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100% germination. I planted one of the ES seeds direct and it was just a small bit behind the others. The freebie seed Blackberry Cake might not do well in this climate but see how it goes. Inside for now.
Bit of stress this week while I was moving them outside. Not much progress. Weather is unusually miserable this year. Some are in grow bags. Also have some to plant straight in the ground.
One early skunk going strong, one is struggling, one was eaten across the stem by something. The blackberry cake isn't going to make it in this climate - something has also been eating at the stem. Have put down organic slug repellent and put traps down.
Been in and out of hospital so haven't given them the attention they need. Blackberry cake didn't survive as expected. One early skunk is going great and the other is much smaller and struggling. Haven't given them extra nutrients. Just watering sparsely.
Slugs got at it this week. Have left pellets down and took it away from the thick vegetation. I'm guessing that the plant is flowering now? Any advice appreciated.
Very easy to grow, didn't get loads of watering by me and only a couple with liquid fertilizer towards the end. She was outdoors with no shelter from 4 weeks. One or 2 buds lost to mold. Very happy with the outcome. 25 grams after drying and trimming.
@Dinka11,be careful with the grow bag, last year I grew 30 autos, I'd only just discovered them and couldn't quite believe that plants could be ready so quickly, anyway, as I grew so many of them I experimented with different growing mediums, my conclusions were that most of them didn't like a rich compost such as a grow bag or a compost with slow release fertiliser in it such as osmocote, 1 of the northern lights was close to being burnt to death with nitrogen toxicity with all the classic symptoms, leafs looking like claws and a very dark blue green colour, apart from that they were very easy to grow, with all the things that people on this site were saying like not to top them etc was all garbage, the best results I got outside was by topping the plants at the 4 or 5 internode those plants got me 40 or so grams per plant, the ones I allowed to do their own thing was on average 14 grams less per plant, good luck 😁
@Gorillagardener, I've started putting them outside a few hours a day. Hopefully they'll be outside full time this weekend. Have grow bags to transplant them to
@Dinka11,hey sorry for the late reply, this site seems to have stopped sending me notifications 🤔anyway your doing a good job won't be long before you're enjoying the fruits of your labours
Big fan leaves generally start to look like that at this of flowering not too much to worry about really, the rot on the other hand, cut it off immediately and check the rest of the plant carefully, apart from that, she's looking sweet
The first pic looks lovely, if remove all the vegetation from underneath give her as much space as possible, the plants underneath will transpire (move water through systems, this will increase the humidity around your little lady, you don't really want that to happen
They are just about done, if you haven't already cut them down it's time to get them drying, same for me with the weather it's rained here almost every day for the last 2 weeks, oh joy I dread to think what my plants look like
@Dinka11,the last time I seen my plants I'd forgotten my phone to take pictures but I was picking off bits of rot! 😕Since then it's just rained almost all the time and the humidity has been in the 90's I'm going to try and see them this morning before I start work, enjoy your holiday, I'm also off on holiday in the next week if it ever stops raining
@Gorillagardener, have it drying nearly a week now. I'll post up the weight in a few weeks. I'm off on a holiday in the meantime. I hope yours are going well I'm always checking for updates
Looks good, your little lady is flowering well, feeding autos proved to be tricky, some of them dealt with it well, others not so good, this years window grow I fed nothing at all as it always looked on the verge of nitrogen overload (a blue green look to the leaves, so essentially it was growing in a low feed compost and managed to grow well enough)havi g said that I'd consider a half strength high potash feed to see how that goes (tomorite or somethingike that) on the slugs, if your lady is in a pot the copper tape you can buy works really well, it gives the slugs or snails an electric shock so they will not cross it, happy days
@Gorillagardener, yes for that reason I was afraid to give fertiliser. I have some tomato food I'll try some today. Ok thanks I'll try the copper tape too. Thanks again for the advice.
Plants are looking nice e out in the sun, re the autos for outside in our climate, on the sensi seeds site you can select for a cool.climate (just in case you didn't know this) last year I didn't know this and wasted a lot of time growing plants that grew happily until they started to flower and as they started to look and smell nice simply rotted in the wonderfully wet Welsh summer
I thought early skunk would be a good choice(the blackberry cake was a free seed) . Hopefully the second one bounces back. Just have to stay trying to keep slugs away. I've 3 other seeds germinated from real gorilla seeds.
Dinka11
