Starting blue dream & grandaddy purp. Dropped seeds 3/8/25.

[luckytrees]

Looking at your progress, I would have never guessed you had issue with these two in the past…looks dialed in bro, super healthy, nice canopy.

Both classic strains…I need to get blue dream back in my arsenal. It’s been a while, but l love that strain and she was always a pretty easy grow.

Thanks! Blue dream is definitely easier than GDP but man, she grows so fast!

 

[luckytrees]

End of week 2 Flower.
They're both stretching like crazy and the canopy is no longer even. I keep moving the taller branches out of the way so the lower branches can get more light to stretch, but it really isn't doing much good. They're both still very healthy so I'm just going to let them do thier thing until stretch is done.
This week they got thier "week 2 flower" nutes, giving them each:
15ml of big bloom
10ml of grow big
5ml of tiger bloom
5ml of cal-mag
5ml of boomerang
5ml of kangaroots
5ml of kelp me kelp you
1/4 tsp of open sesame
in 1gal of distilled water ph'd to 7.8
That was about 4 days ago, then yesterday I watered giving them a each a gal of distilled water ph'd to 8.5. The last few watering/feedings they have consistently given me around 150-300ml of runoff, and I have been able to maintain a soil ph of 6.2-6.8
The EC/TDS meter typically reads around 1000-1300ppm after I water and around 1600-1900ppm after I feed.
Hopefully they will be done stretching soon, I can't move the light much higher and right now the canopy is about 15" away. Temp and humidity still the same as last week, maybe slightly higher. Light intensity is still the same as well.

 

[luckytrees]

End of week 3 Flower
Didn't do much this week other than week 3 nutes and watering, giving them each:
15ml of big bloom
10ml of grow big
5ml of tiger bloom
5ml of cal-mag
5ml of boomerang
5ml of Microbe brew
5ml of kelp me kelp you
1/4 tsp of beastie bloomz
in 1gal of distilled water ph'd to 7.1
Everything is still in the range it should be, watered a few days later. Needing another defoiliation to get light to all the bud sights, wondering how far down I should remove possible larf
I'm uploading this a little late and will be posting week 4 in a few days

 

[luckytrees]

Here's the rest of the pics for week 3 flower

 

[luckytrees]

Ok, so I didn't post week 4 in a few days like I said, so I'm going to upload alot of pictures to catch up. Started my mushroom grows this week, so my attention has been split. Anyway, this week I defoliated on day 23 flower, it may have been a little excessive but they seem to be doing okay, I really wanted to remove any possible larf as well as getting rid of leaves to open up airflow and get light to every bud. Other than that it has just been watering and week 4 nutes (needing water every 3 days at this point).
For week 4 nutes I gave them each:
15ml of big bloom
5ml of grow big
10ml of tiger bloom
5ml of cal-mag
5ml of microbe
5ml of kelp me kelp you
15ml of bembe
1/4 tsp of cha ching
in 1gal of distilled water ph'd to 7
That was about 4 days ago and yesterday I watered giving them each a gallon of distilled water ph'd to 7.
They are both still giving great readings from the runoff. Both around 6.8 from the ph meter and around 2200ppm from the TDS/EC meter.
There is definitely some height difference between the colas on both plants, but I'm not sure what I can do about this at this point. If you have any suggestions on fixing this or preventing it on my next grow, I'm all ears.

 

[luckytrees]

And more of the pics for week 4 flower

 

[luckytrees]

And here's the rest of the pics for week 4 flower

 

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And here's the rest of the pics for week 4 flower

Looking great man. Love those stacked colas…whose seeds were these?

 

[luckytrees]

Looking great man. Love those stacked colas…whose seeds were these?

SeedSupreme my friend, so far I have not had a single seed that did not germinate from them.

 

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SeedSupreme my friend, so far I have not had a single seed that did not germinate from them.

Cool, good to know. I bought way too many seeds this year and they all came with freebies so I’m in stock for years to come, but I def need to add blue dream to the collection.

 

[luckytrees]

Ok, so I didn't put the correct information on here for my last post. I had put everything in as if it were all on week 4 but it was actually week 4 and part of week 5, and the nutrients that I said were week 4 nutes were actually week 5 nutes. To clear things up, I have been giving nutes about every 5-6 days and following this guide.

