Little Boy BerryBlue #2

Greetings and salutations, thank you for joining me. This diary will be following along on my second run of Auto BerryBlue, except for one major detail.......this one will be complete, with loads of information. I know I know, that doesn't sound like me at all, but it's the truth. I'm tired of messing up all the time, so this round will be different, just you wait. Week 1 12/7/20: Placed all Seeds in water 13/7/20: White OG, Baddazz OG Cheese, Super Skunk Kush, and Respect 4 Gorilla placed in PT. Out of the autos, only the BerryBlue and White Widow are in PT. NLxBB still hasn't cracked, GDP is somehow missing, so I swapped that with a Lemon Auto. 14/7/20: All photos will be planted this afternoon, along with the White Widow. Sweet Cheese is cracked and now in PT. NLxBB still not cracked, might have to try another seed. 15/7/20: Rise and shine, everyone is up and looking good. NLxBB is a no go, and I won't be replacing it, as things have changed. Amnesia Fast will be flowering out inside, along with the autos. The photos will remain unchanged. 17/7/20: Watered everyone, looking really good. All stretched up over an inch high so far. Lemon Auto is another failure to crack. 19/7/20: Light watering to tide them over until their feeding. 22/7/20: Watered everyone again, will wait two days before giving them some nutrients. I should have given them some today, but my exercise got my legs too wobbly for the stairs.

Week 2 23/7/20: Staked the Amnesia Fast, as the rain was weighing down the branches to the point of nearly breaking. Once in the basement, I will keep them staked for a while, since the floor fan creates lots of wind. If the branches strengthen up, I might consider removing the stakes. However, as it's already in flower, the colas might prove to be a little too heavy for the branches. This plant will be a staggered harvest, as the lower buds will need more time to ripen. Amnesia Fast will be going on the Green Planet diet, as it still keeps it on a basic feeding schedule. Originally it had the Root Farm treatment (base+grow and base+bloom), but I don't have those nutrients anymore, as I gave them away to the grower who had this plant. All other plants look fine, and will get their first dose of nutrients tomorrow. 24/7/20: Fed everyone in the main tent 4 litres of water, mixed with these ratios. Grow A + B - 1.25ml/L Gold - .625ml/L Thrive - .625ml/L So far everyone is looking good, I do not see anything that should be of any concern. Try and find the cool mist humidifier for the second tent, as it's getting warmer than I'd like. 25/7/20: Fed Amnesia Fast a little over 2 liters of water with 10ml of Green Planets Medi One and Massive Bloom, so 5ml/L for each of the nutrients. Held off on adding in Cal Mag right now, as they were given some steadily from the beginning. I will add some on on my next feeding. Set the cool mist humidifier up in the tent, but it's still much warmer than I'd like it to be. I will look into buying some better ones, one for each tent. Top loading, yet compact. Other tent still looks good, but plants look like they are paler than I'd like them, so they will get a shot of Cal Mag either tomorrow or the next day, depending on if they want water or not. I remember the White Widow was a heavy feeder, so I need to remember to keep an eye on that one particularly. 26/7/20: Had to cut down the tips of two colas on the Amnesia Fast, as they were too close to the light, and starting to burn. Figured the stress of cutting would be overall better then leaving them to just burn up. I need to figure out a way to spread the light ropes further apart, thus raising the light a little bit more. Any space I can save, the better. I thought I has plenty of room, but at least I now know at what height I should start flowering the other plants. Fed it yesterday, but the soil still looks fairly dry, so I will give it another feeding tomorrow. Other tent looks good, no need to water yet. One more week before the photos go into a bigger pot. 27/7/20: Temperature in the second tent is down under 30°C, but still too high for my liking. I'm now thinking I might vegetate my other photos for a little longer than originally planned, so they can do their flowering during the cooler months. Originally thought 8 weeks from seed, but I will now think about waiting 10 to 12 weeks before I change the light cycle, which would bring the start to October, instead of September. Will feed all plants either today, or tomorrow, but most likely tomorrow, as I'm feeling too lazy right now, should have done that in the morning. 28/7/20: Fed the Amnesia fast again, 5ml of Medi One and 5ml of Massive Bloom, seems I will be needing to water this one often, so I will give it two feedings and one watering per week. Other tent is still showing moisture in the soil, so I will feed them tomorrow morning. Starting to smell very sweet and delicious, cannot wait to try this sativa. 29/7/20: Fed everyone in the first tent 2gal/8L 10ml Grow A + B - 1.25ml/L 5ml Gold - .625ml/L 5ml Terpenoid Booster - .625ml/L 5ml CM Plus - .625ml/L 5ml Thrive - .625ml/L Next week I will start adding in some Carburetor into the mix, I bet that will give them a good boost to get bushing out. Thinking about transplanting the photos soon, as three of them are already branching out over the sides of the cup. Pretty soon it will be time give them their first topping.

