Grow Mediums Hydro Journal LSD-25, Tangie'Matic & Blue Dream'Matic. Fastbuds.

[Jimmy Joe James]

Day 31 update:
LSD-25 (PPM 780, PH 6.0) @ 35" height
BlueDream'Matic (PPM 680, PH 5.9) @ 12.5" height
Tangie'Matic (PPM 680, PH 6.0) @ 16" height

LSD-25 started her flowering stretch around 2 days ago. She's been so easy to grow and deal with and shes a beast at 35 inches. Tangie is showing sex she looks like she might have 2 more weeks of veg to go but she's starting to show some more vigor. She didn't like the same amount of nutes LSD is taking so I'm guessing she's a lighter feeder, ended up with some slight N toxicity at one point but it was quickly corrected and she continued to grow vigorously after a couple of hours. Blue Dream will finish her 4th week tomorrow, she still hasn't shown sex, but she looks really pretty and bushy but shes by far the most sensitive one with the nutes. They have a bit of a learning curve compared to LSD but they're still easy and a pleasure to grow. Seeing this already though, LSD-25 is a strain I definitely want to keep so I'll be considering making some CS spray and once this grow is over make my own seeds.

 

[Jimmy Joe James]

Day 36:

Switched LSD-25 to bloom nutes to stop the stretching since she's reaching my canopy limits and shows no sign of stopping the stretch yesterday she was at 44.5 inches today she's at 46.5 going on 47 and I'm not gonna be able to pull my light up higher soon to keep that 12" distance to prevent light burn. Hope she doesn't go beyond 49-50 inches. For my 1st time growing autos, I'm really impressed at the genetics and how fast things go. Being able to see the difference between an 8 week, 9 week and 11 week strain is... idk I'm high right now lol. It's just exciting!! Tangie is starting her stretch today and Blue Dream still in veg hasn't shown sex yet at the end of her week 4.

 

[Jimmy Joe James]

Day 41:

LSD-25 stopped at 48 inches and it's starting to form a lot of white hairs and bulking up. When I changed to flowering nutes PH was at 5.8 and 740ppm (drops to 720ppm a couple of hours after correcting the PH with a PH Down ). 3 days ago I noticed clawing and brown tips. Check the rez and the ppm was at 690. Over these last 3 days every day I check them they have dropped to 690ppm. Add nutrient water to raise back to 720ppm and I have had to repeat this for the last couple of days. I've burned my plants before and the progress has been much faster than this. These symptoms tbh I can't tell if they have stopped or are progressing cuz honestly I have seen no change in this 3 days and at this point these past 3 days it has just starting to bulk up with no signs of slowing down. Thinking up upping the nutes but I don't wanna burn it. maybe up to 800pm exact? Temps have been at an all time low for here at 27c. So these past three days they have been GROWING despite these minor symptoms.

EDIT: it's been 8 hours decided to check the ppm's of LSD-25 and they went up from 720 to 764 ppm minus 1/2 a gallon of water on the rez (it's up to drinking a little more than a gallon of water a day at this point). Added 1/2 a gallon of ph'd water to the rez. PH now at 6.0 (from 5.8) and at 704ppm. Gonna leave it like that for now and continue monitoring see if I see more leaf curling and burnt tips in the next couple of days.

 

[Jimmy Joe James]

Day 52:

Blue Dream'Matic finally showed sex, she's been the pickiest I burnt her by accidentaly pouring a higher ppm solution meant for tangie'matic. The moment I dipped her in she just drooped, so I flushed her, hopefully since she wasn't in there for more than 2 hours she'll recover quickly, but I think I stunted her. Tangie'Matic is flowering and she's bulking up faster than LSD. Maybe it's the heat. This week we've been hit by a nasty heatwave and their feeding habits have been all over the place. One day they're happy at 1.1 the next day they need a 1.3 EC and then in 24 hours back to 1.1. The temps during the day have been fluctuating from 26C to 33C and RH from 53% to 80%. It rains in the morning the temps drop to 26C by noon the sun creates a sauna effect from the monsoon rains raising it up to 33C going down back to 28C by 7pm. During these whole fluctuations their drinking and feeding habits are all over the place this week. LSD looks like she's still got a good amount of weeks to go I hope she fattens up way more than what she is right now. But considering the wild temps and that all i'm using right now is just the flora series and hydroguard (I already cut off the Armor Si and I don't have any other additional cal-mag, bloom enchancers or anything else) I think they're doing fine. Also my cheap USB microscope came in so a little bit of trichome pics in there too!

