LSD-25 Auto

Day 3: She's poking through the surface today. Day 5: Finally fully through the surface and standing up straight. Her true leaves seem to not look very good though. Will she make it? Day 6: Discoloration of true leaves seems to have improved significantly. I'm not exactly sure what that was about, as I'm not adding any additional nutrients or supplements of any kind, and pH was good. She'll get to live another day. Day 7: Second set starting.

Day 8: Not much to report today. She's still growing. Day 9: Again, not much to report. I think the pH is a bit off, but I will let her dry up for another day or two, when I will start introducing some nutrient supplements. Day 13: I believe my pH and temperature/humidity were the reason for the slow growth. I had to let the substrate dry out fully as I also over-watered it last time. I re-watered her 2 days ago, and we now see a significant increase in growth.

Day 16: Week 3 and 1 inch tall. Oh boy... Day 17: Small but healthy. Day 20: Well she doubled in height and tripled in diameter over the last 3 days. She is liking the introduction of nutrients and a better pH. Day 21: Short little girl, but I'd say she's doing well.

Day 24: Up to 3 inches. Day 27: We have pistils! The first autoflower pistils I've seen in real life, actually :)

Day 30: She's starting to flower.

Day 39: Well, it's been a while since the last update, and a lot has changed. I'll admit, I just sort of slacked off for a couple days after being sick for about 5 days, so my plants basically went without food or water for a whole week. This plant survived, with a lot of yellowing and interveinal chlorosis from using up stored energy. That was remedied 3 days ago, by transplating her (gasp) into a 5 gallon pot of coco coir and frequent fertigation of the nutrients she needs. She looks very green now, and you can hardly tell there was ever a problem. I pruned off some leaves and branches on bottom growth that I would have otherwise pruned too. Of course there is a small problem resulting from that fix though. The only grow space large enough for my 5gal pots is my tent, currently in the middle of flowering a couple photoperiods under 12/12. So, this plant has now been blooming under 12/12. That, along with her week without food or water, has slowed down her flowering, but she still seems to be kicking. It's okay to flower autos under 12/12. You may not get the densest, well-developed mounds of calyxes you may have experienced another way, but I don't see any harm in it otherwise -- it beats the alternative of killing off another plant of mine. She is 15 inches tall now, which is absolutely amazing. She shot right up after being transplanted. This plant was a mere 5 inches tall a week ago. Now, she is the same height as her neighbor autoflower started at the same time, that at one point was close to 3x taller! That's it for this week. As always, thanks for stopping by, and don't be afraid to reach out if you have any questions!

Day 43: She had some light defoliation done of some old fan leaves that were doing more harm than good. Today is the first day her tent is no longer flowering any photoperiods. I will be gradually increasing her daylight hours back up to around 18 over the next week or two. After that, the tent will function as a perpetual auto grow from mid-veg until harvest, with initial veging in my other tent. Hopefully no more lighting mistakes when everything is constant and matched up with both of my tents. Also for the last few days, she reached exactly the same height as her friend Green Crack Auto that was planted at the same time, and at one point GC was about 3x taller! They are neck and neck now, and both looking like they will be beautiful plants. Day 44: She is up to 13h of light after a couple days of incrementing the daylight hours. She seems to just be loving life. Not a problem in sight. Just more purple with each passing day 😍 Day 45: The purple is beginning to spread into her leaves. It's a fantastic sight to see for sure. She is up to 21 inches tall today, the same as her birth buddy, Green Crack Auto. Day 48: Quite a bit more purple today...

Day 50: She's doing just great and her buds are starting to develop well. I reckon she is about 2-3 weeks away from being harvested, given her rough childhood.

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.

Day 64: She continues to bloom and she looks prettier each day. Yesterday I cut off her two lowest branches, as they were furthest from the light and their popcorn buds were not going to get much better. I'm aiming to compare the terpenes and effects of the small partial harvest with the rest, after the full cure. Last week her light was increased from 18h to 19h to make some of her other tent-mates happier. Day 65: Inspecting her trichomes today, I see she is getting pretty close. I'm planning for a Sunday harvest (4 days). I'll re-assess the situation then and decide. Day 69: We're getting close. We have amber finally starting to creep into the flowers and not just the leaves. Sometime this coming week I would guess.

Well folks, today is the end of day 69 from seed, and she was chopped. I actually thought today was day 70, but looking at my calendar I just see that my sleep schedule is just not aligned with her's :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- @love_2_grow, also grew this strain and has been giving me lots of good advice, so props to him, and go check out his version. He actually grew it using about 50W, and in a fully-automated living soil and watering system. Also, I would like to sincerely thank @love_2_grow for another reason: He is the reason I am still here, on GrowDiaries, and still growing indoor. I was seriously ready to quit a few months ago, due to being scammed by @LegacyMarketFarm and just seeing how toxic some people on the Internet can be, specifically going out of their way to target a poor family trying to do this for medicine. @love_2_grow went out of their way to the point where, well, I was sort of in tears from the emotional rollercoaster of dealing with everything, and the generosity of him after the fact. He was the one that purchased this Mars Hydro FC3000 of mine, and I appreciate it more than anyone could know. Nobody has done anything this nice for us before, and it means a whole hell of a lot to us, because two people in my family actually need this plant for medicine now, and the random chance with our outdoor harvests has not been cutting it (I swear, if I find that woodchuck this year...). So thank you @love_2_grow for this. It means a lot! Send some grow love to him for me, k? :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the first harvest of mine that seems to be a success, after 6 months and approximately 40 plants, most all destroyed because of hermaphroditism or environment problems. This also happens to be my first autoflowering cultivar harvest. The first autoflower seed I grew from Fast Buds turned out to be a male. I wasn't very happy with the odds of that happening to me, but here we are with a keeper. I do not have a very good ambient environment this time of year here, and I lack the proper equipment for a good dry room. I learned this the hard way last time, with bud rot forming after drying, not before. This time around, I'm not taking any chances, even if it means sacrificing some flavor. I am not hanging her to dry. I cut all flower from stems, and will air dry it on screens, keeping a close eye on humidity and introducing light or more heat if need be. It is what it is. I just want some medicine this year. I can't take anymore chances, especially for my dad's sake. The aroma is crazy strong. A nice blend of lemon and diesel, with some floral (lilac maybe?) notes to it. Definitely unique, even for the ubiquitous lemon/diesel terpene profile. On the scale we have: 175g wet bud with <3mm stems 38g wet stems 4g wet leaf Be back in a week or two with a first sample before the final cure. Thanks for stopping by, and thanks to all the growmies that gave me the support to push through so many failures.