Nutri+ Grow A + B: 1.25ml/L Gold: .625ml/L Terpenoid Booster: .625ml/L CM Plus: .625ml/L Thrive: .625ml/L Carburetor: .25g/L (1 1/2 of 1/8tsp per gal) Forgot to update during this week, so here it all is.

This is the time I start switching over to the bloom nutrients

Bloom A + B: 1.25ml/L Gold: .625ml/L Terpenoid Booster: .625ml/L CM Plus: .625ml/L Thrive: .625ml/L Carburetor: .25g/L (1 1/2 of 1/8tsp per gal) Bud+: .2g/L (1/8tsp per gal) 12/8/20: Fed everyone their respected doses. The autos are flowering, so they got some bloom nutrients, along with the bud+. Photos are still on the grow nutrients. Veg: Grow A + B: 1.25ml/L Gold: .625ml/L Terpenoid Booster: .625ml/L Carburetor: .25g/L (1 1/2 of 1/8tsp) Flower: Bloom A + B: 1.25ml/L Gold: .625ml/L Terpenoid Booster: .625ml/L CM Plus: .625ml/L Thrive: .625ml/L Carburetor: .25g/L (1 1/2 of 1/8tsp per gal) Bud+: .2g/L (1/8tsp per gal) 15/8/20: Moved all photos into the second tent, that way they can stretch out. Topped them all at the 4th node, removing the top two nodes. Thought about trying to clone the tops, but decided against it right now, as I don't think I'd remember to take care of them. Autos are looking great. BerryBlue is stretched very nicely, along with the White Widow. Sweet Cheese remains a nice little bush. Tucked some leaves yesterday, but nothing else. 18/8/20: Watered all autos and photos. Photos are bouncing back nicely after being topped. I will think about tieing the new growth back, or just going with 4 main colas. 19/8/20: Gave photos remainder of the nutrient water. I will put them into their final homes soon, as it's almost time to start thinking about their second pruning, but this time it will be FIM'ing. Forgot about a seed I put in water, and it sprouted a taproot in the water. It didn't survive after being placed in dirt. I will think about what will be the next plant for a perpetual grow. Possibly thinking about doing another solo cup grow.

Week 6 20/8/20: Pots are looking dry, but still have a little bit of weight to them, so I will water them tomorrow. Going to start on a two-three day feeding schedule. Trying for every two days, but I'll wait a third of they aren't quite dry enough. 22/8/20: Fed and watered everyone. Photos are looking great. I will try and replant them this week, so I can start thinking about flowering. Did some FIM'ing to all photos, hoping to have 8 large colas, and a few small ones. Dropped 2 new seeds in water today, both Northern Lights x Big Bud by Oasis Genetics. These are to be planted in the 5 gallon HDX box, and will be for my comparison grow against Crit. Going into the Vivosun tent, and under the Mars TS-1000. 23/8/20: Decided to drop another new seed in water, Magnum Auto by Canuck Seeds. This will be going down in the basement to keep a perpetual going. I will be doing some LST again, as it's time to start maximizing yields and space again. I'm tired of these tall lanky plants, I want bushy little bitches. Need to drill holes in all my empty pots, that way I'll be ready at any time. 24/8/20: Northern Lights x Big Bud are in paper towels on the heat mat, only one has split open so far. Magnum is still intact, probably pop open by tomorrow. 25/8/20: Replanted the photos, and applied a little LST to start them spreading out. NLxBB are still waiting for the taproot to show, and the Magnum is now in paper towel. Built my own crude smart pot made from a solo cup, that will be my vessel for the challenge. Just need to decide which seed to put in it. I have an idea, another BerryBlue. Watered everyone, as they were quite dry. Accidentally added half a dose of Grow nutes into the Bloom batch. I don't think it will be a big deal, but we shall see by next week if it did anything. Next week I will be buying more fans and some cool must humidifiers, need to get the temperatures down if I want to grow during the summer again. I will also be upgrading my exhaust fan to a 6 inch one, that way I can use the lower powered 4 inch fan to suck the cool outside air into the tent. That move alone should help out greatly.

