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This Zkittles Auto by Herbie is so much fun to grow in ProMix. I feel like the possibilities are endless. I went synthetic nutes (genral hydro trio), but I really want to do an organic grow with this strain eventually. Just a little TLC and LSTis all she needs right now.
She gets thirsty! Feeding about 1/2 gallon every 3 days. Discovered some air circulation issues that was causing sad leaves. This is in a 2x2 Spider Farmer tent, and leaving the front door open during the day drastically healed my lady. Using the general hydroponics trio for main feed, favoring the bloom. I've also used 1 TSP of Recharge Instant compost tea this month, along with some fish shit and liquid seaweed between feedings.
So far so good, but could be better. Trickiest thing for me so far has been maintaining temps as the weather gets colder, aside from that seems to be doing well.
She's doing well, except I didn't realize my lights were turned up to 100. I believed this caused the leaves to turn yellow due to fast nutrient uptake from the light intensity. Hoping to slow down the effect by reducing and raising the light. Also improved air circulation. She's still beefing so that's a plus. Only fed with water so far this week. Will repeat tomorrow- 1/2 - 3/4 gallons every 3 days. She gets thirsty even under optimal conditions.
This was personally a success for me so far, and I can't wait to smoke it. Smelled great from the start of flower, right to the jar. The scent was definitely Zkittlez, especially when I touched a leaf or squeezed a bud. It was a very pleasant aroma and was increasingly strong from the start of flower. I am new to indoor cannabis growing, and this was my 2nd autoflower attempt, and my 1st success. This was 1 of 2 free Zkittlez Autoflower seeds from Herbies USA (with regular purchase). I did not experience any diseases, or pest issues, and did not use any pest control measures. It required little maintenance, and I didn't really experience any issues that was due to genetics. There are a few things I will change next time I grow this, mainly environmental and factors from my own personal experience. All in all, I will definitely be growing this again, and adding it to my permanent grows for the foreseeable future. I liked the fast flowering rate of this strain, bud quality (and potential for improvement on my part), size, vegetation, overall plant strength, and most importantly to me as a new grower, it's resilience to a less than ideal environment at time. This strain has really inspired me to do another autoflower grow of the same strain from Herbies USA, with at least 1 more plant.
I grew in a 5 gallon plastic pot, in a 2x2x6.5 grow tent. In hindsight I could have gone with a 3 gallon fabric pot and LST. She did get thirsty per a strain description during veg and flower. I fed about every 3-4 days during flower, 1/2 gallon max per feeding. I had only 1 concern during this grow, and I can't stress enough that I am not sure if this was my doing, or genetics, but I tend to lean toward the former due to my lack of experience. The leaves seemed to yellow and dry at a faster rate than I would have liked. Measures that I took when I first noticed this was adjusting my feeds. When I saw little change I tried raising my light a few inches, lowering the intensity of the light, and reducing the ON light-cycle to 16 hours on, 8 off (from 18/6). I also improved air circulation. These actions seem to help a lot, and I would hypothesize that had these precautions been taken from the start, the early fade would have been avoided. I do standby the rating for now, because it really is the best thing I've grown indoors so far, however it's my 1st successful grow tbh. It was fun too, and I got to admit, exciting every time I opened that tent to check on her. I faced the dreaded grower issue of going on vacation at end of flowering! Luckily I had my brother to handle that. We hung the entire plant in the same grow tent, maintaining as close to 60° F / 60% RH. There was a mini fan aimed stationary at the humidifier vent so as not to get mist directly on the plant. A small box fan was placed at the bottom of the tent on the lowest setting and aimed at the tent wall. The inline fan was set to 1 during the whole dry, which lasted 1 week. I got 2 32 oz. jars full, will do a final weigh after cure. I did not to a wet trim because I wanted to extend the dry as much as possible since I was away. Had I not been on vacation, we would have dry-trimmed and jarred 1-2 days earlier- I have learned and will standby that makes a difference. Did not wait for "snap method" because as recommended by my favorite growers and personal past experience, a different approach involving using touch, sight, and smell in addition to bending the smaller branches to gauge moisture in plant. We also used the weight method to determine when best to jar, aiming for 70% of the wet weight, which we overshot due to my being away.
I read your comment and then looked at your other diaries. What type of soil are you growing in? I see most of your plants have/or had a Nitrogen deficiency.
Also, I believe you were under watering on this harvest, as 0.5 gallons every 3-4 days in flower is not sufficient. Plants in a 3 gallon pot/container will go through around 1 gallon of water per day. In veg, that is fine, but in flower your plant is using up a huge amount of phosphorus and not too much Nitrogen. Once plants go into flower, you cut back on Nitrogen, increase on the P-K (phosphorus and potassium ) . You can also increase and throw in some cal-mag as your plant will want more calcium as well.
There is a TON of "bro science" out there and although I implore people to experiment around first hand, if you want to learn; check out some harley smith youtube videos (Npk industries).
Good luck in your future grows.
@Dabking, Thanks for looking at my diaries, and the feedback. I appreciate you taking the time to reach out, and comment.
All my other diaries/grows are in Happy Frog soil, top-dressed with dolomite lime. I used dolomite lime this time due to a prior failed grow with the same batches of soil.
I think the last grow failed due to lockout/deficiencies, caused by my lack of experience.
This diary for Zkittlez Autoflower was grown in ProMix HP.
I will roger that advice on the watering starting today with the other grows. Per my experimenting with feeds, I intended to use 3 tsp molasses today (last used about 3 weeks ago), but after reading your notes I may just opt for nutrients that favor P -K today & CalMag instead.
I'll be sure to check out some Harley Smith videos on youtube, I recognize him from an episode of Mr. GrowIt.
Thank you again for the advice!
thevalar007
