Welcome to my Fast Buds sponsored shootout and living organic soil v coco side by side. I also plan to use this grow to my full advantage regarding a few age old nagging questions about methods. I have had a keen interest in L.O.S ( supersoil) since reading a few threads a while back on how amazing and productive it can be. After too much research and procrastinating I had to give it a go. I have been a decades coco/nft grower and recently threw my hat in the rdwc ring too. I have avoided soil due to the overwatering worry ( heavy handed chimp brain !) and the best potting soil/feeds. Catching up on the advances in indoor soil gardening and organics led me too subcools supersoil recipes to name a few but being a town dweller with farms everywhere around me still drew blanks on a lot of the ingredients needed and where the hell I could even begin to get them from. Thankfully , commercial savvy has now made buying it in ready to use and with a full range of beneficial bacteria ect available in amendments from a grow shop here in the uk. ecothrive have realised the potential for us to dive into this medium with all the mixing , measuring and resourcing. I bit the bullet and £150 later I now have 4 x37Litre pots that will be used for as long as I want to feed the soil for without EVER needing nutrients again potentially. The coco has also had charge mixed in to encourage the bennies to colonize there too. I will be using the shogun nutes that I know do the business with coco to compare with for yield , growth and taste. I have 3 seeds each of 4 Fast Buds Strains to use as a control for the grow and am journaling each strain in their own diaries. This statement will be used to start each one as the information is identical at this point but following this I will do them individually. I am now starting their second week since opening the seed packets , straight into soaked and shook root riot cubes and into the heated propagator. They had all showed their heads by end of day 3 and a couple needed helmet surgery to open up without being hindered . I have has them in the prop for a few days but they needed to get settled as they were popping roots out all over the cubes. They have now been in their final pots for 2 days complete and starting their 3rd today at day 8 since planting in cubes. I am impressed with the speed and success of these girls already (12 of 13 germinated) . Well done fast buds. So here we go folks , any comments , ideas ,questions , advice are always welcome and I hope we can have some fun experimenting with defol v non defol , topping v fimming v bending and any other curiosities along the way. I plan on using a quadline for them all to keep a control for the comparisons too. Be green folks Welcome aboard and a huge thank you to Fast Buds for the opportunity to try autos.

July 4: topped both plants.

Just feed water ph to 6.00 area.

Día 69, 21 de flor. Foto 1 pre-peluquero Foto 2 y 3 post-peluquero Vídeo #MerryBerry Así va la cosa chavalitris! Se llevan el último arreglo ya en flor, a ver si las engañamos y engordan más de la cuenta Toca riego en todas menos Gorila, que va unos días más lenta, y aún no tiene esa sed. Favoritas de momento: La #MerryBerry 3 huele muy muy diferente. No la he acabado y creo que ya quiero repetirla 😅 Cultivo fácil, estructura, mucha resina. También top la #BlueberryMuffins 1 apuntando buena estructura, producción y resina! La #weddingcake 2 y 3 mejoraron tras la apical y en Stretch juntaron nudo, 2 con con más resina. La #ChocolateMintOg 1 solo es porra principal, pero parece tirar bien de resina. La #Gorilla está por ver, pero también tiene un olor peculiar desde hace semanas.

250ml c/u 0.5 Micorizas @colectivo 1ml Calmag @biobizz 1ml Bio Grow 1ml Bio Heaven Riego día 21 250ml c/u 1ml calmag

Posting this week so late. I dont know why i never ended this diary, but yeah... here it is :) BSF Gorilla Glue comes with tovely buds, gave a great yield for a beginner, and a very pleasant smoke at the end.

The girls are coming on a treat! These are the type of girls you could strip down to near enough naked and the next day they look bushy as again👌🏼😏 this would be ideal but since we are scrog'in it's proving a bit difficult so unsure if we are going to go for a true s.o.g or use it just to create space ! The girls are coming along great and are brilliant to grow - 4 out of 5 of the girls are spot on! The middle one , is around 30cm smaller and taking her time! But apart from that super skunk is spot on! Flowers have started popping through everywhere so looking forward too seeing the profession over the upcoming weeks 😁 Happy growing 🤗😎

