Northern Lights Auto First Grow

Day 1: SHE DOES A SPROUT! Also got the tent and nutes today. Probably wont start nutes until I'm sure she has a nice root system. Day 4: (6/18/21): She was watered well yesterday just in the center. Less growth than I was expecting but she looks healthy so I guess I'll just keep up as is for now. Yesterdays water was PH 6.4 and 98PPM Day 7: (6/21/21): watered with 6.4?PH. Seems to be doing rather well

06/22/2021 Still just watering every couple days. Seems to be content so far. 06/24/2021 She really shot up the past 2 days. Shes at 1.5 inches tall and 3inches wide. I'm guessing around now is when I should water her? 06/25/2021 Still looking good. Not sure on if i should keep the glass jar on her or remove it now. The tent is otherwise pretty dry at between 30-40% humidity. 06/27/2021 Welllllllp. I fucked up and over watered her. Now shes...rough. 06/29/2021 Last day of week 2. I've pretty much just left her alone since I overwatered and she is making a come back. Should i start light stress training and adding nutrience or should I wait till she's doing a bit better first? Not sure. She's about 3 inches tall and 4.25 wide. Wonder how much she would have grown if I didn't stunt her at w2d3, she didnt really bounce back till w2d6.

W3D1- 06/30/21: Didn't take any pics or anything. Busy day. She received the start of LST this day W3D2- 07/1/21: Adjusted the LST a bit more. W3D3-07/2/21: Finally she was seeming ready for water once again. I mixed nutes into a half gallon of water and fed her 2.5 cups since last time watering her 4-5 cups was WAYYYYY too much. W3D4-07/3/21: I don't understand where the time went. How is it the middle of week 3??? Feel like shes so small for her time period and the fact shes an auto doesnt give me too much hope for a bountiful yield but who knows. W3D7?-07/6/21: Well I'm glad she was nuted and everything auto turning on and off cause fuck the past few days. She has definitely done a big grow. I just nuted some water and added another LST wire. She Is getting pretty wide it's exciting. I'm not sure if i should do any leaf trimming or not since she's an auto. I'm doing the same mix as before of nutes in a half gallon since the last one smells. not gonna chance it. I'll probably try to PH her to 6.5? or somewhere around there since the last ones were on the lower end. Just gonna wait a couple hours for the water to settle, and for our little auto baby to be upright and settled from the LST. Been 4 or 5 hours since earlier. She has been watered and adjusted. I also yanked one of her first leaves which seemed to be on its way to falling off anyway. The PH did turn out right about 6.58 and i finally got the PH/PPM meter calibrated fully. Hopefully it stays calibrated this time. So I got a free duplicate light from reviewing the product and I'm not sure what to do with it. Should I double hang the lights in that tent? I feel like it would just give me more temperature issues and I have no idea if there would be actual big benefits to the plant or what from the extra light. It's a Fecida cr600

