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And here we are today.
Update - Found caterpillars on my aussie cheese this morning, took it out the tent and snipped off all infected bits, really hope nothings on the auto, thoroughly combed through it and couldnt spot anything so fingers crossed. Fed about a teaspoon and a half of molasses with its watering and dropped the lights closer. looks like shes handling it so far, wanna see how close i can get.
Looks like we're well underway for flowering. Got a little stretch in, im hoping a little more but we'll see. Took off all the tie downs, wanna see her stretched and readjust. Took a few bottom leaves off touching the soil, worried about them getting infected or something.
Folded the fabric pots down, hopefully gets a little more light. Just a watering today 2L.
Buds have been swelling a bit, noice. Smells starting to pick up a little, smells good. angled the lights closer to the one side that wasnt as tall. They seem to be handling the light that close up so ill just keep an eye on them as we go on.
Update: Looks like nutrient burn, brought the lights up to 18-22cm from the tops. Hopefully it addresses the issue in time
Oh my flip, i swear victory seeds has been a letdown. 25% germ rates, and now i find 2 pollen sacs at the base of my plant. Opened and jizzing all over place. I hope its infertile but i dont know those odds. Lame
Started feeding molasses again after moving the lights up for a few days. Looks like shes doing better, but now im worried about all the brown pistil tips, possible fertilization? So i read on royal queen seeds. I went through it as much as i could and couldnt find any more ball sacs so hopefully it was just the two and hopefully they were infertile and thats just the plant aging but thats a lot of hoping. Can see some areas turning purple, not to mention shes stiffer than morning wood. Starting to get some trichs now.
Update - Fed Biodyne and molasses today, loadshedding is becoming a pain. Hopefully i dont run into any issues
Loadshedding since last week, so two hours a day without light and fans, sometimes 4, looks like its okay. Ended on thursday. Just gave water now. Leaves are starting to yellow, with a little purple here and there. Apart from the one fan leaf showing brown spots, i think its all okay and just a normal fade, so hoping those spots were a past issue. Smell hasnt been much of an issue so far, at least until lights out where they give off this planty smell for a few minutes.
Anyone know what kind of damage this is or if its anything to worry about? A few spots like this on some leaves but not much. definitely doesnt look like mold or anything like that up close, its more like that part of the leaf has shrunken and whitened.
This could be related to S-deficiency. it's on edge of purple... so it was already going downhill in regard to receiving light. Does not look like light burn based on what sorrounds it at same level.
heh, kinda points toward trace elements, which is very unlikely in soil. Zn / Fe deficiencies. so, double check tht pH as before...
if pH is fine, i'd lean toward this just being part of being a bit underfed + senescence.
more about previous quetion -- if you do add some magnesium sulfate (foodgrade, doesn't even have to be a specific garden product), just go about 1g/gallon mixed.
Looks like you got some time.. only 10-20% at best of pistils have color. A loupe to check on trichome coloration will be more accurate. It's somethign you have to observe and learn.. then figure out personal preference on harvest window... you want more or less amber? trial and error is only way to know your preference. ~10-20% amber trichomes is generally considered the beginning of a haarvest window.. .some wait for it to be 70% or more amber. (in general, more amber should cause more of a couchlock or sleepy effect)
as far as leaves... i see interveinal chlorosis. It could just be senescence, but more so looks like a little light on feed... difficult to say with a 'super soil'. As i look thruogh last few weeks, you haven't fed much, so i'd lean deficiency. May need to feed a bit given current mix you used for substrate. OR, maybe add a top dress at some point during first week or so of flower to reinforce etc etc... needs a bit more for this current length of time of this grow.
After reading other question i changed my mind on symtpom... maybe, a sulfur deficiency? but the spots near bottom could also indicate Mg deficiency... the reason i flip-flopped is that it looks to be occuring top-down mostly. I think some Epsom Salt (magnesiu sulfate) would solve this problem. May be a mix of 2 symptoms?
do a slurry of soil to make sure it's somewhere near 6.5pH. A slurry shuld stop a bit short of actual pH - whether up or down relative to 7. it only informs a bit... as long as not crazy far off, all is good and it is precise enough to tell you that much.
i'm a soilless guy, so it's hard to suggest anything specific. if you stay on this path, you can get to a point where you simply add water throughout grow (maybe, a lil top dress refresher at some point), but takes time and adjustment to find that balance.
So many issues with white balance with this camera. No damn temperature slider, just presets. But overall shoots better images. Things are looking good, as recommended in questions i top dressed some elemental blend by dirty hands and have just been watering now. Smell is much stronger now. Doesnt seem like much longer to go actually
Plants still seem to be fattening up as they approach the final week. the VPD has been hitting perfect levels every afternoon with a little help from the ac. Need to get a dehumidifier soon though. But otherwise, they got a little haircut earlier last week of all the dead or dying leaves that looked pretty bad so didnt want that in there. Loadshedding has been hampering everything though, so i wonder how much better she could be. end of next week i think, its 2 days darkness and then the chop. Wish her luck. Each nug is so different btw.
Second to last watering today, smoked a little that i cut off a while ago, wasnt ready yet but def still got me pretty high. Really looking forward to this plant come harvest
so its been 12 hours darkness so far. tomorrow at 12 ill be chopping her down. Just 36 hours of darkness cause im worried about mold. She was last watered on tuesday i think, but medium was dry a day before going into darkness. Trichs are super mixed with clear cloudy and amber still, and not sure if new growth was foxtailing due to the high temps ive been having lately or actual new growth and shed have been fine with another week, but im happy with her as is and came out with mostly everything i was looking for, apart from size.
So this was relatively easy to grow. She was way too small for my liking though, so i wont be doing autoflowers again but thats on me. With the amount of stress i it had with the lights too close it did hermie but there wasnt any pollination thankfully. Loadshedding only added to the problems it could have faced with mold and the like but everything seems good when i was hanging it up. Only time will tell when i break up the bud if there is an issue with it but fingers crossed. The smell only intensified after just over 36 hours of darkness. Some pistils matured into a brighter colour with it as well and overall it seems everything looks a little better with it. If you havent been giving a dark period before harvest id recommend it. Its got a very heavy, dank smell with slight hints of fruit coming right off the chop, hopefully im able to preserve all those terpenes it built up and see the end result smell and taste. under 21c and 58 -64 rh is tough for me right now. eventually ill be able to get a dehu and humidifier for the grow and then ill be able to grow with better control instead of relying on my aircon only. Overall though im happy with the result, slightly purple with that dank smell was right in the ballpark of what im looking for in terms of visual and first whiff appeal. This strain was one of the only ones out of 4 different auto seeds from victory seeds to successfully sprout so im very disappointed with the company and wont be growing their plants again. i think next run ill go with some cuts of ethos genetics or maybe look into seeds from fastbuds or barneys farm as they all have very successful or good looking journals here. There are a few local breeders that im interested in trying as well.
*I will update weight and a few other things once all is dry* and bam, updated
Harvest is 50g, with my main nuggie coming in at 4.5g. over double what I expected so that was a nice surprise. Will add some more pics tomorrow of it in some good light
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