GELATO 2

Not much growing on here. Started nutes, raised light up to get a little strech outta them, seeing good growth, nice color, should be a fun 9 weeks! Morels will be showing up in 30ish days! Happy gro folks!

First autos I've grown, they seem to grow faster than photo. Stalks are growing thick, fast, node spacing is good, Im not topping but I will lst that top down and branches in time to try for a level canopy. I got my lst shit ready to go. Color seems good, looks healthy so far. I did update my substrate temps after double checking them today. That soil is much cooler 4" deep. Kind like me watching for the morel mushroom progress, we are a few weeks away still, right at 50, need upper 50's. Happy grow folks!

Seeing a couple of issues with the leaf tip curls. I might have caused that 😂. Last feeding was a little heavy with nutes and a gallon of water. Ill back off of that to 3/4. The 7 gallon pots take a good amount just to get runoff, I usually see it at 3/4 gallon, and maybe lights too close. Raised light up to 22", plucked a few of the first leaves off, I guess I need to swap bulbs to hps soon, need to research that. Happy grow folks!

She is coming along pretty good, seems to stretching more than the other 3 but kinda string bean looking, not dense, swapped over to hps bulb, I guess that is what to do with autos. Did that on 19th. Im seeing early signs of flower, lil bud starts showing up. I hope theres still alot of growing left, like a good stretch. I tried a gallon of water at a time, up from 1/2 gallon. Seems to be a bit much by the reaction, lots of run off. I will prolly stick with 3/4 and see how that goes. Happy gro folks!

This girl is like Z2 in shape, I guess the right side grows taller, it sits beside her sister, maybe the germ process was slower... Oh well things are going good with her, getting on with the stretch, filling in better. Buds to come, starting to see flowering signs. Happy gro folks!

Gave her a good clean up going into flower. Removed bottom growth that has no chance at producing. Seems to be happy with 1/2 gallon of water every 3 days, alternating nutes. Soil dries good, not much if any run off. Stretch is big, big big. Flowering is showing up. Happy gro folks!

Day 52..shes doing great, i shattered my right wrist yesterday, surgery monday..smack dab in morel mushroom season...happy gro folks!

Day 58. Another 8" stretch week 😶. She is kicking right along, was a lil slow getting to show buds but picking up the pace now. Not sure how much defoil i want to do now, might just let her do her thing. Broken wrist turned into plates n screws, nerve block was a first, very cool technology. Woke up from surgery, no pain. Block wore off, holy shit pain. Ate 7 hydrocodones in 24 hours. That was monday, 4 days later and very lil pain, been chasing the great morel mushrooms since tuesday. A bit slow, no way can i trip and fall, so im careful. Ticks suck. Happy grow folks!

Day 67. Doing good so far, she is a twin to my zkittles 2 which means i got the seeds mixed up. Trimmed her up , should be ready to pick around day 90. Buds need to fatten or they gonna be tiny. Arm is healing, cast comes off tuesday, not sure if new one replaces but being RH and having that in a full cast is a challenge. Morels are still popping up but we need rain or they will go away fast. Happy gro folks!

Day 72. She is the tallest, wished I had not miss labeled the seeds, shes either zkittlez or gelato tho! Buds are starting to swell up, hope that keeps up for another week or so. Supposed to be a 90 day grow, so she should start fading soon. Looks pretty good to me, just small compared to photos. Picking a few leaves here and there, got a new cast on my arm too, shorter so I can bend my elbow, 4 weeks to wait. Happy grow folks!

Had to re do week, for some reason I had veg is growing stage selected. Day 80. She is the best looker of them all. The sticky buds are hard to work around, just not much mass to them. Looking pretty nice, buds are frosty and sticky. Smelling fruity, fade starting to come on too. Harvest will be within 10 days, trichs are cloudy mostly, Buds are not very big compared to photos, the scale will be interesting. Happy grow folks!

Day 87. Almost positive she is a zkittles, not a gelato. This sweet lady is doing well, smell is more fruit loops with the zkittles. Trichs are full on cloudy. First signs of amber and it will be harvest time. Buds are super frosty and tight, lil bit of foxtail. The sample I took of her was outstanding. Cant wait for a cured product now. I found out I have a super lumens on my digital ballast. So Ive been running it on that setting to finish her up. Happy gro folks!

Day 93. She is real close, gonna be the first one to go, cloudy all over but no amber yet. Buds are crazy sticky, Smell is very strong fruity. Waiting for amber to show up and she will be cut. Got started on final outdoor plants, my weed eating chi dog loves to supercrop what he can reach.. Happy gro folks!

Day 101. This girl is ready to go hang. Very little amber, buds are rock hard. She is a twin to my Zkittles 2 lady, so thats says no good for my organizing skills huh... Lots of purple, smell is fruityish I guess, Im not the best at smelling smells the way others smell. Her colas are really nice, I hope they cure up and finish that way. Foxtailing is crazy enough for me to stop her. Hope she weighs in decent. Hope I figure out the strain issue too 😑Happy gro folks!

103 days from germ, harvested on 6-5-23. Looks like dry is gonna be 115 grams. So between the 4 autos, I got 15 1/2 ounces, I was hoping for right about that too. 1/4 lb auto dry and cure seems ok. LED and dwc buckets for my next grow. I cant wait to enjoy a LED power bill for once. Happy grow folks!