 

[Jimmy Joe James]

Day 61:

LSD-25 (PH 5.9, PPM 528)

Tangie Matic ( PH 6.0, PPM540)

Blue Dream'Matic never flowered I guess she's a photo. I don't have a space to 12/12 her so I guess I'll chop her during the week. LSD-25 is not getting fatter as much as the buds are stretching up foxtailing and creating new sugar leaves. Maybe it's the heat, but also it's on every budsite that's happening. I haven't been able to raise the light higher so the top leaves are burnt pretty bad. Idk if I should just cut the top off until it's 12 inches away from the light (it's currently 8 inches away) or let them keep burning and try to see if the top gets fatter. She's starting to show a TINY bit of purple here and there(yay!) but not much. Tangie's just fattening up pretty swiftly. Today LSD-25 started having some fan leaves yellow and get some dark spots in the middle as well.

Should I chop the top that's has light burn or can I just leave it to see if it fattens up a while longer? Opinions? If I can leave it a while longer to fatten up I will.


Here's a pic of the LSD top cola and a closeup of the trichomes.

 

[Jimmy Joe James]

My bad I haven't been able to update in a while. Been helping a friend with some legal trouble. Picking him up from jail dealing with bail plus work etc. Finally chopped LSD a couple of days ago and put in a paper bag to dry. Smoked today after around 4 days in the bag drying and I must say it is an AMAZING smoke. Smells fruity already, incredibly smooth and a spicy taste to it. I feel a full body high great for paid, it even cured a nasty hangover in the morning with a nice bong rip! Total dry weight 80 grams of bud and 1 oz of usable trim so 108 grams in total including trim. I killed off Blue Dream she never went into flowering. Tangie still has a few weeks to go I'll update on her soon but she's a beast as well! Very happy with the results given the heat and the slight airyness of the buds. But on the next round I'll be able to get a grow tent and an AC keep the temps lower which is what I feel really made my yield suffer.

 

[Jimmy Joe James]

Sorry I haven't updated in a while. So long story short I had to chop them early becuase FEMA came to inspect the house and the surrouding areas for damage so I had to chop earlier than anticipated, also had to move. Wanted to give her 12-13 weeks in total but I had to chop her at week 11 from seed. Overall I'm very happy with the lights and the grow. If blue dream woul'dve gone Auto I would've had more bud. But Tangie'Matic is AMAZING! Such an uplifting euphoric high and she SMELLS SO CITRUSY!!! My sister and GF just say she tastes and smells so tropical. Overall final dry yield of Tangie'Matic was 125g dry. I couldn't take pictures of her at the end though. All I have is 2 or 3 pics of her at week 7 of flowering. So not a bad yield for these cheap sub $100 panels. Overall I'm happy with the result of this cheap grow.

A friend of mine gave me a Spider 4 plus COB panel as a gift. As many panels it says 800W, but pulls 400 watts from the wall. It runs way hotter than my other panels but I wanna give these COBs a shot. Since he gave me these lights I invested in a 4x4 grow tent and one 3x3. I started a new round of plants in the new place, but its way hotter so I got an AC. Could only afford a 5,000 BTU so far only using the 4x4 for now. But the moment that AC goes off in the timer the temps skyrocket from 82F to 104F even witht the lights off no AC and fans on the temps stay at 95F. So this new grow is gonna be even more challenging. I find growing in tents harder to control temps. I'm gonna have to figure out but it's gonna get expensive running that ac 24/7. As long at the AC is on though temps stay at a solid 82F