Plenty of firsts

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Last one. I think it needs like a week maybe. Maybe 5 days. It's going to fall right in line with 84 days from sprout

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I think she'll give me at least 2 oz if not a little bit more It's not a total loss definitely could have been a lot more definitely could have been better but it's all right there's definitely going to be plenty to go around.
I also ordered some Grove bags. Because after I drive his purple punch I don't want to have to burp it every single day for a week I'm so over it already I want to focus on the other plants so I figure I'll use the Grove bags for it. I'll get it nice and dry do my trimming put it in the grove bags and forget about it for a month.

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I swear I don't even know when this happened 😱😱

[Ckbrew]

Grandpa's stash, now that is a good name.

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I hope it's going to be good. It's a cross between a bunch of different cultivars. Some cherry in there some orange in there... All flavors that I like. Hard to tell when the Ethos website only has a sentence on what to expect...... And even worse it's a Multipack..... So you don't even know which cross they're explaining.

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Lololol it looks like one of the face eater Aliens

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So far so good. The blue dream and tangie are on day 14 of bloom. Day 45 in total. Nice flowers everywhere especially the blue dream. The tangie has such delicate stems and stalk while the blue dream is as hard as a tree trunk I accidently topped it while trying to bend it.

The other blue dream is on day 25 of bloom. This is the one control in the fox farm soil loaded with Dolomite lime. It's doing okay but looks like there's some excess of some nutrients.

The earth box is doing so well that I decided to get another one and I'm going to plant the White Widow CBD and the cutting of my dad's plant that I have.... It's so root bound and I didn't know what to do with it so I'm just going to plant it together with the CBD. Veg for like 3 weeks and put into bloom. I don't want giants but I don't want to throw the clone away either.

As for the UG and Mandarin, I have to put together a trellis so that I can start winding them soon. It's day 23 for them. I'm probably going to veg them for a month and a half before I flip. Mostly to give some time for the CBD one to grow up a bit. I FIM'd the UG and Mandarin so they're starting to branch out. Those leaves on the Mandarin..... Man they look like circular saw blades. Some really nice structure on there. The Coots soil recipe is pretty simple and pretty effective. Maybe I'll get some worms for the earth boxes as well.. Get a whole system going in there because I have nothing to do. Watering is a nothing task and all the nutrients are in the soil so it's water only once a week and the earth box does it's thing. Perfect for me since sometimes I'm in the hospital and away for long periods. This might be the best way for me.

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The whole leaf structure is amazing on these. Just blown away by the performance. Just going to double down on then earth boxes. I have space for 4 big plants and I'll get that with the 2 boxes. With the least amount of work. The only big project is building the whole soil and letting it sit for like a week but then once you plant it's a water only system. I gave the buckets a good go. They did okay but nothing to run home about. It all came down to the size. I needed say least a 7.5 gallon but preferably a 10 gallon. The living soil method should really work with this earth box well and no worries about over watering. It will always have the right amount of water that it needs to function by wicking. Keeps the microbes happy and the plants happy. Once during veg I'll make a tea and once during flower I'll make a tea and that will be the only extra feed. Should hopefully be smooth sailing from this point on.

And that perfectly executed FIM. I bet I'll get 4 branches no problem with that. Def like to FIM over topping since you can get 4 branches in half the time and since I like to SCRoG, it works out really well in filling that net quickly.

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So first update...I got laid off from my job. I came in Wednesday and they had already let 4 ppl go... I was the 5th. So no more excuses about things going wrong.

First the tangie and the blue dream(s). Now that I have the proper cal-mag without the extra nitrogen, things are going very well. Day 48. 20 days into bloom
The Tangie still has very thin stems but the flowers in those stems.... Just wow! She's already starting to pick up that orange fuel kind of smell. The trichomes that she's dropping on the leaves is crazy. On one of the leaves it's almost a millimeter tall
The blue dream on the other hand is growing these massive flowers. Her 10 day older sister is putting on the smells. A nice sweet berry kind of smell. Both blue dreams are doing well. The one in the Coco and the one in the soil. I think I was just always under feeding the calcium. Now I front load with 5 different calciums and I foliar spray some cal mag once a week during veg and they've been doing well.. it's week 3 of bloom and I'm not noticing any signs of deficiencies . They are just stacking on the flowers, praying for light.

