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Lemon x Black Domina x Sugar Mangolia
Apollo F1 is a robust auto indica vareity bred from select lines of pure hybrids. She boasts a delicious, complex aroma with strong hints of pine, lemon, herbs, and even vanilla, and produces effects that relax the body while stimulating the mind—all in a stable F1 seed that produces a strong, uniform crop.
I dropped 4 seeds into a glass of water, mixed with a drop of Green Buzz Liquids Growzyme to boost germination.
After 36 hours in the water all seeds opened and revealed the roots.
So I put them into Root Riot cubes and placed them into my inqubator sitting on the radiator. So they get about 25°C to 30°C for germinating.
Update: After less than 48 hours all 4 seeds came growing out of the plugs.
This is the first week after all 4 seeds germinated.
They sit in Terras Aquatica light mix soil with perlite. I prefer this soil because it is made without any peat. Good for the environment.
I added some Root Juice to the water.
Here we are in the secondd week, the plants are doing well so far.
I will move them into their final pots by the end of the week, filled with a mixture of peat-free soil and terra preta, mixed with some perlite.
Nutritionwise I chose to work with Greenhouse Feeding Bio-Line.
Yust add the grow nutrition to the soil and that is all at the moment.
This is the end of the third week and as you can see the plants are smaller then expected.
Coincidentally I saw that the lights were out when they should be switched to on. So I switched the smart socket to on again but after a few seconds it went off again. Even if the timer program was set to lights on at 0600 and off at 0000.
So I bought a new smart socket and set the timer to the desireg light scheme. I bet I lost a big amount of sun hours for the plants and that is the reason for the underdeveloped groth.
Sad days.
Look at these ladies. After getting one dose of microbiobes they grew a lot that week. So bushy now and still so small.
I bet they will come out really nice.
Hey, there are flowers. They finally decided to start flowering.
Time to put in the flowering nutrition, 33g of Bio-Bloom for each pot. It includes lots of microbes and mykorrhiza.
This will lead to a lot of mould and a great flowering groth.
This second week in flower I cut some lower branches and flowers on the lower nodes.
The smell is light and nice, the growth is fine, they tend to stay small and bushy.
Here is the end of the third week of flowering.
I am actually happy about the size of the ladies. Three of four are about the same height, the fourth one is a little big taller. Flowers show up everywhere.
These ladies are very forgiving, I forgot to water them, so they had5 days between watering and all 4 were very dry, leaves hung down. Watered them. 24h later it was all forgotten. This is about 30h after they were nearly dead.
Only had to remove some lower leaves as they were dead.
Here is the end of the third week of flowering.
I barely have to do anything, they just grow nicely and even.
I only fed them their first dose of Bio enhancer, this is mainly humic acid with some trichoderma for healthy roots and some bacterias who are able to regulate unwanted bacterias and also releases some nitrogen and phosphor out of organic soil.
What can I tell you about this week?
This grow is so unspectacular, I have nothing to do here. Just watering them avery second or third day with pure water, that is all.
No problems so far, they grow beautifully.
End of Week 11 they slowly fade to yellow, they are almost ripened. Maybe 10 more days to harvest.
So about 50 days of flowering seems legit.
The smell isn´t heavy, more like a subtle hint of cannabis. Maybe a good strain for stealth outdoor growing.
This is the final week, week 7 of flowering is almost done.
Harvest will happen in a few days, for now they get 8 hours of light, reduced to 100W to simulate fall. No more water from now on.
The smell is now potent and nice, typical cannabis aroma.
Final smoke report will be added after curing. This is just a first taste for now.
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This was the first time I tried an F1 automatic strain from Royal Queen Seeds. The germination was fast, the plants grew nice and steady, the height was under 100cm, great for smaller tents.
After 5 weeks the flower kicked in, developed a nice smell of lemons and herbs, like lavender. Flower took about 50 days till I was happy and the plants showed their ripeness.
I split harvest, two plants were trimmed wet, the other two were trimmed dry. Hopefully this will give a nice mixture when curing is done. For now, they are curing in glasses with boveda 62% humidity for at least 6 weeks.
Really happy with that grow, this was easy and enjoyable. Thank you RQS.
Everyone seems to be rocking these seeds. Some about of samples been put out. Will be interesting to see how they all turn out. Good luck with yours. Am doing 2 Milkweays myself.