This was a fun week getting to germinate some new Seeds and strains from fast buds genetics for my legal cannabis garden. Things went smooth I'm excited to see them pop out of their seeds shells and say hello Happy growing

***** Week 5 December 12 to 19, 2020 - Days 29 to 35 from germination ***** Going to call this a veg week at the start. Will see how she progresses in the next two days if we change it to a flower week. She is transitioning but not knowing this strain, she may take a full week to do or may only be a couple of days and she popping hairs everywhere😀 She will tell us......just be patient and watch😳 Either way i expect her to take off in growth over the next 14 days and should be fun to watch based on other diaries. She has a great canopy at the start of the week and her branches have grown laterally very well.........giving her the width to open up and let more light down the middle in the weeks ahead👍 She has reacted very well to LST and her side branches have shot up! Noticed at watering today that her main stem is getting a good girth on her already as well.........reminds me of my Zkittelz which was another Fast Buds awesome run!!!! She is set up to do very well in the days ahead. Leaf colour is spot on and we have stoped veg nutrients already. This week we will be stepping up the watering I can tell and likely move to daily watering by the end of the week.......again, if the pots heavy - don’t water - let the roots breath baby😀 Will be slowly working up the light intensity in the days ahead as well.....might be next week though. She has not been to excited about extra light intensity and had to keep it calm and under 20,000 because going over that caused her to react. If she is drooping, then back down the power or increase the distance👍 Slow and easy.......slow and easy.......she is happy and we move forward with week 5.......Flower is upon us and she is looking good😀 Little more daily detail......... Dec 12/20, Day 29 - dry out day - basically left the auto girls alone today. - she is forming an even canopy......just caught my today how she is coming together👍 Dec 13/20, Day 30 - 2L watering with MagNifiCal @ 1ml, Microbes @ 2ml = 100ppm and 5.7pH - giving her a plain watering but since RO water added some CalMag and their allotment of microbes for the week!! - adjust LST on the girl again and was able to get further out and keep pulling her down. She letting me get her wide👍 - she is really looking nice today!! - keep it going girl......she is going to explode with growth this week and next 💪👊 Dec 14, Day 31 - her pot was fairly dry in evening. - 2L feed with Micro, Bloom, Magnifical, Velokelp, Natures Candy @ 1.5ml = 800ppm and 5.8pH - she has some runoff but didn't check the numbers tonight. - her leaves were more droopy than expected in the evening so I think she is looking for nutrients today. Dec 15/20, Day 32 - she is feeding well and the pot is lighter again today. - 1L RO water with enzymes Komplete @ 2ml = 45ppm and 5.6pH......chose not to adjust it. - enzymes to help clean up the root zone and timing it flower change and nutrients. - she is forming buds and have switched this week to a flower week from Veg👍👊 - moved ties further out a couple of branches and pulled a couple down further. Dec 16/20, Day 33 - dry out day to let the pots get really light. - want to make sure the pH stays in line so drying out a little more today. Dec 17/20. Day 34 - 2L watering with RO water and Rhinoskin, Magnifical, Microbial Mass @ 2ml - 350ppm and 5.8pH. - pot is lighter today and don't think I should go another day so feeding today. - she is happy and all her leaves are up and her canopy looks good. - I did push her nute levels and a lot of tips are burnt but its all good....not to far over😀 Dec 18/20, Day 35 - dry out day for her today as well. - bringing down the moisture in all of the pots. - she is going to sleep a little early...... She is a very nice looking girl Fast Buds. I have had other strains from FB that also at this point doing well and showing similar characteristics......those runs all ended very well😍.......hoping the trend continues👊🙏

