Summer 2020 Outdoor Grow Ontario

Organic grow. I let a few grow au naturel, and a few I topped for 'main-line' type of shape. These are all FastBud fast flowering seeds... I didn't start journals when they were germinated because we got off to a very rough start. But they pulled through for a surprisingly good grow! Here is my diary starting with week one of flowering... These seeds were germinated on March 2,5 2020 during COVID19 lockdown in Ontario.

The plants keep growing... the FFT03 is 6 feet tall and is growing taller every day. The FFT01 is 7 feet tall and filling out nicely. The FFT02 is closer to seven feet tall. And last but not least is Big Mama and she's a solid 8 feet tall and she is filled with flowers. Big Mama is totally insane. She's five feet around.

The plants have grown a foot since last week. We have had insane weather... hot and sunny for days and days... and then an insane thunderstorm with tornado warnings. Flowing is coming along nicely. The three varieties of plants have distinct traits. The FFT3 started flowering first. FFT2 stretched like a total mojo... with long internodal spacing and over 9 feet in height. FFT1 has deep green foliage and is dense with short internodal spacing. Big mama (FFT3) is just so big and bud sites EVERY where. I topped her so she has 8 main colas and she is 9 feet tall... it's utter insanity... LOL

The plants are still growing but stretch has slowed down... I think most of them are at their final height. Flowers and buds are starting to mature. Each plant seems to be at a different stage. I have a few plants in the garden that are still only in veg. I'll start journals for them in a couple of weeks once they bloom.

You can smell my garden from the sidewalk now :) The plants are doing well, and the buds are fattening up nicely. There is some interesting looking leaf coloration on one of the plants - the tall spindly plant - but she continues to grow and the flowers look fine so I'm not too worried.

Came back from camping in the backwoods of Algonquin... to a forest in our back yard LOL. It's a rainy day today but the photos turned out just fine, I think :) It's such a jungle that it's hard to see where one plant ends and the next begins, but you get the jist of things from these photos.

Here is a video tour of my back yard jungle. I am in the process of a huge clean-up now that the plants are ripening up and the buds are getting heavy. I'll post some photos tomorrow once the work is done. Some of the fan leaves are coming down now to promote light penetration and air circulation... don't want mildew.

The plants are coming along nicely for the most part. I have been finding bud rot in big mama... not much but I'm a little bit worried. I've been cutting it out when I find it. The trichomes are cloudy with sparse amber. The wind has been a concern the past week or so. I shared a video which kind of gives an idea of what we are dealing with. We are looking at harvest two weeks out - max. Maybe sooner. FFT2 is significantly behind the other varieties... fattening up more slowly.

This strain is amazingly easy to grow and offers substantial yield. The plants were robust, tall (7-8 feet) and the top colas were heavy and sticky. The rest of the plant was also full of flowers... and almost all of them fattened up nicely. It's fun to harvest a huge plant like that when there is very little 'popcorn' to deal with. The FFT3 was ripe and ready after only 8 weeks of flowering which is absolutely perfect for growing in the North. Only my fast flowering strains were harvested before the first frost advisory came out. If I have my choice, I would grow the fast buds fast flowering genetics on an exclusive basis. Not kidding. I topped one plant and let the other plant grow wild. Both were organic grows with no added plant foods etc. Her leaves were dense and a nice dark shade of green. The flowers were fat and sticky. They took a bit longer than the other varieties to dry completely. The smoke report is a tiny bit disappointing: it's not a super fun variety in my opinion. It's really mild and not strong at all, it's not even strong enough to put me to sleep. I suppose it could be a good wake-n-bake strain... but that's not really what I'm looking for. The flavour is amazing though! There is nothing dank or cheesy about this one at all. It's all sugar and berries. It's a good strain for folks that don't like to be punched in the face by their smoke, or that like to maintain control of the high... maybe it would be a good beginners strain.

FFT2 is getting close... but she's still not quite ready. I think one more week should do it. She's starting to fatten up in spite of being tall and spindly.