Lots of growth. The right most branch has seemingly become the main line. Slowly introducing more and more LST and W4D3 I plucked a handful of leaves that were blocking the light to everything below it. Gave her 3 more cups of water/nutes from the last dosage. Going to change the dosage amount for the next feed. She finally has a smell so that's pretty cool. Oh also I may have slightly done a little FIMing on that right most main branch. Idk I guess just curious to see how the plant reacts. Not actually trying to get like 6 coallas there or anything. I'm def realizing how...un-full the bag is. Seemed pretty full when I originally filled it and then it shrunk down a whole lot after letting the soil dry out and I didn't want to add more in since that new soil would still be moist and possibly cause gnats so I left it as is and that..may have been a bit of a mistake. my friend is telling me i should defoliate a bit heavier. So nervous. W4D4 i think So she was lightly watered yesterday but today her leaves look very dry. Corners turning inward and such. I took her out and re-adjusted and implemented some more LST and defoliation. Trying to get the light into all the cracks and crevices. Find space for each branch to have for itself. Pulled off like 4 leafs and 1 tiny branch that was at the very bottom and under like 3 other main branches. I'll now wait and see how she responds and then probably readjust the LST if needed. Also shes at almost a full foot radius now. Very short, stubby and dense plant. Loving the mellow smell shes producing. Kinda just wanna motorboat her. I finally managed to get the tent set up a bit better with the intake/exhaust fans and now her temps have gone down to 75-78 today. May also have to do with it being rainy so temps in my room are pretty stable. W4D5 so bushy and dense I don't know what to do with her. It's time for watering though. I'm going to call my grower friend this time and make them show me exactly how much water is enough for her cause I'm sure I havent been doing it right. W4D6 watered her with the new nute mixture. 1000ml of water. was afraid of over watering. she drooped directly after watering and stayed that way for really the whole day. Thought I overwatered but after research and it now being the next day it seems indica heavy strains tend to droop for a few hours after watering without it meaning over watering. So that's cool W4D7 she is looking vivacious and healthy. Her top layer of soil is already dry and all her leaves are perked up. She really is a sensitive plant. You can see in todays pics before and after i handled her. I only pruned 3 fan leaves that were blocking lower nodes and you can see how much she reacted to it. Kinda neat. She really is a short ass plant. So dense and compact so far. Smells nice when I handle her. I think its been a great grow week for her. She reacted so well to the nutes and waterings. I think I can actually be watering her more often with how quickly she dries out at this temp and humidity lvl..and also fan blowing on her. I may have to water her again tomorrow if how dry she is today is anything to go off of.

My girl is doing so well. Her tallest point is 7 inches and shes 13 1/2 wide. Not doing much to her today besides leaf tucking and plucking 1 blocking leaf. Opening the flap today slapped me with her scent. W5D2 did some more tucking, and found 1 or 2 new leaves that were completely limp and half dead. Not sure what that''s about. I gave her 500ml of the water/nute mix. Idk what I'm doing but todays crazy so hopefully that's fine for now. W5D3 I think she might have a cal/mag deficiency OR im underwatering her. ...or like 5 other possible things idfk. The new growth does look very yellowy and the leaves are coming it weird. The soil is still slightly moist so idk if its underwatering or a deficiency or if the ph of the soil is off somehow. Wish i noticed the issues before i plucked a bunch of light blocking leaves. W5D4 Well I woke up this morning and went straight to making a nute mix. Shouldn't have done that. SLeepy brain I added twice as much micro as I was supposed to. The same ammount as the Bloom. Dipshit. Anyway into half a gallon I mixed .75ml micro .75 ml bloom, .28ml gro and 1.5ml cal/mag. PH'd to about 6.6 and PPM is still low at a bit below 500. So I've been up to this point watering from the top with a water bottle but that hasn't been working great so i decided to try the good ol BUTT CHUG. My mindset is I cant over water the top of the plant if I'm buttchugging. Issue is that the moisture meter is still showing its dry on the top like 1-2inches of soil and I poured the whole half gallon into the bowl. Hmm. Nothings simple. I guess i can ph the rest of what was left from last weeks nut mixed water and add it to the buttchug if shes still dry after its all soaked up. There def is a stagnation in growth. New leaves arent doing much and are growing in all catawhompy. I still don't see any pre-flowering signs besides the smell intensifying. You can see in the pics she never really fully recovered from yesterday lst and defoliation. Usually she would be fully perked up and her leaves fanning out taking up all the light but she was droopy leaves and her edges were curling up. I hope this watering helps. So I tested the left over water from the buttchug and it was about 6.2PH and 2700PPM WHAT?? How is it such a high ppm when each watering has been no more than 500ppm. Idk. Shes nice and soaked now. I'll leave her alone for the rest of the day W5D5 YES! She's finally doing much better. I want to defoliate and add some lst but since todays her first day really doing well again I might hold off till tomorrow. I'm just glad the buttchug seems to have helped. She's looking perky and happy again. W5D6: Adjusted lst and pruned a few leaves. W5D7: She's so dense and bushy. there are a lot of new nodes and growth points that are covered. I tried my best to defoliate and lst again since this may be my last chance. I may go back in a couple hours and see how she reacted, see if node points are being covered again by the leaves after they re-orient themselves. You can def see the start of the buds. the little tail like ladies. Her widest part is about 22Inches.

