COPA Ancient OG F3

grew the 3 babies and took leaf samples and sent them off

tossed the two male plants, then transplanted the female into a new bigger home. she was becoming a bit rootbound in the coffee cup, seems happier already.

plant recovered from transplant well and became happier. topped the plant, it is recovering from the haircut now. attempting to root the removed-top, a friend of mine wants a copy.

finally gave them fertilizer and they went a little nuts. needs to be a long veg cycle due to planned vacation, I don't want flowering plants while I am at the beach. will allow it to grow out some more, before pruning back again

topped the plant again. not much else to say, plant is actually growing fast... just pruning back heavily when i top, i need it in veg for another month.

plant is drinking a lot more. let it dry out a bit too much again, i will try to water it more than once a week now. accidentally broke one of the mains completely yesterday when bending. it wilted for a few hours but now is standing back up. it is now smaller and behind all the rest...

Set up blumats, to try them out for vacation. Topped the plant again before i left.

wasn't here this week, blumats watered the plant. it was really thirsty and a bit rough-looking, watered it 1.5 gallons when i got back and it perked up later

Now that i'm back, can try to move this plant along. I'm trying to stretch her out horizontally a bit.

been keeping her alive throughout vacations. i've tried to guide branches out sideways to use up all the tent. gonna flip before she gets too tall.

plant is in stretch phase. took a bit for me to dial things in with the new light, but i think (fingers crossed) that its under control. drinking a gallon of water every other day.

I think the stretch is slowing down. The stalks are starting to thicken up. During week 2, the plant required 1 gallon a day water or it would start to wilt. Already this weekend I see 1 gallon not enough so I'm gonna have to give it more, becoming a bit inconvenient :) But at the same time, I like the fact it is not growing completely out of control and into the lights.

The upward stretch is slowing down, buds everywhere. I also ramped up light intensity with the dimmer this week. This light is powerful for this tent! I had to increase watering to 1.25 gallons a day to keep her happy. I only give tiny amounts of nutrients when feeding, to insure against deficiencies. I still see soil mites chomping away at organic stuff in there, so I think feeding may be unnecessary, I will try to backoff further. The plant is starting to produce frost but it doesn't yet really stink in there.

all branches leaning, added another net to hold stuff in place. struggling a bit to keep up with the plant's water and nutrient demands. topdressed the soil with dolomite lime to get the PH stable, will add more to soil mix next time.

pistils started changing color this week and the buds began to fill out more. the amount of frost continues to steadily increase.

Nothing much to say, just trying to keep her fed and watered. In general the leaves are all green and happy, a little tip burn from too much food at one point. A friend helped water while I was away over the weekend, I just dimmed down the lights so it wouldn't drink so much to make it easier.

I know the flowers are maturing because it just smells louder every day :) They are still drinking a crazy amount of water, so the plant must be doing something. I mostly just feed them a mix of the two jack's at this point. Occasionally add small amount of epsoms or cal-mag to prevent any issues.

Just coasting along. Shouldn't have much longer to go.

Mostly out of town for the last week. Came back to the plant begging for the chop and harvested it.

I had a couple plans of things to try for this grow: * grow a strain bred for the outdoors, but indoors. * grow a single plant in the tent, so it wouldn't compete with other plants. * grow regular seeds instead of feminized seeds: expands strain selection, reduce hermaphrodites, support local business. * use mostly organic nutrients for the grow (partial success). * upgrade to a stronger 300w light from my previous 150w light. For the strain, I originally picked out and bought COPA's Project 25 strain, but received this Ancient OG F3 as a freebie with it and changed my mind. It is originally a Bodhi strain but then bred for the outdoors by Motherlode and COPA. They have awesome pictures of outdoor monsters on insta. All seeds germinated easily, and I used a local DNA testing service to detect and remove the males, while they were still babies in solo cups. Really cool option for convenience, will use again. Used fox farms ocean forest + perlite + DE as the soil mix. For future grows, I will be adding dolomite lime! Overall soil did ok and the plant filled entire pot with its root system. I fed the soil espoma dry amendments and earthworm castings. Had quite a few earthworms wriggling through my soil the entire grow. Unfortunately experienced some acidification: flushed and bailed on organic nutrients, in order to contain it. Ultimate fix for the PH issue was dolomite lime, it seems to be a common issue with this soil. I had to plan the flowering around some holidays, so I wanted a slow veg. Pruned the plant in the mainlining-style for 32 tops, then stretched out with a trellis. If I could do the grow over, I would have topped one last time for 64 tops, instead of stretching. Each round of topping, I would let the plant grow 2 or 3 extra nodes out, then prune back. In Veg this was happening on a weekly basis. During flowering I brought the light up to 100%, which is very intense light levels for this small tent. I didn't know how much the plant would stretch and tried to reduce it as much as possible with light levels and temps. Flowering required watering and feeding twice a day to keep up with the plant's demands at these levels. If I had to leave for the weekend, i'd dim the light so that the plant drank slower, so my neighbor could water only once a day. Harvesting was a lot of work, at every step. I watered the plant before harvesting in order to slow down the dry. I left the shade leaves on the plant as well, removing them would have been too much additional work. I hung branches at 65F/50% with about 6 days, removed the buds into paper bags for about 1.5 days. Buds are now trimmed and stabilized in jars at 60%.