Enjoyable indeed! Everything looks great @estab87 !
Almost makes me wanna pop the one and only auto pack in my fridge!
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Thank you @Budderton 
& given how you’ve been so generous & hooked me up - if you’re ever actually looking to do an Auto run & want some beans, let me know. I have a huge selection of great auto genetics & I would happily fire some your way as a thank you 
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I’ve been good. Thanks for the offer, I may just take you up in a month or so.
I’ve never grown an auto… I’ll DM you when it gets closer to bean popping time.
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March 5, 2022 or day 49 (for most)
Going to try & be less wordy and more photos this time around. I’m tired and the photos speak for themselves if you’ve been following 
Big picture, here’s the DIY tote & 1 gallons:
As you can see, I’m starting to run out space in there, not vertically but width-wide across the tote. Lesson learned - a bit less training next time, let the plants grow vertically rather than branching them out sideways like I normally do.
Tote plants:
Sweet Afghani Delicious
Creme de la Chem:
Sour Crack (planted 2 weeks later):
Now onto the tent, big picture:
Jungle Love (I love this plant, the symmetry is beautiful):
Marshmallow Martian:
Blue Microverse F5:
Strawberry Nuggets x Skywalker:
Creme de la Chem solo cup:
Trizzlers solo cup:
3BOGxMango Smile solo cup:
Hope you’ve all enjoyed my Saturday morning madness. I need another coffee 
Take care,
E
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March 10, 2022 or day 54 (for most)
Tote big picture:
Everything in here is super healthy and still chugging along. I’m insanely surprised at how well this little tote works. One thing I will say is my homemade carbon filter is no match for the stink of the CDLC. My house is starting to smell very chemmy, heh.
The CDLC, though stanky as hell, is still small & cabbagey but throwing off all kinds of bud sites. I’m excited to see how it turns out.
The S.A.D lives up to its name. It’s a very interesting sweet terp profile. I’ll have to look into it further, but it doesn’t smell “familiar” like terpinolene or myrcene. It’s almost smells as if someone tried to make a cake out of sandalwood.
The Sour Crack isn’t smelling sour, more like an incense/patchouli on the stem rub than anything. That said, wow she grows fast. 2 weeks behind the others and much bigger and more deep in the bud development process than the CDLC, and just as tall as the S.A.D and almost as chunky! Enough with the talk…
Tote Plants, up close:
Sweet Afghani Delicious
Creme de la Chem S1
Sour Crack
And now on to the bigger gals:
Tent, Big picture
Some really great genetics in here from Wildwood, Nightowl & Mephisto. Everything is happy from a nutrient perspective but my upper fan leaves on the taller two plants are certainly suffering some light & heat stress after adding the additional quantum board to the tent. Buds on all the plants are really fattening up. Solo cups are enduring their torture with vigour. I’m happy overall, not so worried about the few burnt upper leaves on the taller plants, you don’t smoke those anyway 
that said, I’m kinda second guessing my decision to not supercrop those two gals like @DougDawson Had suggested. Little late now, but maybe an experiment for next time… or maybe later in this post? 
Tent plants, up close:
Jungle Love
This is the plant I am most interested to see finish. It looks like a heavy yielder, it’s incredibly symmetrical and beautiful to look at, buds are looking to be very fat or at least on their way, and incredibly frosty.
Marshmallow Martian
I’ve been waiting and waiting for some kind of stretch but I seriously think this plant grew sideways. It’s basically grown like a vining groundcover plant, with massive, fat frosty bud sites all over it, including one starting to form out of the dirt. My best guess as to what happened here is the taproot hit the side of the pot rather than the bottom and kicked into flower. I don’t know any of the parents of this plant to grow in such an odd stature. Anyway, what she makes up in size, she really makes up in smell. I normally scoff a little when people say their weed smells like candy… but this actually smells like a creamy grape candy. I’m most excited to taste this girl of all of them.
Blue Microverse F5
Genetically a smaller plant, I expected a size like this, unlike the case of the Martian. Over the past 3-5 days I’ve noticed the buds really starting to fatten up and pack on a bit of frost. Not nearly as much as the Martian or Jungle Love though. I will say this is this most “blueberry” forward cultivar I’ve grown to date. I miss that old school blueberry, so this is another I’m really pumped to taste. She should finish fairly soon, as Nightowl’s fastest finishing strain. Hopefully the rapid growth I’ve noticed in the past few days is a sign of kicking into finish mode.
