More cheese, please

Well I never made a diary for this girl. I haven't even really been paying much attention to her, but decided I can at least document the end here for you all. D34 She's been growing under 24/0 from seed for almost 5 weeks, flowering for 2 of those weeks. She has about 4 more weeks left. She experienced nutrient burn last week due to running out of her favorite food and the added difficulty growing under 24/0. She has a fairly strong skunk smell already.

Day 40: She stinks hardcore. Very skunky here. I am sure I will not be disappointed with the cheese terpenes being their most popular autoflower :)

Day 44 We had a power outage here yesterday, so I moved her outside for the day. I think I'm going to experiment with keeping her outside though. This means she got darkness for the first time last night. We'll she if she likes it or not. This little plant stinks up my whole property. My wife thought there was a skunk, heh. Day 47 She's really started to ripen now. Much more color, volume, and glimmering in the sunlight today :)

Day 51: This plant has some of the biggest buds I've seen so early. She is dense already, covered with resin and stinks up my whole property of very sweet and skunky cheese. Believe it or not, she has a long time to go yet. The breeder data says 11-12 weeks after sprouting, with about 7-8 weeks of flowering. She started flowering towards the end of week 3 so she might have a while to go yet. However, this plant was veged under 24/0 indoor, and flowered also under 24/0 indoor for about 4 more weeks. She seems to be farther along than other diaries, and I'm guessing maybe it is due to growing her under 24/0. She really seemed to like that and didn't complain much. I dunno, the trichomes aren't talking to me yet, and I'm not in a rush, but it'll be fun to see how dense she gets and how much longer she'll take :) Day 53: Enjoy some dusk photos! Day 54: Getting beefier. Expected harvest: 25-30 days. Day 55: Hmm, I think she's ready. Weeks early. Thinking. I'll re-evaluate later. Back. Nope, not ready yet. While I am seeing enough amber, I'm also not seeing enough cloudy, and that's what really matters. The clear outweighs the cloudy. I'll reassess the situation in a few days :)

Chopped her today before the major thunderstorm hits us that will last until tomorrow. I am glad I did. After trimming large fan leaves I noticed that a small part of her main cola has bud rot. It isn't much. The top part of the main cola was trashed. Pity, but it's getting to be commonplace when flowering in this very wet and humid summer. Bummer. Not much I can do except keep on growing and let the rest of her hang to dry and pray we have usable product this time. The good news is this will be my first dry with a new industrial-grade dehumidifier unit. I cut individual branches, trimmed large leaves, and hung them in my tent with exhaust fan and oscillating fans going. Dehumidifier sits just outside the tent for whole grow room. Inside tent we are reading 72F/53%. Much better than the 80F/60% that we couldn't avoid before. Be back in about 2 weeks for the trim and dry weight. Edit 08.04.2023: After nearly 7 days of drying 1 branch seemed like it was ready to be trimmed, and so I did! The first 4 images above are the buds from that branch! Edit 08.06.2023: It seems that the outdoor conditions really caused the bud rot to infect this plant more than I thought. Every calyx has grey mold on it, but you have to look close. I uploaded a (shaky) video of me dissecting one that you can kind of see (this is 5x digital zoom and the clarity is not the greatest). I decided to just throw the plant away.