floydsmith716
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Hello everyone.
I have been growing for 12 months now and recently found this website so am excited to be doing my first grow journal. Just got a new digi camera so will be posting pics all along the way. Requests are welcome!!
I run a perpetual garden with a separate grow room and bloom room. Here in Oregon I am allowed to have 12 flowering plants and up to 32 veggers. I am constantly running different strains and have found Trainwreck, G-13 Haze, and Super Lemon Haze as the best to smoke and grow so far.
Have always wanted to try blueberry bud and wanted to wait until i learned how to grow well before i tried it myself. I think i have gotten a pretty good rhythm, have tried both organic and chems, and think i can do these quality feminized seeds justice!!
SO the strain I picked was Crimea Blue. It is feminized from Barney's Farm, who seems to be one of the more consistent seed companies. Have done very well with their G-13 Haze and Top Dawg varieties. Well the Crimea is apparently reference to a Ukrainian hash plant and it is crossed with Blueberry, however authentic that may be. Not sure if the DJ Short blueberry is the true original and only one or if there are more?? Anyone actually know?? Anyway, not sure what the hash plant influence will be like but I am really hoping it retains the blueberry flavor. Some purple/bluish coloration would be nice too of course.
Specs-
Soil- Organic mix from local grow store. Contains: Coco fiber, peat moss, perlite, pumice, compost, mulch, worm casting, bat quano, kelp meal, fish bone meal, soybean meal, prilled rock phosphate, feather meal, greensand, leonardite, alfalfa meal, oyster shell flour, glacial rock dust. Or so says the package. Not really sure what all that stuff even is?? Apparently it is the best stuff around here though. And at $12 a 1.5 (cubic) ft. it outta be.
Lights/Veg- 2x 8 bulb T5 fluorescent. Use 4 red bulbs and 4 blue bulbs on each. It is an entire bedroom so the lights don't take up much space. This makes reflection a bit tricky, but so far everything seems to be working just fine. Easy to keep it cool even in summer.
Lights/Grow- 2x 600 w HPS with Lumenaire 6" reflectors. These guys also have a rather large bedroom to themselves so end up lighting up only about half of the room. Their areas slightly overlap so buds on outsides stay happy. I had been running about 6-10 rather large flowering plants (vegged for 3 months, supercropped) all at different growth stages getting 5'-6' tall so could fit at max 4 to each light, but now will be running a more sea of green style with two tables each having 6 much smaller more controllable plants each. The plan is to put one in every week and have a continuous harvest.
Nutrients- For this Crimea I am not exactly sure which I will use. Either I will use Ionic Grow/Bloom and Boost or use the local Organic company, Roots Organics, Buddha Grow and Buddha Bloom. I will probably do the chems for the seed and do organics with the clones off of him. Either way i will also use a bio-catalyst called Trinity through out and a bat guano derived boost 0-4-0 after week four of flowering.
General Plan
I have had a very hard time maintaining seedlings lately (about 20% germination rate, overwatering, under feeding...) but have seemed to do just about everything wrong so think I have worked out the kinks with everybody else and will be able to keep this new baby healthy. Of course now I have you guys for support just in case!! I'll give her only h20 for watering when in this small 5 inch pot. Transplant to a one gal hopefully in a few weeks, and start the feed gradually. I will then probably put into a 5 gal when big enough. I will then take clones as soon as the bottom branches are ready. Once these pop out roots I will place their mother into flowering. I will only take a few clones from the very bottom so shouldn't effect yield at all. I will also top the plant gently to get a few top colas. Oh yes the other thing i will use is a foliar feed made from 10% kelp extract, i used this on my vegging plants and within a few days I saw EXPLOSIVE growth on all of the plants I sprayed. I have never seen such a jump start in growth before. Definetly going to encourage foliar feeding from now on!! Oh I keep forgetting things (imagine that) I also use a micoryzhae mix directly in the soil. Not sure how well it works yet??
Thats about that for the plan. Aiming to veg around 1 1/2- 2 months and then hopefully a full nine week flower. I have a very nice a/c unit in the flower room and I am going to try and chill the room at night to get the full color out of the blueberry. We'll see. It always works out much better in my head...
COOL. So i guess that's it for an intro. I get kinda wordy when I am high i notice! Haha Well here are the pics, feel free to comment or please please give me your very smart wonderful advice. Thanks for coming along with me!!
Peace. Love. and ending Prohibition...
"I grow this shit for myself and I smoke it and I give it out to all the people who ask for it. AND more importantly I'm not afraid to say it!!"
David
Pics-
First-The crimea blue seed at a few days old. She was just placed right in the soil, and luckily, she popped on out!!
Second-One of the veg lights. A typical set-up in my house. Plants of all different variety and all different sizes. Keeps me busy...
Third-My new method for the bloom room. Using a table for more, smaller plants. I will eventually have a steady rotation of 6 plants on two tables under each light.
Four-First I have to get through the last of these large mamas. They stand about 5 feet tall. The one on the left is two days from 8 weeks flowering and will be cut down within the week, hence all the yellow dying leaves.
