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The 3 autos sprouted at 15/06.
They are stretching a bit, so I will slowly give more light and introduce to cloudy weather for one hour.
I’ve been spraying them with a little water 2-3 times a day.
Once the first couple of leaves have grown, I will move the jiffy cups to bigger fabric pots.
So these 3 autos (and 1 photo) keep stretching a bit. I gave them a bit more soil.
Is it okay to leave them outside in the sun already?
It’s around 20 degrees celcius and partially cloudy. Photone says ~400 PPFD with Homemade diffuser.
Planto put in final pots in 1-2 weeks
If its cloudy it will be fine. If its sunny put them in part shade.
If a plant is going to be grown outdoors I like to give them as much sun as possible if the weather is good. It will help them adapt to the light.
Given these where started in doors they will need a small hardening off period. Let them experience the wind and sun in small exposures then work up to longer ones before transplanting them into full sun.
DLI or PPFD from anything that is not a real light meter with a quantum par sensor is just a guesstimate, its not that accurate. its really only accurate when calibrated with a proper light meter. HOWEVER it is consistent, so if it says 400PPFD and they are growing well. aim for that amount, just realize it is not really 400PPFD.
I fuck aorund with alight meter in my honey mints diary aorund week 5, it was nice. I got the reading for my tent and current lights. Also looked at windows aorund me and outside. its cazy how much stronger light is in some areas.
Good Luck!
24/6
I’m letting them be completely outside during the day, but taking them inside during the night (13c nights). A bit too cloudy these days, so they are still stretching.
Will give them another week or so before transplanting them into their final pots (and giving mutes).
I know it was a bit early, but had to do some transplanting. I planted them in 10/12/15L (2,5/3/4 gallon) fabric pots .
Bottom layers of the soil with a bit more nutrients than my regular soil.
PS. I knocked over the purple haze when watering, but we will see how she deals with it :/
30/6
The transplant from the jiffy cups was a bit rough last week, but I think they have recovered and started growing.
I started giving them tiiiiny amounts of organic feed, but I will probably start them on normal nutes soon.
They are still stretching a liiiitle bit, so I added a bit of dirt and staked up critical and northern to see if that has an effect on growth.
They are still a little stunted (I need to fix early seedling stage). Either PH issues or over-/underwatering. With that being said, I think they are doing MUCH better than my first auto grow :)
7/7 Weather hasn’t been great, so these are a little stunted.
Added some more soil due to stretching.
Watering every 2-3 days and giving notes with every other watering.
With autos, is it worth removing the lowest leaves and adding more soil at this point?
I could probably add 5-10cm of soil if I remove/bury the lowest set of leaves.
Worth it or more harm than good?
If yes, remove or just bury them?
Thanks
5 -10 cm is too much, every one or two weeks you can add 1-2 cm lair, not more. autos has short span, no need to rip anything outdoors, you wont win anything. canna is same as tomatoes or potatoes, will create new roots from burried stem, but dont go drastically up, do in levels.
14/7 They are still stunted, but doing fine otherwise. They’ve grown larger than my first batch of autos, so I still have hope.
Northern Lights + Purple Haze have both started preflowering and are showing pistils.
Critical Jack is the same size-ish, but is not showing pistils yet. It is getting 2-3 hours less sun than the rest, so maybe that is why.
As I am still trying to learn the basics, I decided to follow the advice and not top or anything. Will just let them run and trying to figure out the basics.
23/7 a bit late with the update.
All three are in flower now and between 35-45 cm tall. Now the difference in pot size (7.5L-15L) is starting to show a little bit, but overall they could probably all be in larger next year.
Growing good though.
Dealing with pests has been a pain, as they have been visited by hornworms , leaf miners and aphids. Not too affected by it yet.
They have probably also been a liiiittle underfed, as some of the very small lower leaves have turn yellow and wilted.
Critical Jack in particular has also been dropping a bit at the top. It seems it needs much more/ more often waterering than the other 2. Bigger plant and bigger pot.
They are still getting watered every 2-3 days, but we’ve had some sunny days, so a bit more often actually.
