Earth Box vs Living Soil

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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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💨💨😤💨💨 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 🤞

[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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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!

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

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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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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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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.

[Bluey]

Yep. Is this your best grow to date?

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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

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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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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.

[Bluey]

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

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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.