I have been growing for 12 months now and recently found this website so am excited to be doing my first grow journal. Just got a new digi camera so will be posting pics all along the way. Requests are welcome!!
I run a perpetual garden with a separate grow room and bloom room. Here in Oregon I am allowed to have 12 flowering plants and up to 32 veggers. I am constantly running different strains and have found Trainwreck, G-13 Haze, and Super Lemon Haze as the best to smoke and grow so far.
Have always wanted to try blueberry bud and wanted to wait until i learned how to grow well before i tried it myself. I think i have gotten a pretty good rhythm, have tried both organic and chems, and think i can do these quality feminized seeds justice!!
SO the strain I picked was Crimea Blue. It is feminized from Barney's Farm, who seems to be one of the more consistent seed companies. Have done very well with their G-13 Haze and Top Dawg varieties. Well the Crimea is apparently reference to a Ukrainian hash plant and it is crossed with Blueberry, however authentic that may be. Not sure if the DJ Short blueberry is the true original and only one or if there are more?? Anyone actually know?? Anyway, not sure what the hash plant influence will be like but I am really hoping it retains the blueberry flavor. Some purple/bluish coloration would be nice too of course.
Specs-
Soil- Organic mix from local grow store. Contains: Coco fiber, peat moss, perlite, pumice, compost, mulch, worm casting, bat quano, kelp meal, fish bone meal, soybean meal, prilled rock phosphate, feather meal, greensand, leonardite, alfalfa meal, oyster shell flour, glacial rock dust. Or so says the package. Not really sure what all that stuff even is?? Apparently it is the best stuff around here though. And at $12 a 1.5 (cubic) ft. it outta be.
Lights/Veg- 2x 8 bulb T5 fluorescent. Use 4 red bulbs and 4 blue bulbs on each. It is an entire bedroom so the lights don't take up much space. This makes reflection a bit tricky, but so far everything seems to be working just fine. Easy to keep it cool even in summer.
Lights/Grow- 2x 600 w HPS with Lumenaire 6" reflectors. These guys also have a rather large bedroom to themselves so end up lighting up only about half of the room. Their areas slightly overlap so buds on outsides stay happy. I had been running about 6-10 rather large flowering plants (vegged for 3 months, supercropped) all at different growth stages getting 5'-6' tall so could fit at max 4 to each light, but now will be running a more sea of green style with two tables each having 6 much smaller more controllable plants each. The plan is to put one in every week and have a continuous harvest.
Nutrients- For this Crimea I am not exactly sure which I will use. Either I will use Ionic Grow/Bloom and Boost or use the local Organic company, Roots Organics, Buddha Grow and Buddha Bloom. I will probably do the chems for the seed and do organics with the clones off of him. Either way i will also use a bio-catalyst called Trinity through out and a bat guano derived boost 0-4-0 after week four of flowering.
General Plan
I have had a very hard time maintaining seedlings lately (about 20% germination rate, overwatering, under feeding...) but have seemed to do just about everything wrong so think I have worked out the kinks with everybody else and will be able to keep this new baby healthy. Of course now I have you guys for support just in case!! I'll give her only h20 for watering when in this small 5 inch pot. Transplant to a one gal hopefully in a few weeks, and start the feed gradually. I will then probably put into a 5 gal when big enough. I will then take clones as soon as the bottom branches are ready. Once these pop out roots I will place their mother into flowering. I will only take a few clones from the very bottom so shouldn't effect yield at all. I will also top the plant gently to get a few top colas. Oh yes the other thing i will use is a foliar feed made from 10% kelp extract, i used this on my vegging plants and within a few days I saw EXPLOSIVE growth on all of the plants I sprayed. I have never seen such a jump start in growth before. Definetly going to encourage foliar feeding from now on!! Oh I keep forgetting things (imagine that) I also use a micoryzhae mix directly in the soil. Not sure how well it works yet??
Thats about that for the plan. Aiming to veg around 1 1/2- 2 months and then hopefully a full nine week flower. I have a very nice a/c unit in the flower room and I am going to try and chill the room at night to get the full color out of the blueberry. We'll see. It always works out much better in my head...
COOL. So i guess that's it for an intro. I get kinda wordy when I am high i notice! Haha Well here are the pics, feel free to comment or please please give me your very smart wonderful advice. Thanks for coming along with me!!
Peace. Love. and ending Prohibition...
"I grow this shit for myself and I smoke it and I give it out to all the people who ask for it. AND more importantly I'm not afraid to say it!!"
David
Pics-
First-The crimea blue seed at a few days old. She was just placed right in the soil, and luckily, she popped on out!!
Second-One of the veg lights. A typical set-up in my house. Plants of all different variety and all different sizes. Keeps me busy...
Third-My new method for the bloom room. Using a table for more, smaller plants. I will eventually have a steady rotation of 6 plants on two tables under each light.
Four-First I have to get through the last of these large mamas. They stand about 5 feet tall. The one on the left is two days from 8 weeks flowering and will be cut down within the week, hence all the yellow dying leaves.
