Royal Queen Seeds Royal AK Automatic grow diary (journal) week6 by Willy_Wonka

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Wachsemiliancommentedweek 46 years ago

looks nice madame 😎keep up the great work ...💪have a good one ,till next week

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Ssomeguycommentedweek 16 years ago

Good luck. You seem like you're off to a good start. I can't say anything about those seeds, nutrients or your conditions but I have at least some experience now with growing some plants in fairly varied conditions (generally QUITE hot though, outdoors, some in pots, some in soil) if you feel like asking some questions.

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Ssomeguycommentedweek 16 years ago

Looking at that plant on day 1, I think it's either a very sativa dominant plant, lacking some microbes, related to phosphor uptake or something is just locking out phosphor, if there isn't a phosphor deficiency. I've had some similar looking plants. I would give her something like basalt for mineral variety, compost tea or vermicompost (mainly for microbes for nutrient uptake and aeration with earthworms and such), some sugars/carbs like molasses or whatever, probably some epsom salts and phosphor. Very little of that though (and use similar alternatives if they're available/convenient, it doesn't have to be exactly that, just kinda similar and practical), just to see if there's improvement, if there is, a bit more. If that doesn't help the colour, maybe some more potassium rich stuff. But with a bit of consideration for latent effects. Like some effects are only seen days later. If she yellows (especially in vegetation), some extra nitrogen too. I've used moringa, spirulina, hemp seed powder, urine, random plant debris teas, etc for that and it's worked well. That's only anecdotal advice though, but imo, the worst thing you could do (which a lot of people do) is following some formulaic "advice" where they promote only specific things (NPK, Blue/Red light, BRICS, etc). Also, when she shows her 3rd set of leaves, maybe even 2nd, you have to transplant her. They sense their space, much more than we do, even. I mean, they're not mobile, but they're not stupid. So they've adapted in a way to "knowing" how to respond to conditions. If you touch a plant, 10% of its genetics change within 30 minutes. Different dynamics.

Ssomeguycommented6 years ago

@Willy_Wonka, Hi Andrea, your plant is growing pretty well. I know it's very hard to say, since some strains just tend to have purplish stems and stretch a bit, but the colour, from what I can see, isn't normalizing much there. I really think it's lacking just a bit of phosphor (or something related to phosphor uptake), even something like a few powdered nuts or seeds (if I remember correctly sesame has a good balance of phosphor and potassium, proteins for nitrogen, etc so it's probably a safe option) as feed for the plant could work well for that. And it looks like it possibly has a slight lack of light there. It's cautious advice though. Like, I don't want to outright recommend that stuff just yet, but personally, just based on those photos and similar experiences, that's what I'd be looking at. I recently had a bunch (28) of new seedlings that grew quite stretchy initially because of low light conditions and I've seen the signs of certain kinds of strains and phosphor uptake/deficiency in a bunch of plants. Good luck, happy growing.

Willy_Wonkacommented6 years ago

@@Ssomeguy, the plant is growing well and the stem is no longer red (only the lower part). I think he gets enough nourishment for now and I think I'll start giving her fertilizer starting from the second week. Thank you very much for your advice and your interest.

Ssomeguycommented6 years ago

@Willy_Wonka, The microbes are more of a longer term thing, consistent. Kinda like your gut bacteria and how they process nutrients. Their benefit is to the overall environment. They need the right conditions to get established and sustained, after that (assuming you've got mostly beneficial microbes for the plant) your plant's efficiency increases. But then, as the efficiency increases, more nutrients are used, catalyzed, etc. So you have to give the plants and microbes more nutrients (very dependent on conditions), since the plant is essentially growing faster/better.

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DoDrugs420commentedweek 103 years ago

1 thousand and all the reasons to grow Royal AK Automatic

mjfarmercommentedweek 105 years ago

Looking for Seedbank to send me seeds to grow & test their genetics also upload from seed to harvest proccess

Mr_Weeds_Autoscommentedweek 85 years ago

Nice looking plant .... I just got done harvesting a Northern Lights Auto and a AK-49 Auto myself, now awaiting harvest for my White Widow Auto, check them out if you can, I wish you success with rest of your grow and ...... HAPPY GROWING !!!!

Ssomeguycommentedweek 76 years ago

It looks like it got stunted (possibly due to space earlier) and it also looks like there's nutrient or hormone imbalance causing it to be denser but shorter than it should be. I'm not sure what the causes/fixes are though, since I dunno what soil/nutrients/conditions you have and I'm still quite inexperienced too.

Ssomeguycommentedweek 66 years ago

Looks great, but it seems very short considering the age, hoping it wasn't stunted. Good luck!

Ssomeguycommentedweek 46 years ago

It's looking much better (from the photos) in terms of colour, seems a bit stronger now too. Looks great, good luck! Space at this point is pretty much going to restrict that plant, though.

Ssomeguycommentedweek 36 years ago

Andrea, the plant looks healthy but it looks almost stunted to me, it's going to need more space very soon, it might also be lacking a bit of light. Remember, as the plant grows, it takes the space and the soil, converts the nutrients in the soil into plant matter, so even if you don't transplant it soon, you will have to give it more nutrients (and it's difficult to know what exactly the plant needs) to sustain growth. Good luck.

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