Hi everyone :-) This week will be a short update because there is not much to report :-) It is developing well ;-) and will have some time to grow 👍 Strain Blue gelato 41 clone from mother (Barney's Farm) ☝️ Genetics: Blueberry x Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies x Sunset Sherbert 👍 Vega lamp: 2 x Todogrow LED Quantum board 100 W. 💡 Flower lamp: 2 x Todogrow LED Cxb 3590 COB 3500 K 205 W. 💡 ☝️ earth: Canna Terra Professional + ☝️ Fertilizer: Canna Terra Vega, Canna Terra Terra Flores, Rizotonic, Cannazym, CANNA Boost, Pk 13/14, Canna Cal / Mag, Canna Ph - Grow, Canna Ph-Flores ☝️🌱 Water: Osmosis water mixed with normal water (24 hours stale that the chlorine evaporates) to 0.2 EG. Add Cal / Mag to 0.4 Ec Ph with Organic Ph - to 6.0 💦 💧

despite the maximum temperature with lights on she grows very well, drinks a lot and I hope she will produce dense and juicy buds soon. 😂

Darker coloring, and more distinct shapes from her sisters this girl grew on top something very cool Christmas tree shape and plump flowers well resined with one by one shape stems with 3 leaves and longer maturation time probably even new pistils more plant already fat and resinous so we can explore more of her.

Got both plants started and transferred into the Hydro setup, both seem to be growing well. I just recently installed 2 UV B lights on the wall that turn on for a few hours mid day. Interested to see if I notice a difference with them in there.

🥒 Project Blue Tent – Week 6 Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Pheno A (Folder 14A) Hello everyone, and welcome back to another chapter of Project Blue Tent! 💙🌱 If this is your first time joining the adventure, welcome! Project Blue Tent follows four individual plants, each documented in its own dedicated diary from seed to harvest. Every plant shares the exact same environment, lighting, irrigation schedule, nutrition and care. By keeping every environmental variable as consistent as possible, we can truly appreciate how each phenotype expresses its own unique personality while also showcasing the remarkable stability of modern F1 genetics. Today we're checking in with Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Plant A. ──────────────────────── 🌱 Week Six – A Canopy Coming Together This week has been all about refinement. Rather than chasing vertical growth, the focus has shifted entirely toward building the widest and most even canopy possible. Every day brings a little more progress as branches continue filling the SCROG net, gradually transforming four individual plants into one uniform sea of green. One small change compared to last week's report is the official canopy height. Although Plant A measured around 66 cm previously, I lowered and tightened the SCROG net across the entire tent. As a result, all four plants are now sitting at approximately 60 cm, with every centimetre of new growth being directed horizontally through the screen instead of upwards. That's exactly the objective at this stage. We're no longer trying to grow taller plants. We're growing a larger canopy. Every branch guided sideways today will become another well-positioned flowering site tomorrow. ──────────────────────── 🌿 Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Plant A Plant A continues to impress me every single day. She remains the most vigorous plant inside the Blue Tent, responding to every bit of training with explosive new growth. Even after being topped and now spending her days tucked beneath the SCROG net, she simply refuses to slow down. Every branch seems eager to reach for the next opening, making the daily training routine both enjoyable and incredibly rewarding. The internodal spacing remains nice and tight, the stems continue thickening, and her foliage has developed a rich, healthy green colour that tells me she's enjoying everything the environment is providing. One thing I particularly appreciate is how well she's balancing strength with flexibility. The branches are becoming sturdy enough to support future flowers while remaining pliable enough to guide gently beneath the screen without complaint. She's proving herself to be an absolute pleasure to train. ──────────────────────── 🕸️ Working with the SCROG As the canopy develops, the SCROG net is becoming more than just a training tool. It's now helping shape the entire structure of the grow. Every day I spend a few minutes gently guiding branches into empty spaces, allowing the plant