Earth Box vs Living Soil

[No3odiesShad0w]

Chopped the 2x3 tent yesterday I had no choice but to wet trim. There was no way I would have been able to fit both plants in there with leaves and stems. No way There is 871g of wet flower so i should have about 3/4 of a pound from the 2x3 tent All the flower looks AMAZING This grow went perfectly. If only they could all be this easy but man that 2x4 tent is looking sexy af. Few more days and I will take down the 2x4
I recorded the whole trim on 3 cameras including a head cam for that first person POV of how Trim Jail feel 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😈😈

[Bluey]

Because you managed the grow the best you have done so far, great job.

[No3odiesShad0w]

I never had plants come out like this. One has these awesome edges the other one looks like a dalmatian. What is going on here???🙏🙏 The cannabis God's blessed me this time around 😅

[No3odiesShad0w]

Just wanted to let everyone know that I posted a video on my YouTube channel about my experiences with the Battle of the Breeders. There's commentary, time lapse, trailers, logos, macro shots, bud shots and all the stuff ppl love in a good from Seed to harvest video. Check it out! I had fun making it and even more fun enjoying the buds I grew along with the community ❤️

https://youtu.be/-ZIw74b_mdE?si=sVfFHudFVAC5-ESP

Thanks everyone and Happy Growing🪴

[No3odiesShad0w]

Some Trichome shots of all 4 girls. The first photo is a focus stacked shot using 5 photos taken at different focal points and layered together for that really good hi resolution picture.....at least to the best of my current ability. The rest are just using the phone and a jeweler's loupe. I think the Mandarin looks the readiest of all of them and send is her pot mate. I think they will be coming down Sunday for sure. Just 2 more nights of growing for them.

[No3odiesShad0w]

Bluey I think it was potassium not magnesium. Now it's even visible on the UG. It's fine though. There at the end. Good to know in the future that the GBoF is a potassium hog

[No3odiesShad0w]

Just days to go. I can't chop all 4 at the same time. I need to do them 8 days apart at least. The scary part is they look like they are all going to be ready at the same time. I think I'm gonna do the 2x3 first just because it's more tight. More chance of mold. I'll probably be chopping this weekend. Maybe Sunday maybe Monday. Exciting exciting exciting.

I also have my next project under way. Just got the last piece delivered today and I'm ready for the next round!!! It's going to be a doozy. All Coco. NO PEAT AT ALL!! After this grow, I'll pick my favorite performing nutrients and do peat vs Coco with the winning nutrients.

I'm going to be recording everything and putting videos up on YouTube. Images on Instagram. It's all about to get so lit 🤣 Having a blast growing and I'm loving the time lapse and videos. It's all just clicking so well. Might be a future in this 🤔

I have my clones, cuttings and seedlings on stand by. I'm going to run the cross that I did because it's actually tasting awesome!! I think the Acai Freak #1 is a female. So she'll be a keeper. I planted 2x feminized seeds. 1x Sour Orange by Super Natural Seeds and Grape Caper by Purple Caper Seeds. That will make the 4x in the earth boxes. Then the stand out is the Freakshow. If any of these are a female, I'm be running her in the fabric pot with GH liquid nutrients. I'm the most worried about this one but if I see it's not going great, I can always just go organic really quick to save the grow. Hopefully I won't need to. Still waiting for the feminized seeds to pop but that's the line up so far.

One of my cacti got corrupted by slime mold. It was too wet by the windows in the kitchen. I had to move the cacti to a drier spot in the house. I took inventory of all my seeds. Trying to organize future grows and projects. I took advantage of the slime mold on the cactus to prescribe my macro photography. I posted some videos on my YouTube page. Just got lots of cool stuff in the works. From woodworking and building instruments to photography and videography to growing plants. It's all just coming together full circle and I LOVE IT
Happy Growing and follow your passions!!

[No3odiesShad0w]

I also started a Cannabis YouTube Channel (maybe they won't delete it??🙏🙏). We'll see. That's why I made a separate channel just in case. I also posted a video of me taking clones of the Acai Freak so I can sex the plants.

https://youtu.be/_NFxkk04oGA?si=BhdHby5LX-q7hd9s

If they don't delete the channel and it starts getting traction I'm going to post all the time lapses in high definition. I'll video document everything. It'll actually have a place to go instead of sit on my HDD.

[No3odiesShad0w]

I'm nearly crying over here!!!! This grow... THIS GROW!!! 🥰🥰🥰

Day 58 of Bloom. We are right in the window of harvest and it's showing! The girls are looking so amazing.

