Duck in hiding

Duck has popped her head up poked a root out of the bottom of her rapid rooter so she moved outside in her 5 gallon pot n forever home.

Duck is liking the outdoors so far, it seems like everytime I go to take a picture it starts sprinkling. I've been just keeping the soil damp with water a little potassium silicate and aloe vera which is all I do to my water being living soil there's no need to ph. Because of the poor water quality I use a 50/50 mix of ro and tap water with a pinch of vitamin C to remove the chlorine. No added nutrients until she starts to flower I'll top dress a little bit of Earth Dust boost.

Duck is alive and well 😁 our temperatures have gone back up into the triple digits I was hoping we were pass them. I've had Duck over in a corner where it would only get 5 or 6 hours of direct sunlight and was planning to move her out this week to increase the hours but I think I'll wait a little longer while the temps are so high. She does seem happy and healthy out there,, with the Earth Dust I use I only feed my plants twice during a grow (3 times for photoperiod) so it's mostly water only, I do add some potassium silicate and aloe vera to my water prolly twice a week. I consider these more like a vitamin for the plants not necessarily food. I tried to get a good closeup of her because I noticed that she had a couple hairs already showing. The duck auto description said it was going to be a small plant (20-40 inches tall) I hope the hairs don't mean it is going to be a tiny plant. We'll have to wait and see 🤞👀 thanks for following along I'll see you next week unless something worth updating happens before that 😀😉

The swimming duck is still kickin 😆 it has been raining almost every day again. I believe I've only had to water once in 5 days, duck is loving the rain and is growing like a weed (pun intended) I'm seeing a few more white pistils so it's possible I will top dress her with some Earth Dust Boost (flower food) it's about time for it anyway I normally do the one and only feeding for autos around 30 days into the grow and might do some tea in another 30 days if it looks like they need a boost other than that just some aloe vera and potassium silicate in their drinking water as a vitamin supplement this helps the plants immune system and overall health. I did find a single leaf with what looked like some leaf miners I will have to spray a little neem around there. I included a picture from 5 days ago with this weeks pictures to show her growth... I'm planning on doing no training on duck and just allow mother nature to do her best unless she tries to get to tall which doesn't look like it will be an issue, breeder says 50-100 cm I'd be ok with either... Till we meet again, Cyrus Update = just wanted to share a couple more pictures I took this morning. She sure is a pretty shade of green... day 33 from seed and days 28 outside... I'll be top dressing with some Earth Dust Boost very soon, the one and only feeding I give my autos

Here's the duck auto outside (incognito) 😆 as you can see in the pictures she's got some small flowers, I kept the week in the veg column in hopes I can trick her into a little more stretch. I went ahead and top dressed her with the Earth Dust Boost it's the only feeding I give to my autos, I normally do it on or around 30 days of breaking ground and I brought duck outside on 7/22 that's 31 days ago. I think I could have gotten a little more growth if we didn't have so many rainy days, but that's WATER under the bridge. Looks like there's quite a few tops (branches) coming up so should get some nice buds from her. I found a couple leaves full of leaf miners so I sprayed her down with some stinky natural oils which I left puddled on her duckfeet and burned them a little, you can see it in the pictures.. (dumbass)..... till next time... and my east coast neighbors way over there stay safe Thank you all for coming by please click 👇 the like button... good day 😁 Cyrus Update = I had to pluck off the worst of the leaves I burned with the bug stuff 🤬🤬 I wouldn't normally take anything off an outdoor plant except cleaning up around the bottoms but the leaves were in bad shape.... like me 😆

Duck is doing pretty good I had to take off a few leaves that I burned with the bug spray smh sometimes we are our own worst enemy 😆🤣 she's starting to get some pretty good looking buds it's covered in them, I wish she would have gotten a little bigger because she looks like she's going to have some pretty flowers. 😍 Thanks again for following along or if it's your first time coming by please don't forget to click the like 👇 button See you again soon Cyrus

Duck is still kicking and swimming 😆 the weather is still doing weird shit, we've gotten 5.5 inches more rain than we normally do and the year has a little more to go. 5.5 probably doesn't sound like a lot to most of you but we only get 7-8 inches per year. Sorry for my fat hand in the pictures but it was starting to sprinkle and was windy so Duck wouldn't hold still 😅 she's starting to gain some weight now though and is looking more like a Christmas tree every day 🌲 I'm liking it I don't do much training on my outdoor stuff I let mother nature do it, I have had to take off quite a few leaves that were full of the leaf miners but not enough to make much difference in her shape. Thanks for coming over and visiting the Duck please click the 👇 like button before you go and we'll see you all later Cyrus

Hello everyone, there's not much to say about duck this week she's just drinking her water and sunbathing... thanks again for following along or stopping by whichever you are doing please click on the like button 👇 Until next time Cyrus

Another week down, duck is really doing good even in the high temperatures at least the nights are cooling off. We have a pretty good cold front coming this next week and we're supposed to see highs in the lower 80s. I purposely timed this grow hoping the temperatures would go down towards the end of the grow 😁 lookin like that might happen, might be able to convince her to show us some color 🤞🤞 I decided to give duck a couple extra scoops of the Earth Dust boost top dressing just because I have watered it to runoff quite a few times trying to make sure she had plenty of water in this heat. She's starting to get a little fatt, like me 😆🤣 Thanks a lot for coming out to visit please click the like button 👇 before you go... till next time Cyrus

Duck is getting some foxtails on her but the buds are like rocks underneath, the calyx are very swollen. Our weather is finally changing and we are in the 80s during the day and 60s at night only problem is we're supposed to be getting rain off n on this whole week temperatures might even get down to 70s as highs. I'm a little concerned with mold or mildew we see so many plants lost this way, so I'll probably be stripping Duck and everyone else for that matter this week to reduce the risk. Thanks again everyone for coming by please click the like button 👇😀 Cyrus

Hi again everyboody, my fears 😨 have come true. During the last rains I went out to find duck swimming it was soaked I gave it a little shake and a caterpillar fell onto my hand. After close inspection I found a few more. Fearing the worst I decided to give duck a haircut and found another couple caterpillars and a spot of rot about the size of a nickel. I cut it out carefully and the haircut got closer, I trimmed duck up better than I do before jarring my buds 😆 then soaked it with a peroxide water mix. I have been watching 👀 very close for anything but so far so good hopefully it will be able to finish out there our weather is supposed to be pretty nice and we are starting week 11 so it shouldn't be much longer... I'll be back next week thanks again for coming by please click the like button 👇 before going... Cyrus

I enjoyed growing the duck auto it was simple I just let Mother nature train this one. I think it was our yoyo weather this year that caused the plant to stay small. It was cool and cloudy one week and 105° the next. I think it grew a lot of foxtail covered buds that just didn't fill in well because of the weather as well. I'm definitely going to try this one again in the spring and look for a better outcome. I washed the entire plant in a peroxide water mix because it was grown outside and I had a handful of caterpillars that caused a couple spots of rot/mold I removed plus I cut the plant a week or so early because we were expecting more rain.