Second Grow - Dutch Passion and Freebies

Both Moby Dick seeds sprouted, but the back right one seemed to grow much slower than the other one - it grew in 5 days what the first one did in 2 days. Both Lemon Kix put out their second set of true leaves.

The roots of all four plants were growing through the bottom of the seedling cups so it was time to transplant them into their final pots. I sprinkled the roots with Mykos mycorrhizae before transplanting them into 10 gal felt pots with the same soil mixture that was in the seedling cups. Dutch Passion's website suggested that their Lemon Kix Auto preferred a larger pot, so I figured I'd give it a shot. Let's see if it makes a difference. The back right Moby dick still lags behind the other three, which are growing pretty quickly.

All four plants continue growing well. Front right Moby Dick is now the same height as the Lemon Kix's, with the back left Lemon Kix bushing out the fastest.

Three plants grew over a foot in the first week of flowering. The slower Moby dick is still growing and looking healthy, just shorter and bushier than the front one. Are these freebies different seeds or was one just stunted for some reason? Let's find out. The Dutch Passion's are much more vigorous growers than the Moby Dick's with the rear Lemon Kix being two or 3 inches taller than the front Lemon Kix. I began some LST to start pulling lower branches out into the light a little more using soft wire.

I top dressed each plant with approx. 1 gal of worm castings with 9 tsp/gal Power Bloom, mixing it into the soil. I used about half the amount on the Moby Dick plants out of fears of burning them. All of the plants continue to grow well, with the rear Moby Dick about half the height of the other plants, but healthy looking in all other ways. The Lemon Kix plants are now wider than their 10 gal pots with so many flowering sites popping up. The two Moby Dicks are showing their differences a little more this week. The front plant is lankier with dark green leaves, where the rear plant is very bushy with light green leaves. Different pheno or different plant? Continued to pull lower branches away from the plants with soft wire.

The back left Lemon Kix seems to be developing its flowers faster while the front Lemon Kix is still growing vertical (now the tallest by a few inches) and developing its flowers a few days slower. The smell has been getting stronger the last couple weeks. The Lemon Kix smell mostly of skunk and funk with their flowers smelling very lemony. The Moby Dick are lighter and more floral smelling.

Defoliated a few fan leaves to open up flowering sites to light. Plants continue to look healthy. Strong skunk smell when the tent door is open.

The slower plants seem to have stopped growing vertically and are now focusing on flower development. The flowers of the FR Moby Dick are fattening nicely.

I top dressed all but the front right Moby Dick with the same mixture I have fed in the past - 9 tsp Power Bloom and 3 tsp All Purpose per gallon of planting material, along with maybe 2 cups of organic worm castings per plant. Everything seems to be going well. Still watering about 1 gallon per plant every two or three days at 6.3 - 6.5 pH. Pruned a few leaves off of the plants to open up a few more flowering sites. The more developed Moby Dick has been pretty much hands-off this entire grow outside of waterings and feedings. I think I've only pruned 5 leaves off of it thus far.

The two more developed plants are really starting to fill their trichromes. The top flower on the front right Moby Dick is the biggest in the tent at approx. 3.5 inches in diameter, appears very dense, and still smells sweet and floral. I'm beginning to believe both Moby Dicks are in fact the same plants, but one is definitely an odd ball. You can see in two of the photos of this week that there's one stem on the rear Moby Dick that is putting out much darker green, almost shiny flowers that look identical to the front Moby Dick. I'm a new grower but is having a single stem on a plant that's different than the rest of the plant common? The front Moby Dick despite being taller and less bushy is covered in the darker green, thick leaves that are almost shiny under the lights.

Flushed the front right Moby Dick with 7.0 pH tap water this week before harvesting. Everything in the tent is getting frostier and frostier. I think the front left Lemon Kix is turning purple because of the low pH and/or because of the intensity/closeness of the light. I've been running between 40% and 50% power on the light this entire grow and has been at its highest height for a few weeks now.

Harvested the front left Moby Dick last week, making room for a few veggies in the tent - lettuce, scarlet kale, and spinach. Still flushing the rear Lemon Kix @ 7.0 pH - she seems to be fading pretty quickly. I haven't noticed any amber trichromes but all of her buds are very fat and frosty. Will probably harvest her next week.

Harvested the BL Lemon Kix January 19. Top dressed the remaining two plants @7 tbsp Power Bloom, 3 Tbsp All Purpose per plant. The FL Lemon Kix's buds are fattening up noticeably this week. Neither plant showing amber trichromes, but fading does seem to have started. FL LK has also started to lean from the weight of her buds so I tied her main stem to a tent rail.

The remaining Lemon Kix continued with her unruliness and had to be further restrained. Buds on both plants continue to grow and ripen with no amber trichromes in sight. Added a humidifier to the tent to boost the humidity above the 35% I have been experiencing this past week. The tent smells very skunky.

The skunk smell within the tent has gotten even stronger this week. I've just started to notice a few amber trichromes making their appearance on the main colas - will probably harvest later in the week after a couple flushes.

Front Right Moby Dick Auto This plant produced some nice looking, but pretty airy buds. Flowers are very frosty, and sweet smelling, just not very dense. The plant probably should have been harvested ~a week before it was and didn't take very long to dry even in a stable drying environment of 55% humidity and 67 degrees Fahrenheit. Back Right Moby Dick Auto This seemed like a different pheno than the first Moby Dick Auto I harvested. The smell is sweet and pleasant, but the plant is shorter with much better lateral growth. Many of the side shoots grew to nearly the same height as the main cola, with flowers stacked in much the same pattern no matter the branch location. The dried buds were comparable to the larger Lemon Kix in terms of density - better than some, but not exactly hard. That being said, the buds are packed full of trichromes and should lead to a good quality smoke. I have only tried the first harvest Moby Dick Auto so far (front right). It feels mostly like a sativa, but not quite as uplifting as the Lemon Kix. The high is more couchlock but pleasant. I will update on the second plant once it's had a little time to cure.

The buds were a mix of green and purple at time of harvesting. The largest flowers were a little smaller than tennis balls pre-drying and smelled more sweet and lemony with only a hint of skunk. The first plant dried for a total of 9 days before trimming and jarring. The lower buds were somewhat airy, but more dense than the other autoflowers I've grown in the past. Despite the slight airiness, the buds were packed with trichromes. The second Lemon Kix harvested was a larger plant that took a week and a half longer to finish. This plant had longer branches with more numerous, but slightly smaller flowers that were in general more dense than the shorter previously-harvested Lemon Kix plant. Once in jars both plants smell very similar - very lemony and sweet with a hint of skunk undertone. This is definitely a daytime smoke. After a week of curing, the buds still smell sweet and lemony with a background note of skunk. This definitely feels like the most potent strain I've grown in my limited time as a grower. The effects are immediate, relaxing but also uplifting, and quite long lasting. Taste is sweet and not harsh at all. For me, it's a very pleasant feeling that I would highly recommend. For being a new grower, trying to learn and improve, I am over the moon with having grown a pound of weed from four autos indoors. I don’t know which part of this grow helped the most or if everything just clicked and worked well together. This is my first time growing anything using only dry amendments and I’m not sure I’ll ever use anything else. Follow the directions on the Gaia Green package, make sure your plant is ready for feeding, mix it in, and let the plant do the rest - how easy. Dutch Passion did not disappoint with the quality. Auto Lemon Kix is definitely a great strain that I can’t recommend highly enough. I’m looking forward to a spring/summer grow outdoors with photoperiod seeds and a bit more knowledge and experience.