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Small pot on windowsill. Transfered to final pot once first proper leaves emerged. The photo shows the larger pot placed in a garden incinerator - this will be used to help keep plant warm and surrounded with light from the reflective interior.
Started with just the 18w LEDs 5500k (kitchen under cabin strip LEDs) arranged in a spiral on the inside of the top of a large bottle, and placed 2" from plant.
Moved to grow tent. Incinerator bin proved useful and would have been fine to continue the grow under larger CFLs but night time temps dropping and so HPS was brought in to solve both light and heat requirements.
I noticed leaves yellowing, mainly the lower fan leaves but also some further up the plant. PH was checked for the first time and is way too high 8+. Sort to remedy this with a mix of apple cider vinegar and water reading about 5-6. This was give in place of usual water.
Light burn on main cola, but more concerning is the plant is continuing to turn yellow and the promising looking buds are not fattening. Rechecking PH reveals its still too high, so added extra holes to pot (which may have been retaining too much of what should have been running off) I've flushed with 6.4ph mineral water (5litres) and not sure if anything else can be done at this stage.
PH is now under control and with two big flushes performed last week I think the neut build up is gone. I just hope the plant can still bulk up the buds!
I've taken some more yellow leaves off from the colas. 50%+ of pistils have turned orange, seems to be flowering more white pistils from the tops of the buds, not sure if this is due to too much light?
Hey pal.
So, wk 10 is when your fattening phase ended or thereabouts.
With autos is usually 6-7 weeks of flowering (that's from pre flower to full ripen) i see, you had a light stall, by the purple under your leafs you had p issues, which made your progress take a little longer. She did recover very nicely though, so, I don't see why it should do anything than it's already done. (Slowed process) the ripening phase wasn't interrupted and she looks to have came a long way the past week. I see she is very frosty, and just by zooming in I can see she is completely cloudy, or what I can see.
If it was me, I'd put her into a soft flush..(allow her to eat what's left in the pot, without adding anymore)
Here's 1 of my BM on ripening.. mainly down to fems but, the process is the same, just shorter. This will help. As ripeness can play a big part in how she tastes and harshness wise and that.
Have a look. It's interesting read.
But, I'd defo not be giving her anything else to eat, as that girl has had her fill, now it's just about getting it the way your like your bud.
https://www.edrosenthal.com/the-guru-of-ganja-blog/the-cannabis-ripening-process
Good Luck buddy.
Nearly there now, pistils have mostly turned orange, but the trichomes seem slow to turn - I'm waiting more turning milky without too many turning Amber. It seems hard to tell if they are clear or milky even with the macro lens photos.
So near to harvest but still not seeing enough trichomes turning milky and amber. This part of the grow has to be the most agonising! Ive removed more yellow leaves from the buds and increased the amount of time the light is off (now 9hrs of total darkness).
light powers growth.. less light = less development (assuming not too much given relative to environment, of course). Only reduce hours of light if it is displaying symptoms of too much light.
autos don't require a hormonal response to extended dark periods.. it will do nothing for an autoflower.
photoperiods only go into bloom if the dark period is uninterrupted and long enough (10hours is when most wuold bloom, even though we use 12/12 cycles more often... just safer in case of genetic variation. 13/11 is safe too. But, if you provide "max" DLI relative to your environment and stage of plant life cycle, then it doesn't matter if it i s 12 hours or 13 hours or 18 hours of light while doing it.) Anyway, this causes a feedback loop in the plant to trigger a change to bloom phase... autos simply do it on a biological timer. no extended dark period, no hormonal feedback loop involved, therefore, no effect on an autoflower flowering/ripening. Might lose some insignificant % of yield, though... a short period of time with a little less light can't have a huge effect.
Week 7 saw yellowing of leaves start, things got worst by week 9 with all leaves turning yellow. I'm starting to suspect that the plant has died and that the trichomes are not going to mature any further due to this - do I crop now?
So my first grow started well, went off the rails in the middle and could have easily ended a lot worse. The seed I used was an Auto Jack which was given to me by a friend. The plant just about survived until the end dispite my attempts to frazzle it with the HPS light, poison it with high PH, and generally over water it and feed it too much Miracle-Gro and Tomatoe feed. Overall I'm happy that it produced some decent sized buds which smell devine. I'm really glad I started this diary and appreciate the support I've received along the way, the knowledge and experience I've gained will be put into my next grow. See you soon growmies.
@KingSalomonsWeed, Thanks for the replies, I've flushed again two days after first flush. PH is looking better: 7, I've applied a weak tomato feed after the flush. I will stick to just water from now. Maybe a few more flushes as well.
@KingSalomonsWeed,
Should I just continue with another flush, I'm concerned I'll be taking away nutrients that the plant wasn't absorbing whilst PH was so high?
Thank you to all who have taken time to reply. I need to get better at editing the diary! The pot is around 6litres and the HPS light is 300mm from the top of the plant. Light schedule is 19/5.
The main problem seems to be the type of pot I used and the lack of appreciating the importance of PH. The pot had recessed drain holes which effectively trapped all the silty runoff inside the lower 2" of the pot along with all the nutrients I've given the plant (mirical Grow for veg and tomato food for flowering). Any run off that made it out of the pot sat around in a small dish below the pot.
To remedy I installed a large plastic tray covering whole of tent base and drilled holes at the base of the plant pot. A couple of flushes have now been performed and now the PH is better (7). I've given her a very weak feed of tomato food, but will probably stick to water from now on. Any tips on how frequently I should flush would be appreciated. Thanks.
Hallo, deine Trichs photos sind toll. Sie brauch aber noch etwas Zeit. Wenn du ihr helfen möchtest kannst du ihr alle gelben Blätter abmachen.
Hat 2 zwei Vorteile:
Nimmt keine Energie mehr weg, Nährstoffe und es kommt mehr Licht an die Pflanze. Einfach eng am Stiel abschneiden.
@GreenGnome, ja, sie ist dann kurz vor der Ernte. Es freut mich sehr zu hören das dir das Ergebnis gefällt.
So growe ich auch.
Und auf deine Ernte bin ich schon gespannt, die sieht richtig gut aus.
@KingSalomonsWeed, I greatly appreciate your guidance during this grow. I've followed your advice and given her a 'hair cut'. She's had only plain water for the last 3 weeks and she smells amazing! I've noticed that she's been drinking less water this week - is that normal?
Well I got tired of waiting for the trichomes to change to all cloudy plus 10-20% Amber. For the last two weeks it wasn't really changing and also wasn't taking much water at all. It held up well to the abuse I handed it. From over watering and over feeding, to burning the top with the light and the bottom with high PH, it thankfully provided me with some half decent buds. I'll update with weights after the dry. Thanks to everyone who posted or answered my stupid questions! I can go into my next grow with some very valuable experience and advice. Thank you.
GreenGnome
