Buds Buddy's 1st Grow Journal

Finding Super Glue seeds is becoming quite a challenge. Checked about 20 seed banks & only 3 or 4 even listed it but were out of stock.
I have no idea why really, but I shy away from the strains with Fruit , Gas & Cheese Names. Some of the fruit strains sound OK, but the hell if I want to smoke anything that taste like gas or cheese. Take Blueberry strains for instance. You can taste blueberry but it totally ruins the weed taste. I'm old school & weed should taste like weed .... Not Fruit. If you want it to taste like fruit pop a jolly rancher in your mouth & smoke the joint .... LOL. When I hear the word diesel in a weed name I think of the gas huffers of the 70's & 80's (maybe people still do that, I have no idea). So certain names just turn me off from trying them.
Now names with Cookies, Cakes & Ice Cream sound good to me so I tend to go more that route. Also names with Skunk & Kush tend to get my attention.
We all have our own sense of taste & what we like best so we grow what we like.
Anyway, If anyone spots Super Glue Seeds anywhere please let me know. I love this strain & want to grow it over & over til I perfect it. I'd prefer them in Photo's but will take Auto's if that's all I can get.
 
It's day 41 & boy oh boy are these plants filling out big time. That N.L. is just crazy. If I raise the light 6" by the next day the plant grows 6". It's towering over the 2 next to it & gets fatter & fatter every day. I'm starting to get a little worried the way my tent is set up that there wont be enough light for 3 plants per light. I'm thinking about moving all 6 Auto's & my 2 - p900's to one side of the tent. I guess that will tell me how well a 5' x 5' tent would work for me. I'll probably do that Sunday morning before pics.
The AK 47 x Six Shooter is also turning into a big bush. 3 plants in a single row is getting too crowded so I want to go with 3 rows of 2 so I can off set them in the tent. I'd have to have both lights on 1 side of the tent to make this work & put out enough light down the center.
Oh well, time for the morning feed. See ya later.
 
Today is day 42 ...officially 6 weeks old today. For the most part things are looking good with the exception of 1 plant. I'm not very happy with the Critical 2.0. Not sure what's wrong with that one. Looks like an over watered, mutated, runt to me. Still only about a foot tall where all the others are much larger. However, the Critical is flowering; but I'm not expecting much yield or quality from that one. I can't even train it because the branches are so rigid that there's next to zero flexibility. I'm thinking it's a bad seed since the other 5 Auto's all look good.
Northern Lights is turning into a monster. AK 47 x Six Shooter is right behind her. The AK 47 is well into the start of Flower. The others are a decent size but still not a lot of hairs on them yet.
Really getting worried about getting enough light to these plants since they're all turning into big bushes.
Hopefully when I move things around I can find a better way.
I have made up my mind that I will buy the 5' x 5' Gorilla Grow tent & a 2' x 4' for Clones. Once my Auto Seeds are gone I'm going back to Photo's because I'm picking 4 strains to grow over & over in 4 XL (6.6 gallon) Auto pots. If I'm going to use Coco it has to be a self feeding system. This is too much work & time by hand. I just don't have 3 hours a day to baby them. There will be a 12 gallon Res. for every 2 pots so hopefully that lasts a few days.
See ya all tomorrow with some fresh pics.
 
Day 43 & just finished changing things around in my tent & feeding the girls. Had to take the plants out of the tent to change things so I took some pics out of the tent. Sorry about the dark pics. Lighting in the room is not that bright.
I'll post more pics after these of everything back in the tent.
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OK, still have to re-size the other pics so be back soon !!!
 