All the buds look so freaking amazing!!!! They are frosty, they have color, they have rosettes, they have hairs, they have the smells and everything in between. This grow has SURPASSED my expectation. It was a shakey start with the GBoF and Mandarin worse for wear. They bounced back and then some.

The Grape Balls of Fire is turning purple all over with the green spots. Freaking coolest looking plant I've grown. So photogenic. I got so many likes on Instagram for that picture. So make new followers. She's getting milky too, so the purple underneath is really highlighting all the trichomes. She is a STUNNER 😍. She's not lacking in the terpene department either. She smells like grape nerds candy. Like molten candy where it almost stings the nose with the sweet grape smell. I almost want to take a bite out of her.

Both of the UGs are smelling NUTS. Wow. The gas is so strong that it literally BURNS YOUR NOSE 👃 It's the most spicy perfumy incensey type of gas over ludens cherry cough drops. Compared to the GBoF, she's ugly. She's def not a looker but mgl those terpenes are so loud. So incredibly strong and on top of that, she's a yielder. There's going to be 4oz on there easy and then some.

The Mandarin Zkittlez has my second favorite morphology. She's got those beautiful rosette like structure. Just little twists of goodness on each branch. Coated with frost. She's also picking up some dark colors. They are really helping contrast the ripening trichomes. She smells like berry citrus candy or punch. I was hoping more for orange terpenes but it's okay. She smells delicious. Not heavy on the gas but it's a really nice DEEP berry smell.

The 2nd UG IDK...I can't tell who's louder. This one is even MORE gassy if you can believe it. It starts to sting the nose from far away. It's hard to even smell the cherry because your being assaulted with the strong gas smell. So excited. This is probably my top 1 or 2 cultivar, so that's why I grew 2x. I love it. I went through hell to get the seeds and over paid for them but it's okay. Worth it because ..... Those terpenes are just EVERYTHING!!!! IDK why this cultivar didn't do well. Just a wild smell.

[No3odiesShad0w]

Bluey I'm really finding all my passions. Loving the growing and I'm loving the video and picture documentation. Learning the editing is a challenge, but I love the result. Each time it gets better and better. It just motivates me to do more.

[Bluey]

Loving some of those buds shots with the dark leaves. Nice work!

[No3odiesShad0w]

I've been going nuts these past few days with these fungus gnats in the apartment. Trying to figure out where they're all coming from. There's none in my earth boxes. None in the house plants. Then I see them on the container. These clones are INFESTED with gnats. Holy hell! They're coming out like Night of the Living Dead. That smudge is 6 that I killed with my thumb in one go. I treated it with a HEAVY dose of BTI and I sprayed with neem. ..... I've been throwing some mosquito bits on top of the soil every so often but apparently that was not enough. They just took hold. Glad I figured it out though lololol. Not sure why it's only those effected when they've been around other plants but that's fine. Not gonna complain about that.

Also I've been working on focus stacking and I have a few pictures to share with everyone. Mind you, I have NO IDEA what I'm doing when it comes to camera stuff. This is my first ever DSLR camera. I'm just learning what ISO, shutter speed and aperture are and what they do. I've NEVER used editing software (not even ms paint) so I have no idea what anything does. I know what the crop tool does and that's about it.
So while learning how to camera, I'm simultaneously learning how to edit RAW images and then processing them in GIMP. It's just a lot of clicking and undoing then redoing to learn what the tools do.
It's a bit overwhelming honestly..... But I'm trying.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DCh3nefPjjy/?igsh=MWdvdG4weTc0b3d6bg==

This is my cross of the blue dream x MAC1

https://www.instagram.com/p/DChx6fWPtoq/?igsh=d3BpdW80azdvcmM1

The Great Balls of Fire

I'll see if it lets me upload the images from my computer but if not here are the links.

[No3odiesShad0w]

Bluey by looks, yeah probably. I only had one better than this and it was also Ethos... Same 2 cultivars 🤣 Mandarin Zkittlez and UG. I think I will surpass the yield this time. Still room for improvement so each grow is always the best one yet. The lilac diesel was not one of the best lolol but you know they can't all be winners

[Bluey]

Yep. Is this your best grow to date?

[No3odiesShad0w]

Bluey I always seem to get pretty favorable results with Ethos. AND no runts, stunts or any other yield effecting issues. Should have a pound there.