1st grow in 25 years - CKS autoflowers!

SATURDAY: Well....I did it.. I really did it..I killed my best two plants! Sad but very excited. WW#1 is super sticky-icky, but doubly dank and dark. I had too much to do today to take photos and weigh all the parts and pieces, but her main cola, wet, weighed exactly 100g on my triple-beams. EM#1's main cola, wet, was 110g. She has a wonderfully rancid "odor" and will produce a little more than WW#1. I'm betting WW#1 is more whoopass, though. A few of EM#1's secondary colas weighed at least 85g. That's all I bothered to weigh today. I really don't get the point of taking the wet weight.. unless maybe you are just hoping to make a semi-accurate guestimate as to the eventual dry weight? I'd rather just wait the week or two and know how much it really weighs... EM#4 is ripe and ready. I'm gonna flush her tomorrow and let her bask in the UVB's for another day or two, then it's time for her to meet her maker. EM#2 isn't as crystally as I'd like, but she's running out of foliage, so I'm afraid she's not gonna have much more energy. I'd like to dose her with Cha Ching one more time and give her a few more days under the UVB's if possible. WW#2 is ripening well, but still has another week I'm betting. CC#1 - ditto EM#3 (Bush Bitch) - probably 10 days to two weeks CC#2 - ditto I guess I blew it by not starting my next wave of seeds a week or two earlier. I DO NOT like having unoccupied real estate in my main flowering tent. It's like an airline carrying 37 people from New York to L.A. I guess I just couldn't really fathom 9 weeks from seed to drying rack really being a possibility....wow, just wow...GROWING AUTO-FLOWERING VARIETALS IS SO EFFING COOL! Next year, I might shoot for 5 crops.😵 SUNDAY: Today was a busy day. I flushed EM#4 and did some pruning on all the older gals, mixed up 2 gal of late flower nutes for EM#2 and WW#2, then I mixed up 2.5 gal of mid-flowering nutes for EM#3, CC#1, and CC#2, and 1 gal of early flowering nutes for the new arrival to the big tent, "PE#1"..from my other diary. I'm really disappointed in my success rate on the new Candy Cane sprouts. They are either retarded and can't find "up", or they just petered out as soon as they germinated. 1 out of 4 emerged...which totally sux because I only got 2 of the first 3 of them I planted in June to grow...less than 50% success rate. 6 of the 7 new WW's came up and are growing well. So, that's just 7 total seedlings, plus the Pineapple Express girl that will occupy my 4' x 5' tent...stupid, stupid, stupid..I should have expected a shitty germination rate and procured more seeds. I think I'll try FIMing all of them this go-round since they'll have some extra "elbow room" to spread out. MONDAY 8/20: No new sprouts have emerged..😕 EM#4 begged and pleaded for another day in the "sun," so I relented. Last week I bought a little 20w Cree CXA1512 bulb that's 3000k at 93 CRI. Excellent flowering spectrum..very similar light to HPS, but just a fraction of the PAR. What's really cool is that it also registers a good bit of far red spectra, from 730-780nm! I've had that light about 10 inches away, and a 36w 660nm deep red bulb about 12 inches away, and a 12w 700nm/2700k flowering Miracle LED at about 10 inches away, and a 26w 15.0 UVB light about 6 inches away from her big twisted main cola for 24/7 for 3 days now. I alternate 4 on/4 off between the new Cree CXA bulb (far reds) and the 660nm (deep reds) and then all of them on together at "night"....and, of course, they are still getting the normal main lighting as well. Its really swelling up and practically dripping resin. It will become my new standard lighting regimen for "finishing" my ladies. I'll take a few photos before I kill her. TUESDAY: No new sprouts...😟 I harvested EM#4 today. Will yield maybe twice as much as EM#1 dry. Super sticky and super stinky. Kinda peppery odor. I lost my phone last week and my tablet is currently phukt, so no photos... My humidity was a little low and WW#1 and EM#1 were already about 80% dry, so I put them in some bigass jars with some bigass bovedas and am burping them for 10 minutes every 12 hours or so. WEDNESDAY: No new sprouts...😠!@#$% WW#2 and EM#2 are getting blasted with big blurple, 3000k, 3500k, 15.0 UVB, 660nm and 700nm deep reds, and 730nm-780nm far reds ;-) I'm really not seeing many amber trichs at all yet. It's looking like they'll get another few days in the mega-sun and maybe even another late flowering nutrient douche before I start flushing them. CC#1 seems to be in a major hurry..I'm seeing about 50% cloudy trichromes already and wow does she have a pungent aroma. EM#3 still fattening, but she will never be as densely budded as her sisters I'm afraid. Still, with so many flowers, it might produce a decent yield. THURSDAY: No new sprouts...😡!@#$% I flushed EM#2 and WW#2 with 3 gallons each of ph'd spring water and 2 tsp of bud candy per gallon. I'll let them dry out for a few more days under the mega-sun and harvest them if they are ready. If not..another little drinky-winky and off to the 'butcher' the next day or day after. I watered all the other girls with about a half-gallon each of ph'd water. I'll let WW#1 cure for another week before I sample it. When I burp her jars, the odor is like a very sour citrus fruit gone bad... I had a few tiny little branches of EM#1 that I didn't put in the hash trimmings sack, that had dried pretty quickly. I smoked it..no real taste, but I got a major "face high" with perma-grin. It needs to cure for a while. Smells kinda funky, but not very pungent. I need to get started recharging my soil pretty soon. I don't want the UPS driver hating on me but once a year from now on if I can help it. I've already obtained or am waiting on shipment of some really good stuff. This is my ingredients list: bokashi, probiotics, earthworm castings, bone meal, and biochar. I'm also gonna try mixing in some NFTG's One Shot granular fertilizer too. It's got some really good stuff in it. I planned to add my old soil to a big barrel, one pot at a time, and pour the appropriate amount of my magic composting mixture over it, add a quart or two of fresh Happy Frog/Ocean Forest/Coco Loco mix, mix it all up really well, add in another pot of the used soil...repeat....put a lid on the barrel out in the backyard in a sunny spot, and in about month it should be good to go...all the root material should be broken down completely and the microbes, bacteria, and fungi fully colonized. Now, though, I'm shopping for a compost tumbler. I'm thinking that one of those things would save me a lot of back-breaking mixing with the shovel...I'm just too old for that shit. As it is, this tent gardening is hell on my old knees. FRIDAY: WW#2 and EM#2 are gonna both be bigger and better than the #1's...so happy! EM#4 is about half-way dry. Going much slower than the first 2, so I'm optimistic that I'll end up with a better cure. It's such a fine line providing perfect temperatures, humidity, and airflow during the drying phase without also stinking up the whole house...I have the 6" carbon filter/inline fan running at all times in the big tent, a medium-room-size carbon filter/ionizer, an small ozone generator that kicks on for 5 minutes every 25 minutes, and 3 of those ionic fluorescent light bulbs on at all times...and I'm still lighting multiple candles. Started shopping for new genetics...looking at FastBuds and Sweet Seeds stuff for the next run. ....absolutely gorgeous..