Well it’s been a while, but I’m back. To summarize that Blackberry Breath/GDP/Gmo Zkittles run was the best I’ve ever had in my 2 1/2 years of growing! You can find week by week updates as well as harvest and buds pics on growdiaries.com, the username is the same as on here. Now on to the grow I have prepared after that which just went into flower on Saturday. Today was Day 2 of Flower since flip.
In this run were flowering only 2 strains:
Ninja Smash (Ninja Fruit x Bruce Banner #3) - A discontinued and limited edition strain from Dojo Seed Co
Strawberry Starburst (Strawberry Fields x Arise) - A mostly Sativa strain from RastaJeff at Irie Genetics
Pictured is 1 Pheno of Ninja Smash and 4 phenos of the Strawberry Starburst that I am gonna be Pheno hunting this round.
I’ve taken everything I’ve learned so far and thrown it at these girls. Defoliation, multiple toppings, cover crops (12 seed blend from build-a-soil), LST in the form of pulling the branches outwards so there is more light in the center of the plants, and pruning branches that weren’t getting light or would later on end up colliding with a branch or blocking a budsite. I only tied down most of them. A few were left as they were because I felt it wouldn’t be needed in their case.
Also we have since switched over to a new nutrient line and have started to try living soil, hence the cover crop. I tried Nature’s Living Soil and could not get past the smell. It was straight horse manure all through my condo everytime the air come on for a solid week, but ended up working really good. I just recently got a hold of Gaia Green and love it way more. Way less smell and more of a fish aquarium/fish food smell that doesn’t escape the tent. This will be my first time ever using the Gaia Greens nutrients. These plants had spent all of veg on salt based nutrients (Advanced Nutrients).
Now that I’ve used salt based nutrients I am grate to have learned about certain deficiencies and how to combat them for the most part. With the switch to living soil, however, I can now focus on training, defoliation, and spotting pests rather then struggling to keep them healthy or chasing deficiencies. I can also view more, if not all, of their phenotypic potential and more confidently decide what to let go and what to keep.