info on the box if you’d like to learn more about the system.
https://youtu.be/H2D_rb16sXw
100% Organic Grow Using Only Certified Organic Nutrients. I am using the entire Advanced Nutrients Organic OIM Line which consists of;
Iguana Juice Grow
Iguana Juice Bloom
Mother Earth Tea
Sensizym Organic
Ancient Earth Organic
Bud Candy Organic
Big Bud Organic
Voodoo
Piranha
I am also using products from Aurora Innovations/Root’s Organic, TnB Naturals & Plant Success.
These products are;
Root’s Organic CalMag
Plant Success Great White Myco
TnB Naturals pH up & down
Potassium Silicate from Buildasoil
Fish Sh!t
The medium I am using for these plants is Fox Farms Ocean Forest & Fox Farms Happy Frog. I mixed these two mediums at equal parts, I then mixed in 20% perlite, I also mixed in 5% General Organics Alaska Humus and I also mixed in around 5% fish manure clay based humus. Two additional items I added to the soil before planting was BigFoot Granular mycorrhizae (3-5tbsp per cubic foot of soil) and GreatWhite mycorrhizae (about 1tbsp per cubic foot of soil). I allowed this mixture to bake in my garage in a closed bin for around a month and a half (garage is around 75°-85° Fahrenheit). The soil was lightly conditioned throughout the month with Fish Sh!t. The soil pH was around 6.5 and the NPK ratio was balanced as well based on a rapid leaf soil test kit.
I grow underground in my basement so the temperatures are consistently at 65° and 50% rh humidity year round. Because humidity is low I use the plastic cup method to maintain 70%+ humidity during the seedling to veg stage. This has proven to be very effective in combating drought like conditions for these babies.
During this stage I only use a spray bottle to water, I have found this prevents over watering and helps keep this right where they need to be for these first couple weeks. Once the seedlings grow and no longer need the plastic cups for humidity I will switch to watering with a can around the perimeter of the pots to encourage root growth.
The three LSD25’s are coming along nice, the one on the top left is quite a bit lighter than the two others. I’m not sure if it has to do with the nutrients or the pheno because I have seen many others on here with lighter leaves and average dark leaves.
I gave these girls a light feeding with the advanced nutrient organic line and mulched around the stems with General Organics Ancient Forest Humus. So far they seem to be happy with the microbe and nutrient rich products!
I measured the ppm, EC and ph of the soil and realized I’m having some pH fluctuations. I’m not too surprised since I am using ocean forest and that soil is known for having wild ph fluctuations and high nutrient content. The nutrient solution I fed was only around 120ppms mixed with RO/spring water that was around 48ppms, very light mixture. My runoff was around 1600ppm had an EC of 3.4 and the pH was 5.5. I flushed the lighter yellow plant since it was showing signs of nitrogen toxicity (color and clawing down leaves) I also have the other girls a nice big watering with ph balanced RO with 1ml per gal of Roots Organics CalMag. The runoff after the flush was around 6.0.
Onto week 4 and two LSD’s seem to be fine compared to the bushy/light green girl. Unfortunately she has had issues in this medium since day one so I’d say she is definitely less resistant than the other two LSD’s.
Continued to water them with only reverse osmosis water with Fish Sh!t. I think they can hold off on nutrients for at least a couple more weeks until the run off numbers are lower. This week the runoff was around 1200ppm, 2.4ec and 6.0ph. That tells me they are at least eating the nutrients in the medium.
A couple of the plants are starting to show slight bits of purple on the edges of some leaves. It’s hardly noticeable to the naked eye but I’m hoping at least one of these girls gets the purple pheno!
Two of the LSD25’s are starting to show their colors, one is quite small but her flowers are densely packed. We will see if she starts to develop the purps soon!
They have grown quite a bit since, I had to tie down the top cola on one of the girls because she was getting so tall and lanky. I have minimal room to grow in so I have to manage the height properly since LSD25 can be anywhere from 15-35in tall from what I’ve seen.
I still haven’t fed them anything other than, volcanic spring water with Fish Sh!t and Bud Candy. I’m balancing the water out with TnB naturals since the volcanic spring water tends to be either base or slightly alkaline.
The reason I use volcanic spring water here and there is to add, calcium, magnesium, potassium, silica and tons of other dissolved fulvic trace minerals from volcanic springs. I usually switch between Fiji and Waiakea spring water. It sounds a bit fancy but I alternate between this and distilled/reverse osmosis. I only use RO/D when mixing with nutrients or when I’m trying to flush nutrients from my mediums. I use volcanic spring water and local spring water from an artesian well when trying to feed a balanced water with minimal inputs.
