First Journal - 315 CMH, DWC, Autos, New Setup Test Run

Looking very good brother

Just a little update because the dreams got another pruning today, and I spun the plants around so they get a more even amount of light. The Blue Dream'matic has completely ignored my LST attempts and the center cola is outstretching everything else in the tent haha. Bud sites are starting to fill out a bit and the smell is magnificent. Hoping they will be ready by early June.

The Pakistan Ryders are growing nicely as well. The one I topped has a great, even, bushy form, the one I FIMed slightly less so. Feeding them FoxFarms trio at half strength so far. They just started showing preflowers so I'll be upping the doses of Tiger Bloom soon.

And finally, the PDD is starting to take off. Gonna start the manifolding process as soon as it has one more node. It's getting top fed GH bloom and micro using the Lucas Formula, with a little CaliMagic thrown in there. Feeding at 700ppm and 5.5 pH and she seems to be loving it. The DWC buckets have the same mix but are sitting closer to 5.8 pH.

Trying to finish off my supplies of FoxFarms and GH. Gonna try MegaCrop once they are gone. I'm tired of mixing multi part nutrients.

These pics are from Day 57 for the dreams. I just can't get the nutrients right on this run as evidenced by the sickly looking leaves. But the buds are filling in nicely so just riding it out and hoping for the best. Meanwhile the Pakistans are looking super healthy and have started budding already.

I was going to start a separate journal for the PDD manifold experiment but it's been, well, a learning experience. Europa's PDD is apparently an extremely stout slant, which is not ideal for heavy training. So far I tried LST to get the branches to bend 90 degrees and it was just too woody and strong already, so it wouldn't bend well and one branch split a little. So I decided to super crop it, which led to me snapping a branch, which I taped up, and it healed wonderfully. The other branch bruised and bent, but within days had regained it's original form! So today I tried super cropping again. No idea how this will work out. The amazing thing is the plant still looks super healthy despite me literally torturing it. Depending on the results of my most recent training, I may just let her veg normally from here and try manifolding again with a stretchier strain. The attached pics are in descending order starting a week ago.

Day 70 for the Tangerine Dream and she will be getting chopped tomorrow. She's still throwing a few white hairs but about half the trichs are amber and the fan leaves are toast, so down she goes! I'll post some pics of the trimmed up buds tomorrow. Blue Dream'matic is mostly milky right now, guessing another week or so for her.

She's down and drying! Some pics of how she looked after a first trim. I'll tighten up the buds a bit when she's dried and ready to jar. Pretty happy with the results considering how much I struggled with lockout this grow through. My best guess on that at this point was that she wasn't using every part of the GH line I was feeding here. As she drank the water in the res kept going down in pH and up in PPM. I'll be trying MegaCrop next grow so hopefully I don't run into this problem again.

A few pics of what's still going and what's coming up next. I tried my hand at cloning for the first time but I don't have high hopes, they are just a few cuttings from when I topped the Purple Diesel Daze. I've abandoned my manifolding plan, it's just not for me. Too structured, too much patience required haha. Seedsman's Power Africa is up next. Dropped 2 seeds today.

Chopped the Blue Dream'matic today at about 50% amber. That's day 77 I believe. Finished quicker than I expected. She's hanging in my little tent now.

The Tangerine Dream went into the jars today as well. Got about 60g of good solid nuggs off her, and another 10g of larf, most of which is destined for the bubble bags. I did spin up some of larfy shit into a bone earlier and the smoke is pretty nice already. Great citrusy flavor and nice smooth high even now. Can't wait for it to be fully cured!

And finally here is what's left in the tent. The 2 Pakistans are starting to fill in but still have a ways to go. Unfortunately they are gonna have to finish up under 12/12 lighting because it was time to flip the purple diesel daze before it got too big.

One of my 3 clones survived and threw out a ton of roots so I dropped it in some soil. Also got 2 power Africa seedlings now, one in soil and one in coco. Probably going to give one away, Im running out of room haha.