Strawberry Nuggets x Skywalker
The other big girl. Less developed than the Jungle Love of about the same size… I have a feeling this gals gonna run quite long. Stem run smells outstanding. Very sweet/strawberry forward with a hint of gas and earth.
CDLC solo cup
She’s in full flower mode, taller than her cabbagey sister in the tote, but much less smelly. These little cups are fun.
Trizzlers solo cup
This plant had so many off shoot branches, I just had to have some fun training it, and @DougDawson just for you, I’ve even super cropped her. Handling the torture very well so far
3BearOG x Mango Smile solo cup
Little training here too. Nothing too crazy like the Trizzlers but just branching things out a bit. I’m not sure why but I feel like this science experiment is going to yield something special. Growth is vigorous & the branches are very symmetrical, making her very easy to train.
Catch you all again in a few days
E.
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Figured I’d best pop in and say hi.
As you guys were talking earlier, I’ve also noticed varying pot sizes. I’ve got a stack and noticed some of my 3 gals look more like 2 or 2.5 gals. Odd sizes for sure. I made the switch to 7gal fabric pots for most of my bigger plants. I really like them, but I really like plants on the larger side too.
I dont know how anybody does the solo cup thing, way too much attention for my liking lol. I like the set it and forget it style, peeking in a few times a day. Solos would require me to water/feed too often. I’m blown away by some of the solo cup challenges I’ve seen, kudos to those who do it!
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Thanks for chiming in and taking a look @Fitzera!
Surpringly the solo cups have been the least amount of work!
I have to water the 1 gallon pots daily, so I premix the night before and make a little bit extra than I need, and refill the little glass reservoirs underneath the solo cups with the leftovers and they bottom feed there’s only one of them (the CDLC) that needs me to feed more than once a day and it only takes 2 feeds, so it’s really just checking in a couple times like you do, and splashing some leftover water & nutes in their little bowls heh.
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March 15, 2022 or day 59 for most.
Gonna try and be brief today.
Tote big picture
S.A.D is really fattening up, throwing some orange pistils and coming closer to a finish more so than the other two, although the Sour Crack (2 weeks behind the rest) has overshot her in height and is starting to flower quite vigorously. The CDLC stinks - literally, & she’s developing real buds finally!
S.A.D
CDLC S1
Sour Crack (20 days behind)
Tent Big Picture
I was really pushing these plants (1500+PPFD near the tops & no co2 supplementation) out of curiosity, and I’ve definitely Light stressed these plants pretty hard, it’s most evident in the Jungle Love with fox tailing on the main cola, nowhere near finish. Also major burn on the upper large fan leaves of both of the larger plants. Lesson learned - no need to push science: lifted the lights to something more appropriate. Marshmallow Martian started her flush today’s harvest ETA 14 days.
Marshmallow Martian
Jungle Love
Strawberry Nuggets x Skywalker
Blue Microverse F5
Solo Cups
Everything’s looking awesome minus the CDLC S1 which is flowering nicely but potentially experiencing cal/mag def, root rot, lockout, light stress - maybe a combo of all? Who knows? Find out next week, same place, maybe different time! Seeing purpling and sportiness as well as a yellowing of the plant which occurred quite quickly. The Trizzlers is super vigorous and took really nicely to the super cropping.
CDLC S1
Trizzlers
3BOG x Mango Smile
Cheers all!
-e
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That’s fair, I guess I’m a tad lazy in my old age 
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Thats also fair @Fitzera, do what (and the amount) makes you feel good! I really just love little science experiments like this and seeing how I can push the plant. 
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Your new post reminds me I need to check what the light readings are at the tops. My biggest Mac x has some discolouring of a couple leaves in the cross over section between the two lights. I suspect it’s pushing pretty high there.
Your autos are looking on point!
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Which auto is the apple of your eye this round? The Jungle Love looks real nice for sure.