to expand naturally instead of allowing individual tops to dominate the canopy. It's a surprisingly relaxing process. No aggressive bending. No rushing. Just small adjustments made consistently over time. Watching those empty squares slowly disappear is one of my favourite parts of vegetative growth, and this week the Blue Tent has really started looking like one unified canopy instead of four separate plants. ──────────────────────── 🌡️ Blue Tent Environment Consistency continues to be one of the biggest advantages inside the Blue Tent. Average conditions throughout the week remained: • 🌡️ Day Temperature: 30°C • 🌙 Night Temperature: 25°C • 💧 Relative Humidity: 58% • 🥥 Root Zone Temperature: 24°C • 💦 Nutrient Solution Temperature: 18°C • ⚗️ pH: 5.8 • ⚡ EC: 1.92 mS/cm • 💨 CO₂: Approximately 450 ppm • 💡 Light Schedule: 18/6 • 💧 Irrigation: 1.2 litres per plant per day These stable conditions continue allowing the plants to focus entirely on vigorous vegetative growth while recovering effortlessly from training. ──────────────────────── 🥥 Feeding & Irrigation The feeding schedule remains unchanged this week. Sometimes, when everything is working exactly as planned, the best decision is simply to stay consistent. Each plant continues receiving approximately 1.2 litres of nutrient solution every day through the Mars Hydro automatic drip irrigation system. The slow and consistent delivery keeps the coco evenly moist while ensuring the roots always have access to fresh nutrients. Once the solution passes through the substrate, the automatic drainage system removes the runoff beneath the grow bags, preventing old nutrient solution from accumulating around the root zone and helping maintain a clean, stable growing environment. Current feeding schedule: • Plagron Hydro A — 1.9 ml/L • Plagron Hydro B — 1.9 ml/L • Plagron Hydro Roots — 1 ml/L The rich green colour across the canopy tells me the plants are extremely happy with this feeding regime, and for now I see no reason to make any adjustments. ──────────────────────── 🌿 Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Plant A Every week this phenotype reinforces the same first impression she gave me shortly after germination. She's energetic. Confident. And incredibly responsive. She doesn't simply recover from training. She seems to thrive because of it. The combination of vigorous branching, compact internodal spacing and healthy foliage is creating exactly the kind of plant I hoped for when starting this project. It's becoming easier every week to imagine how productive she'll be once flowering begins. ──────────────────────── 👀 Looking Ahead The objective for next week remains beautifully simple. Continue filling the SCROG. Maintain the stable environment. Keep guiding each branch into its own space. Patience is the key at this stage. Every small adjustment made now will help create a flatter canopy, better light distribution and, hopefully, an even more productive flowering cycle in the weeks ahead. The Blue Tent continues moving exactly in the direction I was hoping for, and I can't wait to watch these ladies take the next step together. ──────────────────────── 💙 Thank You A huge thank you to Zamnesia for making Project Blue Tent possible, from these incredible Pickle Lemon Haze F1 genetics to the complete ecosystem surrounding this grow. A heartfelt thank you to Plagron for providing the Premium Growbags together with the Hydro nutrient line that continues delivering healthy, vigorous growth week after week. A special thank you to Phytonaut for the outstanding LED lighting, producing compact growth, beautiful structure and an incredibly even canopy throughout the Blue Tent. A sincere thank you to Mars Hydro for the automatic drip irrigation and drainage system that has brought consistency, cleanliness and peace of mind to this entire project. Thank you to GrowDiaries for providing growers around the world with a place to document their journeys, exchange knowledge and inspire one another every single day. And finally... Thank you to every one of you following Project Blue Tent. Whether you've been here since the first seed cracked, recently joined the adventure, leave comments every week or quietly follow along in the background, your support genuinely means more than you know. The canopy is getting fuller, the plants are thriving, and the adventure is only becoming more exciting. Until next week... Growers Love, happy growing, and I'll see you all soon. 🌱💙

