Oh my lord! The internet fixer folks popped by yesterday afternoon and did some ninja shit with our dish. That combined with the new tower mount and antenna means I can now upload ALLLLL the photos from my tablet without having to upload in tiny batches! I just dumped a load on the gallery in under 5 minutes! (laugh if you must but it really is a vast improvement
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I totally forgot to share a recent experience: my IRL grow buddy gave me some of his Grape Soda to try. What the fuck, guys? It smells and tastes exactly like grape drink. It's damn weird. How...what terpenes? A year or so ago we got some 'Carnival Grapes' which had been bred to taste like fucking cotton candy. The weed had a nice facemelt effect but also maybe some anxiety? attached to it? That was probably just me but meh...Grape Soda would be something I'd grow for the aesthetics and the 'Whoa neat!' factor. 'Grape' flavor doesn't even really taste like most grapes so I have a pre-existing dislike of it already. BUT YES...I smoked someone else's weed! I love sharing with other growers/smokers <3
So yeah...the garden. LSD is acting weird as shit. She's suddenly (week or two) begun to exhibit purple striping in her stems. I mixed up some calmag conservatively and added a healthy amount of Soil Activator. The places where branches join the main stems are weak. As she is now she'll never make it through harvest without lots of support. I'm going to try to MacGuyver a free-standing scrog frame around her at some point. These next 10 days are going to be fucking stressful but I don't want to give up on her.
I'm so far behind training. Thankfully I've really improved this year in terms of supercropping and have been breaking larger woody branches with no negative reaction from the plants. This means I can supercrop to get woody branches to bend, allowing me to keep the plant in the shape I wanted to train her to before life got busy and she grew past the ideal point to train. If any of that makes sense.
White Widow loooooves abuse. She's always the first to recover and bolt. Fucking gorgeous genetics, that one. Same with Sour Diesel. She's a sativa beast. I normally don't like how fat indicas look but both Alien Rock Candy and Rudeboi.OG are beautiful. I'm amazed they've turned out how they have: Andy and Ollie were goofy as hell when I started them.
My Triple Cheese SCRoG is looking like it'll produce a lot of flower. Again...I've been so busy and stressed and all that I haven't had time to maintain her or any of the others how I would have liked to.
I pulled some clones from Critical Purple Kush and Alien Rock Candy just to see if I can figure out the cloner my friend gave me. Should there be a bubbler in there? Right now it just has a tiny water pump recirculating. And yes, I know I need to cover the other holes so light doesn't get it. I only have so many tentacles and right now they're all occupied.
@NuttyProfessor I found you a giant lamb's quarter and a neat white thistle (I think). They're growing where I dump my hydro leftovers. Fucking massive.
If anyone has any input on my choice to try more calmag on LSD please tell me. I'm at a loss with her.
Thank you! Love you guys!
I've often had the reddish/purple coloration on stems and stalks. Not sure why, but my plants were healthy and it didn't seem to present any issues at all. All of your ladies looks beautiful, including the LSD. I'm not sure if CalMag will change that but it likely won't hurt. My first instinct (FWIW) would be to maybe get a little oxygen into her roots either with H202 or a slow feeding straight down the center so she can suck it in herself? That's all I've got, but she looks beautiful. 
These pics are of the Blow Dream auto in my tent. Note the purple stripes? 
