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2 x Red Gorilla Girl XL Auto + 1 Tropicana Poison XL Auto
Apologies, I hadn't time to report and share my experience on the 3rd year of indoor grow.
I even didn't took photos from the beginnings, shame on me!
I finally decide to post the few I did to share with a friend... and I began last week to keep records.
So, this is week 6. but I'm currently on week endig week 9.
Almost the same setup as the previous indoor.
- MyPot (a mix between hydro & areo)
- small tent 60x60x160
- Lumatek ATS 200 PRO, but at 75% or 50%
- Nutrients TA Tripart
- 3 autos from Sweet Seeds,
I changed some part of the setup, I'll explain later on.
Now, I'll prefer to post the next weeks...
So, they streched a lot, I had to bend severely. And so quick, like 5 cms in a day!
They touch the light, I had no more room...
I did a late FIM on 2 of them.... emergency I finally found a way to get the lamp 5 cms higher.
Lukily it has stabilized but still, top of the buds are at 5 cms from light!!!!
That's why I decided to drop the power at 50% and I lower the day light to 16 hours.
Excessive streching, or is it normal?
What should I do to get more control for automatic genettics to avoid streching.
My guess is that this time, with healthy plants, and 3 in the 60x60 tent, they compited for light.
I didn't have a fan and ventilation is poor, would it be that?
If you've no ventilation. Your heat Vs the cold when lights are out causes stretching in pre flower
Keeping the temp within 5-6c is crucial for non stretching durin pre flower..
You could HST on the last few days of pre flower coming in to fattening. Tieing down the nodes (supercropping)
So much to say... I'll come back later and give more details.
I'm so happy, I know it's not perfect but it's my first grow where I'm satisfied and proud!
I correct things from the first 2 tents... I had other issues and I did new mistakes, I learned new things....
01/04/2024
Ok, all pics are now up, I'll go back to past week to give more details on events.
Buds seemed to stop fatenning, not sure if that's ok, but anyway I realized how much resine is produced.
I'm amazed, it's so beautiful!
From today I'll lower progressively the EC adding uniquely water and FlashClean to the tank, I plan to flush around friday and let 5 to 7 more days before cutting.
04/04/2024
A set of night pics and day pics, not the same camera... tried different setup for macro or wide angle, but not so satisfied with the results, beautiful at my eyes but will search tips to improve.
As for the nuts, I have difficulties to lower the EC only by addind water, any way by sunday I will remove the 12L from the bottom tank and flush the the top of the DWC MyPot with 12 L of water EC=0, measure and repeat until I drop under 0.4, then add 12L with the Flash Clean at 3ml/L for the last days before harvest.
IMO it's almost there, I plan to cut around the 12th april, am I right?
As I have 3 plants, and quitre unexperimented, I'm always in doubts for the final, same DWC for all of them, mixed roots inside, same nutirnets, do I have to harvest all at once?
No, you don't have to do it all at once.. but i would be a bit concerned if there is a very long delay from first to last --- dead rotting roots? how long before they die? as long as that isn't an issue, shouldn't be a problem. It will remain alive awhile after it has been chopped down, so there's definitely some leeway there.
Think the middle pic is showing a new wave of pistils vs original growth? if trichomes look good on the non-new calyxes, it might be ready soon.
the others look like they have a while left.. the calyxes are not plump around the pistil - giving the illusion they have shortened, but really it's the plumping around it that is the cause. they do die and coil up of course... a good chunk of them should be by the end.
05/04/2024, last pruning, rapid flush, EC down to 0.9, Falsh Clean @3ml/L, from now to harvest I will refill the tank with water EC 2 (approx. 3L/Day (target EC should be close to 0.3 at cut, Sunday or Monday).
I stopped the heating control, and set day ligth to 14h and will follow decreasing 1h/day, till 8h light only.
10/04/2024 This is amazing, this year no rush to harvest, we can wait and I have to say it seems to us it's still getting fatter!
My issue now is that the humidity has some pics at 100% at night! What could I do?!?!?
11/04/2024 EC dropped at 0.7 by adding only water, pH was up to 6.7 but back to 6.5.
Now 7 days from harvest. 3 plants with cloudy tricomes, no spottted ambar it's fine.
Is necessary to harvest in 2 times? Give a week more for the bottom "popcorn" buds and the third plant, shorter in shadow?
Should I cut whole largest branches entirely, or cut all at same height
I typically only do this for plants that are too close to the lights compared to others, and therefore the ripeness occurs a bit faster at the top than normal. i've tried it in other contexts and i didn't see any meaningful benefit for 3-5 more days for the lowers... the good buds were still where they were expected and the larf was normal relative to how well i trimmed off lower sites early in flower. if i left too much at bottm, that shit is never going to look good, lol, so don't try. focus on the good stuff.
you don't really gain any weight for doing it - a limit to how much can happen in a few days. The only reason would be for concerns related to trichome coloration and your feelings on what is best.
when i have a tall plant that gets close to lights and the top 3-4 big colas at top start turning purple from the lights.. that's when i do it. So that stuff at top isn't 100% amber if i wait for the bulk of trichomes on good nugs lower on the plant to turn the color i want. Typpically levels it out with any other plants..
Well that was a special day, it always make me sad in a way, but this time, I enjoyed the moment a lot.
As I wrote in a reply to a comment, things can always be better, and they are with good decisions at the right time.
This is the middle plant, not planned for this cycle but one of the 3 Tropicana didn't germinate so I took the Gorrilla Girl I had left from the last cycle, and I'm quite thankful for that!
It's so nice to have these geneti contrasts, colors, aromas, shapes.
Many thanks for all the help you gave, precious.
19/04/2024 lower popcorn buds seems dried already! But still branches don't crack on bends. Will check again on Monday.
Well that was a special day, it always make me sad in a way, but this time, I enjoyed the moment a lot.
As I wrote in a reply to a comment, things can always be better, and they are with good decisions at the right time.
These are the smallest and the biggesr plant, one seed didn't germenated and that's why I had to put a Red Gorilla.
Not sure I will try a main mlinning on auto flowering strains any more.... but I think I did it wrong, first I took the one that seemed less strong for the experiment, and having 2 other plants to compete for lights.
FIM is definetly a technique I will reuse if needed.
It's so nice to have these genetic contrasts, colors, aromas, shapes.
Many thanks for all the help you gave, precious.
19/04/2024 lower popcorn buds seems dried already! But still branches don't crack on bends. Will check again on Monday.
I finally have received, lately a portable microscope, will be more ususeful next year! But this confirms that lower buds might have need more maturity but did the choice to not over complicate by harvesting in 2 times, my indoor tent is also my drying tent, and I wouldn't have any other place to dry the upper buds separetly while allowing the remaining to harvvest with more maturity.
In general I think I might have began the Final part too early.
BTW, we smoked the popcorn bud, and it's very promissing, we liked it.
Kannamar
