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Sour Crack #1 - First Grow

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Indoor
Room Type
LST
weeks Technique
Defoliation
weeks Technique
Soil
Grow medium
Strain
Sour Crack
Mephisto Genetics
Growing it
Normal
Resistance
Strong
Day 58 - Just cut her, will update with more details after drying and tasting. :-D Day 63 - Just for kicks I lit up a dry, uncured bud. Surprisingly not harsh! (Cured will be better lol) Tasted like lemons and weed. Didn't seem too terribly potent at first. Kinda crept up on me. Then I went to stand up and get some coffee and the three minutes it took to get the coffee felt more like twenty minutes of slideshow. When I was standing in one place I was there, and when I'd walk to another spot there was kinda no transition between the first location (Coffee machine) and the second (Counter). The more I walked around, the more blitzed I became. SO, who this strain was experimentally grown for, had some. Every time she has used Cannabis, she has edged very near a panic attack. We really wanted to find a strain to keep her mellow rather than increase her anxiety. Her in media res review - "It Feels Like I'm Floaaaaaating away onna Clooooud." Her post-experience review - "It was intense but I didn't feel like I was going to lose it." So yeah, high praise. Sour Crack is great, and will be SO's Daily Driver. (Actually let's say monthly or biweekly because we don't smoke much.) She is exactly as advertised, done in 55-65 days, small, potent buds, 1-2oz yield, calm high, lemony. Exactly what the household ordered. All of this said with mostly dried, uncured buds.
The Outcome
Week 9
Harvest
What's on the scales?
45.3592
gram
ounce
Bud dry weight
What's on the scales?
275.557
gram
ounce
Bud wet weight
Harvested
1
Number of plants harvested
Grow Room
0.0065
ft²
Grow Room size
6978.34
g / m²
45.36
g / plant
153.85
plant / m²
Tastes like
Citrus
Pine
Sour
Feels like
100% Sativa 0% Indica

