Good weather has arrived, so I am looking forward the development the ladies are going to go through.
By the end of the week they get their first boom-boom spray shower.
Meanwhile I prepared an FPJ (fermented plant juice) out of common vetch. I am really curious how this homemade nitrogen rich fertilizer is going to affect the plants.
She is going well, by the end of the second week she grew bigger than the BBK. The 14th was their last day in the greenhouse.
Now she is going "into the wild" to become a real outdoor queen.
Your plants likely need more time. Breeders time estimates are for ideal indoor conditions but things take longer (and get bigger) outdoors. I made this mistakes on my first plant (Polar Express). Patience pays off and some plants really pack on weight in the last few weeks. Good luck.
@Northern_Ent,
Thank you again for your advices. I appreciate them and next time if I try to grow autos I’ll be more patient. Now I regret a bit I harvested :(
As I know and as I experienced outdoors they start to flower in mid/end of July, when they start to have at least 9 hours of darkness. In my climate (47 N) I don’t have problems with autumn temperatures because September is still quite hot here and October is just a little bit colder, around 15-20 C. So once again photoperiods suit more my climate and my taste as well.
@GardenOfTheRisingSun, I find that autos outdoors usually take about 100 days or 14 weeks. I also find that the trichomes don’t change very quickly from cloudy to amber. You can harvest the ripest colas and leave the rest to mature further for another week or two to maximize yields.
Photoperiods outdoors are usually more problematic because you need 12 hours of darkness to start flowering. At my northern latitude (53 N) that is much too late in the fall so I have to force flower them. Photos usually result in bigger plants but the finish is a race against the arrival of winter. Also the strength of sunlight drops faster than temperatures in the fall so we run out of good light before it gets too cold here. Autos are definitely easier to deal with outdoors.
@Northern_Ent, these are autos so the full lifecycle is supposed to be 10 weeks. I understand that this can be longer outdoor. So still my question is: should i wait even if trichomes are milky, some of them turning amber? I don’t like very “narcotic “ weed. As i know, the milky trichomes are the ones with THC and not CBD or CBN.
Anyway thank you for your advices!
If everything goes well I don’t really want to plant autos again (at least not outdoors) I believe in “slow cooking” so photoperiod strains suit my taste much more.
