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👉🏽 2/25: Put to soak in water @ 10:30 a.m. for a 24-hour period. Will be using the paper towel germination method.
👉🏽 2/26: Seed placed in paper towel @ 10:30 a.m.
👉🏽 2/27: Placed in soil @7:30 p.m. after developing 1" taproot. (The shell casing was already starting to fall off!) Dusted Great White in the 1/2" deep hole. About 33 hours in paper towel.
👉🏽 3/2: After 38 hours, I decided to unearth the little one, whose seed coat wouldn't budge. After delicately extracting her, I removed the seed coat and placed her under a thin layer of soil. The cotyledon leaves are just starting to peek out a few hours later, but I give her a 50/50 shot of developing normally. If there's little or no progress in 12 hours, I'll start germinating a new seed!
👉🏽 3/3: RIP first seed. 💀 New seed put to soak at 8:30 a.m. Will be placed in paper towel in 24 hours.
👉🏽 3/4: Seed placed in paper towel at 8:30 a.m.
👉🏽 3/5: Seedling placed in dirt with .75 inch taproot at 8:30 p.m. (36 hours in paper towel.)
This is my third grow, and first with a larger tent (2x4x6). Will be running three Mephisto plants total: Forum Stomper, Fugue State, and Skywalker (the FFS crew).
Using 3 gallon fabric pots and Biobizz Lite Mix soil. Keeping the tent between 75-80ºF and 55-60% RH.
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👉🏽 Day 1 (3/7): Emerged late morning with seed coat--since removed--clamping cotyledon leaves shut. The leaves are slowly separating. Light height set at 1 m, intensity one notch above 50%. 24 hours prior to placing germinated seeds in pot, the pot (3 gal.) was watered to runoff with 2 l of ph'd water; Voodoo Juice added. Will be following TaNg's easy auto feeding schedule, adding B-52 during veg, Voodoo Juice, Great White mycorrhizae (top-dressed bi-weekly), Big Bud, Carboload, Overdrive, and Cal-Mag (when needed.)
👉🏽 Day 2 (3/8): Was relieved to see leaves separated in the afternoon, just wish she was easier to photo!
👉🏽 Day 7 (3/13): Watered with Voodoo Juice, B-52, and Great White.
Next watering with Voodoo Juice and B-52.
Next application of Great White: around Day 21.
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👉🏽 Day 8 (3/14): She's definitely settling in. (The watering on Day 7 could have probably been done on Day 6, tbh.) Looking forward to this grow, since it'll mostly go to making edibles and tinctures to help out my wife.
👉🏽 Day 10 (3/16): Watered with Voodoo Juice and B-52. Will start her on .25 ml/l of Sensi Bloom A&B on the next watering, gradually stepping up to .5 ml/l. (Mephisto's 2019 strain guide mentions to go easy on the nutrients early on.)
👉🏽 Day 13 (3/19): Watered with Sensi Bloom A&B and will increase amount to .5 ml/l for next watering. Looks like this is going to be a w i d e grow.
Next watering with Sensi Bloom A&B (.5 ml/l).
Next application of Great White: around Day 21.
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👉🏽 Day 15 (3/21): All good. Will water tomorrow. She seems to want to widen out before growing vertically. . . .
👉🏽 Day 16 (3/22): Watered with Sensi Bloom A&B (.5 ml/l). Steady, if not slower, growth.
👉🏽 Day 17 (3/23): Ultra-sensitive with the nutrients; the Bloom dose seems like it was a little much (minor tip burn), and I'll back it down to .25 ml/l for the next watering. Will also add some CalMag to address what looks like a minor Mg deficiency.
👉🏽 Day 19 (3/25): Watered with lower level of nutrients. Growing well, but pretty touchy.
👉🏽 Day 21 (3/27): She may be out of the sensitive phase. Grew 1.5" in 24 hours, but she's feeding slowly.
Next watering with Sensi Bloom A&B (.25 ml/l) and CalMag (.25 ml/l)
Next application of Great White: around Day 21.
