Outdoor Amnesia Haze Auto - 1st time

Wow, this first week was rough... a day after going in the ground we had a couple of very cold nights (47f) and rain. These gals have been the most affected by the crappy weather we had just after putting these in the soil. I really and truly thought they would die. Fortunately they haven't! One is truly a runt (stunted) while the other is had some scars. It's funny how the plant with the scars has such wide serrated leaves. We'll see if they can catch up with the other varieties!

This is the last day of June and it has been 16 days since putting the germinated seeds into the soil. Weather has been rough. Weatherman says we've had 4.5 inches of rain this month and more 90 degree days than ever before in June. My runty AH is still the smallest of the bunch at 4" tall. And it has some weird leaf arrangement. The taller of the two has some small dots under the leaves. It's hard to tell if it's dirt or not. We've had some VERY strong rains come through! I have been gone for the last 6 days and it was cool to see how they have grown. (Friend had done some watering for me while I was away.)

These two amnesia haze plants have grown about 3 inches in the past week. Applied LST to them today. The AH in the dirt is surprisingly a little bit taller than the AH in my smart pot with happy frog soil. The weather continues to be wet and humid. However, we have had a few sunny days with very high UV index. I applied a light layer of grass clippings to the soil while it was dry out. I have removed the remaining clippings as the weather is getting rainy again. I have a ton of wild grape vines around my yard. I decided to try doing a tea with them. I tore and crumpled up some leaves and soaked them in some small cups with water and a small amount of molasses for a few days and cycled this twice.

29 days from going into the soil Wow, what a rough week. Humidity has been in the 80s to high 90% range all week. We have also had a TON of rain (several days with 1-2 inches per day). I did what I said I would not be doing... I moved the ones in pots up higher in the yard to dry out. (I currently have three varieties. For each variety (amnesia haze for examples) I have one in the dirt (mixed natural soil and composts) and one in a 5 gal. smart pot and happy frog soil. I just needed to give these an extra opportunity to dry out! Growth has been less than the previous week (maybe 1-2 inches). The LST I performed seemed to go OK. Bugs have been taking their bites. My wife was going to get rid of some bug balm. I grabbed it and have selectively applied some to a small tag I adjacent to each plant. It's pretty smelly stuff and so far seems to help. Here's hopin' for dryer weather!

The previous couple of weeks have been very wet. A neighbor has recorded 10-12 inches of rain this month. The LST I did seemed to not feel right so I released them from it. I also started a some fertizers as we're in pre-flower stage now. I felt the rain probably had been washing nutrients from the smart pot soil. So far so good. The colors in my photos seems off - overly warm looking. Th AH in the dirt is 14 inches tall while the AH in the smart pot is 13 inches tall.

These AH have really shot up this week gaining about 7 inches since my last report. I have been doing 2 weak (1/4 strength) feeding per week for a couple of weeks now. I will be transitioning to feeding only the Jack's 10-30-20 from this point on. When I feed it is 1 gallon of water distributed among the 6 plants I have. Of the three varieties I have growing, this AH is the only one where the plant in the ground is a bit taller than the one in the smart pot. (One in the ground = 21 inches high and other in the smart pot = 19 inches high) We had a good stretch of weather (more sun + less rain) and that's really helped the girls. I am also beginning to smell them from a few feet away.

Finally some better weather! These AH gained about 3 inches in the past week. The one in the dirt is 24 inches high and the one in the smart pot is 21 inches (and of my 3 varieties, this is the only one that has the plant in the dirt being a bit larger than the one in the smart pot). I am only giving the jacks 10-30-20 bloom now. I feed it two or three times per week. They are starting to look a bit frosty now. Still seeing some leave damage from bugs. :-(

This week has returned to being rainy and quite humid again. The previous week was glorious and I noticed two interesting things happen: 1) Finally, some side branches growing 2) Root protruding above the soil I added a layer of soil on each of the plants to cover them. I also have kept up with a couple of light feedings of the Jacks bloom fertilizer. These AH continue to be quite frosty looking. They all seem behind where the 10-week autoflower calendar would put them. If that schedule holds true, I would be harvesting in just under two weeks. That just seems too soon based on how small the buds are. Buds on all my plants look quite small and I am sure it's a result of the less-than-optimal amount of direct sun they receive. This is probably 5 hours per day. Maybe the rain and cold weather we’ve had has slowed them down a bit. I’d love to think that they may get 3 weeks more of growth vs. the two weeks that the calendar indicates… The stigmas are all 100% white. I'm hoping for continued bud growth. The two AH plants are each now about 25 inches tall (only about 2" of growth in the past week). While this is my 1st grow, I have to assume the smell is "normal" now. (I have nothing to compare this to.) Just maintaining and hoping for more dry weather in the future!

66 days since going into the soil Six inches of rain in the past 7 days. Two inches in the past 24 hours. This will be the 1st week without any pics :-( I found one bad spot on a flower of the Amnesia Haze earlier this week. These two hazes only grew about 1 inch in the past week. And this strain continues to be the one that is the opposite from the rest – the one I have in the dirt continues to be the taller (only by 2 inches) than the one in the smart pot. The AH in the dirt is 25” tall and the one in the smart pot is 23” tall. Of my 3 varieties, these are the shortest of the bunch. After making last week’s post I did some further research on the timing and lifecycle of autoflowers and came to understand how wrong I was. I was worried that the plant would be finishing sooner than they actually would. I am now assuming that from this point (August 9, 2021), I have somewhere from 25 to 32 days left before they are fully mature. This will put harvest in the 2nd or 3rd week of September. Here is my timeline (past and future): June 14th – planted germinated seeds in the soil July 13th – first signs of flowering September 1st – stop adding nutrients September 15th – probable harvest

70 days since going into the soil Unfortunately my flowers are rotting. I'm trimming away what I can find, but this has been the 2nd rainiest summer in our area on record. It's a bummer to see these flowers getting smaller and not larger. Oh well. This is why I planted 3 varieties. Of my three these and the OG Kush are most affected by the weather. The sour diesel is the least affected so far. No vertical growth from last report.

Well, not much to say. The super rainy week we had back in week #9 really hurt these AH (as well as my OG Kush). None of the flowers have really grown at all since then. (In fact, I think they deflated some from that week...) Not sure what this means, but of my three varieties, this amnesia haze have the most upward pointing side branches off all the plants. I stopped adding any nutrients a week ago. I ordered a little hand held microscope (60x) from Amazon and once or twice a week I snip a little frosty section to examine the trichomes. Maybe another week to go?

This strain really struggled with the super wet summer we had. It seemed to just stop growing in August. I have whined about this in pretty much every post, but we had well over 20 inches of rain during the growing months this summer. As with each variety I had, one was in the ground with a combo of native soil and compost and the other was in a 5 gallon smart pot with happy frog soil. The each did equally poorly. Hindsight being 20:20 I would have given them more nutrients early on. I was very light on them. My grand total for the season (8 seeds) was 5.2 oz dried (combo of amnesia haze, og kush and sour diesel). Two of these seeds were grown else where and were quite small there too. Those accounted for about 3/4 oz of my grand total.