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I've been growing mostly sativa dominant strains lately and I've been looking forward to a solid indica. This classic bubblegum should do the trick! Never had the opportunity to taste it, so here goes...
I received these seeds as a prize from Fast Buds from a previous grow, so a massive shout out to them for being so awesome!
I'll be growing this outdoors in the middle of summer, harvesting early autumn. I soaked the seed in reverse osmosis water and in 24 hours the seed had cracked with a tap root peeking out. I transferred to paper towel for another 24 hours, then into a jiffy pellet. Once I transferred to the pellet, I immediately watered lightly with trichoderma (beneficial fungus). I've lost seedlings in the past to damping off, and the trichoderma helps innoculate against that. The next day a healthy little seedling shot out!
I'm starting these indoors under 24hr CFL lighting for the first week or so, before transplanting outdoors.
Follow along and we'll see how she does :)
The girls have had a good week! After exploding out of their jiffy pellets, it took no time at all for the tap roots to start peeping out of the base of the pellets. The moment I see that I transfer them to a bigger pot, adding mycorrhizae and again watering with trichoderma. Happy roots, happy plant right?
2 of the girls (the Daiquiri Lime and the Glue Gelato) are showing weird leaf warping/curling. I'm definitely not overwatering so I'm not sure what that is about. The CFL's don't generate too much heat so I don't think it's heat related either. It could be my medium, its re-used organic living soil.
Anyway, happy where they are at by day 7. See you next week!
**Please note that I sometimes share pics and comments from my concurrent diaries**
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The girls took a walk outside this week, and decided to stay.
It was overcast and a bit cooler, so it was a great time to transplant. I hardened them off over about 2 days, giving them morning sun and bringing them back indoors in the afternoon when it gets hotter. When I transplanted, I again added mycorrhizae in the planting hole and watered with trichoderma fungus. I'm growing in used organic living soil so I'm trying to innoculate all the medium I use - especially in these early stages. With the intense heat that kind of springs out at you here, I'm going to feed a few times along the grow with silicon plus, a product that helps prevent environmental stress and helps recovery if it happens. This is a great product for outdoor growers, because together with trichoderma, it can help against stuff like powdery mildew as well. Gotta fight that one proactively! If you're feeding with a silicon product, it helps to add that to your water first, then your other nutrients. If you add all the nutes first, they coagulate and make it difficult to stir together.
Gave them their first feeds, using Biobizz again alongside other organic nutrients. Feeding microbes once a week. Great to see that the weird leaf warping/curling only affected the first leaves of the Glue Gelato and Daiquiri Lime. They are good to go!
I planted some red clover for a living mulch. Clover is also nitrogen fixing to an extent, but I believe that is only truly beneficial when the plant is decomposing. Also - it takes available nitrogen from the soil if it is present first, before adding it back in - so I wouldn't rely on these as a nitrogen solution as companion plants. They're pretty and they will prevent my soil surface from drying out, that's my main reasons. They will however probably benefit the next grow, since the dead clover will be worked back into the soil adding some organic matter - like a green manure.
For the chilli heads, I've had some great harvests on some phenomenal peppers (see images for names of varieties) . My garden is a colourful, fiery playground right now! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
The weather is still a bit topsy turvy this week. Rain the one day, sunny and hot the next. Fortunately they're still in veg, so it's not too much of a problem. Insane winds started at the end of the week, so bad that I had to bring them in under cover.
I think these are doing quite well at this point. Had some lovely chilli harvests this week, too! 🔥🔥🔥
Catch you next week :)
The 3 girls are starting to show the first sets of pistils, starting with the Bubblegum, followed by Daiquiri Lime. The Glue Gelato hasn't shown signs this week but we should see it start by next week. I'm in no rush, always happy to get extra veg time in with autos!
I'm quite happy with their size at this stage, should see them become monsters by the end of their stretch! End of summer doesn't seem like a bad time to grow, but the main concern is wild males in the area pollinating my beauties. Also hoping they will have enough light by the end of flower, as we are starting to see daylight hours diminishing.
See you all next week as we head into flower 🌼✌️
The girls have all officially kicked into flowering, but the auto bubblegum from Fast Buds is definitely the most eager! If this is how they perform solidly, it will make for a great, quick-turnaround indica!
