Lemon AK + Zkittlez Autoflowers

So I ended up with 2 outdoor plants and one indoor. Of the 2 outdoor, one was somewhat spindly and I started a routine of giving her about 20 hours of light a day, about half LED and half daylight. She ended up being the tallest of the 4. Still spindly compared to the other 2 outdoor girls (one was a Zkittlez) which grew quite bushy. So there was no problem with light getting to buds on that girl. On the outside girl, the buds were so dense it was difficult to remove all the fav leaves without pulling the buds apart so we'll leave that for later and attack with something sharp. The indoor girl almost seemed stickiest and I left her outside the tent overnight to get an extra 12 hours of dark cycle to finish off. The other 3 girls I more or less pruned the majority of fan leaves off yesterday evening at sunset. One more difference amongst this group of plants - I washed all of the plants EXCEPT the indoor Lemon AK... mainly because I want to refresh my memory how long it takes to dry a plant that hasn't been washed (I think my washed plants actually dry faster) - and since she was never really outside except for some photos she hasn't got the debris that some of the outside girls accumulate. Once everything is dried and cured I'll update with weights and more pictures. Sticky stuff. ======================================================================== July 13 -> Got all the way thru trimming the outdoor Lemon AK this evening and added pics. Didn't even realize the weight between buds and trim was almost identical at about 77 grams... so I'm guessing I'll end up correct in that the Zkittlez will end up the heaviest of all the autoflowers I grew because I think the outdoor Lemon was the heaviest of those 3. Won't have time to trim the other 2 Lemon AKs until tomorrow evening or Monday - golf takes over tomorrow. This retirement stuff is hell. 😆 July 14 -> Played golf respectably but not going to scare anybody. Still rebuilding my swing post-surgery. Had fun in great weather. Returned to another favorite passion. Trimming cannabis plants. Tedious perhaps at times... especially when you get down to that point of no return and you decide to just call the rest trim because you're too tired to go further looking at what's in front of you. Then when I updated the diary this evening all the captions were gone from the photos so I had to recreate that from memory. 😳 The big story of the day is the weight on spindly girl - she kicked ass. I thought outdoor Lemon AK would be the heaviest of the AKs, but spindly girl came in with 84 grams on the buds and 81 grams on the trim... both higher than outdoor girl. Spindly was noticeably drier when trimming - with just that one extra day. Stalks would snap pretty easy. Checking the dryness of this stuff it seems under 55% at present so we'll be curing it a couple months essentially with Boveda packs at 62% humidity in CVault containers. So I still have one Lemon AK hanging.... the (indoor) girl I didn't wash. No doubt in my mind she's not as dry as everything I've trimmed to date. Stems still won't snap... but she's close... glad she's not ready yet because I'm tired. There must be something in my washing procedure which acts as an astringent on the plants that get washed causing them to dry quicker than something that wasn't washed. Gotta be either the Hydrogen Peroxide or the baking soda/lemon juice. I think I'll be able to trim that baby either tomorrow or the next day and do a final update on the diary with total weights. ======================================================================= July 15 -> We be done... at least with this batch of auto-flowers. The last of the 3 was quite dry when I went to trim it. Many of the buds practically fell apart on trim. It also reminded me of what the difference is between indoor and outdoor grows. Final weights > Outdoor Lemon AK > Buds 77g and trim 77g Spindly Lemon AK > Buds 84g and trim 82g Indoor Lemon AK > Buds 31g and trim 38g July 16 -> Added photos of kief and buds. There was an amazing amount of kief on these Lemon AK's. Even the fan leaves that were trimmed off were coated in sugar, so we'll probably get a good run of hash from this trim. The amount of kief came in at 2.75 grams. I basically rolled the trim over the screen in the bottom of my trim bin before storing.