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The Marshmallow Martian is the one I’m most interested in tasting. The Jungle Love is enormous, heavy on the frost and is going to be a yielder; but, the nose on the Marshmallow Martian coupled with the fact that all the buds look like have been rolled in a plethora of icing sugar has me very excited @TopicalWave - if Werther’s Original made a ‘grape’ flavoured candy, it would smell just like this plant!
It’s also been a while since I’ve had anything with a real “blueberry” terp profile so I’m quite enamored by the nose on the Blue Microverse. Hoping it frosts and chunks up a bit more, but what she lacks in size she makes up in yummy blueberry terps, which makes me very happy!
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Things looking righteous in here! Jungle love stakkin up nicely. Must be the homegrown music! Quite the collection of guitars, liking the wall hangers!
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March 20, 2022 or day 64 for most
Well, a lot has changed in the last 5 days.
Let’s have a look at the tote, big picture:
The S.A.D is really starting to fatten up, and starting its fade on larger fan leaves. Today will be her last feed before flushing. She will finish shorty.
CDLC is still doing it’s cabbage thing, but adding some frost and nice little dense buds to her stinky equation, and the Sour Crack is outpacing everything. I wouldn’t be surprised if it finished around the same time as the S.A.D, which has already started its fade, and was popped 2 weeks sooner.
S.A.D
CDLC S1
Sour Crack (planted 2 weeks later)
It’s also got an interesting mutation, a 2-headed bud!:
Tent Big Picture
Lots of colour in here compared to last post, some natural (marshmallow Martian) some not so (CDLC solo cup). Let’s have a look at everything individually:
Marshmallow Martian
She’s fading & only drinking water and molasses now. Beautiful plant. So frosty, even the tiniest buds are dense and coated in beautiful trichomes.
Jungle Love
I spoke with the breeder and apparently it’s known that there’s a pheno that is particularly light sensitive. The main cola is foxtailing like crazy. Another friend of the breeder had reported similar to me. But it’s all good, it still smells fantastic and all the side branches look fantastic as well. I should have taken @DougDawson’s advice and supercropped this gal to even out the canopy and I wouldn’t be having these issues with foxtailing & light burn.
Strawberry Nuggets x Skywalker
Little light burn on this gal too, I’ve been pushing them pretty hard, but no foxtailing like I’m seeing on the JL. Smells beautiful and the buds are plentiful and fattening up nicely.
Blue Microverse F5
I’ve really noticed this gals buds fattening up over the past week. Likely more than any other. I think she will finish quickly & potentially catch up to the Marshmallow Martian.
Solo Cups
The 3BOGxMango Smile is growing insanely vigorously. It’s taller than some of the plants in 3 gallon containers and all of the one gallon tote containers. I almost hit her with CS to save the pollen to create some crosses because of her great vigour - but I don’t have the space for a breeding project at the moment so I’m going to finish her off. CDLC still looks sick, pretty sure it’s nute lockout as she was glugging faster than the rest and is now the slowest. Looks pretty though! Trizzlers is loving the super crop and is a multi top maniac bush.
CDLC Solo Cup
3BOGxMango Smile
Trizzlers
Catch you all in a few days,
-e
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Those are some healthy, beautiful plants you raised @estab87 . Looks like your set up for a happy harvest!
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Thank you @Budderton - I had the wind taken out of my sails a couple of times with this grow but overall I’m feeling happy about it at this point. I appreciate the kind words coming from you!
Take care,
-e
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No big updates today, just wanted to say that I woke up to the Blue Microverse F5 in full fade and my main tent is now (some natural fade & some stress induced) a beautiful 
rainbow , and wanted to share this picture:
Have a great day!
-e
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March 25, 2022 or day 69 for most
Sorry. No huge updates today just a couple of big pictures photos. I started back to work this week and have company in town so my attention is elsewhere at the moment but wanted to keep you all up to date real quick!
Only big pictures today, no individual plant photos or closeups.
Tent update:
Tote update:
Next update will be much more detailed and potentially include some harvest photos
Marshmallow Martian, Blue Microverse F5 & S.A.D. are all getting very close & being flushed w/water & molasses at the moment. All have cloudy trichomes, just waiting for the amber. 
Catch up more properly soon.
-e
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