Positive effects

Creative
Euphoric
Relaxed

Negative effects

Dry eyes
Reviews. Nutrient
Only used a tiny bit of the P/K as I had a probable nutrient lockout and overdose due to listening to a guy at a store rather than reading the feeding schedule from the manufacturer. I'm sure it works well.
If her root bulb is any sign this stuff is amazing! This little plant, recommended and bred for 2.5 gallon pots in a SOG filled an entire six gallon pot! As this is my first grow, I don't know what all of the contributing factors are, but this was certainly one of them.
This is what I fed her after day 35 or so. Was easy on nutrients until she started flowering as the Great Lakes Water Only soil I was growing in is full of good stuff already. I ended up causing a probable nutrient lockout before that and she suffered some discoloration to her leaves that stayed with her through to the end, but that had nothing to do with this stuff, which I think carried her across the finish line.
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Hexus Hexus
6 years ago
Day 58 - First Grow. First plant. 272.16 Grams I dinged her up pretty good around days 35-40 or so, which were pretty crucial days in a 55-60 day plant, but it seems like the damage was primarily cosmetic as she came through with what seems to me like a whole lot of bud, that looks pretty good up close. Most of the damage seemed to have been to her fan leaves*, and all of those were still supple and looked good on the bottoms, so there was still some good action happening inside her. Her wet weight (With stems) is 272.16 Grams. I don't know how much they weigh, but my hope is to get 1.5 ounces out of her. I'm fairly certain that I'll get more than 1oz. For a plant with a claimed harvest of 30-60 grams, I am a happy camper for a first timer. I'll do better next time! This gal is about a week older than her sisters in the grow, and most of the worst mistakes I have made have been with her, so onward and upward! She's drying now, with most of her sugar leaves attached and a tiny bit of fan leaves hanging off of her to slow her dry. Our RH is in the 20s and 30s right now and it's hard to keep up so slowing down her dry is critical. She's in an 18x18x24 inch moving box. Some holes poked into the sides, hanging from some paracord. (She was so heavy I wanted 550lb test line har har etc.) So now we wait and watch her dry out. Will read more about drying and make sure her conditions are as optimal as they can be. So basically I'M IN. This is a thing I can do and not get bored. Every step is interesting and I'm constantly trying to figure ways out to make thing easier and better. I'm an obsessive tinkerer and optimizer and this is one more thing that has nearly endless putzing around potential. My goal, after this full grow is harvested, is to go through my whole process (Was well documented) and cut out every dead end and mistake, and creating as simple a grow plan as possible. Things like learning that nutrients are an endless rabbit hole for salespeople to send a newbie down, how not to panic and make big, drastic moves. How to wait a couple days and see before acting. It's a good general patience training exercise. I've come out of the first grow having learned about 30 things to never do again, and still managed to come out with what looks like a damned decent crop, so yay me, and yay people here on Growdiaries, /r/autoflowers /r/mephheads and /r/microgrowery who were instrumental getting me through this with some dignity. :-D I'll update the harvest when she's dry and I've tasted a lil' sump'n. After giving her the pre-cut haircut we were kind of amazed at how healthy she looked underneath her beat up top layer of foliage! Day 61 - Due to a horrible unforseen humidity issue she ended up pretty damned dry in three days. Not super dry, just pretty dry. Dry enough to cure. Trimmed the buds (First time trimming, be easy on me.) and weighed them. 44.75 Grams! AKA 1.6oz! My hope was to get 1.5 or better out of this girl. She yields between 30-60 grams and for a first grow, smak dab int the middle of an average yield means I didn't screw up too badly! Can only get better from here, right? So huzzah!00
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Kinimod
Kinimodweek 5
Why you give the pk 13/14 now ?
Hexus
Hexus
@@Kinimod, Word. Sour Crack is usually done in 8 weeks so maybe that's why I got that advice.
Kinimod
Kinimod
@Hexus, I use the pk during week 6 for plants of 9-10 weekend, I had never heard of this technique, I hope it will give you a good result 🤞
Hexus
Hexus
@@@Kinimod, I was told to use p/k during. The first week of flower. Bad idea? It's the only nutrient I'll be using during the grow apart from Bio Root.
Philindicus
Philindicusweek 9
Great job, looking forward to your smoke report. You should grow it again in the future.
Hexus
Hexus
@Philindicus, Oh I think I will! :-D And thanks!
Budcoin
Budcoinweek 8
Looking great brother, my sc is at 44 days eek!!!
Hexus
Hexus
@Budcoin, I was super close to scheduling her chop for tomorrow. Going to give her until Sunday, which will be day 55 exactly. Her leaves are fading and her trichomes are maybe a third amber. Thinking I'm going to remove fan leaves and chop her as one piece. Just hang the whole kit and kaboodle up. Our RH in the house is 20-25% in the winter and I want to slow her dry as much as I can. Pics will of course be incoming. :-D Will take pics, prune all of her fans, take more pics, chop her, hang her, take more pics. :-D Won't be able to get a wet weight with a whole plant hang but I'll weigh her anyway. By the way yours looks super frosty! Sorry for the mishap. Mine had one, too, last week. Dunno what caused her to go all yellow, but I have suspicions*. A flush fixed her though and her discolored leaves didn't die or shrivel so *Shrug*. *Her first two doses of P/K were me listening to the dude at the grow shop and not reading the bottle. Gave her 15ml of P/K per gallon for three feedings. She didn't get what you would call a regular nutrient burn, so the symptoms were confusing. Someone else said PH lockout, which it certainly looked like, but I had been measuring PH both in and out of the plant. But hey, as I said, flush fixed her so here we are. I think I'm gonna be hitting the higher end of the yield size for her strain. At least I'm hoping so. If I manage 1.5oz I'll feel like I have hero level first grow and retire forever... Or not. :-D Happy Growing!
ArucambaAutoflowers297
ArucambaAutoflowers297week 7
Hey there Hexus, have you tested her runoff? Ph could be too low, if youre using good soil calcium or magnesium or any other secondary nutrient deficiency doesnt happen too often. I usually flush if i have any issues unless im sure my soil ph is correct. I suggest to check your soil on time before its too late :) If indeed your ph is off balance flush with twice the amount of your potsize. Let the soil dry thoroughly and follow with a friendly dose of nutrients. Lets hope this isnt necessary. Looking great for a first grow
Hexus
Hexus
@ArucambaAutoflowers297, I really appreciate the help! PH is 6.15 going in, and 6.8 coming back out. Been pretty obsessive on PH. The next time she's dry she's getting a flush either way, and then a 1 tsp/gallon dose of cal mag, which should fix her if that is the problem, and won't hurt her if it isn't. I kind of have it down to one of two (Four) problems at this point, all of which will be solved by the flush, but it'd be good to know the actual cause. 1. I listened to the dude at the grow store who told me to hit the plant with Canna P/K 13/14 at 12-15ml/Gallon for the first week of flower. I did three waterings this way and stopped after five days. So there may be an overdose of P/K. But it's been a really slow, creeping up symptom so I wasn't as sure about it. 2. It *looks* like symptoms of Cal/Mag. Older leaves are getting paler with brown spots, new growth is fairly pale, and slow. 3. She's right in the middle of her last two/three weeks as well, which might be a contributing factor. 4. I actually am just guessing and making a fool on myself, and have no idea. Here's a pic in natural light in case it can help. https://i.imgur.com/n5OMp5d.jpg Again, really appreciate the feedback! EDIT - RE: Natural light pic - I do not spray my leaves with water. This is the first time ever, with the folair cal/mag, and it's not in direct light. Just making that clear.
HighTV
HighTVweek 1
I'm liking the pictures so far 😄
Hexus
Hexus
@HighTV, Thanks so much! Just added a bunch more!
Budcoin
Budcoinweek 4
Hey brother I am on week 4 of sour crack, yours is looking good, will follow 🌱👌
Budcoin
Budcoinweek 9
Great grow!!! Will follow future grows 👌 I just started forum stomper