Virginia - Outdoor - Auto - Coco - Fast Buds Strains

TeeMo · Aug 1, 2024

Welcome my friends. I live in Virginia and as such I am allowed to grow 4 plants legally, so I figured I would document my grow and maybe get some advice/tips along the way. I have grown both indoor and outdoor a few times each in my past. I have the following strains, all from Fast Buds, growing this year:

1 x Fast Buds Gorilla Cookies
1 x Fast Buds Strawberry Gorilla
1 x Fast Buds Pound Cake
1 x Fast Buds Wedding Glue

I had some Ocean Forest that I needed to use laying around so I mixed half and half Ocean Forest and a 70/30 mix of Coco and Perlite. All of the girls were planted directly into their forever homes of 3 gallon fabric pots. Plants sprouted on 7/10 and are 3 weeks old today. I will take much better pics as they mature.

I am using Advanced Nutrients Sensi Coco Grow pH Perfect A and B and Sensi Cal Mage Xtra. Currently I am running 6ml each of the Coco Grow and 4ml each of the Cal Mag Xtra per gallon of tap water. PPM was at 618, EC was 1314, and pH was at 6.1 today.

Plants look very healthy. Some kind of insect got ahold of my Wedding Glue which has since been handled with Captain Jack’s Neem Oil. An ant actually destroyed one of the Gorilla Cookies cotyledon leaves and about killed it but it finally bounced back.

Please, if you are near Virginia and have some tips for this climate specifically, or see anything I can do to improve my grow, do not hesitate to let me know. I have learned a lot and still have much more to learn. Happy growing people!

TeeMo · Aug 5, 2024

25 days old today..

TeeMo · Aug 9, 2024

29 days…

TeeMo · Aug 9, 2024

30 days.. I noticed very light burn at the tips of 2 plants lower leaves so I drew back a bit on the nutrients and am now doing 3ml Sensi CalMag and 5ml Sensi Coco Grow A&B Plants seem perfectly healthy and happy other than that. This is my first run with Advanced Nutrients and I truly am impressed. No deficiences. Zero problems and rapid growth. I normally use Botanicare products but just out of curiosity decided to try something new and the reviews over at growjournals sold me. I think they will all be flowering next week.

TeeMo · Aug 9, 2024

TeeMo said:
Welcome my friends. I live in Virginia and as such I am allowed to grow 4 plants legally, so I figured I would document my grow and maybe get some advice/tips along the way. I have grown both indoor and outdoor a few times each in my past. I have the following strains, all from Fast Buds, growing this year:

1 x Fast Buds Gorilla Cookies
1 x Fast Buds Strawberry Gorilla
1 x Fast Buds Pound Cake
1 x Fast Buds Wedding Glue

I had some Ocean Forest that I needed to use laying around so I mixed half and half Ocean Forest and a 70/30 mix of Coco and Perlite. All of the girls were planted directly into their forever homes of 3 gallon fabric pots. Plants sprouted on 7/10 and are 3 weeks old today. I will take much better pics as they mature.

I am using Advanced Nutrients Sensi Coco Grow pH Perfect A and B and Sensi Cal Mage Xtra. Currently I am running 6ml each of the Coco Grow and 4ml each of the Cal Mag Xtra per gallon of tap water. PPM was at 618, EC was 1314, and pH was at 6.1 today.

Plants look very healthy. Some kind of insect got ahold of my Wedding Glue which has since been handled with Captain Jack’s Neem Oil. An ant actually destroyed one of the Gorilla Cookies cotyledon leaves and about killed it but it finally bounced back.

Please, if you are near Virginia and have some tips for this climate specifically, or see anything I can do to improve my grow, do not hesitate to let me know. I have learned a lot and still have much more to learn. Happy growing people!

I forgot to put Auto next to every strain lol. These are auto flower seeds.

TeeMo · Aug 10, 2024

Figured I would post a pic of my nutrients and etc used in this grow just so anyone unfamiliar with the

brands I am talking about knows..

TeeMo · Aug 10, 2024

As of today I am running (per gallon): 3mL Sensi Cal Mag Xtra, 4mL Sensi Coco Part A, and 6mL Sensi Coco Grow Part B. This should put my NPK ratio around ~4.5/3/6. I am slowly raising the phosphorous this week as they are transitioning to flowering. PPM at 425 and pH at 6.1

TeeMo · Aug 15, 2024

36 days..

4ml CalMag Xtra
7ml Grow A
12ml Grow B
PPM 590

orggrwr · Aug 16, 2024

Another VA. grower here , welcome to the farm. Have been doing outdoor greenhouse grows here in Fredericksburg since it was legalized 3 years ago, as well as indoor. The main issues with our climate are the the hot humid days that stress the hell out of them, hopefully those are over. Now we are getting ready for the cool rainy days when WPM and bud rot will be a constant worry. Nothing you can do about the bud rot but preventative maintenance for the mildew will save a lot of headache later. Lots of good info on this site about controlling WPM. So basically the same issues as everyone else in the south. Plants looking good so far. Good Luck. Almost forgot about the bugs. Lots of bugs.

TeeMo · Aug 19, 2024

39 days.. just a pic to see the difference in structure in each plant. The Wedding Glue has by far the best formation. I don’t top or LST because this is my first run with autos and I wanted to see the plant grow naturally once.

LeafLoomer · Aug 19, 2024

the growth on these plants is really interesting to see

TeeMo · Aug 20, 2024

LeafLoomer said:
the growth on these plants is really interesting to see

Yea in my opinion they haven’t stabilized a lot of their genetics but I believe each phenotype will be great and one will be phenomenal: the Wedding Glue. She is the last one to bud and her growth structure is just unbelievable to be 100% natural. If these weren’t autos I would clone her to mother if her buds turn out nice.