2024 Fall Autos Grow

Lemon Cherry Cookies Auto was a fantastic grow, and it had no shortage of challenges. From germination, it started out growing upside down in the rooter with the taproot sticking straight up, and I was able to use tweezers turn it right-side-up and stick it back in the rooter and save it. Then, during LST, I accidentally snapped a branch by trying to put an LST clip on it, and was able to save the branch using painter's tape. When I thought it was ready for harvest, I pulled it out of the tent and gave it no light or water for a couple days, only to realize that I pulled it immaturely, and then put it back in the tent to rejuvenate it. Finally, the past couple weeks have been incredibly hot and humid, yet despite all this, growing in only a 3-gallon pot and sharing the tent with 5 other plants I was able to finally harvest 96.6 g of wet-trimmed bud, and it smells and looks incredible! I love the purple hues, and it even has some pink hues in some of the buds closest to the stems. It was a very sticky harvest, and the fat buds made it easy and relatively quick to trim. Throughout the grow, most of the leaves stayed green, even during late flowering, whereas with all the other plants in the grow tent the leaves started to turn yellow. Also, almost all the other plants showed signs of light stress, whereas this one didn't! Although to be fair this one was also shorter than all the others, probably due to it being heavier of an indica than the others.. It handled topping during week 3 no problem. Harvesting at week 8 as advertised would have been a huge mistake, as for me the size increased tremendously between weeks 8 and 12, and it also took that long for the trichomes to mature. Will update dry weight, smoke report, and tested THC % in the coming weeks after drying and curing.