[Tommy G]

Hola amigos!!

I'm finally finding a bit of spare time that allows me to post some of my stuff I was already missing this hobby for a couple of months now...

Well, let's speak about important things... Now it's time for me to try the last 2 autoflowering strains that Sweet Seeds got into the market a few months ago (soon we'll have much more autos in our catalog). After the great results I got with my test grows of Cream Caramel Auto, Black Jack Auto, SAD Auto and Speed Devil #2, now we'll see how the other 2 behave: Big Devil #2 and Fast Bud #2



:|Grow Details|:

• Closet: Homebox XS (60cm x 60cm x 120cm / 2ft x 2ft x 4ft)
  
  
• Ventilation: Extractor RVK 100 A1 (160m3/h) and 2 Sunon (one blowing air against the lamp and the other against the plants)
  
  
• Light: 36wCFL for the first 8 days, HPS70w from day 8 to day 18 and HPS400w from day 18 to harvest
  
  
• Containers: 4 pots of 500ml for the first 18 days and 4 pots of 18 litres for flowering (from day 18 to harvest)
  
  
• Soil: For vegetative Canna Professional and for flowering Canna Bio Terra Plus
  
  
• Ferts: GuanoKalong Liquid Guano, Canna BioVega, Canna BioFlores and Biobizz Topmax
  
  
• Against plagues: Neem as preventive and Rotenona to fight them, if needed

I've sprouted 3 seeds of each strain. At day 16 I will choose the 2 best plants from each variety to pass into my Homebox and the others will be taken by a friend and will be flowered in his garden (I will probably not see them again). Like this we will also be able to see how homogenous they are. Well, I left the seeds in wet paper towels and inside a plastic box as I usually do and then I've been out for about 48 hours. When I came back all the sweets popped out... one of the Big Devil #2 was only showing a bit but obviously it wouldn't go back into to shell.

[Tommy G]

★ Details of a Cannabic Birth ★









































I hope you enjoyed this introduction to the Fast Bud #2 and Big Devil #2 test grow, where you'll be able to check the excellent quality of the work of the Sweet Seeds breeders. In a couple of days I'll leave you another update and then, altough I'm a bit short of time this days with the contests and the moderation of the forums, I promise to update this diary at least once a week but when it is possible I'll do it twice a week. Sometimes you may find this thread closed. It will always be a provisional closure and for a short period of time. I only do it to reserve the first post of each page for an update. When you see it closed and you want to comment or ask something you just have to wait for a few hours and it will be open again, like a seed

Thank you very much for your visits!

tommy

[woolybear]

Very cool pictures, I'll be following this one!

[StRa]

very nice pix tommy......what about the light schedule?

[Tommy G]

Hi mates!

Thanks for your visits and comments

Good question StRa, thanks for pointin' it I like to do my autos in 18/6 from germination to harvest. Some people prefer 20/4, but I'm more of a guy of 18/6, hehehehe..

In my Cream Caramel Auto and Black Jack Auto grow test I even did the last week with 24/0. It was very rainy, I had the house full of humidity and the buds big and compact, so keeping the HPS always on helped to keep the humidity acceptably low. With the HPS off I had more than 85% of humidity but with the lights on it was always around 40-55%. So that's another good thing about autos, they allow for every kind of light cycle, even irregular ones without stressing with it.

Keep passin by my friends, your visits and comments are much appreciated

Sweet regards,

tommy

[Tommy G]

★ 4 days ★

Hi mates!!

Thanks once again to all you guys for the visits and comments

Here we are for another update to the diary, now in the 4th day of their lives. The 6 plants are growing at a similar rhythm and until today everything's perfect with them, no deformities nor malformations and the development is the expected for this fase of the growth. Well, in this fase, with the plants so small, there's not much more to say and the pictures speak for themselves... So I leave you now with the reports and with the illustrations





Watering Report:

• pH of the water: 6,4
• Fertilizer: Nothing yet
• Bloom stimulator: No
• Quantity of water per plant: 40ml (500ml pots)
• Watering frequency: once every 2 days

The Weather

• Maximum temperature: 24,9º
• Minimum temperature: 18,1º
• Thermic amplitude: 6,8º
• Humidity with HPS: 47%
• Humidity without HPS: 75%

Color scale > Green: optimal | Orange: satisfying | Brown: worrying | Red: dangerous










So... that's what we have so far I'll be back soon with more news about this girls

Sweet smokes!!

tommy

[Tommy G]

★ 10 days ★

Hi friends!

Here we are again, now with pics from day 10

As we can see in the pics the plants are growing perfectly so far. Still a bit hard to see differences between both strains, but soon it will be very clear. Now I leave you with a pic of each of the 6 plants, starting with Fast Bud #2 and after comes Big Devil #2


Watering Report [day 6]:

• pH of the water: 6,4
• Fertilizer: Nothing yet
• Bloom stimulator: No
• Quantity of water per plant: 70ml (500ml pots)
• Watering frequency: once every 2 days

Watering Report [day 8]:

• pH of the water: 6,2
• Fertilizer: Nothing yet
• Bloom stimulator: No
• Quantity of water per plant: 100ml (500ml pots)
• Watering frequency: once every 2 days

The Weather

• Maximum temperature: 24,5º
• Minimum temperature: 17,6º
• Thermic amplitude: 6,9º
• Humidity with HPS: 41%
• Humidity without HPS: 78%

Color scale > Green: optimal | Orange: satisfying | Brown: worrying | Red: dangerous





And that's all for today I'll be back in a few days with pics of the transplant to the 17 litre pots... Stay tuned!

Keep it sweet

tommy

[KalyxKid]

You are so awesome!

I will be doing 3 CCs very soon, and your plants are inspirational, such beautiful plants and photos. I did Fast Bud #1 and it was very potent, but I chopped too soon, but Sweet Seeds is now my go-to for reliable autos at a reasonable price.

You took them all the way, so I can see what happens when one waits. Those red trichomes are sick! These plants just seem to get better and better, but very consistent in producing huge buds! We'll see what I can pull of under LEDs and CFLs.

Awesome stuff, your journals are amazing. Keep it up!

[Tommy G]

Hi KalyxKid!

Welcome to the Sweet Seeds subforum

And thank you very much for your visit and kind words

Yep, Cream Caramel Auto is a great autoflowering strain at an incredible price. And I really enjoyed growing it, almost as much as smoking/vaporizing it, hehehe. Just for the the rest of the users who have no clue what we are talking about, here is a link for the pics of the red trichomes

The Sweet Seeds breeders are doing an amazing job with autoflowering strains and the last 3 years can prove it very clearly, at least in forums where we have a subforum and lots of participation from users. There you can see how everybody is very happy with the results they get from Sweet Seeds autos. The breeders have now finished their work with the 3rd Generation Autos, so the characteristics that were not good enough in the previous generations are now corrected, so you can imagine... if they were so good in the first to generations, now they have to be really very very close to their non-auto versions...

Actually, next month Sweet Seeds will release 6 new 3rd Generation Autoflowering strains:

• Green Poison Auto
• Sweet Cheese Auto
• Mohan Ram Auto
• Sweet Skunk Auto
• + Speed
• Sweet Special Auto

I'm sure you would also enjoy that "Sweet Special Auto", because it is Cream Caramel Auto x Big Devil #2

Keep passing by my friend. The Fast Bud #2 and Big Devil #2 are also great strains and you are invited to see it for yourself in this grow diary

I'll be back with another update very soon, stay tuned... Sweet smokes!

tommy

[paulo73]

Proper work as usual!