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Firstly we've place the seeds in water for 72 hours. Then place in Jiffy pods, then placed in a mini hothouse under 2x 28watt halogen bulbs until day 14. Then they'll be placed in large 16-20 litre pot, then placed in the greenhouse to live out their life.
Day 2. Gelato Auto have been planted in the jiffy pod.
Day 3. Auto Ultimate and Gorilla Glue Auto have been planted in the Jiffy pods.
Day 4. Halogen lights too hot, so now they are in the bathroom under one of the ceiling heat light. It's perfect, the humidity ranges around 78 - 83% and the temperature ranges between 18.2 to 21.8 degrees over the 24 hr period
Day 6. The Gelato Auto has sprouted along with 6/7 Auto Ultimate. Leaving one more to come plus the Auto Gorilla Glue. Auto Gorilla glue and Auto Gelato were free seeds with the Auto Ultimate. So they'll becoming along for the ride.
Day 7. All of the Auto Ultimate have sprouted, leaving just the Gorilla Glue Auto to come. It's has a tap root, it just hasn't escaped from the seed yet
Day 9. 5 Auto Ultimate have been planted into 16 litre buckets and placed under 200watt HPS bulb 18/6.
The rest will be planted on day 11.
Day 10. Gorilla Glue is gone. When you see a seed case that won't fully open with a very small tap root. It's either delicately remove the case and membrane and hope it'll do something. If you break it, waste of time. If you don't, waste of nutrients and soil on a maybe so opted to say good bye. It's a free seed so no loss.
Plant the Auto Gelato and the two Auto Ultimate tomorrow morning.
Day 11. 2 Auto Ultimate and the Gelato Auto have been planted outside in the hot house. The other 5 will join in week three of growth. It's said to grow then under lights for the first three weeks. So we will the difference between starting outdoor and starting indoor. This is my comparison Grow.
Day 12. Hot house has built-in misting system to help with it humidity levels.
I do a feed once a week with fish fertilizer. Soil mixed with dynamic lifter & slow release fertilizer pellets.
Mist will go off at 9am, 2 pm and 930pm. More often or less weather permitting. Hot house open during the day and closed in the afternoon and throughout the night. All is doing well in the hothouse.
The 5 Auto Ultimate indoors are doing great as well. So far so good.
Day 14. Germination period has ended.
We only lost the Gorilla Glue Auto.
When the 5 indoor ones reach three weeks they will join the others outside, to complete.
MH light now set at 400watt
Germination period is over. Vegetation has begun. Auto Ultimate indoors are doing very well, they are bigger than the outdoor ones because they've been under 18/6 and are now 24/0 until preflowering stage then they will go out doors to flower and finish. This is a comparison Grow to see if starting indoors will help get a bigger yield. It's said that the Auto Ultimate does best starting indoors then heading out. So this grow is to see that difference. And already there is already a difference in size.
Day 16.
Indoor lights now at 600w. And they look great.
Outdoor look great too just a little smaller is all.
So I've been away for 5 weeks, so you can see that these are a hardy strain, that even a beginner can grow, my partner did the basics.
The indoor ones needed a heavy watering and nutrient top up. They grew to close to the light so a couple of them are sunkissed. But lighting distance has been fixed.
The outdoor ones are slower in flower as it's still only 14.5 hours light at this moment.
I defoliated all of the plants now too
The Gelato Auto has already started flowering now
The Auto Ultimate haven't yet, so I may still be able to do a little LST
Heavy Defoliation and even trimmed the bottom branches. It's said not to but I've also decided to try cloning only some of the outdoor cuttings (another diary) to see what happens.
It should be the last defoliation needed for the rest of the grow. One of the Auto Ultimate is still to flower. The Gelato Auto is starting to flower.
The indoors are all flowering well now, hopefully the last defoliation needed as well.
All have been recently topped up with Nutrients and feed
Indoors flowering nicely, brown hairs starting to show.