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How is it growing, my fun(k) loving friends? ***INFO*** For more on my setup, why it was monster cropped, and how I made the canopy, see Germination page and subsequent weeks. They had 48 hrs of darkness, and the time has come to say goodbye to my friends. I thanked them again, spend some time with them, and under the sound of Amazonian shaman's harvest and healing songs (will post link), asked for their gifts, and apologized for taking their lives. I do this while in contact with the plants, touching, smelling them, observing every detail, no thoughts, just in the present moment. I feel emotional as I do this and remember how they were a companion, a source of distraction in a time of worry, sadness, and loss. How they already comforted me and kept me company in a time of painful insights about honesty, commitment, and staying true to myself. I thank them again for their wisdom and gifts, viva Santa Maria, viva Planta Maestra, may the mother of all beings give us healing and protection. And I proceed with the harvest as I visualize my intentions with every cut. Branch by bud laden branch is tenderly untangled from the scrog net, taken with a clean-cut and immediately hung upside down in the grow tent, which will now double as a curing and drying room. A couple more weeks and we will have the final cured and dried weight. More photos and movies will follow, this is where we are so far!! Thank you for checking in on our journey, all the love, support, and compliments were a true motivation, a very needed distraction, and guidance for me and for Sunshine. Big hug, lots of love and take care! ***UPDATE*** The final weigh-in is ready. I hadn't seen them in a week, because of my vacation. The humidifier I set up, had failed. So the grow had dried in 7 days, what I wanted to be 14 at least. Thankfully, its Sativa ancestry shines through, the smoke isn't harsh, the buds a sticky and smelly, no hay smell at all. We ended up at 246 grams, excluding a shitload of larf and popcorn bud, totaling at 310 grams all in, a first at a gram per watt for me, but for the Zambeza seed competition, I stated we would only weigh the quality bud. Overall I'm very happy!! Guessed weights in the competition: - @hashy : 0 grams - @MrHyde : 198 grams - @JamMAKEcan : 224 grams - @TrickOrTrip : 260 grams - @Greeneysgrow: 312.5 grams - @Ohey_fu_kyu: 350 grams - @Puffs4Pipes: 385 grams - @Hempkid : 605 grams - @DoDrugs420 : 621 grams TrickorTrip was closest!! Congratulations!!! I will be contacting you to get the seeds with you!! Thanks for playing to all the others and better luck next time, I will give away some seeds again!! Summary: Cost of setup: 850 euro Cost of nutrients and soil: 125 euro Cost of seeds: None they were cloned Cost of power: 150 euros in the power bill Total cost: 1125,-- for setup and this run. I smoke for medical reasons and it's used for ritual and healing purposes, never to be sold, as it loses its magical properties. Should I have to buy Gelato of this quality at the dispensary that I frequent, it would cost me at least € 15,-- per gram. 246 x 15 = 3690 euros. also, 49 car rides of 25 miles there and back, 250 euros in gas saved. Overall conclusion: I think we can call this a succes. Made back my investment, my cost per grow and we saved the environment. Thanks for all the love, tips and support! Couldnt have done this on my first indoor LED grow, without you!! Wish you were here to smoke a fat one, some good conversation about our hobby and now... I'm hungry.... See you on the next one!! Hugs Bud!!! PS. Should you be interested in Shamanism or Teacherplants by anything I mentioned. Pls watch the following documentaries or read these books: - The Last Shaman on Netflix - Fantastic Funghi on Netflix - Food of the Gods, by Terrence McKenna - The Herbal Jedi / Yarrow Willard on Youtube - The Tao of Physics - DMT: The Spirit Molecule on Youtube - The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley - Plants of the Gods by Richard Evans Schultes and Albert Hoffman - What the bleep do we know - Down the rabbithole (although vague and some theories mentioned here, could not be replicated, like the water by Emoto) - The Secret on Netflix- if you like enlightenment in bitesize, tellsell format The link to Santo Daime hinarios for the Santa Maria cura, healing ceremony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSjNgg_-iD0&t=333s If you want to learn more about permaculture / homesteading, see the following links: - Pete Kanaris, Green Dreams TV, visits many permaculture farms in tropical area's, he is great!! https://www.youtube.com/user/GreenDreamsFL - Supersoil recipe by Learn Organic gardening, take your ADD meds first, dont watch if prone to epilepsy... they like to talk... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9_5iIqpTVA&t=1216s - Mr Canuck, indoor organic cannabis growing master on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtU2-cpxx18iQ4BvracrxDQ - People creating food forests all over the world: https://www.youtube.com/user/happenfilms Happy travels and enjoy! Final update: Very happy to announce that this dairy had won the sixth place best diary of August 2021. My prize came in yesterday and I'm very happy!! Thank you Growdiaries!! Thank you Fastbuds!!! Thank you all my grow buddies here for the love and support!! Hope to see you all, maybe at a future Growdiaries Meet and Greet? Wouldn't that be a lovely idea, per country and a yearly one on a different continent every year? The Growdiaries Conference. Would be a great Hemp growers fair... I'll keep dreaming and light another one... Big hug BioBuds

