Blue Cheese Big Buddha

[ukdave]

Blue Cheese by Big Buddha five weeks from Seed. I've really got my soil dialled in now as you can see the plant is perfect. Its a mix of coco coir, perlite, worm castings from my own worm bin, unscreened so full of undigested food sources to keep them munching while it grows. It even had baby slugs on the first leaves to touch the ground, not a problem, gone now. A few litres of aged farmyard manure, a small handful FB&B and a sprinkle of chicken manure pellets. 4 caps of Miracle grow pour and feed for its bio stimulants, another 4 will be added in flower. Calmag added to every watering, a must. In future I plan to replace the Pour & Feed with Humic and Fulvic acid, and replace the CalMag with Epsom Salt and Calcium nitrate. I'm using the VIPARSPECTRA XS1500 LED currently at 50%, 24/7, 14 inches away in a 2.5x2.5 ft tent. Cheap as chips.

 

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Blue Cheese by Big Buddha five weeks from Seed. I've really got my soil dialled in now as you can see the plant is perfect. Its a mix of coco coir, perlite, worm castings from my own worm bin, unscreened so full of undigested food sources to keep them munching while it grows. It even had baby slugs on the first leaves to touch the ground, not a problem, gone now. A few litres of aged farmyard manure, a small handful FB&B and a sprinkle of chicken manure pellets. 4 caps of Miracle grow pour and feed for its bio stimulants, another 4 will be added in flower. Calmag added to every watering, a must. In future I plan to replace the Pour & Feed with Humic and Fulvic acid, and replace the CalMag with Epsom Salt and Calcium nitrate. I'm using the VIPARSPECTRA XS1500 LED currently at 50%, 24/7, 14 inches away in a 2.5x2.5 ft tent. Cheap as chips.

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Dang! That looks like really tight internodal spacing. Nice!

 

[ukdave]

Dang! That looks like really tight internodal spacing. Nice!

Thanks, if I've counted correctly there are 8 nodes so far and its only 7.5 inches tall, just what I wanted for the tiny tent which is only 120cm tall. Not sure if I'm going to do a scrog or bowl training.

 

[ukdave]

I've been bowl training, selective defoliating, and topping this Blue Cheese by Big Buddha to create a low and relatively flat canopy, its 7.5 inches tall and about 2 ft wide. Seven weeks from seed (surfaced 22/7/21). Hardly any stretch so won't be needing the scrog. I'm using a known short strain plus the led is so good it has little need to stretch. Foliar sprayed with seaweed and Chitosan Olligoshacheride plus adding Miracle grow bio stimulant to soil. Added a handful of Epsom Salts. Soluble Calmag with each watering. The plant seems very healthy. Temperatures averaging about to 24 to 28c and light 24/7 at 14 inches 50%. Hard tap water, PH I have no need to think about.

 

[cherrybobeddie]

Now that's a stealth grow, produced by trial and error resulting in knowledge. It's almost "art".

 

[ukdave]

I've turned the light down to 25% to encourage stretch, to try and fill the tent faster, I'm almost out out of smoke so its going into flower next weekend like it or not. I'm not sure if it was the epsom salt, the foliar and soil fed seaweed, or the chitosan, but something has made the leaves look not quite right since I did that. That's what happens when I make too many changes at once, I end up not knowing what caused it.

 

[ukdave]

Removed affected leaves, seems to be recovering, and added some Gypsum (Calcium sulphate) to address the calcium magnesium ratio. I think flooding the soil with Epsom Salts temporarily locked out the calcium, which probably explains why CalMag is a two part amendment..

 

[ukdave]

Start of week 9 from seed, not quite filled the tent out. The cutting next to it rooted fast in a humidity dome. White powder on leaves is from gypsum spillage. The plant looks very healthy and the soil is covered in some sort of fungi. Lots of topping in the middle to keep it pushing outwards, its all loosely tied around the edge with pipe cleaners. Its about 9 inches tall from soil to the top. Its so low its difficult to water. I'm only expecting it to double in height. Its a good plant for a micro grow, if there is enough headroom following this experiment I'll try vegging at 25% led power next time to give it more stretch.

 

[ukdave]

Looking very healthy, it's getting seaweed extract, Pour & Feed, and foliar sprayed with chitosan oligosaccharide weekly that's it. It is consuming 1.5 litres of tap water per day Light 14" at full power 12/12.

 

[windycheese]

That's a beautiful plant you got growing there!
How many gallons is that container btw?

 

[ukdave]

That's a beautiful plant you got growing there!
How many gallons is that container btw?

Hi, thanks, I trimmed the top of the container to lower it a bit, did some sums and think it now holds approximately 50 litres, which is about about 13 US gallons, or 11 UK gallons.

 

[ukdave]

A compact, zero smell, low energy, medicinal grow set-up for personal consumption. When the police raid they give you a caution in the UK, I know I have one which makes me unemployable for next 5 years due to work record checks. Still pretty cuntish but better than being accused of keeping a cannabis farm and having to defend myself. I just ignored them and started again.