They are already 2-3x taller than the last batch, so the slight improvements have helped at least. So I’m hoping for more than 7g per plant 🤞
Hello MumbaTuu,
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Happy Growing Buddy! 💚
29/7
They are doing alright, but the stretch has finished. Would like to see them bulk up a bit.
We’ve been having nice weather, with a few rainy days though.
Critical Jack: 60cm
Northern Lights: 45cm
Purple Haze: 40
They have been watered every other day on average. With organic nutes.
I feel like the pest issues have been managed fairly well, so not seeing a lot of damage.
I dropped the critical jack, so a few branches broke off :/
Hope they Will survive until harvest and yield more than 5g per plant to better my last attempt 😅
06/08
Stretch seems to have halted a bit.
They are all showing yellowing lower leaves, so will try to give a bit more nutes.
Weather has been nice, albeit with a few rainy days. Still getting lots of sun and water every 2-3 days
12/8 We had decent weather.
Still trying to manage a bit of lower leaf yellowing. Erring on the side of caution and skipped the last two nutes and gave them purely water
I am moving house in a week, so I am debating whether to chop them early or have them go through the stress of being bagged in black plastic bags for a few hours. Would love some advice .
I have to move house, so what would you recommend?
A, chop them now ahead of time or
B, have to transport them for ~3h in non-see through plastic bags in a car?
Any other tips for transporting them (non-visibly) are appreciated.
Thanks
If possible transport them.
It's way too early to chop.
Think of what an orange or apple would taste like if you ate it 3 weeks before it was done.
Hope you manage!
21/8 So loads of issues with the 3 x autos 😬
Had to move house, so they had to endure 3 hours in a dark thrash bag and a new environment with harsher conditions and fewer hours in the sun.
I also messed up with the nutes last week, and believe I overdid them. A lot of leaves dried up and died and I had to heavy defoliate - especially the Northern Lights lost almost ALL fan leaves. Could it be early signs of bud rot?
Hopefully some of it is also a sign of the girls nearing the end of their life. NL is super frosty, but trichomes haven’t turned amber yet (a few milky).
Reverted back to water everet 2-3 days with nutes every other watering.
Will continue to evaluate, but any tips are appreciated :)
I think you're safe.
The browning is from the tip of the leaf and that is usually nute burn or sometimes heat.
With early budrot, you will normally see 1 or 2 leaves start to go yellow and then droop and if you pull on them they come off easily and can often see a bit of the fungus on the petiole/stalk of the leaf.
If you catch it then, you can just chop that bud off before it spreads, but will need to keep a close eye.
29/8 I’ve harvested the two other autos, but I will let the critical Jack continue a bit more.
Starting to see some yellowing of the leaves, not sure if it due to the aforementioned nute issues, the move, the new environment or simply just nearing the end of her life cycle.
Got a good watering without nutes yesterday.
Fingers crossed 👍
29/8 Harvested yesterday!
So the leaves were dying and pistils turning brown too. A lot of of milky trichomes and some amber.
Not really sure what went wrong with this, but I suspect some mistakes in nutes and the new environment/moving took a bit of a toll.
Drying will be quite risky, as it is so so so humid where they are now (up to 85% 🤨).
We will see. My guess would be 40 grams WET, but I will weigh when dry.
29/8 Harvested yesterday!
So the leaves were dying and pistils turning brown too. A lot of of milky trichomes and some amber.
Not really sure what went wrong with this, but I suspect some mistakes in nutes and the new environment/moving took a bit of a toll.
Drying will be quite risky, as it is so so so humid where they are now (up to 85% 🤨).
We will see. My guess would be 40 grams WET, but I will weigh when dry
Trying grove bags for the first time. Very humid outside, but it has only stabilized at a RH of ~68 after 48 hours (1 with boveda and 1 without).
Is this an issue or what can I do to bring the RH down further?
Thanks!
68% is to high but it just might be that your sensor is off.
Always check the hygrometer with the "salt calibration" method first. Just google it, it is really simple.
If your living space has a higher humidity then 62% its gonna be impossible to lower the moisture content of the flowers.
Maybe if you stick it in the fridge for a while.
MumbaTuu