I grew two plants of the FFT1 testers. I started them indoors in the spring during COVID19 lock down. The germination date was the week of March 25, 2020. I didn't start the grow diary at that time because I was having a really hard time coping with the COVID19 non-sense and I wasn't sure I was completely committed to properly documenting the grow. In the end, I think this grow helped me cope... ha! So I topped one FFT1 plant, and let the other grow 'native' with no interventions at all. Both were grown totally organically with no added nutrients. We moved the plants outside on May 1, 2020 into our home made greenhouse/trellis. I took a few photos but I was still not committed to documenting the grow. I wasn't even sure if the plants would grow well considering I hadn't provided them with any nutrients at all. In fact I felt like I was neglectful of the ladies LOL. It became clear to me by June that these plants were gonna take off... they were growing like mad! I realized that I really HAD to share what was going on in my back yard. Also, I had made the commitment to FastBuds, and I was sure they would want to see the plants. I started this journal as soon as they started the first signs of flowering. By the time the stretch was done Big Mama (my first FFT1 plant) was an insane monster at 10 feet fall. Little Sister (the second FFT1 plant) was a solid 7 feet tall. Big Mama had been topped and mainlined and holy cow she was HUGE with eight main colas. Little Sister had not been topped and she was less than half the size. The buds were beautiful as you can see from the photos. They weren't super fat, and they weren't super frosty, but they were like piles of spaghetti noodles with beautiful streaks of amber. There were bud sites ALL OVER. Near the end of the grow, as the buds were 99% ripe I started to see small spots of bud rot in Big Mama. That's when I pulled the trigger and started the harvest. COVID19 put a real damper on our harvest party, but we were able to call in a few friends from our 'bubble.' Big Mama's wet yield was around 2600g and Little Sister offered 1300g. I was totally astonished. I have to LOL any time I look at the numbers LOL. We trimmed all of Big Mama by hand, but lost our steam for Little Sister. Her trim was rough, and we will have to use our Trimbag to clear off some of the foilage... I adjusted my dry weight numbers to accommodate for this. We dried them in the mesh tiered dry racks for the first few days and then moved them into large paper bags. They are not quite as dry as I think they should be, and so I have adjusted my dry weight numbers to reflect this. Total dry weight for both plants is coming in at 2000g total which is around 4.5 pounds. We put a bunch in the vapes and had a whole lot of fun! The vibe is a solid hybrid offering lots of energy for chit chatting and talking shit. But it's not a racy energy... it's somehow relaxing at the same time. We watched Alone on Netflix and made out... while eating ice cream and chips LOL. I was properly stoned. Stoned as fuck. My eyes were completely red and Njaak was a squinting grinning mofo. He's saying it's his new favourite, and that's before it's cured. This bodes well! So we have put the weed back in paper bags for the cure and are excited about this one. The flavour... we are going with sweet with a bit of citrus, but I think we need a bit more time to let it cure before we could offer reliable data. I'll update more on that later.

I started this plant indoors in the spring during COVID19 lock down. The germination date was the week of March 25, 2020. I didn't start the grow diary at that time because I was having a really hard time coping with the COVID19 non-sense and I wasn't sure I was completely committed to properly documenting the grow. In the end, I think this grow helped me cope... ha! I hardened her off over the last week of April, and then put her in the garden during the first week of May. This variety was easy to grow and despite all of my neglect she shot to the highest reaches of my grow trellis... she was long and tall and not dense at all. The majority of her flowers were in her top colas. I didn't top her, and I didn't give her nutrients. It was an organic natural grow. She had the lowest yield of the three FFTs I've harvested... but at 329g dry how can I complain!? She was a week later than the other varieties before full maturity... seemed to take forever. But when she went frosty, she ripened very quickly... like over night almost. The plant smells lovely like lemon. The buzz is energetic and fun... not a sleepy-time variety at all. Njaak has been chit chatting nerding out totally about camping knives ever since we vaped... so talkative goes on the list. And I'm laughing at him so giggle goes on the list too :P. Now he's laughing at me for actually writing that down LOL. What fun!! I will recommend this to my friends, for sure :) She was a week later than the other varieties before full maturity. But when she went frosty, she ripened very quickly... like over night almost. The plant smells lovely like lemon.