Earth Box vs Living Soil

[Bluey]

Love the color change. Frosting up nicely too. Nice going No3

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It's been almost 8 days for my cross. I trimmed her and weighed her up. I got 27g of amazing smelling flower from a 1 gallon pot. Not bad at all! She smells amazing. She's got the structure of blue dream but the scent of Mac1. Very curious how the 2 flavors will play out. I'll have a smoke report in another week. Very excited about this one. If the taste and high are good, I'll be growing either 1 or both of those clones.

Next grow is going to be ALL COCO. I'm excited because I love my peat. It's going to be organic vs mineral. Nature's Living Soil vs Grow Dots. Water Only challenge. I can't wait!!! Still not sure which cultivars I'm going to grow. It all depends on what happens with these seedlings. I do want to avoid Ethos Genetics this round. I love Ethos but I want to try other breeders. I had great success with Humboldt and Going2fast genetics. I want to try some other breeders. Never know when you'll find the ones you love.

I have seeds from Super Natural Seeds, apparently an all female breeder group! Super cool imo. I feel female breeders and growers are WAY underrepresented in the community. That's why I wanted to try some seeds from them. I also have seeds from Purple Caper. I know they are a company known for their breeding male plants. They supply crazy good pollen to breeders. I'm curious how their feminized plants will be. I have a grape Caper seed from them. The rest is all Ethos and Blimburn...... Yeah I have SO MANY Blimburn seeds. I was getting them for free so why not but now I don't even want to grow them after I lost my blue dream due to herming. The rest are B/W label seeds. Those are hit or miss. Just going to have to see where the seedlings are at the end of this month.

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Getting to the end 💪🌸

What a great finish this will be. The Earthbox nutrients are killing it! Only now, I'm seeing some fade happening. It's literally been WATER ONLY the whole grow. I'm glad I have 3x more packages. That means 3x more grows that will be worry free. Just have do a taste test

The Living Soil side is growing fatter flowers even though the Grape Balls of Fire looked like it had deficiencies but the flowers keep on stacking. They've doubled in size since I noticed the discoloration. Now I'm just loving how spotty it looks. So unique.. like plant vitiligo 😍

My BIGGEST CONCERN..... I just hope they don't all finish at the same time 🤣 I think I'm only going to be able to fit one plant at a time maybe two at a time into the Cannatrol..... And that's if I wet trim from the get go. I need to save for a second one of these magic cure boxes. It works so fantastically and it keeps my buds harvest fresh. If I had an extra room that I could turn into a dry and cure room then I wouldn't have bothered with it. But with my apartment being so small. This thing is a godsend. The growing plants get to be in their perfect environment the blooming plants get to be in their environment and the harvested stuff gets its own perfect environment. And it all coexists in one room. Perfection imo.

The seedlings are doing well. The Acai Freak is side branching nicely. I'm a week, I'll be taking cuttings and tossing the main plant into bloom to sex it. The FreakShow is still growing slow AF. One of the 3 is topped and slowly side branching. REALLY SLOWLY.
My clones of my cross are dying to get out of those small pots. They are healthy and bushy. Ready to go another round. And she will. I'll cover them in the next post.

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Posted a 1-year update of my Worm Bin. I did the hard reset 2 months ago when I collected the castings. You'll be surprised how much work the little critters do.

https://youtu.be/gmEKOX3MFf4

Glad I got started. These castings are something else entirely. Best quality.

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Crazy to think about that they have 4 more weeks to go! If they finish in 60 days....

