First ever grow - auto Blueberry

17 of february - The seeds where germinated in jiffy pots, by the window, it took around 6 days before the Kim plants started to pop up. After that they got transplanted to 8 liters pots and stored inside the grow tent under a Mars hydro 300 led lamp. The tent size is 60x60x160 cm.

2nd of Marts - Up until now they have been giving water every other day. The growth have been steady. So ill start to at nutrients to the water. I use Big Plant Science nutrients Part A and Part C. I use BPS since it's for the tap water in my area, and have been recommended to me by the all moste everyone i asked in Christiania.

8th of marts - The growth is still steady, but i think that i started to quick with the nutrients. But it is only the lowest leaves that are started to turn yellow.

I have switched the lamp to the 400W HPS bloom lamp. It has been installed in a glastube with a small ventilation at the end, so it wont warm the tent more then necessary. I'll keep to the 18 hours of light since this is a auto flowering strain, and i been informed that i should give them as much light as possibel I have also turned the nutrients level a bit down, to see if i can safe the leaves that are starting to turn yellow.

17 of March - The last six days the grown in height and a lot or small buds are showing. But unfortunately the leaves are still yellowing. Some even got small brown spots. I have read and compared to some pics from Google and grow guides, but I find it hard to differentiate the symptoms, so I have stopped with the nutrientsb and will give it a week without. Then I'll see if it's stop the yellowing from spreading. I have also trimmed some or the dead leaves. Other then that I been thinking about cutting some hours of the light. But the grow shop which supplied the seeds told me that no matter what the auto seed will flower and that they would grow more if given more light. But I'm starting to think the light could be part of the problem..

27 of March - After almost panicking about the leaves turning yellow, where my only responds was cutting down on nutrients, I took a different approach now and cranked up the nutrients. Which im glad I did, since the plantes responded great, with more growth and more green leaves. The light hours have been shortened with 2 hours. This is done mainly to budget the electric bill. The small buds are still coming up nice, and if you stick you nose to the buds, you can sens the smell.

24 of April - the last couple of weeks the plants been growing steady and has really started to fatten up and they have stopped yellowing. They feel very compact and the smell are grown more intens. Outside the tent there is now smell but as soon as the tent is open one are not in doubt is what is growing in the tent.

7 of May - The buds have grown really fat and sticky. In the tent there is a very nice and sweet smell with a citrus/lemon note. Since this is me frist grow and in a bit insecure about when to harvest, and I don't have a microscope to check when the raisin is changing color, so I have harvested to of the plants. They didn't get any water for almost 48 hours before harvest, the last two plants will only be giving water without any nutrients for the next week. The crops i harvested have been drying on a news paper and turned every few hours, for day before I stored them in a Tupperware. I have ordered some boveda that should arrive today or tomorrow, which I'll place in the Tupperware with the buds.

17 of May - Since the last update, 10 days ago, the last two plants have only been given clean water with no nutrients. In the meantime I've aquried a x45 microscope. To my novice eyes the resin looks white and not clear, I've tried to take a picture of it (it's not the best picture...). So I've read some where that one cloud stop watering a day, or two before harvesting, so they didn't get any water for two whole days. Compared to the plants harvested on 7 of May, these where quit dry, but still very sticky. I got 50 gram in "wet" weight, compared to the 77 from the others, this looked like a bigger volume though, so I assume that the lack of watering for 48 hours might be the reason. That buds felt way more dry then the ones harvested last week. In my eye measurement I would say the volume is 1/3 bigger than the plants harvested last week. The 77 grams I harvested last week are now only 30 grams, so fare the lost nearly 60% during drying. The buds now feel dry to the touch, but still soft and not totally crunchy. But I thought it was time to take a test smoke. It was a very mild taste, with notes of herbs and lemon. The high was very good, it was a stealthy high that sneaked up on me. A relaxing body feeling and nice spin in the head. I'm looking forward to compare it to the harvest from today. Since the only difference is its life time and the lack of watering before harvest.

Since I harvested two plants at a time and with a little more than a week between I'm going to divide it up in two. The first we'll be calling the Virgin and the later 40 Years 1. The Virgin The picture with two buds in it is from the Virgin, it have a brownish look and smell kind of earthly. This was dried on my kitchen table over night and afterwards stored in a lunch box, which was (still is) opened several times a day. When you smoke it you'll first fell it in your body. It makes you relax without being a couch locker. It's almost like it sneaks up on you. But very pleasant and enjoyable. 2. The 40 Years Old In the pictures is the big green bud. It's smell is mild with a hint of citrus. This was much more dry than when harvested, since it didn't get any water for two days before being harvested. And it was dried for a whole day in the grow tent. When smoking The 40 Years Old one noticed that it tast is a bit milder than the Virgin. And the high is much more in your head than you body. You still get the relaxing body feeling, but it'll hit you the same time as your head start to spin. Overall all I'm satisfied with the outcome, I was hoping for a bit more in dried weight. But I'm sure that the next grow will be better since I'm now a bit more experienced.