Runtz Auto

Although both plants are small, it looks like they are going to produce a decent amount after all. The leaf spotting problem never really resolved itself, but it's also not getting worse. I lowered water pH to 6.2 last time and 6.0 the most recent time that I watered. It's kind of weird that the little one is about 2-3 weeks behind the larger one. I don't know if that's just how autoflowers work or if the delay was the result of my mistakes. Maybe it will end up producing a lot. I topped the small one a few weeks ago, and the center of the plant is very crowded right now. Lesson learned: I think that autoflowers with good genetics grow so fast and start needing flowering nutrients so quickly that there is less room for error than I'm used to. The plant doesn't have time to adapt (especially if you transplant early like I had to--I should have gone from seed in the Earthbox.). I had a combination of overwatering and underwatering problems right after the transplant and right before the plant transitioned to flower. What you want with the Earthbox is for the plant to have become totally comfortable in its environment before the transition to flower. The transition happened so fast with this strain (Day 24) that it had to be transplanted around the same time as the transition to flower. Problems cascaded from poor initial conditions.