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🌸🌸One Month into Bloom Update 🌸🌸

My Living Soil Recipe vs the Earth Box fertilizer pack

Not to toot my own horn 📯 but I shall! My living soil (despite the finicky GBoF) is performing WAY better than the Earth box nutrients. That's not to say there's anything wrong with the earth box nutrients. They're growing some SOLID flower. Rock hard solid, too!
The living soil just has an edge. The buds are almost 2x the size and width as the earth box ones. They look a bit frostier too. That's about it. The buds are just bigger. Both boxes smell FREAKING AMAZING. Good Lord, I think this will be the BEST grow to date. No runts, bad genetics, weird anomalies or anything of the sort. Just 4 beautiful, solid plants with the most amazing terpene profiles.
The 🍇 on the Grape Balls of Fire smells like fresh concord grapes. Down to the leather shell you get from their skins. She's super magnesium hungry. I just added langbienite to the top soil. 9.0% soluble magnesium. She's got 1 month to go. I'm not adding anything else. If she's going to cannibalize herself; let her. Those buds are THICC already
The 2x Uncle Grandpa's still smell like Ludens cherry🍒 cough drops with an incensey, fragrant like gas.
The Mandarin Zkittlez smells like fresh orange 🍊 peels in jet fuel maybe. It's a very sharp gas smell. It doesn't have that dank gasoline it's more effervescent.
The Cross smells like lemonade 🍋.
I'm super happy with this variety in flavor. It's ✅ every box for me... Especially the ease of growth. I've just been asking water every 2 days. Fertilizer top dress 1x a month and BTI with recharge or soil revival every 2 weeks to keep the gnats away.

Also smoked this AMAZING stuff over the weekend. Holy hell does it smell like the ass end of a skunk but man oh man oh man..... The high..... SPECTACULAR. So giggly, so social, so buzzy. I see why Colorado is going nuts over this cultivar. I think I may have to look for some seeds of this. IDK about growing it because of that HEAVY heavy skunk smell. I can hide the fruity smells but I can't hide skunk.

Always happy growing y'all. I hope things are going smoothly for everyone. It's a nice feeling to have things ACTUALLY dialed in and it's all working like it should. 🌻

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Bluey In hindsight I didn't need it. Should have just kept bending. But it's okay. I might regrow this one. It's mighty good smoke!

[Bluey]

Bag appeal is just that and nothing to worry about. It smokes great and that's what matters.

Bag appeal and density are of course effected by the stress of supercropping and its either supercrop and get what you can or nothing typically.

Good job!

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💨💨😤💨💨 Smoke Report

For Battle of The Breeders -Lilac Diesel Auto by Ethos Genetics. (86 days total grow)

Got 96g of bud which isn't too bad. It's been 21 days since I chopped her and I've been enjoying her already so time for a report on this lovely gem.
She was dealing with nitrogen toxicity most of her flowering. It seems to have been triggered by the super cropping of the main stalk. Soon after that I started noticing all the leaves above the break were growing only 3 pointed leaves and they were dark green. I tried flushing some out but it didn't do much good. About 90% of the bud is larfy. It's not dense and it's got zero bag appeal.

That's about where the negatives end. The rest are all glowing positives. First, the smell 👃. She smells like sour lemon candy with a gassy funk. The sour lemon are very sharp on the nose and they're finished with a fragrant incense smell of frankincense or nag champa. I'm finding this incensey type gas common across Ethos cultivars. It's this incensey gassy kind of smell/taste on the UG that got me so obsessed with it and the Lilac Diesel has a similar type of gas. Very big fan. IDK exactly what it is about it about that flavor makes my head buzz with ants. I get so excited when I taste it.

The Taste 👅. Like it smells. That gassy incense taste is the first thing you get. After you get the lemony, earthy sugary taste. So full of flavor. With trichomes as big as sugar crystals, each puff is so full of all these delicious exotic flavors.

The Effects. Superb. It's a good semi clear headed high. It's not a couch locker but it def does give you the fuzzy visual distortion but without major munchies. It's clear headed enough to where you can still do complex tasks like playing an instrument or garden work.