This smells like it's going to be delicious 🤤. It's already started to give hints that it is going to be super fragrant.
My fabric pots definitely seem to attract blue-headed lizards (this one is probably a female, the males have the bright blue heads), and they can hang out as long as they like here, I enjoy having them around and they love eating bugs!
Go team lizard! 🦎
It's the second week of flower and the bubblegum isn't wasting any time, pistils are flying out of this thing like crazy!
It's so interesting growing 3 different strains from 3 different breeders simultaneously and seeing how unique each one is. They were all started at the exact same time and they are all performing well in their own ways. They're all at around 90cm in height which is a great height for early flower, should see these shoot to over 1m each.
Had a baby blue headed lizard come to visit 🦎
See you on the next update :)
All the girls breached 1m this week and looking strong!
The bubblegum is certainly a fast flower, true to her spec. I'm fascinated by how breeders get this so accurate. I gave another dose of trichoderma and silicon - the weather is warm now, but since shorter daylight hours and cooler temperatures are coming, I need to try protect the girls from mold.
I'm writing in retrospect, playing a bit of catchup here. These plants are unfortunately in for some turbulence, but I won't spoil the story...
Bubblegum is flying through flowering this week and starting to pack on the trichomes.
She's smelling stronger by the day, giving off wonderful aromas, this one is going to be delicious, that's for sure!
It's the time of the grow I have feared the most, late flowering as we hit mid Autumn. Daylight is shortening, nights are getting cooler - setting the stage for powdery mildew.
I've noticed some PM starting on the lower leaves of the glue gelato. The other 2 are okay for now but as a precaution I've sprayed all of the plants with an organic fungicide (ascorbic acid based, which happens to also be a good finishing nute for buds so I hear). I only sprayed the fan leaves of the bubblegum since she's getting close to finishing and there's no signs of mold at this stage. Probably about a week or 2 left until I can harvest the bubblegum.
I'm getting nervous, since the glue gelato has a long way to go and has so much foliage around the buds.
Wish me luck...
So this bubblegum has decided that it's racing to the finish line. Can't believe how quick she's flowered!
Happy to have plants in the ground for less time, for me that means less likelihood of running into late flowering mold issues - so this could be something I grow every year. The smell is really strong this week, very sweet and fruity. I'm only watering with dechlorinated water and no nutrients. I'll probably harvest early next week.
Both other plants are being plagued with powdery mildew and I'm battling to get it under control, but this bubblegum has barely had any signs of it. I have spotted a few leaves being affected but I've sprayed them with organic fungicide (ascorbic acid based) and it's kept it from spreading. So it seems that these genetics show good resistance!
See you at harvest week!
There's so much to love about this strain! Flowers really quickly, awesome yield, good disease tolerance. Chilled high with the body buzz of indica without feeling lazy. Awesome, tasty hybrid. Will grow this many times again!
I'm blown away by how fast this plant gave me bud, 70 days from seed to harvest outdoors!
Conditions weren't ideal, daylight hours were lowering during flower as we progressed into mid autumn. Cooler nights brought a difficult mold problem to all of my plants. This bubblegum was barely affected and showed a good resistance. I'm happy with the yield and the bud is delicious. I would highly recommend this to outdoor growers! This time of year there is a lot of wild pollen in the air, so she did get a bit pollenated by something local, more than likely a sativa. There aren't too many seeds and it didn't seem to affect bud production. Phew! The yield was a bit more than what you see on the scales, if you count the dry trim from manicuring the buds, the 2 spliffs I had to "test" with, and a bud that I broke off by accident during late flower, the numbers are more like 80-90g.
Thanks to all who followed along, it was an interesting season and I absolutely loved growing this.
Peace, fellow growers! ✌️
What a cool little creature. We don’t have them in Oz, but I like how they hang around and patrol the plants for you! Plants are flying mate. I’m not sure how you do it. I’ve got a couple of autos at the moment, but I can’t quite get the best out of em outside. Mind you I am always moving them in and out of the shed cos of weather or kids parties or something, so I’m sure that doesn’t help👍🍻
@Shooey, man it has a lot to do with the weather! Summer weather was whack here - super hot suddenly, then raining/ Plants go stressed at the time, now it's heading towards autumn and the weather is great, the tradeoff being that there is serious pollen floating around this time of year! How's your conditions there now?
