Black Cream Auto - 1st coco grow

1 of the babies had its root growing upwards. It's a problem if the rooting takes place in rockwool, because it can not turn itself around in there. I have tried to push one back once and it snapped right away. This time I put a clean cotton pad on it in hope it will eventually find its way in the medium 🙏 On the 3rd day I noticed the leaves getting larger, so I decided to move the light closer to the plants. It was about 75 cm, now its about 53 cm from them. Today I also noticed that the coco-perlite mix emits a lot of water. So I gave them some water again even though I gave them water the day before. Then I set up the AIRDOME system and turned it on from now on. Theres one in every pot and I got 2 airpumps pumping oxygen inside the medium. On the 4th day it got a few degrees (C°) warmer outside. So did the inside of my growing room. Opening up windows did not help to bring the air down a few degrees from 30, so I had to make a fresh air intake system. By the end of the day I got the temperature back to 25C° 5th day was still warm outside, so the fresh air intake stayed on. 6th day I switched off the intake, but put it back on later. Most of the room was 25 degrees, but the far corner was too hot. I have a laser thermometer which is very handy for measuring the medium, solution and every surface I need. I have watered them every day since day 3. Some days twice with small amounts - MISTAKE! One of the babies turned droopy and I was shown the limits. No more overwatering! 7th day / ONE FULL WEEK from transplanting them. The droopy one looks very nice again today. Me happy 😊 The week has been full of action to keep the environment as perfect as possible. Tomorrow its fathers day - I hope to make my girls proud 😇

First few weeks are the most crucial in cannabis plants lifecycle. Specially autoflowering strains. Light, heat, water and humidity are the ones that start the growing process, not the nutes nor the medium. The plant forgives you just so many mistakes and sometimes not even.. Unfortunately, this time I had to learn that by making a major mistake. I have been quite stressed about all the new things even before I started. There are so many different factors that could go wrong in a new environment and with an unfamiliar medium/setup. Controlling the temperature seems by far the most tricky one for me. After one week I started to think about connecting the autopots with my brand new flexitank. To do that I separated Black Cream from Blue Dream. I had to split 12 trays under 2 400w HID lamps. That makes 6 trays under one light, which is perfect for connecting the pipes and placing them under the ”sun”. After placing the trays, installing the second light and switching it on, I begun to deal with the piping. The bad news here was that I did not get all the parts from the shop and I had to call it a night. Before I left I took my last glimpse inside the room and I noticed that the temperatures had allready been rising to over +27C. Curious that I am (as much as stupid sometimes), I CLOSED THE ROOM WITH BOTH LIGHTS ON! It was +33C inside the room when I got back and after a while the lights switched off. I was reading everything I found to be useful until I passed out. MORNING IS WISER THAN EVENING Next day I confessed myself I have made a mistake by choosing new lights without cooling. I counted on the fact, that it gets really cold outside and the room where my growing space is, gets really cold too. So I looked up my cooltube, cleaned it, assembled and installed it. It worked perfectly and I got the the temperature back to 28, which is still too hot for weak young plants. Resizing the old - and making a new, bigger intake-valve did not have any effect whatsoever. Time for second confession: my exhaust fan is not enough for my new growing space. In the matter of a few hours I had 2 things on my shopping list (cooltube + exhaust fan) and the shops were already closed. Now I could see that some of the plants take it more serious than the others. Black Cream seems to be less resistant than Blue Dream. They were getting droopy and then I relized that I have forgot to water them while I was busy with the heat and I quickly made a light solution. What a mess! Finally, by the end of the next day I got everything under control. In 3 days I had to: -get 1 new cooltube -assamble 2 cooltubes and install them to a reflector that is not meant for cooltubes -get new exhaust fan thats enough for 6 m3 -get an Y joint for connecting the tubes to exhaust fan -get ventilation pipe -install the new fan -connect cooltubes to fan -make new and resize old fresh air valves -install and connect the autopot system LESSON LEARNED WELL Now for the last 3/4 days its always +25C again and most of the girls look lovely. Unfortunately heat or cold stress in the beginning of an autoflowering strains life might stunt it for good. My Northern Lights auto got cold when I left it outside for a cold night after a hot spring day. It only grew 50 cm and gave 25 grams dried herb. Today I see that some of my girls might have been effected badly by the heat and lack of watering...

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This week was full of waiting. Some of the plants seemed overwatered so I turned off the autopots and emptied the treys from water. Just to be sure.. Hand watering at least a few more weeks.

The girl is flowering nicely. She did stay quite short because of the heat, but the buds seem fine and smell even better. Not the outcome I was waiting for, but I can manage with it.. Hope the quality of the smoke will be phenomenal 😏

Buds seem to grow very nicely despite the fact I had some problems with PH and dosing the nutrients. I love how the buds smell of black currant! Sweet! 👌

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This shiny, purple shaded lady has the aromas of blackcurrant. Throughout the flowering stage I was thinking about summer garden at granny's place. All the buds are covered in a lot of resin and the strong sweet smoke makes one Really high. Me like! I would have liked more yield out of this girl, but I was a beginner with coco, growing indoor autoflower and using autopots. Would not recommend for beginners. 0