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👉🏽 Day 22 (3/28): All good. Look like the newest growth doesn't have any lightening/burn, and she's fairly healthy.
👉🏽 Day 23 (3/29): Top-dressed with Great White and watered with Sensi Bloom A&B and CalMag. Staying at present nutrient levels until newest growth shows less stress.
👉🏽 Day 24 (3/30): First pre-flowers appeared. She was moved into the very corner of the tent to avoid the downdraft of a fan, since there are signs of wind stress.
👉🏽 Day 27 (4/2): Watered with Sensi Bloom A&B (.5 ml/l). Have some humidifier issues, and it was around 37% RH for most of the day. Hopefully, that's what's causing her droopiness, like one of her other tentmates who is also a bit touchy.
Next watering with Sensi Bloom A&B (.25 or .5 ml/l). Will add Big Bud and Voodoo Juice if at Day 30 or beyond.
Next application of Great White: around Day 37.
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👉🏽 Day 29 (4/4): All good. Starting to dry out just a bit quicker, so this might be the leading edge of flowering. Super excited to get her stretching!
👉🏽 Day 30 (4/5): Watered with Sensi Bloom A&B only. The 24/0 schedule might be a bit much for her, but the other two plants in the tent are thriving. Will have to ride it out 😅
👉🏽 Day 33 (4/8): Watered with the first addition of Big Bud, Carboload, and Voodoo Juice (until Day 40). Started to clear out the wind-damaged fan leaves near the bottom, along with some lower flowering sites.
Next watering with Sensi Bloom A&B (.25 or .5 ml/l), Big Bud, Carboload, and Voodoo Juice.
Next application of Great White: around Day 37.
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👉🏽 Day 36 (4/11): Watered with nutrients, rotated the pot, trimmed damaged leaves, and pinched off low flowering sites. There's been about 2" stretch in the past few days, and I'm hoping she'll spread out just a bit more.
👉🏽 Day 38 (4/13): Watered and is taking well to Big Bud; will monitor and hopefully increase the dose next time. Not sure if she's a runt yet, but it's good to see more flowering sites appear. Growing about 1"/day.
👉🏽 Day 41 (4/16): Watered with a bit more Big Bud (.5 ml/l) without any burning so far. The strain guide mentions lower nutrients in the beginning, but I'll start being more aggressive with the Bloom nutrients before stopping Big Bud and switching to Overdrive around Day 45. Removed 50/50 leaves and a few more small stems/bud sites receiving little light. Still stretching. 👍🏽
👉🏽 Day 42 (4/17): First trichomes visible 😎
Next watering with Sensi Bloom A&B (.25 or .5 ml/l), Big Bud (.5 ml/l), and Carboload (1 ml/l). Will be adding nutrients with each watering, which will be to minimal runoff.
Next application of Great White: around Day 49.
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👉🏽 Day 43 (4/18): Doing well and about a week behind her tentmates. Buds are just starting to form, and she's grown about 1.5" over the last two days.
👉🏽 Day 44 (4/19): Watered with stronger dose of Sensi Bloom A&B. Seems to be a little stressed, but we'll ride it out and see what comes. (Still a sensitive plant but seems to bounce back quicker during late veg/early bloom.) Next watering will be with first dose of Overdrive, and I'll be cutting out the Big Bud.
👉🏽 Day 45 (4/20): Hope y'all had an awesome day! (She's hungry for K and CalMag. Not sure how to add more K since there's a bit of stress showing.)
👉🏽 Day 47 (4/22): Watered, lowering Sensi Bloom A&B to .25 ml/l and adding .25 ml/l of Cal Mag. She seems to have finished her stretch, so I'll be backing off of nutrients as needed.
Next watering with Sensi Bloom A&B (.25 ml/l), Big Bud (.5 ml/l), CalMag (.25 ml/l), and Carboload (1 ml/l). Will be adding nutrients with each watering, which will be to minimal runoff.
Next application of Great White: around Day 49.
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👉🏽 Day 50 (4/25): Watered, switching out Big Bud for Overdrive (.25 ml/l) and adding the last top-dress of Great White. Defoliated about 20-25%, removing a few lower flowering sites and (necrotic/inward-facing) leaves. Looking a bit healthier.
