Ortega - Autoflower - NorCal Farms

The smaller plant is only behind by a day, which is how long it took to shed the seed shell in the beginning, but it’s crazy to see the size difference! Day 13 of dry seed being sown to soil. That’s how I count my grow. So these girls are doing alright by me :)

The autos are doing their thing, you can see one is falling behind and everything is the same for her I fully watered in the pots with the nutrients listed above, to get that living soil going :)

Took some of the mature fan leaves and wire tied her last night. She very oddly sent out the side shoots to compete with the top, without any input from me on both plants, thought that was very interesting! Just ph watered this week

On day 28 I noticed pistils starting to pop up, she’s a very fast flowerer! Added a trace phosphorous and raised the light, added the net and removed some mature fan leaves

Took out some lowers but not as much as I would on a photo period, took some mature fan leaves and spread things out a little to help the lowers out :)

All I have been doing is just water still, plenty of nutrients locked into that soil still :) #2 was a runt in the beginning but now is the bigger plant and a nicer cola forming :) Under lighting appears to be helping those popcorn buds actually speed up their development So far so good! 50 days old from dry seed, so definitely a time saver

#1 is beginning to show purple in her buds and seems to be behind on swelling compared to plant #2 which is fun to see :) It’s aroma is developing and smells to me like a sandalwood or sage kind of a smell :)

You can see the beautiful leaves lol!!! My light strikes once again causing light burn, at this point I am going to need a 10’ ceiling to accommodate lol This is the same strain 2 seeds, and I got two phenotypes out of it, plant #2 is gorgeous beefy sugary buds Plant #1 is starting to get dense but is very airy all things considered, but has some purple in her buds and she smells like a wonderful sage or sandalwood kind of essential oil smell, it’s awesome! Gonna grow them til they quit on me I suppose lol

I’ll be chopping them both today, things got out of hand for sure lol! Gonna go give this to the homeless in downtown Seattle :) A very orange and cedar/sandalwood type of smell to it, very unique!

I had 2 autos of the same strain that pulled 2 phenotypes and they both had different feeding schedules and that wasn’t fun lol The plant smells absolutely divine! Like sandalwood or a fancy men’s soap lol with a super sour undertone and it tastes like fruity pebbles on the exhale! 🤤 One phenotype had denser buds the other had purple in its buds but both had the same smell and roughly the same build Overall I’m very pleased with them, mostly with the aroma and flavor of the herb!