 

[luckytrees]

Here is the rest of the pictures from week 5 and some of the first day of week 6. I just gave them week 6 nutes, giving them each:
15ml of big bloom
10ml of tiger bloom
15ml of bembe
1/4 tsp of cha ching
in 1gal of distilled water ph'd to 7
It is getting a little hot in the tent, up to 82 sometimes and one of my circulation fans stopped circulating so that's great. They still seem to be going strong but I am a little worried about the burnt tips of blue dream's leaves. Any suggestions?

 

[RoadKillSkunkHunt]

And here's the rest of the pics for week 4 flower

Plants are looking very good! I've only scanned the posts in this thread so its possible I missed some details. If so, bare with me ...

I've grown both of these cultivars. What I've found is they are both easy to grow, hard to mess up strains. They do grow differently because 1 is an indica and the other is a sativa ... that's been pointed out to you by other posters. If these were my plants, I would throw away the breeders recommended time to complete. Instead, go 100% by your visuals all the way down to using a wireless digital microscope to check on trichome development.

In a well managed grow like what yours appears to be ... your easiest mistake is cutting too soon. GDP especially should be showing color changes due to senescence prior to cutting. Both should be cut when your trichomes have mushroomed and are predominantly cloudy with specs of amber.

 

[MileHiGhost]

Looking at your progress, I would have never guessed you had issue with these two in the past…looks dialed in bro, super healthy, nice canopy.

Both classic strains…I need to get blue dream back in my arsenal. It’s been a while, but l love that strain and she was always a pretty easy grow.

I had an affair with Blue Dream, but only with hydro, looking good!!

 

[luckytrees]

Here is week 6. I'm posting late again so im just going to leave it at this, didn't do much more than water and feed. Will give more progress updates with week 7 pics.

 

[luckytrees]

First round of week 7 pics.

 

[luckytrees]

End of week 7 today. Just gave them their last feeding yesterday, giving them each:
15ml of big bloom
5ml of tiger bloom
15ml of bembe
1/4 tsp of cha ching
in 1gal of distilled water ph'd to 6.8
There was barely any runnoff, so I'll update the runoff readings when I post week 8 after flushing.
I expect to harvest in about 2 weeks depending on trichomes so its just water from here on out. Right now as you can from the pictures blue dream has already started fade and is being pretty dramatic about it, but i understand that this is typical for this strain. It is taller as well and closer to the light so there was some light/heat stress, I reduced the light intensity to 70%. GDP also is known for holding onto its big healthy green leaves up until the end usually starting fade around week 8-9, while blue dream starts as early as week 6, which explains the stark difference between the 2 plants. However judging by the trichomes and bud development they seem to be on par with eachother, blue dream only leading by maybe a few days, so I am hoping to be able to harvest at the same time. Buds are get FAT, fingers crossed everything continues without any issues

 

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End of week 7 today. Just gave them their last feeding yesterday, giving them each:
15ml of big bloom
5ml of tiger bloom
15ml of bembe
1/4 tsp of cha ching
in 1gal of distilled water ph'd to 6.8
There was barely any runnoff, so I'll update the runoff readings when I post week 8 after flushing.
I expect to harvest in about 2 weeks depending on trichomes so its just water from here on out. Right now as you can from the pictures blue dream has already started fade and is being pretty dramatic about it, but i understand that this is typical for this strain. It is taller as well and closer to the light so there was some light/heat stress, I reduced the light intensity to 70%. GDP also is known for holding onto its big healthy green leaves up until the end usually starting fade around week 8-9, while blue dream starts as early as week 6, which explains the stark difference between the 2 plants. However judging by the trichomes and bud development they seem to be on par with eachother, blue dream only leading by maybe a few days, so I am hoping to be able to harvest at the same time. Buds are get FAT, fingers crossed everything continues without any issues

Nice man, finish line in sight…looking good and ya that blue dream is being pretty dramatic with that early fade lol.

 

[luckytrees]

Here's week 8 Flower. Almost done!

 

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Here's week 8 Flower. Almost done!

Some really big calyxes on that GDP made me wonder if there were any seeds in there and thought I might have spotted a little nanner.