 

[ukdave]

Two weeks into the flowering cycle, it's 12 inches tall, showing pistils, and needs daily leaf trimming to expose bud sites. I don't think I'll bother with the Chitosan Oligosaccharide in future, I don't think its necessary, if its anything like Exodus Cheese it will smell nice enough anyway. And Pour & Feed can probably be replaced with Humic Acids and Seaweed extract to act as bio stimulants, which is likely what they put in their products anyway. Leaves are being fed back in to the soil as worm food.

 

[ukdave]

Three weeks into flowering, it seems to have topped out at about 15". No problems at all. No circulation fan needed so far for the quiet life. Extraction fan is in the loft.

 

[windycheese]

That's a lot of plant.
What kind of yields do you generally get from that tent?

 

[ukdave]

That's a lot of plant.
What kind of yields do you generally get from that tent?

I can't say because this is the first time I've used this sized tent and grown this strain, although I have smoke Blue Cheese before. It gave me a sensation in the brain I'd not felt before, in a good way. I've downsized because I feel confident that I can successfully grow enough for my own need in this tent, assuming its strong enough, but not without the extra work and knowledge it takes with compact grows. I've pulled 10 oz from a 1 metre SQ tent before with auto flower SOG but don't want the plant count. 6 oz seems doable. Instead of Lolli popping, I may see if I can harvest in layers. Its all experimental, probably always will be. It can be moved fast if need be, it is still illegal to pop a seed in the UK. They destroyed my Exodus Cheese, I liked that a lot. Unfortunately the Narcissistic personality disorder still has a strangle hold on certain aspects of UK politics, but there is still plenty of love at the heart of England to go around.

 

[ukdave]

Four weeks into flowering, developing trichomes. Terpenes are there if I rub a leaf, very pleasant. I've not smoked enough strains to feel qualified to describe the smell though. Using plain tap water, 1.5 litres per day, with occasional biostimulants added. Tap water is hard around here with a ph around 7 to 7.5 if I remember right, not PH'd for some time. The rain water is ideal at about 6.5 which is what I like to use but I broke my collection pot. I'm not concerned about using tap water for a single grow because it isn't true that the chlorine kills the beneficial bacteria, and I understand the ph in soil self balances with good soil structure. And I don't worry about leaving it standing to evaporate the chlorine either, chemistry has moved on from what I've read. I doubt tap water is a good idea long term though, not in reusable soil, you just don't know what elements are building up..

 

[ukdave]

Start of week 5 into flower. Started smoking some of the lower buds because I don't have any, even at this stage it's a good smoke. My neck was locked solid but it began to ease up within an hour of smoking some. Love the smell, it still has that pungent Exodus cheese plant smell but toned down a bit with what must be the Blueberry.

 

[tkufoS]

Start of week 5 into flower. Started smoking some of the lower buds because I don't have any, even at this stage it's a good smoke. My neck was locked solid but it began to ease up within an hour of smoking some. Love the smell, it still has that pungent Exodus cheese plant smell but toned down a bit with what must be the Blueberry. View attachment 5020450
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Is the exo cheese hard to get nowadays ? Nice growing in my opinion

 

[ukdave]

Is the exo cheese hard to get nowadays ? Nice growing in my opinion

Thanks I appreciate the feedback. I'm not sure I can answer this honestly because it depends on what you believe the Exodus cheese Plant is. I grew up in Houghton Regis, next door to Luton, so I came from the area the Exodus Cheese Originated. Just outside HR is a former pig Farm close to Charlton Village, virtually on top of the M1 Bridge, its still there today but transformed. Well that Farm is where the Exodus Group raves were held locally, so was familiar with the name 'Exodus'. Someone I grew up with who I used to restore mopeds with, well he worked there preparing the swill made from waste food collected from local restaurants, including the one I worked at. - Anyway, I always sourced my smoke locally from friends who were the earliest dealers in the area to my knowledge. Back then in the 80's everyone was smoking a solid, and it was shaped like soap bars, green was harder to get. My mates were the main people to source it from. Over time they switched to selling green. One of my mates had been given a plant he called 'Cheese' and nobody wanted anything else so that's what ended up being my main smoke, and everyone else's. These days many strains have arrived. He's kept it alive for years but it is in storage atm, under the radar. Because I always took breaks, which clears the THC receptors for a full strength smoke, I'd be the one who's expression they would want to see when I went back to see the boys, as I'd moved away. On inhalation the terpene is so strong that you think that is what is getting you high because it is also quick to take effect. It gave me amnesia, and one person returned it because it was too strong (inexperienced & uneducated). So when I heard of the GHS Exodus cheese and heard the story I thought, I bet he's seeded my mates plant. So out of curiosity and laziness, and not wanting to pester my mate for a cutting I grew the GHS plant and did a side by side at a BBQ. I was given four of these cuttings from another mate, so likely same plant, and brought them to where I live now a couple of decades ago. unfortunately the house alarm was going off and a Police Officer turned up, and they were in plain sight. The officer had no choice but to make me destroy them, while he watched, but at least he did not make me unemployable for the next 5 years with a caution. So anyway, I did a side by side and can say they are very different terpene wise, and my mates is more stretchy, but they are equally top shelf. So because I don't know for sure I've nick named my mates plant 'The Houghton Stink Bomb' instead because its a plant that must be double, if not triple bagged.