LSD-25

rhodes68 Lights set at 50% / Metal Halide LSD-25 came up great as an end to week one. The Fast Buds LSD has pretty tough genes sprouting marvelously, First cola forming on One. Am having some issues with the CBD Crack germinating, first two the embryo was either dead or died shortly after popping. number 3 soaked and now in the soil will see how this one goes.

rhodes68 LSD growing well very happy so far with it, my mistakes failed to kill it looking great CBD Crack ... Just waiting to see at this point the germ is perhaps half the size of the LSD germs - third go Lights set to 75% till I move the seedling then back to 50 for a couple of days till the little guy adapts I can really tell how much that stuck shell cost thing 2 in growth, does not take a lot to slow em down but they are tough Final point this is the last chance for the CC this grow, it will be too far behind when I switch to Sodium for flower if this one fails. *Update The litlle guy (CC) has taken up her post and is in the pot, Growing well it seems *Update Getting a bottle of Cal-Mag and Spinosad Soap Spray to take care of the leaf spotting, either a deficiency or damned mites

rhodes68 Began Cal-Mag on all plants, week solution , showing possible mag def and this a more a safety measure as think the problem was wind stress from some very bad advise I wont be exposed to any longer. :) Began Grow Big on T 1, T2 will begin next week after it recovers for the stress wont put any more till then. T3 - CBD Crack just getting some weak Cal-Mag at 1/4 strg as foliage and water. Ok the feeding (follar and roots) caused a very slight nuet burn on T 1 so think later this strength will be correct but for now will space out feedings based more on appearance than schedule till they bulk up a bit. LST Thing 1 before lights on, water due after PH soil (7.0) so gave them all a good drink. Lights at 75% Bamboo support for T2 no LST here just let it grow in good light near a corner for penetration. Well snowed in again so using the chance to split this diary into two (LSD /CBD Crk) for the indoor strains, will be also begin planing the spring outdoor grow of sativa. Day 0 Sodium light for stretching 2/15 Checked Soil PH twice @7.0 , nuet flush (PH 6.8ish) as above Big Bloom, Grow Big, Calmag, run off tested 6.8ish Reason being that mag def is walking up the plant, so its got to go. Seems the Autos really want more than was in the soil as I can find zero reason for lockout. Flush has yielded excellent results, growth has exploded, will be adding more nuets earlier in the grows based on these results, will be feeding every other watering for now.

rhodes68 Overall: Lights to 100% hours to 18 as the plants seem to say they want to rest ( night wilt) at about hour 17 but are very cool as to the lights so upping lights cutting hours, we will see as its a learning grow. Pretty much hands off this week God willing and the creek dont rise, water and nuets staggered, may do training on T1 as she grows. Thing 1 - Training went well as far as we can tell, everything seems fairly happy and turning up. Had to retrain the top as the little bugger is strong and was pulling out the bend in the ties. Some damage to leaves that contacted soil after nuet wash so not unexpected. Not sure if removing is proper... Thing 2- Ok little guy is now the tallest as not training it due to the stem issues, have some support pressure and its taking to things. In the corner to get the best light penetration to lower colas. 2/20 Light follar feed with 1/4 strength calmag and bigbloom while lights out, just regular feeding. Plants seem happy with changes as the white hairs have begun to appear so next week is flower. They seem to really respond to the new light schedule, not seeming nearly as "worn" as they were. T2 now 9 inches tall and growing fast, wish I could have trained this guy. 2/21 Am reconsidering using the MH buld at all as the plants are responding to the Sodium so well. Not seeing any kind of undue stretching though its early. Meh time to switch anyway, this may be why finding a spare MH bulb is so difficult, no one uses them. Silica got in so putting it in the mix. 2/23 Growth exploded after feeding, went a day over long this time (3) should be only 2 it seems. Getting harder to spot any problems so spending some time with them lights out today see what we can see. See some further nuet burn on lower leaves was careful this time, a bit of claw down so yeah too much on the nitrogen, watering tomorrow anyway and changing the LSD's nuets to flower (again apparently a day late lol) , Next feed at half strg.

rhodes68 2/25 Sorry for the poor pics wife couldnt take the pics today. Back to Sod light some minor touch up training and trimming some of the old growth out. Doing well neuts changer at next feeding. Feed at half str Big Grow half Tiger Bloom for transition. Took feeding well, +1" growth overnight. Really beginning to see why people do not overly train these auto gals, it does slow em down and that MUST affect things. T1 was at least a couple of days ahead due to early problems on T2, now its reversed T2 is the healthier. Now how that affects things well not sure. BTW in the early stages the CBD Crk looked like the more heat sensitive, wrong wrong wrong, the LSD-25 needs the cool spots, moved them up front CC to rear with more light and of course heat. 3/1 Ok I THINK we have this sorted out. The low ( well crashing) humidity was making me think the plants needed water when they did not. Air flow was far less than ideal and I think Ive improved that. Humidity is now running 40-50ish plants look much happier. See what we see. RH holding at 44-47% lights on 60% lights off