My father's cutting is really the surprise guest. She's stacking some really nice fat flowers. For a tiny 2 gallon bucket, she's really doing nicely. Probably going to be a late bloomer just by the way the flowers look..... But man look at those orange hairs and frost.
That's why I planted the clone I took off it before bloom and planted it with the white widow CBD in the second earth box.

Then we have the Mandarin and the UG . I got the trellis up and I pulled some big fan leaves because they were blocking all the lower branches. Those leaves are absolutely ginormous!! Some really nice looking leaves. I have them some castings tea today. I hope I'm the next 15 days I can get at least a quarter to half that net full because in 15 days I'm flipping everyone to 12/12 lighting.

Autos photos it doesn't matter in 15 days just going to flip to 12/12 . I'll have to adjust the lights so that they get their DLI with the 12 hours of light. The tangie and blue dream should be ready at the end of November, early December. My dad's plant will be maybe middle of December. The rest of the stuff I guess in January.

[Rootsruler]

Sorry to hear about your job. Any new job prospects?

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Self employed maybe? During COVID, I found out I'm an amazing baker and started baking. I don't want a storefront but my apartment isn't big enough to take on more orders than I currently do. I really don't want to work in construction anymore. The chemicals and fumes.... I'm already dealing with liver cancer..... Maybe get some land and grow pine trees or something IDK.... I'm okay financially for a little bit maybe it'll give me time to figure stuff out

[Rootsruler]

A friend of mine made a deal with one of the local bakeries to let him use their facility at night, rented of course, and he started a luxury cookie line. He's been doing it for a couple years now and has just opened a storefront.

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Almost forgot, I trimmed the purple punch the other day. 5.2oz the whole plant. Out of that I got 3oz of flower. This time I did something different. I used a Grove bag to cure my flower..... And just wow!!!! I never had steady humidity like this before. You look at the line before it went into the Grove bag when it was drying. Then it goes into the bag and it's just stable! I'm genuinely impressed. I spent money buying 3 CVaults and I don't like them. I'm loving this set it and forget it with the bags. I even tossed a hygrometer in there so I can see what it's doing.

After trimming, I kept walking back into the room because it just smelled so damn good. Like fruit punch or like some purple synthetic drink that's almost like grapes. This stuff is going to be great. Too bad I screwed up on the call mag with the Coco I could have had double the amount.
The Bruce banner is a month and a half into cure and getting better and better. I've been sampling after one month. The gorilla glue is 2 months into cure and it looks like crap, it doesn't smell great or taste great but that high...... Woah! Who would have thought something that went so wrong would come out having such a good high???
That's why now, no matter how bad I think it's going or how bad or good it's actually going, I'm going to follow through on everything. It's only going to keep on getting better.

Oh the metal bowl was 231g so I ended up with a total of 84g.

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3 months into cure and this amnesia haze is🔥🔥

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She was so root bound in expecting in the next 15 days for her to take a complete 180 and bounce back in the earth box.

One of the leaves from the Mandarin. Just massive

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I ordered more seeds ....I just wanted some pineapple Express from Barney's farm to plant in December to plant along my MAC 1 and then they gave me some free Cheese photos from Barney's farm and then a Sweet Zombie auto Halloween freebie and another mystery freebie auto.....I only paid $40 I couldn't resist. I have so many seeds now.....I remember 3 years ago my problem was no money and no seeds growing bag seeds and hoping for miracles in miracles gro lololol. How times have changed.

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Another week another update.

Earth boxes
So far, I love these things. I water once a week by filling the reservoir and that's it! Then I just sit back and watch them grow. Loving it so far. Biggest leaves of any plant I ever grew. Healthiest looking leaves of all my plants. All with the least amount of input work. All the work was done at the beginning when I built my own soil.