@Shooey, thanks bro - I looked earlier and this bubblegum looks like she's been pollinated 😣. There's a lot of wild plants around so it was bound to happen... They'll probably all get some level of seed
Coming along nicely there mate. All of the girls are looking great, and looks like
they will get some of the best conditions of the year to grow through.
I put a few Aussie chillis in my last lemon cheese update for you matey👍
@Shooey, hey hope you're well bud! Weather is great right now, just hoping that late flower is as good! Your diary entry sounds awesome I'm going to go check that out :)
Best of luck with the new run Epok.
Interesting about the soil, I was gonna reuse my super soil to start my new ones too!
Might just bite the bullet and go for fresh.
You are spot on about the roots too,,, cheers mate 🍻
@Shooey, thanks bud - I have a good feeling about these 3! Fresh is always better, unless you have like 100L or bigger pots and going proper no-till. I'm just being cheap, and I figured that if you can get results from inert medium like coco/perlite then used medium should be perfectly fine if you don't have high expectations about the stuff being as good as when you bought it. I usually introduce organic matter back into it at some point, either by feeding the medium with fish emulsion or a green manure or adding microbes into the soil (or a bit of all that inbetween grows). If you do re-use, just be sure to innoculate the soil with trichoderma fungus or something similar before you plant, in case there's pathogens in the soil. I've grown a few times in this medium already and other than this weird curly/gnarly leaf crap (which could be from something else) there's no signs of struggle. In fact, they are doing exceptionally well at the moment.
Those peppers look beautiful! I have a rose bush growing with the little lady I have going and I would love to do some hot peppers! Any recommendations for anything tasty and fun to grow close to the heat level of a habanero? Also the autos look great as well!
@MrMunchies, thanks for stopping by! The scotch bonnets are one of my favourites for sure. Aji lemons are brilliant as well - good suggestion! These I have here are the aji amarillos, first time trying these out and they are very nice snacking peppers, but I have some aji lemon seeds that I'm keen to grow out next season. Have you tried a Kang Starr Lemon Starburst before? They're like a cross between a scotch bonnet and a bahamian goat but they're more citrussy - extremely interesting flavour and beautiful phenotypes
@SugarBoogers, OP is on the money suggesting scotch bonnets, a bit more heat than the habanero but great flavour. Op has a lovely Aji Limon pictured, those chillis are a little bit lower in heat to the habanero but another beautiful flavour.
I'm always amazed at the yields you get from your autos outdoor. Well done mate. And how's the taste? I've often wondered if bubblegum actually tastes like bubblegum, or is it more the scent during the grow.. looks fire Epok. Nice one mate👍
@Epokwan, it’s interesting to hear mate. I’ve got sweet seeds zkittles for next season so I’m pretty psyched to give it a go. I’m with you on the indicas. Mostly cos I grow photos and the shorter size and quicker finish suits best. I’ve got a plan to have 3 harvests next year. An early season, a mid, and a late season with the aim of keeping them small and quick. Also might experiment more with autos next season. Will hit you up for some tips! Cheers 🍻
@Shooey, hey bud! Thanks for sticking around for this one, it was a pleasure to grow. I tasted it after 10 days drying and no curing at all yet, so the true flavour hasn't popped yet - but so far it's pretty damn good already. It's fruity and sweet, not unlike Zkittlez. I'm sure the indoor folks could push the terpenes and bring out the real sweetness and berry notes, but for us outdoor guys, we get what we get. No bubblegum flavour for me though. Maybe it will come out in cure. The high on this and my recent Zkittlez are making me start to appreciate indicas more and more. I've always been more of a sativa fan, but these hybrids are giving the best of both and I'm really digging them! Peace bro
Love the peppers! Chocolate bhutlah is the hottest in the world, idc what anyone says. Way hotter than the Carolina Reaper imho. Put me down for hours eating half of one. Nice work!
@@Louder, they are exceptionally brutal hey! And there's a lot of pod there as well. Haven't brought myself to eating more than a generous sliver of one - busy making a sauce with them tonight and it's as if someone has pepper sprayed my entire kitchen!
Epokwan
