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a year ago
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Indoor
Room Type
LST
weeks 4-10, 14
Defoliation
weeks 9-11, 13
Soil
Grow medium
Other
Grow medium
8 L
Pot Size
0.3 L
Watering
0
Germination
2 years ago
Seed took 36 hours to germinate and planted directly into 8L pot. Made a hole in soil 2cm deep and lightly covered. Placed a glass jar over the germinated seed. Soil quite moist. Only kept inside, near window. 22c during day and 19 at night 55%RH
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Germination Method
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Week 1. Vegetation
2 years ago
1 cm
8 hrs
22 °C
No Smell
55 %
20 °C
8 L
Seedling popped up after 2 days 180ml water given
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Week 2. Vegetation
2 years ago
3 cm
8 hrs
22 °C
No Smell
55 %
20 °C
8 L
10 cm
Growth very slow. Decided to add artificial light at night instead of just sunlight in front of window as currently winter. Phillips 13w frosted LED 1300 lumens now shining from evening till morning but in a different room which has higher RH of 70% but lower temp of 17c
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Week 3. Vegetation
2 years ago
9 cm
20 hrs
22 °C
No Smell
55 %
17 °C
8 L
15 cm
50ml water. Removed the plastic cup dome. Using 16w Phillips grow light bulb led since day 17 for night and window sill during the day Definitely more growth but still seems small. No nutrients added yet as potting mix came with it. Cool experiment so far but don't think yeild will be much at all
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Week 4. Vegetation
2 years ago
13 cm
20 hrs
18 °C
No Smell
65 %
16 °C
8 L
20 cm
Lower temps this week. Started lst Have 150ml of worm tea on day 24 and no other water Maybe a bit of bleaching so will keep an eye on it. Still getting night time grow light philips beand
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LST
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Week 5. Vegetation
2 years ago
16 cm
20 hrs
24 °C
Weak
65 %
20 °C
8 L
20 cm
During the day when on window sill the temperature gets to 33c and humidity drops down to 30% when sun is out. Today was a cloudy day with rain much higher humidity around 65%and lower temps 22c and saw big growth spurt. Gave small serve of slow release Citrus fertiliser day 33 and worm casting tea. Probably a Mistake using slow release on a autoflower
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Week 6. Vegetation
2 years ago
21 cm
20 hrs
24 °C
Weak
65 %
19 °C
8 L
20 cm
Added liquid citrus plant fertiliser 1ml with 350ml worm tea 2x this week. Growing well and smell getting stronger. No sign of flowering yet
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Week 7. Vegetation
2 years ago
27 cm
20 hrs
24 °C
Weak
55 %
20 °C
8 L
0 L
50 cm
Lots of growth. Added 1ml liquid fert for citrus 2x this week. Still no sign of flower
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Week 8. Flowering
2 years ago
27 cm
20 hrs
24 °C
Weak
55 %
20 °C
8 L
0 L
50 cm
Continued some lst. Plant is Bigger than last time but don't think has stretched yet. Finally noticed some Pistil on a couple of nodes. Will do one more feed of citrus feed then switch to liquid potash which is15% potassium. Its getting thirsty, doing 300ml every 2 days. I don't think I will do any defoliation unless I get comments that it would be good. I wouldn't know where to start
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Week 9. Flowering
a year ago
40 cm
20 hrs
24 °C
Normal
55 %
20 °C
8 L
0 L
50 cm
Bit of defoliation of ugly leaves. Still giving citrus fruits fert with worm tea from garden. Slight stronger concentration of citrus feed. Can see its getting thirstier and stretching. Smell getting stronger, very caramel like smell
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Defoliation
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Week 10. Flowering
a year ago
50 cm
20 hrs
24 °C
Normal
55 %
20 °C
8 L
0 L
50 cm
Flowers getting bigger no change to my feed routine
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Defoliation
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Week 11. Flowering
a year ago
50 cm
20 hrs
24 °C
Normal
55 %
20 °C
8 L
0 L
50 cm
Smells strong. Same routine as last week with citrus fert.
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Week 12. Flowering
a year ago
50 cm
20 hrs
25 °C
Normal
55 %
20 °C
8 L
0 L
50 cm
Still going well. Temperature is hotting up as heading to summer
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Week 13. Flowering
a year ago
50 cm
20 hrs
25 °C
Strong
60 %
20 °C
8 L
0 L
50 cm
Quite a bit of defoliation this week. Seems less thirsty but has been more overcast. Only water 2x in 7 days still using citrus feed and worm tea. I will from next week only do ph water. I think this plant has 2 more weeks before chop, which seems very long for an autoflower.
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Grow Questions
Lvan046
Lvan046started grow question a year ago
Is this cloudy? Week 13 autoflower caramel
Open
Buds. Other
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Plantette
Plantetteanswered grow question a year ago
The trichomes are not mature yet and will look clear then milky white when mature. Most of the hairs will have changed from white to a color by the time she is mature as well. With a non auto flower from clone to flower can take 17 or more weeks to grow and flower and ripen so 14 weeks might seem like a long time but my answer is she is still in the middle of flowering.
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CULTIVATORFROG
CULTIVATORFROGanswered grow question a year ago
Estas en la semana 6 de floracion. Pienso que en la semana 7 la mayoría va a estar nublado. Buena suerte
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Growladyeastmidlands
Growladyeastmidlandsanswered grow question a year ago
You have a good 4 week left yet people always think they will have buds ready for smoking after 10 weeks from seed but its more like 20 weeks they don't count the 5 or 6 veg then 2 weeks stretch then 10 flower its not a quick thing if you want good quality buds good things come to those who wait happy growing
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Week 14. Flowering
a year ago
50 cm
20 hrs
25 °C
Strong
60 %
20 °C
8 L
0 L
50 cm
Buds getting thicker Pistil turning orange. Probably gonna chop it in a week
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Week 15. Harvest
a year ago
Happy Harvest Day!
Caramel Auto - Dutch Genetics
Spent 100 days
Ger Veg Flo Har
7/10
Rated
25.45 g
Bud wet weight per plant
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This was my first ever harvest. I wet trimmed. It was a fairly rough trim as I will be using it for mostly edibles. The flowers are airy and not dense but they smell very potent. It took 6 days to dry, after day 4 it was going too slow so put the in front of dehumidifier. Even with rough trim it still came out at 25g dry so am very happy with the yield. Will cure for a couple weeks.
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