2023 Summer-Fall Auto's

Chopped 2 plants down, 6 to go! Tempted to chop down more but going to wait till at least 90% of the pistols have darkened. Probably only ahave another week or two till they'll be ready, if I had to guess. Learned my lesson last grow to NOT wait till there are 10%+ darkened trichomes because that ended up taking too long and several of those plants got stressed and got pale crispy leaves in the middle of the buds and started producing seeds. I've turned a bunch of that weed into cannacaps instead of trying to smoke it. Attached is a photo of what's left, including with a basil plant on the right to both deter pests and enhance bud flavor. Still neither of the purple hulk plans show any sign of turning purple so I probably won't try to grow those again. Already have a ton of different indica-dominant strains, and at higher THC percentages. So if I want purp for bag appeal, I'll just buy some different seeds. One of the purple hulks on the front left has really tiny buds, more like a sativa-dominant strain than an indica, which looks totally different from the other purple hulk plant. Several of the plants' branches are "leaning" so I tied them up some with plant ties and bamboo sticks. Still have to position them creatively around the grow light since they're taller than the grow light and I can't raise it any higher, so maybe for the enxt grow I'll give LST another try in order to better manage the plants' heights.