It's week 6 now and the nutes guide shows to be giving soley Bloom and at half strength for the auto. I showed Katie the last defo and she says I shoudl go HAM on that motherfucker but Im so confused on how many leaves i should leave per branch and nodes and...bah. I might just leave her as is to see how she develops. Then next grow I'll know which leaves i should have gotten rid of and whatnot. I gotta mix up the nute mix which I guess isn't very hard anymore lmao. just 1 nute. Then its ButtChug Station CHOOOCHOOOO!! i just realized this is pretty much half way, huh? Time man. Such a small amount of time usually passes me by and I think very little of it, but watching the lifespan of this plant and to be fair all the other herbs i've been growing is.. perspective changing. Well shit I just took her out for the butt chug and...lots of flowering signs. A little nervous that I def should have plucked more leaves earlier. Idky today I fucking have an eye for it but I guess seeing the hairs helps you know where light should be hitting so i want to pluck a whole bunch. Gotta wait till after watering though. W6D3: Yesterday I just left her alone besides moving the light up a few inches. Today I applied more LST and a bit of defo..theres so much growth and its dense so trying to figure out which to keep is a bit difficult. really trying to get her spread out and get the light penetrating as much as possible. W6D4 left her alone, gonna water her tomorow morning W6D5 buttchugging her with 2ml of bloom in 2 or 3 cups more than half a gallon. Would like a taller plastic container to buttchug in, but that's life. W6D6 I took her out to try to get a little more lst in. Theres a lot of new central growth that needs to finds its place. I probs should completely stop defoliating at this point. I still pruned 10 or so leaves today because it was blocking the new growth. W6D7 another end of a week. I can't defoliate any more which... leaves me with soem regrets over not fully understanding it better earlier. But hey this is the first grow we're not looking for like a 3 ounce harvest or anything haha. So all the outside growth, which is you know the main branches. They are all taller than the rest of the middle growth so they are getting all the flowering hormones. I tried t bend them lower with lst but it just seems like it is what it is. I added in my old grow light on the red setting for bloom/flower and I clipped it to give the center of the plant the most love. Had to turn the main light off to see where it was hitting. 24inches widest point

She's sad and needing dat water. Watered and she didn't suck up as much as i was expecting. I made a full gallon but she only soaked up about 2cups more than half a gallon? Phd to 6.6, ppm a bit over 500 and I used all tap water cause we are almost out of bottled. Hopefully its fine at this stage. I'm thinking of starting one of the Eskimo cookies seeds. I may start that today or tomorrow. W7D2 perked back up W7D3 still doing her thing. Too tired to LST her highest points down cause I gotta remove other plants from the tent and what not. Got some lst in. Neat to see the difference in growth between the branches that are up even slightly higher than the others. W7D4 Buttchugged about the same as last time but in a taller bowl. Seems to be perking up after a lot faster than last time. I checked the run off and it was..shit idr it was either 6.4 or 6.6. Woops. Also PPM was around 600. Also the buttchug was the same as last time 4ml into 1G and 6.5-6 ph about 500ppm W7D5 Just left her alone W7D6 I should probably LST some of the tall branches back down but..idk i might just leave it as is to have those bigger coalas. W7D7She has what i'm pretty sure is nitrogen deficiency..and of course i watered her this morning with JUST boom which has like..none. So I guess im trying a second buttchug with just micro since that has 5% nitrogen. made a bit over half a gallon with 2ml of micro in it and she's stewing in it right now. I don't know if the water will get into her soil since she was fed this morning so i atleast poured some water at the top that bled through. Sad.

