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Day #4 update
I'm shocked, amazed, astounded, thankful and just plain happy that the cold and rain didn't kill these babies! I saw the temperatures get down to 47f after that cold, rainy day. I have checked on them and took some photos today and they're appearing to bounce back!
Of my 3 varieties, I was most worried about these OG Kush seeds since they had *just* popped above the soil before the weather turned.
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Day #2 update
- Cold and rainy. 57f and yuky out. Glad I used the cups over the seedlings. I checked them and a few are breaking the soil in spite of the rotten weather! In fact, these OG Kush are ONLY ones breaking the surface right now (amnesia haze and sour diesel are still buried).
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Bought seeds from North Atlantic Seed Company (and also received two sour diesel as "feebies"!)
I am growing these OG Kush Autos along with two other strains. All were dropped in water on a Saturday morning, soaked for 12 hours and then moved to damp paper towel in baggies. I am planting them on a monday afternoon.
Of these three varieties, these had the longest tap roots of them all.
For each variety, one seed will be in a 5 gallon smartpot with happyfrog potting soil and the other seed will be in natural soil which I dug out to to roughly 5 gallon size and then loosened the soil and mixed about 1/3 the volume with compost.
Not sure if the plastic cup is needed, but I'm giving it a try. I drilled two 1/4 in holes in each cup.
(Newbie here, so I am making some of this stuff up as I go!)
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 OG Kush really have been the most resilient of the three varieties I'm growing now. They were the first to pop their heads up and in spite of that the cold and rain didn't seem to affect them.
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.
We've had some VERY strong rains come through and I found one of these OGKs on the soil. I propped it up and am hoping for the best. At about 5" tall it's one of my taller ones.
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 OG Kush plants have almost doubled in height in the past week (4.5 to almost 9 inches). Applied LST to them today. The OGK in the dirt is a little bit smaller than the OGK in my smart pot with happy frog soil.
My OGK in the smart pot had a weakened stem from some wind (?) damage when younger. I am hoping it does ok with the LST!
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 (this OG Kush for example) 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 OGK in the dirt is 12 inches tall while the OGK in the smart pot is 16 inches tall.
These OGK have really shot up this week gaining about 8 inches since last week's 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.
The OGK in the ground = 20 inches high and other which is in the smart pot = 24 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.
I forgot the closer pics from the OGK in the ground. It' the one in the near, right side.
Finally some better weather! These OGK gained about 5 inches in the past week. The one in the dirt is 25 inches high and the one in the smart pot is 28 inches.
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.
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 OFK continue to be quite frosty looking (like my Amnesia Haze are too).
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…
I will say that out of my 3 varieties, the OGK is probably the farthest along and has the best looking buds so far.
The stigmas are all 99% white.
I am just noticing a few that are turning slightly darker. I'm hoping for continued bud growth. The two OGK plants 30 and 27 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 :-(
These two OGKs only grew about 1 inch in the past week. And this strain continues to be the most fragrant and sticky looking of the bunch. The two OGK in the smart pot is 30” tall and the one in the dirt is 27” tall. Of the 3 varieties I am growing, these are in the middle height wise.
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 amnesia haze are most affected by the weather. The sour diesel is the least affected so far.
No vertical growth since last report.
82 days since going into the soil
The super rainy week we had back in week #9 really hurt these OGK (even more than my Amnesia Haze). None of the flowers have really grown at all since then. Lots of small patches are visible where the rot was. In fact, I chose to chop down one of my two because its flowers were essentially disappearing (deflating). I wanted to use it as my experiment to see how drying it suspended from some twine between rafters in my shed would work (I would have preferred to do this inside, but I lost that battle).
After about 7 days the stems gave a nice snap when bending them.
It kind of seems silly to even save it, but since I'll be using all of this for some tincture or edible, it must have some value...
I don't have a scale yet so I will circle back on what this 1st plant yielded in a week or so.
Also getting some yellowing leaves.
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?
To begin with this was my 1st grow. AND it was the wettest summer our region has EVER had. We had just under 21 inches of rain in the last 90 days. During one particularly rainy week in August the flowers really seemed to deflate. They never recovered. I really did not get anything like a real "bud" on either of my two plants.
I had one plant in the ground with a mixture of my normal soil and compost. The other was in a 5 gallon smart pot with happy frog potting soil. I did go light on nutrients for the 1st few weeks. Only a compost tea and later the light nutrients. Between the two, the one in the smart pot did better than the one in the ground. Both were in an area that had marginal direct sunlight. I had to do this to be discrete.
Things looked OK during veg, but again we had a really, really rainy year. I'm torn on how to score this, but a 4 star review seems right. I say this because I did have one other variety that weathered the same rain, nutrient regiment and marginal sunlight as the OG Kush and that one (Sour Diesel) did much, much, much better. Ironically the SD happened to be the "freebie" seeds that came in my order. They are doing the best of all of my plants. Go figger...
OK, the roundup...
I had two OG Kush plants. One was in a 5-gallon smartpot and the other was in my native soil with extra compost. The one in the smartpot definitely was the stronger of the two. If you have read any of my earlier posts, you know this was a very, very wet summer. In fact, it was our rainiest ever.
I stopped checking after awhile, but we were well over 20 inches during the time period when the plants were in the ground. Both really took a beating during mid-August and stopped developing. It was almost like someone let the air out of the buds.
I harvested the one in the dirt first after 73 days in the soil. Trichomes were definitely already in 20% amber range. It was also showing the worst bud rot. It yielded .4 oz.
The second OG Kush (smartpot) was harvested after 85 days in the soil. Trichomes again were about 20% amber. Similar bud rot by this time. It yielded .7 oz.
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.
Hey there, Thanks so much for running a diary of our genetics 🙌 Let us know if you need any assistance, we’re more than happy to help. Happy Growing !!! 🌱☘️🌴🍀🌿🌳
@Fast_Buds, thank you very much for your offer! This is my 1st time growing and I think I dodged a proverbial bullet here. The weather turned cold and rainy right after popping these in the ground, but it looks like they ALL may make it!
Congrats and too bad about the rain. I realized this year that rain can actually knock trichomes off the plant so rain during late stage flowering is bad not just because of the risk of mould. That’s an advantage of growing in bags because you can move them out of the rain (or into the sunlight) when needed. Better luck next year. Cheers.
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