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Auto Jack - First ever grow!

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Germination
2 years ago
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.
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Week 1. Vegetation
2 years ago
24 hrs
24 °C
No Smell
45 %
18 °C
5 L
10 cm
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.
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Week 2. Vegetation
2 years ago
24 hrs
75 °C
No Smell
45 %
64 °C
1 L
2 cm
Added 28w CFL 6500k. Mirical Grow (weak) along with tap water.
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Week 3. Vegetation
2 years ago
24 hrs
75 °C
No Smell
45 %
64 °C
1 L
2 cm
Mirical Grow roughly every 4 days. Water every day. Probably too much water. So by end of week gave a couple of no water days.
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Week 4. Vegetation
2 years ago
24 hrs
75 °C
No Smell
45 %
64 °C
1 L
2 cm
Starting to see pistils emerging on the main trunk. Not sure if this is classed as officially the flowering stage yet?
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Week 5. Flowering
2 years ago
24 hrs
75 °C
No Smell
45 %
64 °C
1 L
2 cm
Changed to 150w HPS. Feeding with tomato food!
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Week 6. Flowering
2 years ago
24 hrs
35 °C
Normal
45 %
64 °C
1 L
2 cm
Maybe a bit late but I panicked and did some LST using string and drilling holes in rim of pot.
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Week 7. Flowering
2 years ago
24 hrs
27 °C
Normal
45 %
64 °C
1 L
2 cm
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.
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Week 8. Flowering
2 years ago
24 hrs
27 °C
Normal
45 %
64 °C
1 L
2 cm
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.
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Week 9. Flowering
2 years ago
24 hrs
27 °C
Normal
45 %
64 °C
1 L
2 cm
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.
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GreenGnome
GreenGnomestarted grow question 2 years ago
Yellow leaves (even sugar leaves). Is this normal this stage in the grow? The buds don't appear to be fattening.
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Buds. Not fattening
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Youthmananswered grow question 2 years ago
Ciao! Non penso sia una carenza, ma al contrario un burn! Controlla il pH e ppm dell'acqua di scolo e aggiornaci!
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Week 10. Flowering
2 years ago
165 cm
23 °C
6.5
Normal
55 %
20 °C
6 L
1 L
30 cm
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!
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Week 11. Flowering
2 years ago
70 cm
18 hrs
23 °C
6.5
Normal
58 %
18 °C
6 L
1 L
30 cm
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?
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GreenGnomestarted grow question 2 years ago
It's probably the most asked question (I guess): Do you think she's ready for harvesting.?
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Buds. Other
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gottagrowsometimeanswered grow question 2 years ago
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.
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Week 12. Flowering
2 years ago
70 cm
18 hrs
29 °C
7
Strong
30 %
27 °C
6 L
1 L
30 cm
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.
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Week 13. Flowering
2 years ago
70 cm
15 hrs
29 °C
7
Strong
30 %
27 °C
6 L
1 L
30 cm
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).
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GreenGnome
GreenGnomestarted grow question 2 years ago
Should I increase dark period to 12 hrs (or more)? Is there any evidence this helps autos in the late flowering stage?
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Sciolistic_Steveanswered grow question 2 years ago
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.
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GreenGnomestarted grow question 2 years ago
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?
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iLoveGoodWeedanswered grow question 2 years ago
Havrest her ASAP mate as all the leaves are yellow the plant is dying
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Week 13. Harvest
2 years ago
Happy Harvest Day!
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Spent 93 days
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245 g
Bud wet weight per plant
1
Plants
0.5
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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.
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