She definitely is suffering from nitrogen deficiency. All the lower leaves that are older are dropping off/yellow and there are "read" stems on some higher leaves. If I had known the red stem thing was a sign of N deficiency then I could have recognized these symptoms days ago. No wonder her growth has stagnated. I had no clue I was just assuming its part of the flowering growing stage. She looks a bit better today at least. I should have taken pics yesterday of her completely deflated. All her leaves were flat and hanging, so sad. Today she has some perk back in her leaves but she's definitely not "happy". I think I noticed some new growth in the flower area too and if that's true then that's really good cause I'm pretty sure I just fucked the yield of this plant. A lot of her leaves have the very very tips "burnt" i'm guessing from the fact I had to basically double water her yesterday. It probably took her all yesterday to be able to breathe correctly again. Hopefully that's the extent of the damage and she can get back ons cheduel from here. Her next feeding I think I'm gonna do 3ml bloom and 1.5?ml micro. The autoflower grow guide says to only be giving bloom nutes at this stage but obviously she needs more. Mayve I'll do a little smack of cal/mag while im at it. Ah well best thing I can do now is leave her alone and watch how she recovers. I can't exactly water her again until shes all dried out so probably not till sat/sun? Bah this is definitely worse than when i overwatered her at the start and set her back. I have the fan pointed at her roots on high im hoping to dry her up a bit faster than usual so I can get that next watering in asap. She is definitely all around a very light green. Guess I shouldn't have listened to that guide that said to only use bloom during flowering for autos. You know as im looking at the second and third pictures those leaves arent necesarilly starting to yellow at the tips and there are spotty dots on some. Actually the first pic too. The leaves are still green at the edges? Idk if that's normal for Nitrogen Deficiency. But she definitely isnt so late into the flowering stage that you would expect yellowing leaves and these kinds of issues.. so i'm just going to treat it as N deficiency and leave it at that. If other symptoms show up we will go from there but it is what it is for now. W7D2 She's still drying up from the last watering. The yellowing seems to have slowed down so hopefully she cant keep waiting for that nitrogen W7D3Been trying to figure out how much of which nutes to give her this feeding. I don't want to go overboard on Nitrogene when shes flowering and wont be needing to make leaves, she just needs enough to flower and not fricken die. I think, and im hoping this is a good idea.. that I'll give her 3ml of bloom and 1.4ml of micro. The micro is 5-0-1 and bloom 0-5-4 so hopefully thats a nice even feeding. I just don't know if there are any other deficiencies or issues that need to be addressed this feeding. D4 She seems to still be pretty stressed. Not sure if the lower leaves yellowing is still progressing up the plant or not. Doesnt seem to be? She isn't fully perked up or raising her leaves to the light. The leaves closest to the fan are up a bit from the stress of the wind but its 80 in there with the fan on high so I don't really wanna fuck with that. Stems still red.. possibly a bit less of it around the plant. Flowers still seem to be fairly far behind other grows of NL Auto on this site. She looks more like shes at the start of week 7 not in the middle of week 8. I"m not sure what to do besides let her be and hope for the best. D5 Not fully dry yet. I'd adjust the top stems a bit more but there isnt really much room left on the sides of the tent. D6 Spent most of my day doign research and talkign to a grow friend trying to figure out what's goin gon with her. She really seems 1-2weeks behind where she should be. We came to the conclussion that it isn't the obvious N deficiency, but most likely a build up of salts from my hard tap water. So I watered her half a gallon of bottled water PHd to around 6ph. I poured through the top as best i could while she sat in her bowl. the run off was as expected normal PH and low ppm. Think it was around 600. I also pulled the light up about 3-4 inches higher. D7 She seems to be responding to the treatment better than I thought. She has perked back up a good deal. The leaves yellowing seems to still be going up the plant though. When I opened the tent I was hit by her skunky funky smell again which i havent experiences in several days. Good sign. Her Pistils still don't really show much sign of budding and I feel like the top coalas are a bit..flimsy? Easy to bend and shit. I don't remember her being that soft. This is the last day of week 8 and she looks like shes at the start of week 7. Hopefully she can still fully go to flower and make some dense buds. I guess I should be expecting a later harvest than herbies website said to expect. I think I will make her next watering a slight ammount of micro and her normal ammount of bloom. Since I gave her only half a gallon yesterday I may be able to water her again tomorrow. People who responded to my question seem to be under the guise that the tips are burnt from nute burn or something like that but I am 90% sure it's because I stupidly tried to double water her one day using buttchug and def forgot about her for like half hour- hour. My bad plant baby. D7 night. well fuck. What the hell. Why. I seriously don't understand what i'm doing wrong and what she needs.