👉🏽 Day 53 (4/28): Watered and continued with the strategic defoliation. Not expecting much in terms of yield, but it's a good challenge to see her through to the end!
👉🏽 Day 56 (5/1): Watered with plain ph'd water to about 20% run-off just in case there's some nutrient lockout. Removed more leaves (both necrotic and inward-facing). Remarkably, the buds are starting to stack.
Next watering with Sensi Bloom A&B (.25 ml/l), Overdrive (.25ml/l), CalMag (.25 ml/l), and Carboload (.5 ml/l). Will be adding nutrients with each watering, which will be to minimal runoff.
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👉🏽 Day 57 (5/2): Responded well to the pain ph'd watering. I'll probably give the smallest doses yet for the next watering. Overdrive seems to be too weak of a PK booster. Anyone have suggestions for a good brand?
👉🏽 Day 59 (5/4): Watered with lower nutrient amounts, and new growth is barely stressed. Will keep monitoring and hoping the buds keep progressing. . . .
👉🏽 Day 62 (5/7): Watered and still responding well. Still defoliating necrotic leaves that are fully accessible. At about 30% cloudy.
Next watering with Sensi Bloom A&B (.25 ml/l), Overdrive (.25ml/l), and Carboload (.25 ml/l). Will be adding nutrients with each watering, which will be to minimal runoff.
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👉🏽 Day 64 (5/9): Slowly and surely stacking with about 30% cloudy. Will most likely start scaling back nutrients around day 69-70. All well right now.
👉🏽 Day 65 (5/10): Watered and responding well to lower nutrient levels.
👉🏽 Day 68 (5/13): Watered with nutrients for the last time. Leaf deterioration is pretty steady. Sampled a tester nug, and it was at about 70% of how strong I remember GSC being. Can't wait for harvest!
Ph'd RO water until Day 80 or until at least 50% milky.
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👉🏽 Day 71 (5/16): Watered with ph'd RO water for the first time. Minor defoliation. I'll thinking of harvesting her at the same time as her tentmates, which will probably be around Day 75.
👉🏽 Day 75 (5/20): Harvest day! Will be doing a dry trim, so I just removed fan leaves. Now drying in the tent at 75ºF & ≈55% RH. (Will post harvest info/page after drying, since I forgot to weigh her wet.)
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Trimmed up after a one-week dry at 75˚F and 55% RH. I'll update with a better smoke report (and bud pictures!) in about two weeks after some curing.
As for the rating, this was the most challenging grow I've faced, and I'm apt to believe the two-seed pack I got of Forum Stomper was part of a sub-par batch. (More on this below.)
But if you're looking for a GSC autoflower, this strain will definitely do the job. I've sampled some buds in both a joint and a bubbler. It's like a woody Gelato: same head and body effects for me. Can do pretty much anything after partaking, but socializing and watching stuff is best! This batch will mainly be used to help the wife's mild anxiety and insomnia; I'll be making tinctures with MCT oil.
Thanks for checking the grow out! Will be updating at different points during the curing process. . . . 🖖🏽🌿
It's a long story. . . . This is actually the second seed of a two-seed pack. The first germination ended with what looked like a short soybean sprout! I really thought I was on to something, like a steroid-filled seedling. But everything stopped after being placed in growing medium. After a few days, the second seed was germinated, then planted. Had to remove a really tight seed coat, and the plant seemed stunted for the rest of the grow. It felt stress in the following conditions: mildly high humidity, mildly low humidity, after watering, needing water, high light intensity (though much shorter than the tentmates), and too much fan exposure. Two or three (maybe) of these, I'm good. This one, not so much! Moody as all get out. (The plant, too 😂)
That said, I'm excited I still have some Forum Stomper crosses to try out, like Mephisto's Samsquanch OG x Forum Stomper cross and Night Owl's Milk & Qookies (Forum Stomper x Cosmic Queen). Will probably run the latter in the next grow.
PSA: This two-pack was purchased directly from Mephisto in early December 2020.
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