OK, I'm Back. Got tired so went to bed. So here we are at Day 43. I'm now on Week 7 Nutes which consists of : 8 ml. each of Sensi Coco Bloom A & B, 4 ml. each of B-52, Big Bud Coco, Bud Candy, Rhino Skin & Cal Mag Xtra. My pH is at 5.8 & my ppm is 1038. My water is 224 ppm so that's about 800 ppm of Nutes added. My Temps run 79 - 81 F with lights on & 72 - 75 F lights off. RH is 50 - 60% Lights on & 60 - 70% lights off.
I don't really have the room to spread the branches out any further so they will pretty much growing natural the rest of the way with the exception of some defol if needed.
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And here are a couple of Pics with the LED's on....
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Re-arranging the tent has convinced me to buy the 5' x 5' Gorilla Tent & just go with a 4 pot XL Auto Pot Set Up. I'll have to get a Smaller 6" Filter also & 2 more Auto Pots but all that's do-able so that's what I will be using next grow. Just not sure when that next grow will happen. Going through a divorce & wife is leaving in 2 weeks. I'm OK with that part as we've grown apart & don't agree on anything anymore. The hard part is paying the bills without her money too. Going to try to get a roommate to help out. Hopefully I can afford to keep the house. Going to see about re-financing the House & my Car (2014 Mustang GT). I don't think I've ever felt so unstable in my life. I don't want to start another grow until I'm sure I can afford to keep the house just in case I do have to sell it. So it might be a couple months before I start a new grow after this.
 
Back in the late 70's I was in the Army. While I was in Basic I bought wedding rings at the PX. By time I went on leave & went to my apartment I was cleaned out. She took everything including my daughter & moved to Texas with her brother.
I haven't seen my daughter in 38 years or so. She was 2 or 3 then. She even took my guitar collection. I had about 20 at the time because I played in a band called Bad Attitude back in my younger days.
Anyway, this divorce is pretty much mutual. We grew apart & want different things out of life. It sucks to have wasted 20 years but that's just the way it is. The challenge now is keeping the house so my son can live with me & continue his education instead of starting work. He just graduated high school. I want him to be more than I ever was or could be so I'm trying my best to figure out a way. That's my only dilemma. I'm good with the rest.
 
I was young & dumb at the time & chose 11 Bravo Regular Infantry. They had a 2 year in & 2 year out program back then so that's what I did.
 
I'm starting to think I have some 12+ week plants growing here. The AK is doing it's thing. Suppose to be an 8 week plant but that usually means more like 10. It's moving along nicely though. The N.L. keeps getting bigger. She's putting out hairs but developing the flowers slowly. The Critical 2.0 .... you got me. She's flowering but so small not sure I'll get a joint off her. Give her another week or two & if she doesn't show much progress I'll stick it outside & if it grows it grows & if it doesn't ... Oh well. I need the room for the bigger plants anyway. The other 3 have hairs but not really doing much as far as making flowers yet. I'm 45 days in now so stuff should start happening soon. Should only have 25 - 35 days left til harvest if all goes well. Looking forward to seeing how these lights, nutrients & growing in Coco work out for me.
I'll tell you one thing. I have to pull at least 5 oz. per plant to justify the cost of these nutes. Spent about $200 - $250 when I started & already had to order more Cal Mag & B-52. Ran out of VooDoo Juice & Piranha also but don't need them until I start another grow. Those 2 are expensive ($47.99 per liter each). Not buying it unless I do well this grow.
I'll go back to GH Line up if it ends up not being worth it.
Right now I'm just looking forward to getting this grow over so I can take my set up down til I get my life back on track.
I'm not done by any means. Just have to take a break from it due to my circumstances.
 
Just food for thought, but these monetary considerations, ie, cost per ounce, were the main reason that I went to a reusable organic soil model. Outside of the electricity costs for my now super efficient COB lights (that I will run at 90w total in early veg) I have no real expenses for this current grow. I do not use nutes, but I will buy my water at the grocery store at .89c per gallon. It is all about how to be a miser for me, or why would I do this if it would be cheaper and easier to just go to the dispensary and pay their prices?
Also, a well managed soil grow can give you oftentimes throughout the grow, 2-3 days in a row where you really don't need to do anything with the plants except watch them grow. This is why coco and many of the other hands on every day methods just wont work for me... I have a life and many times I need to jet out for a day or two during a grow.
Kudos on being patient and waiting for your plants to get done... despite them taking their time about it. You are a talented grower, and I look forward to you coming back when circumstances sort themselves.
 
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