Got a nute mix going of 2ml micro and 4ml bloom PHd to 6.5 and ppm around 450. I top fed her what bottled water i had left. A bit over half a gallon, got some run off, not a lot, it was 6.4ph and almost 1k ppm. Alot of the leaves that were yellowing before turned fully yellow and fell off. There's a lot of unhappyness going on with her. Idk what to do but..I guess we will just keep this whole wait and see mentality when nothing i;ve been trying seems to work. d2- added the red lights. Strong smell when i opened the tent. Looks like I might be getting real bud sights now! Huh so i accidently left the light at like 20-30% for an hour or two and when iw ent to turn it back up she actually..looked more perked up??? So I pulled the light up another like half inch and left her at like 40-50%. Will check in another hour or two to see whats up. Yeah it's been a few hours and she looks much more like a happy plant. I don't understand, I was told to put the light at 100%. I can understand adding int he red lights you may want to lower your lights if they were super intense and close but...hmm this is weird. d3- still a bit wet so we will wait. turned lights back up. still perked. d4- well I supposed I should water her today. I'm realizing I think i watered her with 2ml and 4ml in only half a gallon last time..i think? When i was supposed to add that to a full gallon. Little confused on my dummnesss. She did respond well to the feeding..her yellowing almost completely stopped for like 2 days, she perked back up. I am still worried about some of her tips being brown like nute burn. But the run off last time was like 1k ppm and 6.4ph. I suppose i'll do similar this watering since shes growing. ph 6.2 - 400ppm only like 250 is from the nutes rest is from ph up? 4ml bloom, 2 ml micro into like 2/3rds a gallon. welp i top fed the 2/3rds gallon and got like no run off, so then i phd a bottle of water and poured that in for some run off and boi....that run off is potent. haha woops. almost 1800ppm. i feel like..she already was getting a bit of nute burn and now shes DEF gonna have a poor response as she is an auto. I hope no nute lockout. Next water shes getting a straight flush. All the lower leaves i plucked off were weak and hanging or already fell off. D5 yeeeeeah. She looks about as expected. D6 upon close inspection of her tallest colas she is starting to produce trichomes! D7 watered with simply Phd water. went in at 6.4 and less than 100ppm and came out the bottom as 6.1 and almost 1k ppm.

d1 I can finally stop being envious of other peoples grows who actually have trichomes! Patience is paying off. d2 8/20 d3 8/21 - she needed to bed watered today but i left super early and got home late so all i managed was to give her 2-3cups of phd water at about 6.3-4 she looks like shit. she isnt growing and the yellowing is spreading extremely heavily now. d4 i'm hoping the fact she looks so yellow and shit is because shes close to the end of her life. I need to get water so I can feed her. Wow yeah. all her leaves are affected now and the tips are dead and curled up. thought it was from nute burn but the fact she hasnt had nutes the past 2.5 waters and ik her ppm run off would be below 1k now i'm pretty sure its not the case since even her top leaves are getting it now. I guess i'll just give her 3mg bloom 1.5ml micro and some calmag? Idk. shes not getting denser nugs or looking even close to being ready for harvest yet she looks terrible like she this is when she should be ready for harvest. Bah. Okay so I finally got the magnifying glass and considering how yellow and kind poopy she looks all her trichomes that have developed are still white..not surprising i guess considering all her pistils are and her buds are tiny.. but she definitely took a shit turn between day 1 and 4 this week. I suppose it could be because i flushed her? but her run off nutes reading was really high the water before that and her tips have been burnt. d5 okay so i got her fed with 1.2ml micro, 3 ml bloom and 1.5ml calmag, PHd to 6.4 and still less than 500ppm. runoff was 6.3 and 1kppm. Trichomes and bud sights atleast seem to still be fattening up. D6 left her alone, she perked up and the yellowing stopped its crazy fast spread. D7 It's interesting to watch the buds grow. I am glad i didn't pluck all the lower growth and leaves before going to flowering so i can see just how small and popcornish the lower buds get and the difference between the levels, also just how dense she has managed to get at this stage. The gorilla glue baby I will try to lst and defoliate better before flowering and see the difference that makes in the taller buds.

