After some fits and starts during germination, I finally have three Blue Dream Autos that appear to be healthy.
I have to do my grow on some remote property I have for weekend use, and only get to see them about once per week. Automated irrigation on timers from well water (I don’t know the ph) hopefully keep them going.
I have had limited success over the last 5 or six years, primarily due to extreme heat and Bud Rot, but have harvested enough for my enjoyment.
These three plants were transplanted on Easter of the year (04/20/25), and have been in the outdoors for 7 weeks at the time of the photos.
All of the Blue Dream seeds were transplanted into 5 gallon cloth pots with Near Source Raised Bed and Container Organic Mix, and I have been using the full range of Bergman’s Products for fertilization and protection.
As you can see, all three plants are different. I call them short and skinny (about 18"), short and stocky (about 18") and Full Body (near 24"). They have been in flowering mode for 5-6 weeks and even though they are strange shapes appear to be healthy.
In the past I have pruned my plants a little more, but have only removed yellow leaves from them.
Is there any way to create more growth, especially on the skinny one?
On a better note, these plants smell better than all of my other grows, and have had the benefit of a much more mild and wet early summer.
Your girls are well into flower now so they might plump up a bit, but the plant is not going to grow anymore. Transplanting needs to be done very gently but may want to consider directly sewing in the bigger bags. The key to bigger autos is the first 30 days…giving them the best environment and nutrition to be the best they can be. Not always practical, but need to do the best your budget / situation allows. Still looks like you are going to get some good smoke. Good Luck.
Not in the hill country but near the Texas coast. I can’t grow outside because our humidity and strong storms. Bud rot is almost guaranteed. Auto’s outdoors are very difficult with the stressors we have with our climate. Being on a timeline and each stress causing a set back, causes that. If you’re going to be an outdoor grower, get some regular seeds. You will need to cull some males but they are much stouter than auto or feminized plants.
Non feminized. Same region. Just threw away a few oz from rot. Im done with flowering outdoors for sure. They sure love the sun though. Debating veg outside flower inside.
Regular seeds are your most natural seeds. They are seeds produced by a male pollination of a female.
Femanized seeds are created by forcing a female plant to produce male pollen and pollinating another female plant. There’s a lot that goes into it after that to weed out bad phenotypes (characteristics of a plant) to get a plant with favorable characteristics.
During that process, a lot of the “toughness” is bred out of them as they spent generations growing indoors.
The downfall of a regular seed is you will get male and females so you have to stay vigilant to identify and cull the males before they become a problem.
Ok I think I got it. So I’m trying to understand the risk reward for buying regular seeds? On like AGSeeds for instance, I can get regular seeds pretty cheap. So I guess that and maybe I can grow a monster are the advantages? So the risk are that half, more or less, could be male plants, which are pretty much useless to a crappy 4 pot grower like me? And I’d go through maybe having to throw half the plants out? Have you @BobbyDigital or @SausageMahoney or @Riskguy ever grown regular seeds? Just trying to learn
I have grown regular seeds…but only a few times. Usually it is about 50/50, but the last time I got all females…so I suppose the opposite can happen. I sent mine out for testing…otherwise you need to grow them all until they start flowering.
That’s correct. You could end up with 4 male plants/ 4 female plants/ or several ratios in between. The benefit of Reggie seeds is breeding capability and more robust females.
