Violet Face Auto

Aircoholic And we're live in 6, 5, 4 days... well after 4 days, but the joke wouldn't work (what joke you ask? nevermind!) Interesting observation on day 1 - Violet Face Auto starts off a little slower than the neighboring Wedding Cheesecake Auto from FastBuds. We'll see how this plays out from here.

Aircoholic Starting with a bit of a slower pace, but nothing to worry. Actually I've seen this same behavior with Rainbow Donut Auto of the previous grow - Rainbow Donut Auto basically took 2 weeks longer to flower than the Fast Buds seed I've grown at the same time. Let's see if the pattern repeats with this grow - she's growing next to a Wedding Cheesecake Auto by Fast Buds, btw. Soil went pretty dry after I was away for 4 days and let's just say, she took that drought much better than the other plants in the same room. She got a good soak and seems really happy with that.

Aircoholic Looks like she recovered alright from the little dry patch in the watering schedule. Her leafs look healthy and vital, so I decided to top her on day 15 - maybe a day or two too early, we'll see. But I didn't just top her, I also removed the two top fan leafs - I'm aware, it's a tricky balance between the loss of energy produced from the leafs vs. giving the new growth underneath more light to stimulate growth. She'll be alright, I've got a good feeling about her! She also received a layer of Mulch on top of the first soil layer. The idea: aiding the microbial life on the soil surface and at the same time reduce evaporation to prevent the top soil layer to dry out too quickly.

Aircoholic So far, so good. She looks healthy and vital, with a lot of growth to the sides of the pot. She seems to have recovered and bounced back from topping alright, although I'm not sure if removing the sunsails was the best idea - it's an interesting experiment, but I probably won't do it again, I just don't see a massive benefit from it with Autos.

Aircoholic She's doing well, but her growth is a bit on the slower side - especially compared to her neighbor (Wedding Cheesecake by Fast Buds). I've attempted LST, but there's not much room for the clips, due to the slow growth. Unfortunately, I hurt her a bit in the process, snapped a young branch - tried to stabilize it with toothpicks and cable ties and also now with a piece of painters tape carefully placed around the wound to give her a bit more stability and prevent drying out. Quite exciting to operate on such a fragile patient. She's not showing signs of pre flower yet, but I top dressed her with some worm castings anyway.

Aircoholic After last weeks accident, this week I completely snapped off a branch, unfortunately. It happened when I tried to remove an LST clip, you can call it accidental topping. The plant grows slow, with very short internodes and a bushy appearance, which makes it super difficult to do any training really. Not sure what's the cause - it could have to do with topping the plant in early veg, it could be genetics. Since Rainbow Donut Auto from last grow performed very similar, I have a tendency to suspect the genetics, but will do one more test with Anesia Seeds (I still got a few of 'em left in the fridge anyway), where I don't top the plant, just to see if they react any differently. Apart from the slow growth, she's looking pretty healthy, showing signs of pre flower, but isn't quite there yet.

Aircoholic She's growing - slow but steady. She's in pre flower, definitely not fully in bloom yet, and the stretch is also still waiting to happen. Still not sure why she's slower and smaller than Wedding Cheesecake Auto next pot, but it doesn't matter now anyway. She takes more time, I feel that. She's super difficult to do LST on, because of her slow and bushy grow - I broke two branches off by accident already, when I tried to remove LST clips on other branches nearby, so I pretty much stopped that and just let her grow however she wants to. Maybe once the stretch starts, I'm gonna be able to train her a little.