O.G. Kush Autoflower

Using a viparspectra par 700 with separate RWB controls. No exhaust just a small fan blowing over the top. Sitting in a 1" Rockwool cube buried in a 4" pot of clay pellets, getting sprayed with jets of nutrient, and a single line of nutrient feeing into the side of the Rockwool until the roots show. Not much to say at the moment. Just using white light only at 50% This is a shallow water culture rather than a deep water culture. The roots emerge from the pot into the spray which sprays directly into and all around the sides of the pot. The container has enough holes to drain easily but there is alway a shallow pool of water in the bottom. The jets are on for 15minute every hour. This is to encourage healthier roots with a better feathery surface area.

Not much happening, but then every day feels like a week. It turns out that I had the pH a bit high due to not having my proper calibration solution. I've since adjusted it back to 5.9 and will see what happens. I was a bit happier by the end of the week. No roots have emerged from the 4" post yet so the top feed is still in. Lights are now 100%White 50%Blue The roots made it out of the post on day ten. I'm now expecting better growth

Seems to be doing better now that the roots have emerged from the pot. Stem is thickening up remaining very compact. Lights are now all 100% R W B. The lowest pair of shoots from the first node looked a bit spindly so I cut them off. Now there are eight main branches. Only LST from here on in. Hoping to do my best to fill the space.

Coming along nicely now. Very stocky and internode spacing is very tight. First bit of serious defoliating and more aggressive LSTing to try and bring the eight main branches to the same height as the unde.rbranches that are now springing up. PPM now 900.

Day 32 and I have done some more aggressive LSTing to keep the eight main branches and all the inner branches the same level. The canopy is now about 7 inches high and looking down from the top it’s about a little bigger than one square foot in area. I’m trying to make it more rectangular but it’s trying to stay square. Whatever. Usually these should be starting to flower but no sign of flowers yet, although the defoliation has not slowed the plant at all, as you can see from what it looked like 10 hours after defoliation and 4 of those hours are in the dark. Hopefully she’ll show signs of flowers by the end of the week. I’m expecting to see the most stretching during week 6 and 7, or maybe 7 and 8. I have no idea what is gong to happen now. I’m able to have the lights at 13” from the canopy as the vipar get rid of the heat well, and the fans are quiet too. Red and White are on full but the Blue is now at 50% EDIT: I have changed the jets out for a more of a spread out jet with the green nozzles, this was to encourage better roots to emerge from the side. You can see the results 3 days later. Update: Day 34 some heavy defoliation to get a better idea of how I want to set her up for flower. Which will flip next weeks with some luck.

I've been a bit surprised that while I'm getting a few pistils, she's not really looking like budding up yet. Running about 2 weeks late from what she should be doing. The flowers look like day 30 when it's day 40. So hopefully the next two weeks will see the big stretch. Still feeding mainly grow nutrients with a little extra Bloom. Using Micro/Grow/Bloom, in the ratio 3/3/5/ started at 950ppm.

Looks like the flowering last week in spite of the pistils was a false alarm it's still vegging. I've gone in and given her a massive defoliation, including some very larfy branches, there's still a lot of larfy branches but hopefully opening her out will help. I'm now expecting another week of vegging and hoping for the budding to begin next week. She's beginning the week at 14" and I hope she stays well under 20 by the end of the week or I could have some problems. finished up at 20" started budding up right after major defoliation. Roots are monstrous which I believe are helping her to not be set back. I tried a supergroup on one branch that was growing too tall, the branch split a bit, but she didn't droop and didn't slow down. I'd like to put a scrog screen up but I can't because the reservoir is underneath I'll use a different set up next grow. Will cut the note strength down to 800ppm and use blooming nutes next week.

Beginning Week 8. Started with a very severe defoliation and two super crop tests. Branch was softened and bent over sideways, it doesn't look very good, however there was no drooping of any leaves and so I'll be watching this closely if it all looks good I may do some more of this towards the end of the week. GH nutrients, at the ratio of Micro/Grow/Bloom of 2/1/4 ppm 1100

1N : 1.25P : 2K start at 1000ppm. Starting to bud up properly now. Trichomes looking nice all very pretty but not a large canopy maybe 20" by 24" with a lot of space. I think she's almost done stretching. I think I might struggle to get three zips but the quality looks nice. Gave her a bid defoliation again at the beginning of the week, not much more to do now but wait. Unfortunately the temp this time of year is about 30 degrees C.

Phenomenal crystallisation over the last two weeks. If this doesn't fill out then it may not be a large yielder but at least it will be a quality smoke. Hard to see it making 3ozs now. I can't inspect the roots any more due to the net. Ambient temp in the house is about 90ºF in the house but fortunately the viparspectra is not adding to the temperature in the room it is in at all!

Ok it's 11 weeks tomorrow Mon. Day 76 today. Not much more growth just buds beginning to fill out. The defoliation has allowed lots of budsites to get plenty of light. I've had the blue way down on the LED this week. Hopefully the next two weeks should see her fill out. This may not be a big yielder, but it look like the quality will be good. They appear to have ripened pretty quickly now. I'm waiting for a 60x loupe but they may mostly be ready in another week.

Not a lot has happened this week. The buds are not huge but the quality is very high, with lots of resin. She seems to have stopped growing and I'm just waiting now for more of the trichomes to go milky. Here's some bud shots.

Took a few branches off near the end of week 13, then after not much changed from the beginning to the end of the week with regards to trichomes yet the pistils got more orange, I decided to chop about 1/3 down at the end of this week. The rest came down a week later (which I'll put up soon) after I was sure that the the optimal time had peaked. Before anything was harvested I hoped for 4 zips but after I took down 3 branches and then at the end of the week saw how much was remaining of the plant after so much was cut down, I upped my estimation At this stage after a few branches half dried I estimated that there might be 5 oz Put the blue diodes back to 100% for the last week and a half.

harvested first 1/3 at end of week 13 rest at end of week 14 after seeing no change in the trichomes, of which a lot stayed clear but that OK. It might be a strain where they don't all go cloudy. After chopping 1/3 down it seemed like more stuff just kept coming up, it's the plant that keeps on giving. In the end I was smoking this for about 3 weeks before I got to finally get a dry weight yesterday which was 7.5 tip not including what I smoked over the past three weeks which I estimate at a minimum of 1.5 ozs. So the total yield was 9 oz. This really did knock my socks off. I thought I'd get 7 in my dreams. There was likely a bit more than 9 but I just got too stoned to keep track properly. Buds are covered in crystal and the quality extended all the way down the branch, they are hard and dense and fluff out well. Unfortunately if I'd had known this was going to be such a big yield I'd have kept better records of what I used, when I say 9 oz that's because there was 7.5 a couple of days ago curing, and I'm estimating 1.5 oz smoked over the past three weeks, I'm allowing 1/2 oz per week for the past three weeks but in reality I've smoked more than that. per week so 9 oz is an absolute minimum the actual figure is more like 10 oz. The stone is exceedingly stoned but mellow, you forget how stoned you are. Does not cause too much munchie problem or dry mouth. Lots of flavour when used with the FireFly 2 and the flavours are still changing, but I'd call it herbal. The defoliating scrog and hydro set up made it easy to deal with but I can see this plant causing some difficulties for those not experienced in dealing with a bushy plant prone to mould. The Viparspectra did a pretty sweet job, using an average of about 270W at the wall.000