Watered today 5 bottles so 500ml x 5 2500ml 3.5ml bloom, 1.5ml micro, 1.5ml calmag PHd 6.3-6.4, run off came out 6.2 and 1kppm. Had most all of the yellow leaves shriveled up and fell off or was removed. Day 2 and all the yellowing i plucked yesterday just shows how much more is going yellow. She's densing up though so that's all i can hope for. Just keep densing up and hopefully she lasts to harvest. I'm glad I left all those leaves on instead of defoliating heavily before flowering or I wouldn't have all these leaves for the buds to be pulling N from Day4 and I'm trying to decide what to feed her today. I got a comment saying this is nute burn and that I should lower the nute ammount. Seems weird this would be nute burn just because i was giving her similar ammounts during veg of nutes and she was fine. Did a little less than 2ml bloom, .8ml micro and 1ml calmag. PHd to 6.5 and ppm like 300. The runoff was a wopping 1300-1500ppm (wouldnt stable out). So last time it was about 1k ppm run off and now 3 days later after this light feeding its 1300-1500? So she hasnt been uptaking the nutrience? Is that what I'm seeing? That between last time and this time she was unable to uptake nutes? So theres a nute build up? I guess next watering will be no nutes? Idfk. This is all more troubleshooting nonsense than i originally thought. Every answer I seem to get contradicts another. Week fucking eleven and shes still 90% white pistils and not even cloudy trichomes. She looks like shes going to week 13-14 but i don't think she will even make it that far at this rate. I hope I actually get a harvest at the end of this. Day 5: Maybe I should do a slurry test to see if the soil ph is okay. I really hope she makes it to harvest. She seems to be producing decently when it comes to trichomes and thickening up her buds. More pistils are going orange. Trichomes still not showing signs of cloudyness. I really have no clue when to expect her to finish now. Day 6 Guess who's still yellowing like crazy and stressing me out?? I watered her on day 4 so don't have to water till tomorrow or next daym which is good cause shes still rather heavy. I've been researching like crazy what to do and wow what a surprise.. I have no fucking clue. It seems like this is a more common issue than i originally thought when it comes to this strain. I really don't understand because she shows the signs of nutrient burn but with low nutes. I gave her the recommended autoflower diet of either half or a quarter the recommended dosing for photos. Got some real advice today. So I went ahead and started by defoliating all the yellowing leaves and i redid lst to try to get more light penetration. Day 7- started the flush for the last 2 weeks and defoliated a bit more. Water Phd to 6.4, ppm run off was 1100

Well i slacked off. I'm pretty sure its the 3rd? day of the 12th week. Eh at worst I'm a day off one way or the other. Anywhich way she was defoliated lightly the last few days. Maybe 10 mins of pruning a day and then today I went in and gave her the most stressful defoliation of her life. Here's hoping she deals with it well. I think she will. There were lots and lots of lower leaves and whatnot that I should have trimmed weeks ago. Hopefully this also helps with the heat issue I've been having. Been needing to keep the door open and my personal fan blasting into the tent to keep it below 82F. But the main use for this is getting light on the bud sights. Watered her today. The water was like 2-300ppm and 6.4- 6.5ph. Didn't get much run off, probs should have watered more to get it but was in the middle of the defo. The run off read 7.1ph and 1kppm which is a little..weird i'd say. Not sure why the PH is 7 when shes been fed nothing higher than 6.5. will probably lower the next waterings PH. day6, watered 6.3ph and 300ppm, runoff was 6.2ph and 7-800ppm.

Day 1 - She's just been thickening up with trichomes. Think this is about the 85th day? I may get to harvest her in a couple days depending on how fast she goes to amber trichs. Though she is still sending out a good amount of straight white pistils whos budsites still require thickening up. Day 2- Watered her PHd 6.4, runoff 6.3 and 750ppm. Took off more yellowing leaves and leaves blocking budsites. 9/12/21- d4? 9/13/21 d5- watered but i didnt have much on hand so she only got about 3pints. Well hey maybe this will incline her to hurry up in finishing up those buds. 9/14- d6-

9/16-day 1 9/18- day 3 started harvest. Largest top colas. 9/19-day 4 continue harvest, lower smaller colas.