O.G. Kush Autoflower

@SHAMMYDOG, Thanks, me either. I'm going to remain patient hopefully she'll fill out some more. But the. buds are looking very pretty I must say.

@ROM101, thanks man, it's been a steep learning curve as a first auto and first LED grow.

@Freddd,wow sorry to hear about that. i guess some people are naturaly better at some points of the grow then others. my weakness has been drying and curing. but my growth rate is really 100% from seed and all my intents of cloning have been a conplete failure lol

@Jisaac904, thanks for the kind words, I'm pretty happy with the result. Yeah the finish surprised me, not much happened in the final week. It's a bit deceptive about the leaves because I'd basically stripped all the fan leaves off, the larger sugar leaves did start to die but as she wasn't doing anything more I though it best to chop her down. The seeds I. bought for my first grow all died and this OG was a free see that they threw in!

@Kunaal1, now that my grow is finished I can confidently say this particular strain really needs and responds well to heavy defoliation as well as scrog.

@Kunaal1, Excellent, I hope that my experience is useful. Taking photos definitely helps when flowering as two weeks can seem much longer than two weeks. My one did not begin to flower till day 40 but it seems to have caught up. I'm waiting for a 60x loupe so I can get a better look at the trichomes. I'd like her to fatten up a bit, prolly two more weeks maximum.

@SHAMMYDOG, they're all sitting in their own climate controlled jars and I'm hoping they develop some more complexity. Currently their smell seem to me a bit generic but they are gradually changing. I'll be looking forward to seeing how they go.

@SHAMMYDOG, Hi, I don't have enough comparison to give anything a 9 or a 10 yet. However I reckon all reputable seed suppliers will have at least an 8 quality bud if grown to their potential. So for me to give a 10 it would not just have to be super attractive with an award winning aroma and psychedelic high but it would also have to not be a bear to grow. A 9 might be a good quality but that branched well and produced the type of colas I liked without too much fuss. Area is 60 x 90 cm screen is 55cm x 60cm

@SHAMMYDOG, Hi Shammy, muchos apologies, I got stoned, I feel bad for leaving you hanging on the edge of the cliff. Stay stuned I'm just going to put up a detailed post very shortly! spoiler alert: not less than 9 zip.

@SHAMMYDOG, cheers, yes it's a heatwave down here presently which is the very reason I returned the HPS I was about to install and went for LED. I'm most amazed at how little heat it adds. I'm not sure if I can give much of a report until I have a few more strains under my belt for comparison but I'll do my best. Just started a new grow which will be more fun now that I've seen this one through.

@SHAMMYDOG, I really have no idea of the final weight now. The buds are dense and nuggety. It's very difficult to see the trichomes. It looks like it could be another week. I might take a branch off and let it dry now for comparison.

@SHAMMYDOG, I'm using the viparspectra PAR 700, I chose it because other lights I was considering would have been three times the price, they put this on eBay as an auction but I ended up getting it for 320AUD. I had initially bought an HPS400W because that is what I know from over 20 years ago but I sold it before I used it because where I now live the ambient temps in the house get up to the low 30'sC so heat was an issue. First off I will say that all the vipers have a higher blue component that I'd like. This particular model the PAR series are both very quiet and very cool, believe it or not but it adds no heat at all to my grow room. The heat is sucked up and blown out the sides. No part of the unit gets hotter than 40C on full power, I like This model because it has separate dimmer controls for the Red White and Blue channels, which makes it very versatile. Overall it is probably a bit less efficient Than say a quantum board or a quality white cob, but I do not buy into the white LED argument on it's own, they need to have supplemental red light like the new QB Elite 96 for example, I might get one of those. This light draws 325W at the wall so about 100W per channel. During seedling I ran just the white only which has both 3000K and 7000K bulbs at 50% only so only using 50W of power, then I upped it to 50%B and 50%W then during veg White and Blue on full power and red at about 10% when I switched to flowering nutes, and for most of the grow, I ran the White and Red at full power and the Blue at 50%. So I'm only drawing about 270W at the wall. These new models from Viparspectra seem to have better designed lenses than their earlier models. I can keep this light 15" from the plant tops with no heat issues whatever. Many people have told me these lights are complete shit and cannot grow a decent bud, and that really annoys me, not because I am personally identified with this light but because it can scare a newbie off growing a plant because they think they have to spend a lot more. FFIW, my own personal opinion is that a good root system is much more important, so I'm a big fan of this type of shallow water culture where the root ball gets plenty of air. Finally I think over the next two years you'll see that all the white QB's and Cobs will increase their red content dramatically. I know that blue is not that important just from being able to grow all the way through under HPS. However when I get another light soon, (maybe the QB Elite 96) I'll be able to in the future, do some light colour experiments with the Viper, for example maybe replacing the 4 hour dark period, with 4 hours of pure red light? Also as it looks like this might be ready to harvest in a week I might give it a heavy dose of blue light. However because I don't have a control plant, I can't really compare. If Viper spectra used only 3000K leds instead of mixing them with the 7000K this would be a better light, and if they cut down the blue a bit and replaced them with more reds it would be better still. I'll put a few more shots up of the setup.

@JerMeds, thanks man, amazingly by the end of the next day she started to bud up properly on the tips. I'm not much more LST to do but I am trying to formulate a plan for HST I think she's gonna grow for two weeks now. She's grown 2 inches in the past 36 hours.

@SeedStockersOfficial, Thanks for the encouragement, I hope it doesn't take 8 weeks before the first pistils appear like the one I link to below, I didn't even know it was possible for an auto to take that long. growdiaries.com/diaries/15634-fb-gsc-first-grow What would you estimate I should yield from this from your experience with what you would have seen.