Grew too tall for the tent, so I had to move it outside. Week 7 27/8/20: BerryBlue just kept getting taller, and was only a few inches away from the light hood, so I decided to move her outside to finish up, thinking I'll do the same with the White Widow. Sweet Cheese is not flowering yet, but it's definitely female. I will give it another week or so before I decide what to do with it. I might have to top it, and clone the other branches. Dropped a Green Poison XL Auto in water, to go into the same tent as the Sweet Cheese. 28/8/20: Green Poison XL had cracked open, and is now in paper towels on the heat mat. All photos are doing great, even though I f****d up some of the FIM's. Going to try and hold off until next Wednesday, the end of this week, to finally switch the lighting schedule over to 12/12. All autos left inside are doing well, with the Sweet Cheese looking amazing. Structure is perfect, nice and bushy, and not too tall. Still hasn't started to flower, so I'm not sure what I should actually do from here. I was going to move the White Widow outside today, but a major storm moved in, and is really pouring down. I'll try and get that done this weekend. 29/8/20: Only watered the White Widow and Sweet Cheese, straight water, no nutrients. The photos are still looking good, so I'll take care of them tomorrow. Green Poison XL still needing it's root to pop out. 30/8/20: Fed all the photos, as the Super Skunk Kush is looking a little yellow. Gave a dose of Cal Mag for good measure, whether it was needed or not. I will feed them again on Tuesday, to see if I can bring it's colour back. Will be switching to flower sometime this week. 1/9/20: Checked on all seeds, useless. Nothing is happening, all cracked, but then just stopped. I might have to adjust my technique, I'll start by not using the heat mat, or at least hook up the thermostat to it, and turn the temperature down. I will be feeding all plants today, not just the photos. Sweet Cheese is looking very thirsty again. It also seems it may now be starting to flower, which absolutely sucks to no end. It's already over 18 inches, I can't afford it to stretch twice as high, and I doubt it will remain so short, so it might be the next plant to be flowered in the pool room. Dropped two more seeds, to make up for the others. Change of plans though, were doing a photoperiod under the TS-1000, along with a solo cup entrant. The plan this time though, is to start it in a larger pot, like the 2gal Air Pot, then upgrade to a 5gal smart pot to finish in. Amnesia Lemon Kush by Garden of Green, since nobody else has a diary yet, I want to be the first. Solo cup will be an Auto* PK by Oasis Genetics. I use the astrix because of my past experience, of actually being photoperiod. The breeder rectified the problem by sending me Auto BerryBlue, which I've had great success with so far, and will continue to grow. Even if the seed is a photo, I will move it down to the flower tent after 4 weeks of vegging, and keep the ALK going for another few weeks before flipping to flower. Once I do that, I'll move the Solo cup back into the bedroom. Added a large floor fan into the bedroom tent, as the small one crapped out long ago.

Very little to say about this plant, seems to have been stunned going from indoors to outdoors. It's still alive, bud the bud development is extremely slow.

Slow and steady, steady and slow, that's the way it always seems to go. Still looking good though. I just need to remember I still have lots of time left. I don't smell anything from it yet, but I'm also not handling the buds, or jostling them to release any forced scent. Not for any particular reason, It's just not needed.

Slowly, but surely. Slight aroma is noticeable, just by going up and smelling it, no need to rustle the buds. Trichomes are starting to fill out everywhere, but not to the extent as the others I've grown indoors.

Looks like it might be ready to harvest. I'll take a look at the trichomes tomorrow when the rain stops.