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Soaked seeds in filtered water for 24 hours, then transferred to peat pellets. The Zkittlez all germinated with no problem, the Gelato weren't as luck, only got 2 out of the 5. Not a problem, as it looks like 7 plants will be plenty for my 2x4 tent.
Transferred peat pellets into 3 gallon cloth containers. Everything looks great, the girls look happy and healthy. Started introducing Cal-Mag and Big Bloom nutrients as suggested.
Introduced Grow Big this week. I forgot to get pictures of this week, so these photos are from the very beginning of week 2. They stretched a lot this week, as you will see in next week's photos. So excited!! I cannot believe how fast these autos are growing.
The girls have started getting bushy! And they are starting to smell like fresh plants with a hint of dank. Some plants have dried leaves (mostly towards the bottom). One of the plants has shiny spots all over the fan leaves, not sure what it's from. Watering each plant with half a gallon every 3 days. Added cardboard boxes at the bottom of the short plants to even out the canopy. Weird how one is really stretching, but the others aren't. I thought they would all be short, am I doing something wrong?
Decided to defoliate since it's getting too crowded but everything looks healthy.
Does anyone have any experience with autoflowers that stretch? My tallest one is already up to 36 inches. The shortest one is 18 inches and bushy, like I was expecting.
This was a stressful week. I thought autoflowers were supposed to be short!!?!? We added a net to help weigh down the branches and keep them as far from the light, but we're running out of space. Has to start turning down the light as the flowers were growing too close and I don't want them to burn. Still getting around 700-800 ppfd at the canopy, which I think is good. Did a ton of defoliation through the week to keep the packed tent's air flow at a decent rate. We sacrificed a plant to the cana gods in hopes of a good harvest. (It was way too packed with 7 plants.)
Started to experience some light/LED burn on the top fan leaves closest to the light. It's def not nutrient burn, or the bottom leaves would be showing as well. Backed off the light intensity some, should fix the issue. Also backed off the nutrients just a little to be safe. Had to start some HST, or bending branches to keep them as low as possible. It's a mess... LMAO! We should've done this much sooner. I didn't think any training was necessary, but I will always train from now on!
Didn't get any photos this week, nutrients are the same, and we've been trying to keep the plants away from the light as best we can. We've been using string to tie down branches and slowly lower them each day. The buds did fatten up a lot this week, see next week for results.
Backed off nutrients this week since we plan to harvest in the next 1-2.5 weeks. Read that cooler temps help with the colors, so we reduced the max temperature, so it's now around 75-80 degrees.
Is it necessary to flush an organic autoflower grow at the end of flowering, before harvest? I've read contradictory things online, so I'm not sure.
Any other suggestions for my grow/setup are appreciated.
chuck flushing doesnt get anything out of the buds. its impossible to get stuff out of flower tissue just by giving the plant plain water for a week or two and your bud quality will not improve because of a flush. its not about name calling or anything as you can see from comments anectodal evidence proves it as well as studies. now i’d be willing to reconsider my stance if you or someone else can provide even a semi scientific study or something that backs up flushing but that cant happen because it doesnt exist. mostly because its so bro science that real scientists will not even take the time to do a study on it.
do you know any plant thats being flushed by its growers other than cannabis? i dont know any plant on earth that requires flushing. would you eat flushed lettuce or would flushed tomatoes taste better or grow better? do they flush tobacco even? thats a smokeable plant so maybe flushing would get those carcinogens out?
nothing has to get flushed other than shit buds grown by overfeeding bottle addicts and even then i’d suggest down the toilet as an appropriate flushing technique. if someones plants smell like chemicals during curing its nasty buds which i’m not even gonna touch let alone smoke it and there is not much you can do to get those chemicals out of your buds except maybe a water cure.
with that said i’m all for a natural fade. so dont overfeed during veg and flower and slowly taper down feeding starting from the mid weeks of flowering to achieve a natural fade at the end and then your buds will smell like candy and fruit and flowers and not like chemicals. nasty nasty stuff.