It's week eight of flowering, and Purple Punch x Lemon Drizzle has developed really nicely. The buds are relatively thick and firm, and the sweet aroma got me looking forward to the first taste test. Unfortunately, Lemon Cherry Gelato has not developed as well. The buds are not as thick and firm as I would like yet, but the smell is truly breathtaking.

Sorry for the late update. I harvested all plants together to dry in the tent for a slow dry. It took 8days till the stems broke/snap and everything felt dry by the touch. I cured and stored in grovebags. After 10-14days of cure, the flower were ready to smoke. Had to burp the bags, because the rh was a bit to high, but all in all unfelt very safe with the geovebags. Very happy with the result. In the end I got 240g of flower from all plants with 200watt led, so a bit over a 1g/watt. Goal for next run is to get 2g/watt. The bagseed flowers give a nice and strong high, not the greatest taste, but smokable.

20 Weeks Total 12 Flower Weeks Harvest HARVEST - 12 Weeks, 4 Days - 2022-11-21T20:00:00-0600 Today (chop) is the 14th day since moving to 18/6. The Foxtailing of the top flowers indicates 1) light stress, 2) Reveg . . .?
 Even with 18/6 and TWO full weeks beyond week 10, I’d have waited another 7-10 days to ripen the Trichomes to my liking (>1/3 w/ vanishing abscission). As is - I know we’ve more mass - they’re both trichome laden - the smoke test will tell. Phenos #7 “Broader Leaved” demonstrated moderate inter-nodal spacing, stacking buds put to the terminal flower(s). Flowers started as tiny ‘sunbursts’ of pistols in the common form for broad leaved plants in general. She branched significantly more than I expected - the buds along each mainline cola are on a small stem that’s 1/2” - 3” long, with a 1.5” to 2” bud attached. The buds spiral up the cola, starting (with varying internal spaces) Ambassador Cartwright Ambassador Cartwright by IRIE Genetics Transition to Flower Afterglow X Arise (Clementine X Arise) X Arise -> Afterglow BX1? ((Tangie X Lemon Skunk) X Arise) X Arise ______________________________________ Start of Week: Saturday 19 November AC3Q 120:F:13:1 to Friday 25 November AC3Q 126:F:13:7 Summary: Plant HeightBeginningOfWeek: [ 33, in] Plant HeightEndOfWeek: [ 33 in] Temp: 74.8 RH: 70.7 VPD: 0.88 kPa # need to get into the 0.9 -> 1.1 Early Flower LightSchedule: 18/6 amt: [ 1750, ml] # period: [ 9, hrs] frequency: [2, day] times: { first: 2100, second: 0300 } # Auto Only!!! Otherwise 1.3 @ 2100 Environment: EC Targets: # rel. | abs (rel + source) ECripen: [ 0.3, 0.6] [ 0.6, 0.9] ECflush: [ 0.0, 0.2] Fertigation Daily: - Times; {2100h, 0600h} - {pid: 4, amt: 1250 ml, ec: 0.6, pHRange: [ 5.5, 6.5], times: [2030h, 0500h]} - {pid: 7, amt: 1250 ml, ec: 0.6, pHRange: [ 5.5, 6.5], times: [2030h, 0500h]} Fertigation: # Mammoth-P: [ 1.5, ml] BioAgFullPower: [ 10, ml] (The Rooted Leaf) Resin Bloom [ 3, ml]; # Potassium & Plant Extracts _____ Saturday 19 November 2022 AC3Q 120:F:13:1 - [x] AM - EC 0.6 - [x] PM - EC 0.6, 1000 ml (local: sun am) Sunday 20 November 2022 AC3Q 121:F:13:2 - [ ] PM - EC 0.6 - [x] AM - EC 0.6 Monday 21 November 2022 AC3Q 122:F:13:3 | HARVEST CHOP 87 Flower Days Tuesday 22 November 2022 AC3Q 123:F:13:4 88 Days in Flower Wednesday 23 November 2022 AC3Q 124:F:13:5 Thursday 24 November 2022 - Happy Thanksgiving!!! AC3Q 125:F:13:6 Friday 25 November 2022 AC3Q 126:F:13:7

Day 62 Another defoliation

2024-08-31 They may have stopped to stretch, iam not sure, but i think so, you can see how the buds are forming, and they are already purple, thats fun leaves are changing color thats the tribute to the last 2 days where it was very hot and sunny, and tehy needed lots drinks and the big growth costed some leaves too. but anyways, not a Problem at all the Girl in the garden has more yellow leaves. BREEDER INFORMATION The cross of Frisian Dew with DucksFoot created Frisian Duck. It has such name due its characteristic leaf shape that looks like a duck's traces. The plant has a good growth in greenhouses and outdoors and also indoors. The strain is easy to grow and suit for begginers. It is harvested at the start of October outdoor and after 8 weeks of flowering indoor. The plant reaches 1.5 m indoor or 2.5 m in height outdoor. It demonstrates purple colors during a blooming and looks like a christmas tree. Frisian Duck develops compact buds. The strain has spicy aromas and tastes of pine, citrus and fresh wood.

This lady has been such a pleasure to grow. While she is a little tall on the main stem, I'm thinking my reward might be a great cola. She has really responded well to little effort and consistent water and nutes. Starting to throw off some resin and a bit of a scent.

Amazing shift in growth from 2 of the sweet seeds short purpling#1 & taller #3 #2 is yellowing and open growing altogether. Cut out any water and moved away from lights . I think is had light shock and over watered even though the got me 1 liter of in only 1 week watered 1ce with food . Other 2 very impressive boost of growth this week I've included an extra light 450 wat 3w leds (cost €390 from EU company I paid €60 for it only used on 1 previous grow bargin😎)