Outdoors still one of the Ultimate still hasn't started to flower. I'm starting to wonder if it's not an auto at all. The gelato is forming nicely, with a little visitor a bee. The other ultimate is also flowering nicely.
Day 75, due to hothouse damage the three outdoor plants are now indoors
Day 77, 11 weeks old
(4)(A)Ultimate
2 (A)Ultimate and the (A)Gelato are adapting well to the change from outdoors to indoors.
1 (A)Ultimate has been harvested. It's hanging. I did remove all the lower popcorn nuggets and place them in a box and leave them in a cupboard sitting around 17degrees. Once they're good to go, I'll jar it. Day 1 it weighed 33g, Day 2=23g, Day 3=16g
I am hoping it'll end up about 7g (1/4)
Day 79, 1st plant now curing dried weight placed into the jar was 36g. 28g in large jar and 8g in the small one. The popcorn nuggets came in at 10g the rest of the plant came in at 26g. Leaves and stems kept for infusions eg butter, sunflower oil (contains LSA which when interacts with THC it intensify the THC). So far it's quite a nice smoke.
At least another week until the others maybe ready for harvest.
Day 80, the second (A) Ultimate has been harvested. Wet weight was 144g and it's layed out on the bottom of a cardboard box on my linen cupboard to dry for the next week. I'll periodically tussle them around to avoid the buds having flat sides. It'll be jarred for curing after that. Final weight will be put up at the end.
I was only expecting an Oz of dried product from each plant to be honest as I'm using reused potting mix and whatever nutrients and fertilizers I can find. So I am quite happy with what I am seeing so far. But all of this will be my evidence to my partner in why I need to invest in quality organic cannabis nutrients to be able to grow it to its fullest potential as I possibly can.
Day 84.
There is only 4 Ultimate Auto and 1 auto Gelato left.
Two of the ultimate will be ready by day 105. The next three weeks. The other 3 are doing great. One of the ultimate needs to be defoliated but that's about it.
Day 89.
The four remaining are now under one light as flowering continues.
One Ultimate and the Gelato are really starting to fatten up. The slower Ultimate is starting to take shape. And the third Ultimate I reckon is only a week or two tops before it's ready to harvest. At least I have weed for Christmas. Where I live, around this time of the year it's so hard to find and if you do it's overinflated and wet or too dry
Day 92. Now it's only the outdoor ones that were brought indoors left to grow. Two Auto Ultimate and the one Gelato Auto. Due to lights not being adjusted while I was away the top crown of the Gelato has fox tailed. But the rest hasn't been affected. It's not too bad as they aren't strung out, they look like buds that have been flatten.
Day 96. Gelato has been harvested. Just the two Auto Ultimate left. One of them is ready to harvest in 9 days while the other is still 4-6 weeks away still
The gelato has been harvested and is now curing at 28g
Day 100. The only Auto Ultimate left flowering, which I've just gone fuck it and bent branches out (HST)to bring more light into the plant. Let see if it's force more bloom? Trimmed off large leaves and leaves blocking light.
The other one is now harvested and hanging/drying.
Day 101 so far all bent branches are responding very well and quite quickly too.
Once dried it was 28g. Which is the minimum I was hoping for. No work was done on this plant.
Very frosted flowers, with a distinct taste on arrival followed by hours relaxing on the couch
Day 107. 5 days ago I did HST on this last plant. Now it's still thriving I only expect popcorn buds but not I know that HST can be done on these bigger autoflowering strains. 5% brown hairs, another week or two. Final weight will be calculated once this one has finished drying and ready to cure.
Day 109. In three days I will harvest this last plant. Once this has dried and before curing stage begins. The total mass will be announced. I am already very happy with the results at it is already more than I expected.
This room is going to be turned into a mushroom cultivating farm once it has been cleaned out and fully sanitised.
This strain is a great day time smoke, it's doesn't hit hard to put you on the couch. Definately a descent yeilding strain. Highly recommended for beginner grower and those who still like to go about their day to day while stoned