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I feel like I'm doing something wrong when it comes to the end of flowering. I've seen harvests with nice green leaves but for some reason my leaves are always yellowing and burnt by the last couple of weeks. I usually just chalk this up to harvesting time fade/fall coloring but I wonder if it's something I don't have right in my nutrients. Either way I only have about a week or 2 left of feeding, im going to implement Liquid Koolbloom the last week of feeding. The last 2 weeks of these girls I'll flush with just ph balanced water. Day 60 should be around January 8th which is my expected Harvest date so this will be my "New Year Harvest". Needless to say, I'm super excited! P.S. I added in another layer of netting to help support the really heavy buds forming. They feel super solid and thick as well as extremely sticky

Flush process plan water 💦

All looking well with hesi TNT they moving fast now.

1 start flowering

I’ll soon harvest a few of these girls at day 78 and let the 2 bushier ones grow a bit longer.They smell great and loaded with cloudy trichomes :)

Will be adding a video to the bodacious wonderful gals! I'm never disappointed with fastbuds. You just can't go wrong!!! This is the first week since we moved. We're not quite set up all the way but we're working in it!

harvesting tomorrow, plant has been flushed for the past 10 or so days

Been busy the past few weeks missed out on updating a few weeks but gonna start updating diary every week again

Esta es la semana actual en la que me encuentro, con plantas recuperadas del súper cropping (cayos formados), se sigue utilizando en menor intensidad para mantener la altura del cultivo, el riego aumento en 300ml, raíces ya más fortificadas y cogollos más grandes, el crecimiento ya es mucho más notorio, seguimos aplicando floración B y engorde C. Recordar la poda de hojas que obstaculizan la luz.

Three large glasses full to the brim with the purest, sour and diesel-smelling sativa monster! What a tough passage this time. A few unpleasant personal events occurred during 3 months of the finest organic farming, some of which were in the battle with my motivation. A time full of happiness and a time full of sadness and compassion. I also learned an incredible amount once again. I’m very grateful. “The outside of a plant is only one half of reality.” Take care & 🐝 positive Alpha_Green

Day 63 - lookin good.... haha.... um, tanks stabilized, ph 5.8 - ppm 1200 .... she's feedin alot..... buds are fillin and lotsa white furries.... listed the nutes and amounts etc.., but i'm kinda feeding her as she needs.... so every few days she is drinking 2 lts +- and i'm just mixing up a neut solution in a 2 lt bottle every day or 2 ..... sometimes she just wants abit of water...... Day 64 +vid....shows her deep green and gloss... abit of crystalic :) Day 65 - vids pics.... trimmed her, and abit of bending.... Added blood and bone.... she's stretching alot, 60cm+ ........ Day 67 took all the early buds on all the stringy 0ff shoots.... Poor lighting vids, but don't want to mess with her flowering, :) 👍😎👊

last 3 days no watering and last 48 no light. drying conditions are RH 50% and temp 14°C.

Day 84: Watered the plants 0.5L with nuts 975 ppm, 2070 us/cm, PH 6.4 Flushed plants with 10L clear water Day 86: Watered the plants 0.5L with nuts 955 ppm, 2029 us/cm, PH 6.4 Flushed plants with 10L clear water Day 88: Watered the plants 0.5L with nuts 980 ppm, 2089 us/cm, PH 6.4 Added 1ml of bloom/top mix (5 ml/l total) Flushed plants with 10L clear water

They were in bad shape after the nutrient lockout. Lets see how they turn out.