Hello Everyone,
My last grow is closing out and its time for a new beginning. I am documenting this grow on AFN as well for first time and will try to give weekly updates. I dropped 6 beans in water and my next grow is set. These 6 autoflower seeds are going to be put into 3 gallon fabric pots using FFOF soil. My tent is currently full but of the 6 - 3 gallon plants in there, 4 are to be harvested at the end of this week, freeing up enough space to start the next run. I decided to go with 6 different breeders this go around. 5 of the 6 breeders I've never grown before so this should be fun. The run is as follows:
GENETICS:
Captain Redbeard's Runtz
Mephisto Cosmic Queen
Mandalorian Genetics / Brother's Mendel Blackstrap Colab
Twenty20 Mendocino Snow-G
Gas Reaper Genetics Roadkill
Roc Bud Inc Blueberry Slushy
HARDWARE:
As mentioned they will be in 3 gallon pots inside a Vivosun 4x2 tent with a Mars Hydro TSL-2000. I understand this is a lot lol I have filled tent with 3 plants but I go for smaller plants and more variety. Tent is in an un-aircondtioned space with a AC Infinity T6 on supply bringing in air from air conditioned space and T6 exhaust hooked to same 67 controller. I got a cool air humidifier tied to wifi inkbird to keep humidity straight. I run a 18/6 in summer to help with heat and turn off lights from 12-6 pm.
NUTRIENTS:
I will put seeds after 24-36 hours in cups of water into rapid rooter cubes. I find this helps with FFOF soil being hot with seedlings. I will use water only for first 3 weeks. Then I will use half strength Fox Farm Trio, Bud Candy, Fish Shit, Cal Mag and feed every other watering. FF Grow will be used for first week or two then left out. I will start to use Recharge on alternative waterings. I stop feeding for estimated last two weeks and use just water.
TRAINING:
I will top them all between day 14-21. I will use tomato clips to start low stress training, adding as needed and tying down to pot with wire as needed. I defoliate as I go and will lollipop. I'm stuffing tent for variety so I'm after short squatty multi-cola plants.
HARVEST:
I plan to harvest when trichomes start to amber about 30% or so depending on overall ripeness of the plants. I don't do dark period, don't give ice bathes and don't chiv my girls lol I'll cut plants whole, hang in large lawn bag suspended upside down for about 10 days. Then a dry trim, then in brown bags to sweat some more for 1-3 days. The lawn bags and regular brown bags stay in 60/60 closet. Once sweating is done, they will go in grove bags for about 4-6 weeks and then the official smoke report.
For next week they will get water every 24-48 hours and that's it. I will change out the cups for large humidity domes once they are a little bigger as I have late flowering plants and don't want to use mister to raise humidity until they are out. I got a couple weeks left till these lovely ladies are my primary focus then I will re-distance the light and adjust temp and humidity to their stage instead of older plants.
@TimeToGrowOp, Thank you, it took a long time to settle on these six!! They are on day one and I got a notepad file full of different possibilities for next run lol I am not overlooking these, I just get excited about all these genetics! LOL
@Ketamine,
They are humidity domes, I purchased them off Amazon. Usually I would just use clear plastic cups when sprouts to raise humidity until a few days old and then increase humidity of my tent. But I have a late flowering plant in same area so I am using domes to increase humidity during early veg.
Looks like you found the limits of your space! I grew 4 last year in a mainline structure like that in a 4x1.5 and mine went to seed too. I vaped a bit of it and made the rest into hash and now I'm growing one of the seeds 🤷♂️
Still looks like it was a fun grow!