Week Summary
Well I came back from vacation this week and had to do some maintenance. My only worry at this point is that I may grow into my lights. I may have to improvise my light mounting a bit to accommodate. We'll see what happens.
Day 57
Still out of town, buds still building. But itβs a new week and I have high hopes for this week. Still triple digits outside, AC working overtime and humidity higher that I like.
Day 60
Last day before I return from Mexico. Things appear to be moving along nicely without me.
Day 62
Okay, Iβm back and there is a TON of work to do. These plants have absolutely grown like crazy while I was gone. Before I started this, I built a cabinet which was larger in every dimension than my tent I used the last two grows. With that tent, I had two grows with 2 plants and never completely filled the area. This grow however is in week 9 and Iβve exhausted every bit of space with 2 plants. Iβm certain this can be directly attributed to this being hydro (RDWC) instead of soil.
So today there was a lot of trimming done. I also raised the light and it just canβt go any higher than it is now. If Iβm going to have results like this moving forward, I may only grow a single plant using RDWC. Iβve SOGβd my enclosure with 2 plants.
Day 63
Plants are 9 weeks old today. Buds are building and after returning from vacation I had a LOT of work to do. Plants were trimmed yesterday and water was changed today. Iβve not grown an auto flower with as many buds as this one has. Weβll see if that is a good thing or not.
Iβm not sure how much more growth I can stand as weβre going to hit the lights if we go any higher with the plant on the right. Pics and weekly stats below:
PPM at end of week: 1280
Water temp: 70
Air temp: 72
pH: 5.8
Height: 38.5β
Distance from lamp: 9β
@sandspur, I truly love growing these weeds and I'm stuck at home because of my health so my fun is online talking about these beautiful plants. Happy growing my friend ππ±π»
@Cyrusdavirus,please don't apologize. I appreciate your input and typos happen all the time. Either way, I'm looking forward to it for a lot of reasons and I'm going to enjoy it sativa or indica dominant. Thanks again for the time you give others.
@sandspur, just went over there to double check and you are right it does say it's a sativa dominant strain. I haven't grown Seedsman's zkittles and actually can't remember who the breeders were but it was a little indica plant I remember because it was such a mix of pretty colored buds. Maybe what they crossed it with to make it autoflower is what makes it more sativa from the ones I grew π€ don't know sorry for the confusion π€·
@GmansGarden, thank you. It was but I've stripped it a bit this week. I want to keep it healthy but thin it out for the last part of the grow to give the buds max light. My update today will show it thinned out.
@sandspur, a great man once said " if your not killing plants , your not growing; if you don't push yourself past the limits you will never know how far you can go"
That being said it's always nice to try a new method and make it work !!!
@Cyrusdavirus, thank you. They are doing really well. The pictures just don't do it justice. This is my best grow to date. Not high on style points but substance is really good here.