LSD-25 Auto

Day 57: I was away for a couple days last week, and she didn't like it at all. There are discolorations in some of the larger fan leaves, resulting in a nutrient deficiency of some sort, but she hasn't slowed down any since getting her usual routine. Her friend, Miss Green Crack Auto is the same age, and handled the mini-drought perfectly fine. Today is the first day we are able to see some pistils turning orange. Compared to other grows of this cultivar, I should be close to about 2 weeks away from harvest. Possibly a little sooner. This plant is doing very well, developing buds that are fairly dense by the looks of it. All this considering this is 1 of 2 of my first autoflowers, and decided to let them grow untrained. Also, it likes it very close to the Mars Hydro FC3000. Its main cola is only 6 inches away from the light at 100% intensity. It doesn't have a problem with that one bit, however, the Green Crack Auto friend of her's likes a lot less photon intensity (PPFD). I am really looking forward to this harvest. Carefully inspecting the buds, they look well developed and no signs of hermaphroditism as with my previous 3 harvests. This might actually be the first indoor harvest that I don't have to make oil out of. So far, I would go as far as to say that this has been the easiest cultivar to grow. There are a lot of easy strains, and I've tried a few, but I think this one was even easier (so far, and knocking on wood). Day 58: I have not taken the photos off of my camera yet, but today we are surely seeing quite a bit more orange pistils come through as expected yesterday. This is exciting. Mostly because this is such a cute little plant with beautiful colors, and will go down in history as one I will always remember. A little off-topic, but I spent the last 5 months having various bad harvests. With about a half dozen plants harvested, all of the flower was intolerable. I do not have an extraction press, so I made various oils from solvents such as ethanol, isopropyl, and butane, as well as collected trichomes with a bath of dry ice and screens. There was quite a bit of flower used in the process, and the total amount of oil I got was enough for a regular consumer for 1-2 days. I might as well have just grown hemp. This was all due to bad genetics and their pollination contaminating some other good genetic plants, in addition to the typical beginner indoor grower mistakes. Miss LSD here, along with her tent-mate Miss Green Crack (check out my Green Crack Auto diary), have been the first plants that seem to be doing great, despite still a few beginner mistakes, and moderate stress from tweaking my numbers to where I want them to be. Based on what I see and the rate of change, I am going to guess (and this is really just a guess, as it really depends on what the trichomes look like) that she will be ready on day 70. That is a little optimistic. Realistically, it will probably be closer to 75. Later the same day... I think she had too much foliage using up energy and shadowing lower inflorescence, and she's starting to ripen up now, so I did my final defoliation today. In trimming her, I noticed her smell changed drastically overnight. Yesterday she smelled very floral, almost like a perfume. Today it smells like a potent lemon with notes of diesel. Exciting. She is looking very pretty, but feeling a little naked and shy. She might be ready to pose for us tomorrow though! Day 60: We have quite a few red hairs and the bud sites are really starting to bulken up and emanate terpenes throughout my house whenever I open the tent. Day 61: Just stopping by with some even nicer bud build-up pictures.