New Grower Blue Cheese in Coco: First personal grow in 10 years and first ever autoflowers

[Frank_Spencer]

Great haul. Nothing quite like seeing jars filled with the fruits of your labour.

 

[pg2052]

For sure, I would say that I did like the LEDs, there is a learning curve though. With HID lighting a 400w bulb is just that, same with a 600w and 1000w, but the LEDs are pretty variable, not to mention sometimes dimmable and typically have a blended spectrum which I think can be detrimental.

The positive features of LEDs are efficiency and temperature, there wouldn't be LED grow lights if they weren't cooler and less power hungry. This is especially awesome for the small scale grower since it would have been close to impossible to regulate my climate here like I did with 400w of HID.

Last point, if you can grow under the sun, do it! I'd love to never have to look at a plant under artificial light again, the sun grows the best herb, no question!

Sorry for the ramble haha
G

Awesome thanks!

 

[Budsnfish]

Hey all, its a high day for an initial smoke report. I will post a better one after 3 weeks of cure, but I got a new vaporizer and had to try a sample, starting with plant 2.

The smell is starting to smooth out from the fuely cheese that was stinking up my whole house and is starting to get some of the blueberry sweetness. Honestly I'm pretty astounded this was an auto, its so much better than anything from the dispensaries here, and proper moisture, oh yes no more dry dusty buds. The high is pretty even, euphoric and nice, but not overpowering. A couple more bowls will tell me more. I'm very happy with where I harvested as well, no couchlock so far!

 

[fauxnacho]

To cheese or not to cheese .. that is the question
Such a great end product, but such a stink to contend with!
I grew a cheese auto in a studio apartment and swore never again cos like you say, the whole building reeks of it
Enjoy those bowls dude well earned

 

[Budsnfish]

To cheese or not to cheese .. that is the question
Such a great end product, but such a stink to contend with!
I grew a cheese auto in a studio apartment and swore never again cos like you say, the whole building reeks of it
Enjoy those bowls dude well earned

Haha yeah its something else! Stinks so good

Here is a shot after a few weeks curing. Its definitely more heady then expected, which makes sense since most folks seem to end up with a Blueberry dominant pheno, I just didnt expect to see its Thai properties as defined. Great smoke for sure, burns to pure white, with a more cheesy taste than smell, the smell is like classic blueberry with a little parmesan kick. I just can't wait to get some bubble hash made!

 

[JiMBeAnER]

Hey all, I'll start with my background and the basics of the grow and will update with pictures of the seedlings when I open the tent later.

Like I said in the title, this is my first grow in quite a long time. I started growing in 2006 as part of the Montana medical scene. I was mostly interested in organic growing and settled on using Subcool's super soil mix in my small 3x3 tent. I later built a greenhouse as well and a 4000w HPS room with some fellow caregivers. We did pretty well, but split up and left the Montana medical scene when it collapsed in 2011 after a crazy series of raids. There's a documentary about what happened, it was crazy. The Montana scene has rebounded a lot since then, but I'm currently in a different legal state.

After I left Montana I worked for a large producer in Colorado and later helped to open the first legal medical production facilities in another state on the east coast. After a bad break with the last cannabis company I worked for in 2013, I left the industry and spent my time fly fishing and trout bumming around the west.

Now I've settled in a new state which recently legalized and decided to throw a small setup together since I've spent most of the last year budless and don't care much for the dispensary system. I settled on autoflowers after seeing how far the genetics have come, if you had told me I'd be growing autos ten years ago I would have laughed, but now, not wanting to set up a separate veg area and deal with cloning, they are perfect and will be a nice challenge as I relearn the art of growing cannabis.

My current setup is:
27x27x63" Tent
4" Exhaust Fan + Filter
1000w Spiderfarmer LED (may upgrade or add light)
3gal fabric pots
Canna Coco mixed with >30% Perlite
Maxibloom
Calimagic
Seeds:
This run will be 3 of my 5 Barney's Blueberry Cheese. I also bought 7 Mephisto Mango Smile, 7 Mephisto Samsquanch OG, 6 Ethos Pluto Cut, 6 Ethos Zweet, and 6 Ethos Purple Thai. Yep I'm a seed horder haha

I'll get some pictures and show the current state of affairs later,

Thanks for the wealth of knowledge you guys have provided here on the forum, here's to speedy growth
-G

Minnesota?