New Grower Mephisto Strawberry Nuggets, 4 Assed Monkey & Fantasmo Express x Sour Stomper

Growth is speeding along now, buds are beginning to swell on the 4AM so I'm thinking it might be time to begin introducing the Big Bud. What do you guys reckon? Start at half strength? Quarter strength? Or just wait a little longer? 4AM is pretty hungry now, the SNs less so.
 
Growth is speeding along now, buds are beginning to swell on the 4AM so I'm thinking it might be time to begin introducing the Big Bud. What do you guys reckon? Start at half strength? Quarter strength? Or just wait a little longer? 4AM is pretty hungry now, the SNs less so.

The AN calls for Big Bud during the first week of flower, so you should feel free to use her straight away. I would keep the ratio the same, so feed 1/2 the amount you feed Bloom, and you should be good to go.
 
DAY 49

Sorry for the horrible pics, I'm short on time this morning and wanted to do a quick update as the gals have had a busy couple of days.

4AM is packing on more frost and fattening up a bit.
She's a real stinker already. I know I'll be growing this strain again soon. Very productive for her small stature as well. It's tough to open her up but there is decent flower development all through the plant. With better training she could give a very respectable return.

Main cola:
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Lower budsite:

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One of the SNs is definitely the purple pheno, i hope she keeps her colouring through drying and doesn't go that muddy browny purple because she's quite a looker as it is:

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Got much less stink that the 4AM but what little smell she does have is a slightly dry chocolate, woody, diesel thing going on.

I know these are horrible pics but hopefully you can see how even the canopy on the other SN is, amazing considering it was just a single topping and basically nothing else. The height on both plants is identical:
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Not as frosty and not real smell yet though.

And here's out little weirdo Fantasmo x Stomper.
Weirdly looks pretty healthy but obviously a bit of mutant. Looking like she might be beginning to grow out of it though.

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And here's the whole gang.

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As they're all well in bloom now, they've bushed out a bit and space is rapidly disappearing but definitely room for two new ones.

I added Big Bud to their feed. I'm on the fence about it but will continue to use it as it's there. If anyone has any suggestions for some bloom nutes to add, I'm all ears. Bud Candy any good? Terpinator? Is it all just money down the drain? Will we ever really know for sure....!?

Again, sorry for the horrible pics.

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not horrible pics at all mate

tent looks awesome! they're doing a good job of filling the space for sure. all three are set for some chunky buds!
the purples on my CDLC tones down to that muddy browny purple you mentioned, but her purps never appeared as strong as that nuggets did so i think you'll end up with pretty colours on her! but! don't discount the green strawberry! the green ones i've seen so far always appear the frostiest strawberries. i'm not HUGE on purples either so maybe some bias there but if [when] i grew out a Strawb' i'll be hoping for a green pheno myself.

i just bought Big Bud to add to the rest of my AN lineup. only used Overdrive last grow from day 60 or something. figured they could do with a boost way before that.
i didn't use anything like Bud Candy or Terpinator either. and honestly never felt like the terps were lacking because of it! but if money permits (doubtful at this time of year haha) i'll add either Bud Candy or Bud Factor X to the lineup too. but at least i know if the £££ is low, i don't need those products.

keep the FxS going! she's funky but i think she'll get stronger!
 
Looking fantastic mate, expect the topped one to be a few days behind as they had to spend a couple days restructuring but she looks so good! For only a topping and not much else work i think that is amazing.
Doubt the yield will be any more but she should produce some much danker bud.
I can already see the difference between the snapped stem on Val and the deliberately topped Tilda with maybe double the budsites on an already bushy and squat plant!

If i’m going to be honest man most of the crazy bloom stimulants and the like are best used once you’ve got more experience.
I’m even very careful with something as simple as topmax because it can do more harm than good if you get the ratios wrong but ofc that’s my opinion.
Used something similar to terpinator on one of the plants my mate was letting me grow with his help in his garden on the second grow with him and if anything my results were poorer for it but some people get better results so i guess it’s one of those “if you have the cash and want to play around” type things since you can grow great plants with just your traditional NPK sources, soil and water the rest is just preference and availability really.

Everyone is a bit conflicted on the efficacy of a lot of those things so i doubt you’ll get a straight answer haha
 
II agree with the fellas. Those plants are looking great! If it were me, I would be defoliating that 4am to expose all those hidden bud sites to the light. If we can’t see them, you probably need to open the kimono a bit, bro!


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II agree with the fellas. Those plants are looking great! If it were me, I would be defoliating that 4am to expose all those hidden bud sites to the light. If we can’t see them, you probably need to open the kimono a bit, bro!


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Thanks dude.
I'm probably just gonna stick to tucking her like a drag queen at this stage. I'm a bit cautious of defol this late in the game.
 
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