Northern Lights Auto Outdoor

Week 1 Veg Day 4: I’d say we are into veg. Should just be watering and watching for the next week. Will start PH monitoring water asap, and will continue to look into fertilizer options.

Week 2 Day 2: Things are going well. We had some high humidity and a little algae, so I increased the fan level. There was also some slight bubbling in the leaves which could be due to the humidity, so I'm keeping an eye on that. Otherwise, things are looking good. Planning to water today (8/8), and keep an eye on them for the rest of the week. Feels like patience is key at this point. Will need to decide on feed schedule soon, and will be PH'ing my water for the first time today. Will also continue researching LST methods. Week 2 Day 7: Still struggling with high humidity. My grow is in my basement, and in the summer it stays around 70% RH. When the tent was at 80% RH I opened the vents and had the airflow running pretty high. I couldn’t come up with any other way to decrease it, so I went to Facebook marketplace and got a dehumidifier. Ran it overnight in the basement yesterday and the humidity has not really changed and there were barely droplets of water in it 😭. I’m going to try putting it in the tent if things don’t change.

Week 3 Day 1: whew! I feel like we catching our stride! Last week was a battle with the numbers. The AC infinity Vegetative recipe had my devices all over the place (like my lights refused to come on and go off on schedule as they had been). Thennnn once I got the schedule together the humidity starting rising like a MFer! I think the rain last week contributed to it and of course it’s summer so that doesn’t help. I broke and got a dehumidifier on Facebook marketplace and now the humidity is under control, but the temps are up to 85 during the day sometimes! I opened two vents, so I’m hoping this balances it all out. Will start LST, and feeding later this week.. early next week! Week 3 Day 5: Well, well, well.. things are looking manageable and for that I am grateful. Humidity is still higher than desired.. humidifier is working.. but it’s not pumping the water out into my drain hole. I’m on vacation for the weekend, and washed clothes before I left and it jumped up again. So I’m hoping it continues to drop, because we did notice some powdery mildew. We think it’s due to the large number of plants in this 3x3 tent.. but we cut that off and spread them out and moved the fans and are hoping for the best. Plants have been topped and are ready to get started with low stress training and will be moved up to 5 gallon pots. That’s all folks, signing off.. almost one month in! Big ole buds PS - Big shout out to Good Hope Hydroponics for supporting me all throughout my grow! I wouldn’t have nearly as much confidence in the information I’ve got so far without them. Thanks as well for the Microbial Mass Pro!! We will figure out how we want to incorporate this into our grow for some testing soon!!

Week 4: We are officially one month into our grow! things have been going pretty smooth so far and that’s exciting!! Yesterday we picked up our Gaia Green 4-4-4. With that and the topping done, we plan to give them the week to recover and then start LST and feeding. You’ll notice a large number of plants were moved outside… those were all auto seeds that we got for free from Seedsman and Perry’s Magic Beans (Northern Lights, Critical + 2.0, M+M, and High C) shout out to them!!

Week 5: 8/24 we fed the kids for the first time!! We followed the instructions for Gaia Green All Purpose application and went ahead and grabbed the Bloom fertilizer as well, so we are ready for that transition. We did top all our auto flowers except one and they slowed down their growth a bit, but we have two strong main stems on all of them, so I'm excited to see how those fare outside. I've heard that everyone lives by Kelp, so we got some liquid seaweed and have been adding that to our waterings along with the Miicrobial Mass Pro. Considering grabbing the roots organic terp tea bloom boost or the Athena bloom set-up to see how we feel about this synthetic vs. organic fertilizer discussion and to get some growth happening on these autos. We started LST, but I wish there was more info on like what i'm supposed to be doing fr - feels like I'm just bending the stem 😳 (but we will see how that shakes out)... WELP! That's all folks. Til next time.

Week 6: A month and a half in!! I really can't believe it to be honest. Our focus has been on getting a watering routine down that doesn't involve weekly trips to Whole Foods for RO water. Curious to learn more about auto watering tables, and also must warn everyone to CHECK THE SELLER REVIEWS when shopping on Facebook Marketplace. This dehumidifier saga has gone on far too long, and the only positive thing I can say is that it's running continually. The amount I spent fixing this up and going back and forth to this man, I could've got a dehumidifier for a whole lung room. Considering doing a foliar application of the Poseidonzime, but since we fed liquid nutrients for the first time we are giving them a little break. Week 6/7 was a bit slower for us, as I had some company in town and was preparing to head down to ATL for Labor Day Prideeee (notice I installed a ring cam so I can keep a close eye on the kids).

Week 8 Day 1: how did we get here?! Northern Lights is looking beautiful (the only plant in a 5 gal pot outside). No major issues. Kids were fed liquid nutrients for the second time 9/8, and will be recieving them once a week moving forward (hopefully every other watering). Gotta find a way to make watering a smoother process tho, might invest in a home RO filter 😂 Big dreams being discussed, this could be the start of the only cultivation, breeding, and distribution center that has a primary focus on re-entry and subsequent business development.. That’s how you do socially responsible business and policy. You heard me?

Week 9: We are coasting at this point! The plant is looking good and the buds are fattening up and frosting over nicely. I noticed that the stalks aren't very thick and on some of my outdoor plants the buds are already leaning over, so I decided to incorporate some Silica into the fertilizer routine. We also felt the buds could be bigger and knowing we did our initial bloom fertilizing a little late - we decided to also incorporate a bloom booster as well. Looking forward to see whether there's some improvement in these areas over the next few weeks. There should be about 4 to 5 weeks left in flower. So I'm planning to continue with weekly feedings of the bloom boost, silica, kelp, and microbes up to (10/5) the week before the last day of flower.

Week 10 (9/29): The weather started to change! We had to start keeping a closer eye on these babies. We brought them inside toward the back end of this week.

WEEK 11: We got another tent and moved them in there - so they have enough lights to finish out their grow! We also started looking into a 10x10 tent to expand our operations.. then quickly realized we... 1. Don't have space for a 10x10 tent and 2. if we did we might as well outfit the whole room lol... So we are coasting with the set-up we have and we will figure out expansion in due time.

Well, well, well.. My first harvest! I'm very happy with how healthy the plants remained the entire time. I learned that growing outside is definitely easier than maintaining a tent environment, but you don't have as much control over the factors like amount of light the plants recieve and when they get their waterings! More fertilizer and better LST would be my takeaways from this grow. Excited to see how autoflowers perform in a tent next, otherwise I will say the amount I harvested from this plant was somewhat underwhelming.