Mandarin Zkittlez and UG Earth Box 1
They both finally got to the net. Rather than branching out, they've both been getting very thick. They are on day 37 of veg. I'm giving them another 6-7 days before I flip to bloom. I'm sure they will stretch plenty. If not, then I'll use the net to neatly hold and guide the stretch. Either way, I'm SUPER pleased with the growth so far.

Earth Box 2. White widow CBD and GSC Auto
With the second earth box, there's been a bit of a change. The white widow CBD is doing great. She's really getting big and wide. I ended up pulling the clone. It was doing great but the mother is showing herm qualities. All the seeds from this "breeder" have herm problems. No point in growing more herms and risking my other girls.
I pulled the plant and just tossed in my last GSC autos from ILGM Saturday at noon. Today in the morning it was coming out of the soil and tonight it's already open and ready to go. It's only going to have the next 7 days to grow at 18hrs and then it's going to get dropped to 12 hours. It should finish at about the same time as the CBD despite the late start.

4 gallon buckets. Tangie and Blue Dreams
The tangie looks frosty AF. It's a huge shame she was nitrogen hot the whole grow and couldn't grow out of it. I have her a 2 gallon flush a week ago. That seemed to help a bit but with organic grows I need much more water to do a better flush. She's on day 59 of grow day 28 of bloom. I'll be lucky if I get a half ounce off her. I have one more seed so I'll give her another go maybe before I take a break next summer. Another thing I'm noticing on her is magnesium deficiency most likely or potassium deficiency maybe. But she does smell really nice and gassy with a hint of orange.

The blue dream on the other hand has had no problems with the feed or water. She's growing nice and strong. Plenty of flowers all over the place. She's also at day 59 of grow.
I'll be surprised if these will be done in the 70 to 77 days because the blue dream in the 5 gallon bucket is on day 70 and she doesn't look like she's going to be ready in 7 days. She's looks like she needs at minimum 2-3 more weeks but I could be wrong. As long as they're all done before the end of November. That would be ideal. The tangie and blue dream day 84 is November 30th so 🤞🤞

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The Sour Dad clone is growing well! She's put on some nice flowers. She's on day 51 of bloom. Coming up on 2 months since I started her 12 hour schedule back on September 6th. She's a clone off my father's plant. He most likely got the seeds from his "breeder" drinking buddy. That guy gave me a pack of 200 seeds about 2 years ago. For a whole year all I kept growing was males and the females I grew would all herm. Clearly a year later he's not much better. It's only day 51 and she's herming all over and she's probably going to need 10+ weeks. I'm just going to have to watch for Nana's and just pull them with tweezers.
There's really not much to say about her. The bud structure is nice but there's like no smell. Just a bit of maybe planty with a hint of lemon. A bit of spicy dank hint at the end.

That's why I cut down the clone that was in the earth box. No point in growing this cultivar out a second time. There's nothing that I'm liking on it except that she's going to finish strong. So late in bloom and the leaves are finally fading. Only a few white hairs that haven't curled. The frost is slowly being packed on. For a side project..... She came out all right. Who knows maybe she'll be a good smoke. If not for taste then maybe for THC lololol imagine if this is a CBD variety and there's no high 🤣🤣🤣

But she went through a journey. I tried growing her in coco with synthetic fertilizer for a month and that went terribly. I ended up flushing and giving her organic fertilizer and she came back to life.

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The lights just went on so here the GSC.

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Another First!! Starting my own Vermicomposting. Just got my worms in today. I thought they were going to come with little American flags in American hats on their heads since today is election day but I guess not 🤷♂️

Got my vermihut ready. Just need to innoculant my cardboard with some worm castings tea so they feel right at home 🥰. Much excitement. No more crappy castings with fungus gnats in them.
I'm going to run the fertilizer and rock dust along with their feedings this way everything is available for the plants when I plop in some castings. At least the base stuff. I don't think I'm going to be adding crab meal to it because I'm not sure if they're going to like the crab meal. But I could definitely run some alfalfa, kelp, azomite, basalt and glacial rock dust. Those will also help keep the pH correct.

Not to mention all the beans that NASC hooked me up with for 40 bucks