rhodes68 Abject lesson, when combating a problem, heat for instance, every thing you do that fails to solve the problem comes back to haunt you when you do get it solved. Yeah took care of the heat then ran dead into cold , low humidity, and over watering. Lesson learned plants seem to be recovering, very purple buds... really purple. Just trying not to stress them any more so pretty hands off if possible from here on. Pic of bud, best she can do with that cam. Man the purp Well seems the humidity and cold was the issue (after the heat lol) plants very happy now and putting on bud like crazy. Wonder if that stress was responsible for so much purp on T2. It has it in spades. Grow tent came in 32x32. Set up 6" extractor blower venting outside, had to use 4" ducting till I can get some 6" so its being impeded a bit. Two pusher fans providing air input at top and bottom of tent. One small fan at bottom keeping air moving below. Smell is now greatly reduced (of course). Holding @ 80F 36%

rhodes68 Working out issues with new grow tent. Just same old heat issues think they are solved now. Yep temp holding at 75F / 36% My friends wanted more picks so here they are. Things are doing well now that the tent is stable. Lesson learned about that ;) 3/14 Seems a good percentage have gone milky on both so one more feed then water only from there. I will get it right eventually 3/15 Reassessed tricones on main bud (not sugar leaves) looks like 25% milky T2, 10% T1, so just water today, will look again in 3 days. Edited down the number of photos kept begin and end week pics

rhodes68 Getting a handle on what to expect from these strains, looking closely at several bud sites yields a guesstamate average of about half the tricones being milky. 3/19 new pic did feeding since it looks like they can go a while longer than I thought :) 3/22 Still building so gonna keep feeding *NOTE* Now that the Pineapple Express has left my system I can say without reservation these guys do not get fed again. PE makes me very exuberant so.. yeah these guys will finish on what they have. And yeah Im growing PE real soon. :)

rhodes68 Second flush to 25% at least one more in three days. Runoff pretty clear, one more to go looks like 6 days to harvest. Tricones running close to 80% milky with only rare red or amber, 20% clear remains. Hit them with some UVB for 24 hours just to see if the tricones could be increased. Seem to have increased numbers of clear and pushed others to maturation. 3/27 Day 65 harvest both tomorrow Tricones seem all milky some amber few to no clear Going to harvest in stages, taking the finished top buds leaving lowers to ripen further. Sealing cuts with clay. Hope to be able to lower lights at least 6 " also increasing light to lower bud sites.. Besides this is a medicinal strain for us so need to know at what stage to harvest for best results. First harvest of two (we hope) on the girls details later Pots very dry so are the buds which is great. Cutting done plants watered and back in the tent, no scales till next week so dry weight only in a few. 3/29 Plants doing good, I swear the longer the buds stay on T2 the blacker they get... purple is left behind they is black. 3-30 Just a quick note the plants were shocked/stressed but the bud growth continues with powerful terp production and no apparent herming or unusual effects of the cutting... so far. Biggest problem is redialing in the tent due to loss of leaves and low humidity, the fight continues. Will have a better way to seal those cuts next time and I think stress would be minimal.

rhodes68 3/31 Got to put this up a day early have things to do tomorrow. Still putting on bud weight in fact seeing new hair growth all over. Will prob do another cutting very soon.

rhodes68 Growing - 2 for 2 on germination wish others were as good / next grow for this strain will be outdoors looking forward to it. Ok it loves its water but not a swamp, it LIKES to dry out a bit before watering. Was on a three day rotation seemed to work best from early flower on. Could have taken more nuets for sure but starting conservative paid off when I made mistakes. Silica saved this grow when they were being stressed and I had no idea why (low humid) it makes a plant tough, stems were wicked. Humidity, humidity, low humidity at night (18% or so) in veg it does not like AT ALL shows up as boron def but really a lockout (thanks Ilovegrowingmajuana), late flower this does not seem the case, get instruments. It responds just as poorly to conditions as we do. In short Fast Buds knows its stuff on this plant just follow their guide.. kudos yall. Cons - she is a stinker and I aint kidding in particular in late flower and drying. Act accordingly I know I will next time. Thats it that is the worst thing about growing it. Heh Harvest - The staged harvest is interesting I know for certain some lower buds doubled in size over that 4 days between them. First harvest should have been earlier and I would have gotten more from the lower buds as it just could not go any longer. Harvest on all milky tricones, the psychoactivity is so high. Yield - "looks" (yeah I know no scales yet, I a poor bastid) about average for the strain with almost twice as much coming from T1 than T2 . Will have weights when I get scales :) Best thing is they didnt die.... :D00 Getting a vented hood, dialing down the lights for heat issues cost us yield no doubt. Prob averaged 450w during flower. Over drying cost us yield but next time we do better, have another harvest this week so this ends our little journey.