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Best Photo Post
One frame that stops the scroll - with the write-up behind it. The photo earns the click, the text is what wins the nomination.
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Tell us how your grow really went - post it on Reddit, drop the link here and enter across four nominations.
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Pick the one that fits what you already do. Enter as many as you like - one post each.
One frame that stops the scroll - with the write-up behind it. The photo earns the click, the text is what wins the nomination.
Timelapse, grow tour, harvest day - with a write-up under it. Keep the clip short, keep the story in the text.
A comment that actually helped someone - the advice, the fix, the call that turned a grow around.
Make the sub laugh. Original edits only - reposts are out.
One winner each in photo and video - both walk away with a 42 Jacket and a Mystery Box. Three winners each in comment and meme, every one of them picking their own Mystery Box.
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Real entries from earlier rounds, quoted as published and linked to the originals. The meme slot is still a mock-up - that nomination has no winner yet.
Been growing autos for a while now and tried quite a few breeders at this point.
Used to be pretty happy with Mephisto. Sour Stomper was probably my favorite auto for years, pure fire especially for what autos were like 10 years ago. They had some really cool stuff.
But idk what happened since around covid. Maybe I’ve just been unlucky but I started getting way too many weird plants. Twisted leaves, mutations, funky growth from the start etc. And when seeds aren’t exactly cheap or easy to get it gets annoying pretty fast.
Last ones I ran were Alien Pig and Bear Force 1. Alien Pig honestly reminded me of some kind of Amnesia Haze lol. Bear Force 1 was alright, but 2 plants had this weird double main cola mutation going on.
Haven’t touched Fast Buds in like 7 years. Saw that cheap 10 pack Gorilla Z deal and thought fuck it, why not give them another shot. Grabbed that and also got Frostbanger and Cherry Cola RF3 for later.
Around the same time I popped some Night Owl too because I wanted to try their newer stuff.
Tbh Night Owl was probably the biggest disappointment this time. Master Bruce and Disappearing Act were just weird for me. Twisted growth, mutations, weak structure, every plant seemed to have some shit going on. Ended up tossing them because I didn’t feel like wasting more space on them.
Could’ve just been a shitty run/bad luck obviously. Not saying all their stuff is like that.
Gorilla Z on the other hand was just easy as fuck.
Didn’t do anything special. Some defoliation here and there, Terra Aquatica nutes from one of those small starter packs and that’s basically it. Plants just did their thing.
Ended up beating my personal yield record on one of them which I really wasn’t expecting. And thankfully it wasn’t one of those huge autos that grows a ton of weed and then smokes like nothing 😂 Potency was there and terps were really nice too.
One random tip btw, I’ve been curing in TerpLoc style bags lately and I’m pretty sold on them. Moisture stays really stable and imo the smell holds way better after some time.
Probably the thing that surprised me most with FB though was how similar the plants were to what you see in their pics. Pretty consistent overall. I’ve definitely grown seeds where the website photo and what comes out of the tent feel like two completely different strains lol.
Not saying FB is suddenly the holy grail or that Mephisto/Night Owl are shit. I’ll keep trying all of them and whatever else looks interesting. That’s kinda the fun of autos for me.
Just wasn’t expecting my first Fast Buds run in 7 years to go this well.
Cherry Cola RF3 and Frostbanger are next, so we’ll see if it was just luck 😂
Anyone else who’s been running newer Mephisto/Night Owl stuff noticed more weird growth lately or did I just hit a bad batch?
Top cola on FB Gorilla Zskittlez! Super fruity and candy gas…super dense and resinous… but it’s the hairs that have that wild look!
Enjoy!
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