Big Bomb - First Grow

[Don Logan]

Many thanks. The photo's don't do her enough justice. I'm just happy that after all I've put her through she is still kicking along at a healthy pace.

 

[Don Logan]

With approx. 2-3 weeks left in flowering she is starting to fatten out. Oddly enough my biggest bud is from the lowest branch on the plant. Goes to show pruning throughout veg and tucking/defoliating throughout flowering really pays off. Removed all bottom-half leaves and either tucked away or cut off any top branch leaves to get even saturation of light throughout the canopy. All the bud sites that I thought were going to remain popcorn throwaways have actually swollen up to at least 1g'ers. If you look carefully you can see the leaves are beginning to be sapped of their remaining nutrients. The end is nigh.

The boquet of colas in all their glory. See the tallest/fattest one to the left? That's from the very bottom branch.

The three sisters looking mighty fine.

This is the middle of the plant. As you can see, within a week some smaller buds have appeared and grown big in such a short period. And this is AFTER I've plucked the plant of at least half a dozen midget buds.

This is one of the buds I was tempted to remove when it first started flowering, but I gave it its own dedicated light and rolled the dice. Had I used a more powerful globe I believe it would be much bigger. Still, its bigger than it ever should have been. I have at least 4 like this that I initially wanted to remove but instead put a light in front of it.

I have learned that a tucked/defoliated plant should look like this from above, so light can penetrate through to all bud sites.

 

[Don Logan]

Well, we're finally here. The very last week of my precious girls' lifecycle. It has been four long months. So very many mistakes has been made. And the death of 9 of her siblings... all because of my amateurish understanding of horticulture. I truly wish I could go back and start again, with the knowledge I have now I'm sure I could have easily doubled my yield. For its strain this looks like the lower end of the bargain, but not terrible for a first timer. I cut a couple of tiny buds (3g wet weight, 1g dry) and had a smoke and holy Moses, 3hrs later I still felt as if I'd just hit it. Very long lasting pleasant high. Beautiful smell and taste, can only assume would be 100x better with proper curing. I will certainly be cutting her down before her trichomes get too cloudy. Here are a selection of photos I took this morning before and after her final defoliation. She gets one more feed of water then I let her go dry in the soil before the chop.

 

[Amadeus Forzin]

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[Don Logan]

Since I figured there was little to no interest in my grow I never got around to posting the final results. My apologies.

So, I grew impatient and pulled her two weeks earlier than I probably should have. As I enjoy more of a social/head high I didn't want her trichomes getting too amber. The thing about Bomb Seeds and their genetics is that they blow up in their final few weeks, so I could have potential doubled my yield had I waited.

Now, considering I put her through a tonne of stress, attempted ametuer training and either under watered or over nuted her she came through with a steady 2oz of dry weight in the end. For one plant on a first grow with plenty of mistakes I consider that quite impressive.

I have since moved on to growing Big Bomb Auto (fem) and it is a much easier and faster grow. They don't take nearly as much punishment as their heritage genetics but they obviously tolerate more than the regular autoflower strain. Dollar for dollar, I'd pick auto seeds for this strain over its regular in a stealth/small setup. If you have the space or growing outdoor nothing beats Big Bomb (regular) seeds for yield, potency and excess leaf production (for hash, edibles, etc).

 

[Amadeus Forzin]

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