The LSD25’s are doing pretty well! They’ve stayed short and stalky but their buds seem to be filling out nice and dense. Two of the lsd’s were suffering a slight nitrogen and phosphorus deficiency. I’m not too worried about it since it is somewhat natural for this to happen during this part of their life cycle. I gave them a nice dose of bloom nutrients and so far they seem to be really enjoying their food. A day after the feed they bulked up quite a bit and the trichromes became much more visible to the naked eye.
Regardless of my initial issues with my medium and original ph pen, I am pleased with these girls so far. The scent and aroma coming off of the plants is nothing like I’ve smelt before. Almost every bud site releases a different terp/aromatic profile when touched. It’s an interesting smell the notes/terp profile I get from it is; musk (mycerene), lemon (limonene), peppery/herbal (caryophyllene) and slight lavender (linalool) type scent. I’m not used to smelling this many different profiles from one strain but I must say that the smell is almost addicting!
The LSD’s are really starting to show their fall colors! The leaves are turning a beautiful bronze, purplish color which is really amazing to look at. The smell coming from these girls is insane, my cousin came by to check on the progress and said he’s never smelt a strain like this before!
One of the girls is starting to show more signs of a phosphorus and potassium deficiency so on her next feeding I’m going to bump her up to half and full strength nutrients to see how she responds! I know I only have a couple more weeks of feeding before she’s ready to be chopped so i really need to take advantage!
Well looks like these girls are coming to an end! Around 80-90% of trichomes are cloudy, some sugar leaves are starting to get some ambers as well so I’m going to be semi-flushing with microbes and molasses for the bennies over the next couple weeks until chop!
Soon after the first flush, the colors started to pop, especially on the leaves! I have also noticed the smell has really picked up, but it’s almost like a ripe fruit smell. Based on the smell I can tell these girls are getting ready for the end of their life cycle. I’m planning to chop soon after week 9 but I will allow the girls to sit in 24-48hr dark period before I do so.
These girls are just days away from harvest! I will closely monitor their pistils, calyxes & trichomes throughout the week so I can determine exactly when to give these girls their two days darkness before chop!
They are all starting to fade out really nice and the smell just keeps getting stronger each and every day!
After this last feed/flush I will only give these girls R/O-Distilled Water with nothing added whatsoever.
Please enjoy the videos I posted of the girls! Thought I’d add some music to the videos vs loud condenser microphone picking up fans 🤣 Only videos for now, I will post actual pictures and macro shots throughout the week before harvest.
Update: 9/7
The pistils and trichomes are about right where I want them. I’d say I have about 90% Cloudy, 7% Clear & 3% Amber Trichomes. A majority of pistils have gone from white to amber and have retracted. The girls have stopped drinking water so I transferred them to my darkroom to finish off for two days. After the two days I will chop and hang at 67°F @ 55%RH for 8-10 days until the stems begin to snap.
So only after two weeks of curing these buds are becoming more and more refined! The texture of the buds is beautiful, it crumbles and grinds up effortlessly in my space case and is light, fluffy and almost “goopy” coming out of the grinder. I guess goopy is my description of ground bud that sticks together as it comes out of the grinder. It almost resembles goo or putty! That’s always a great indicator of a strain that has lots of sticky dank trichomes 😎
Now onto the high... I must admit, I was a little disappointed at first. I was initially caught off guard by how smooth the smoke went down, but usually after the first hit I feel something. After the first hit of this strain I didn’t, so I packed another bowl and sparked her up... not much different. Around 15min after my second hit I started to gradually feel a trippy/tingly full body buzz and strong head buzz come on. Once I sat down on the couch it’s like it fully kicked in and I really felt a truly euphoric full body high along with a head high that felt incredible. She’s definitely what some would call a “creeper strain”! To me though, the high is reminiscent of the first hour after ingestion of some top quality cubensis! In a nutshell the high is euphoric, energetic and crisp. I don’t feel groggy at all when I smoke this strain, I can be extremely productive with work and still articulate my thoughts with ease. I also noticed that I don’t get anxious in public and even though this strain is extremely uplifting and energetic I have zero issues getting to sleep at night. I could truly classify this strain as medicinal and I know if I was still a caregiver this would be on constant rotation!
I will update more after 2.5-3.0 months cure!