So far everything I've grown from Ethos has been a winner. Super excited to grow more of their genetics in the future but I need to experiment with others. Humboldt Seed Co really impressed me with that Pound Town Auto. I need some solid blue dream genetics (Humboldt)and wedding cake (Barney's farm) genetics. Of course, the 2 I wanted to order are sold out. Maybe they'll have them by Christmas. This way I can do Acai Freak (if I have a female), my cross (BD x MAC1), blue dream and wedding cake. If not then I'll grow, sour orange by super natural seeds and grape stomper x something else by Purple Caper seeds. Just to mix it up and not just grow all Ethos Genetics 😅

Before I get more side tracked, OVERALL, she may not be a looker but, the taste and the high make up for it. I don't sell any of this stuff so 🤷♂️ it's all for me to smoke. I'm a big fan of the terpene profile. I will CERTAINLY pick up seeds of this cultivar in the near future. Gotta grow her proper. I may even get the auto and the photo versions to see if I like one over the other.

This next all Ethos grow is shaping up to be one of my best and I'm only a month into the grow. The terpenes are already crazy. If you bump any of them it's like a fruit bouquet. At least the next ones will be lookers too, unlike the Lilac Diesel 🤞

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These are only a month into bloom 😱😱. I swear. Ethos Genetics coming through yet again with the ⛽🔥

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Bluey those were fresh out 🤣 this was the next best thing.

[Bluey]

Needs a bikini clad vixen on the sand

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I found a cool metal sign that I think is perfect for Coco growers Bluey what do you think? Just add some nutrient water. It fits in my grow room really nicely. I like cool finds like this in a thrift shop

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The girls are all looking lovely. The girls in my living soil blend have much bigger and thicker flowers even though the GBoF has a bit of a deficiency going on. It doesn't seem to be stopping them.
The girls in the Earth box brand nutrients are looking greener and "healthier" but the buds, even though there's much more, are smaller in size compared to the living soil buds. We're only 25 days into bloom so everything can change. I added some recharge into their water today and top dressed then with the NLS Flower Power. Should be smooth sailing from here on out.

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After a 12 day dry and cure, the final weigh in was 96g. Not a bad number but I can only imagine what it could have been sans the nitrogen toxicity...... Or it would have also been 100 g like it was this time but instead of really larfy and airy looking buds, It would have been nice dense colas. Because 100 g or 96 g isn't a bad amount from a 7 gallon pot for an auto flower. It's like the minimal acceptable amount anything below 90 g is getting into not so great territory. But that's just my opinion and how I view my growing.

I tossed some in my vape and IDK man. This might just be a new favorite. Those incense terpenes are wild! It legit taste and smells like Nag Champa incense or maybe frankincense. It's definitely got this perfumey kind of quality to it. It's also gassy and lemony but that's how they rank It starts with the incense then the gas and finally the hint of lemon. It's basically like perfumy gas. Really awesome taste. Amazing effects. I'm going to try to take some trichome pictures because the trichomes on this are milky like milk colored milky. I don't think I've ever seen them like this before any of my plants. But then again most of my plants don't have trichomes the size of sugar crystals. They just have normal trichomes 😅

You know she didn't look pretty but she's a winner. Loving the taste loving the high. And it's only going to get better as it cures longer.
For example the pound town from Humboldt. It's been about a month and a half and that stuff is absolute fire 🔥🔥. The Candy terps are just crazy how do they get it tasting like apple melon candy?? Cannabis really is the most unique plant on this planet. It could taste like apples it could taste like oranges It could taste like grapes It could taste like a skunk's ass.... It could taste like freaking vanilla. Vanilla! You know how few plants actually have vanilla? Such an amazing plant I'm sure there's still much more to be discovered about it that we've only suppressed over the years. Like the tests that Dr Bruce bugbee did and they found out that the plants could go up to a 100 DLI a day without virtually any ill effects. We know that it's a heavy metal remediator. If you got heavy metals in your soil you could plant a bunch of weed plants or preferably at that point hemp have it suck up all the heavy metals and all the crap out of your soil toss it out and then you have clean soil to be able to grow actual medicinal plants or vegetables. So much great stuff to talk about when it comes to cannabis I could go on for days.