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Day 0: Soaked for 18 hours in water. Dropped seed directly into recycled soil.
Day 4: One sour apple and one pineapple kush cake seedling did not survive. The sour apple came out of ground with only one cotyledon leaf. The pineapple kush cake looked like the walking dead upon sprouting and, is dead dead now.
Day 5: Planted 3 lemongrass freebies directly into the old substrate for two and a new pot for the third.
Day 1: With five out of six showing above ground growth, decided to get week one in the books.
Gotta say, it'll be fun growing these expensive autoflower seeds for a first sea of green attempt.
Day 7: Seeing some true leaves on four surviving humboldt autos. Yea, that's right... two of the autos popped out of the ground and proceeded to die.
Replacements: Still waiting for the lemongrass freebies to germinate.
Day 14: two sour apple two pineapple kush cake sitting in a tent. they got a compost tea mostly away from the root zone. will apply The Stash blend this week to boost silica and stem strength.
Pre-flower has begun - all females as expected. Gonna continue with light LST and defoliating just one or two leaves per plant every few days to optimize bud site exposure to light.
Day 38 and these humboldt autos are headed into flower. The stretch was great, hoping for more to be honest. Lollipopped early to avoid larf and pretty happy to recovery so far.
Week 2 of flower and things are going well. Smell is increasingly fruity. Stoked to harvest these to move on to photoperiods. Autoflowers are starting to become boring. Great buffer crop, tho!
Week 3 of flower: increased light intensity to 100% while raising the lights up and back to a 3ft distance from canopy. Hit them with a compost tea of 3-5-3 fox farm organic nutrients and worm casting and the stash blend. Positive response and Massive stretch was not expected for these autoflowers. This buffer crop is going to be much larger than expected, and it is a good thing because the smell of pineapple is growing. Defoliated the lower leaves and added fan to help combat high humidity with lights off.
Day 56 from seed and things are going, well, differently for each variety and each pheno. One pineapple kush cake is nitrogenated out and the other is slightly deficient (got the same compost tea amount). Same with the Sour Apples. As a buffer crop, this is much more bud than expected and the stretch made for an uneven canopy that was corrected on day 56. Hoping to harvest them all at the same time in 4 weeks or sooner.
Day 65 for these girls and they are all at different stages of growth. Kinda frustrating, seeing as would prefer to harvest sooner rather than later. The Sour Apple runt looks like it will start purpling out soon. No amber trichomes in sight yet.
Day 72 from seed. Looking forward to day 84. things are pretty much on cruise control at this point and boring. the yield will be fine and not really worth the time. pretty bored of running autos tbh.
Trichome drop! forgot what buds are what variety, so make a guess. seeing trich stacking after accidentally leaving the lights on dim during the off last night - one benefit of an autoflower with vegging photos in the same tent, no stress about it!
Fuck autos - huge waste of time. However, they are dank enough to smoke. Curing these buds right now is a huge waste of space. Looking forward to sticking to photoperiods from here on out. these auto genetics just do not cut the mustard. don't care how much "better" they are compared to old days.
with time travel, these seeds would be given away so that photoperiods could have been born in their place. the way things are, the buds are very dank, and fluffy, and needed more time. time not advertised on the pack, so they were harvested when the pack said to. will not go over 90 days for an auto, just not worth it ever.
McGrowin
