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Welcome grow pals, to another CBD adventure!
This time we're growing Swiss Dream Auto CBD, by Kannabia Seed Company.
She germinated in 36 hours. Kannabia always seems to germinate super fast for me. I will not complain about that. They must take very good care of their seed stock.
Week 2 went pretty smooth for this girl. I must say I like these new starter pots I'm trying for the first time with her. It's a 4in (1/2L) clear pot, with a silicon bottom for easy transplanting. It's clear, so I can see the roots forming, too. By the looks of them, I will be transplanting her early next week. She will be going in a 5-gallon fabric pot, and will finish outdoors in that pot. I never actually grew cannabis in a pot outdoors before -- always in the ground, so I'm curious how that will go.
This week we only fed her RO water, after the mycorrhizal innoculant last week. We have already been adding endo-myco and Bt to her new pot this past week, to get it ready.
She's doing pretty great as a seedling right now, considering we have our VPD and DLI set to week 4 for a photoperiodic plant she is growing with in the same tent at the moment.
Next week, things will change, as we transplant her and start to acclimate her to the new environment outdoors.
Edit: On the last day of the week, we decided to transplant her as her roots were telling me to. She is still in the tent, but in the aforementioned 5-gallon fabric pot. We will acclimate her to the outdoor weather for a few hours each day this coming week, until she sits out there more permanently the following week, until harvest time.
She's been doing well since transplanting her into a 5-gallon fabric pot last week. Today, on the last day of week 3, we decided to move her outdoors, still in her pot. We'll let her finish her days off there, and hopefully be rewarded with some great CBD bud in autumn.
This week was pretty rough for all of my gardens, indoor and outdoor. We had a heat wave in the triple digits (Fahrenheit) all week, with humidity, at times, over 90% outdoors. However, this plant seemed to not be phased by it. I did have to bring it into my garage on the last day, due to some crazy wind from a nearby tornado. That passed and it's back outside, though. It's progressing quite nicely.
We're two weeks into bloom for this little lady. So far, I believe this plant is the easiest I've ever grown. Why? We haven't done anything to her at all, including let her deal with intense heat without watering, or defoliated any leaves. Instead, we let her grow completely naturally, apart from being in a fabric pot. Still, her leaves are perfectly green. We don't even have any leaf-hopper damage on any of them, which is rare for a low to the ground plant in my garden.
What a beautiful, short autoflowering cultivar!
This plant has given me no trouble whatsoever, and I didn't do a thing to it. It just grows, like the product label said it would.
Mid-week I noticed her thus far perfect leaves were eaten up. I had a feeling I knew what the problem was, and it occurred earlier than usual this year. Those damn cabbage looper moth larvae. I found a few on her. I took a torch lighter to them and watched them fall off, and then I crazily sprayed B.t ssp. kurstaki all over her and the rest of the plants in my garden...for a good hour. We'll repeat as necessary, but for the rest of the week they have seemed to vanish.
She's starting to put on a nice skunky smell this week. I don't think she has much longer now.
She's really stacking up her inflorescence now. According to the average finishing time, she should be about ready right now. Personally, I think she needs another week or two, so we'll let her go for a while longer. She has a nice floral/skunky smell to her, but the bracts just don't look quite ready yet to me. It's okay, as we're in no rush!
She matured pretty quickly from last week. By the second day of week 10, she was looking ready, so we chopped her, and air dried her for 5 days in my garage. I did a rough trim, as she was pretty leafy and time consuming for the quantity harvested. The above pictures are of the top cola only. I didn't finish trimming the lower branches, and they weren't as pretty, so I'll just pluck some leaves off before I smoke it, after it's done curing.
The smell is of lemony pine. Even after open air drying it, it seems to be fairly strong-smelling. I bet it tastes pretty good. We'll let this cure for 4-6 weeks and report back after that.
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