Auto Orange Bud Shallow Water Culture

Soaked seed in water 24 hours, then paper towel then plug when popped. Otherwise nothing unusual. she sat under a ChilLed puck at 50W and 200ppm

Daily shots for week two, upped the ppm to about 700 after the first week, everything seems normal.

Things got busy towards the end of the third week, decided to do an early top at the fourth node, it was a bit tight prolly should have waited a couple more days to be safer but it grew out with no problems. This looks like it could be a decent yielder so I'm training for eight main limbs.

This is where it all begins to take off and the serious planning begins. There's eight main branches and this look like she'll spread out well. All caught up now after no updates for 3 weeks, next update May 26th week 5.

This is the week where some life changing (for the plant not me) are usually made, and this was no exception. The heavy rounded pre scrog was removed at the end of the week and replaced with the more permanent scrog that will be fixed in place. I am able to snip this scrog and bend the little bits of wire to make an opening so that I do not have to force the stems under the scrog. This is much less stressful for both the plant and me. There are 8 branches, the lower six are evenly spaced around a circular pattern, the top two have been left to grow straight and I think I'm going to go with this layout and let the top two grow as tall as they will. It's like a hybrid technique between topping and not topping. I've no doubt this plant could produce a pound easily like Think Big, but that is not what I want to do, so that's what I'll be thinking about for the next week, however, the grand plan seems to be unfolding is for two huge colas surrounded by a lower level of buds.

I wanted a more compact plant and she seems to be doing ok so far, I've decided to let the two top branches go straight up and perhaps create a bed of buds around them. I call this one Twin Towers. Moved into a transition nute phase now giving her 1:1:1: MicroGroBloom

The wire net has been cut off and inside the plant it she has been thinned out as I keep in mind I'm not going for the record harvest. I've moved her back under the Viparspectra and she'll be getting even heavier red light later in the grow, because I have two orange buds in another grow in my DIY shallow water culture, and I'll be able to compare the buds. Anyway here's some shots of week 7, the same age as the three in a pot grow (check my diary) but just starting flowering.

A major defoliation then another one a couple of days later. Otherwise everything is proceeding as expected. The Orange Bud is mainly under the very heavy red viparspectra and will be for the rest of blooming so I'll see what effect that has especially compared to my other orange bud grow which will be only under the Mars light (see my DIY shallow water culture grow) She is a little behind in flowering to the three in one pot but both grows are sharing the same reservoir. She looks a bit odd at this stage.

Not much to report this week other than she has been a little disappointing, this was going to be my main girl and the 3 in a pot were the bonus but it's become the other way around. the three in a pot are all stinky and bejewelled but this orange bud seems to be a bit sad. The branches are very stiff and she is a bit crowded in on herself. There'll be another update in a few days it will be time for the 10th week. She is beginning to bud up a bit better though.

A few days late with this, week 11 coming up in a few days. She is starting to look a little better especially over the past few days. Some trichomes are finally starting to appear. She looks completely different to my two other orange buds in my DIY grow.

Finally starting to fatten up, stems are very rigid, I've done a lot of defoliating in order to decongest the plant a bit, especially because I cannot easily bend these stems. But looking good, now I just have to watch out for bud rot. The grow room is smelling delightful.

OK we're at week 13 now as I've been a bit lazy because not much is happening at this stage. She is absolutely chunky and dense with trichomes everywhere but mostly white pistils so now I just wait. I'll update this quickly to week 12 then I'll do week 13 straight away...

OK this is week 13 up to July 20th 2019. There's nothing really happening other than me waiting for the buds to ripen. It does appear to need another 2 weeks to me. We'll see how she goes.

Sorry about the slow update. Week 15 and the chop coming immediately... Colas are surprisingly chunky compared to how feeble they looked at 9 weeks, however I'm now just waiting for them to get properly ripe, and I'll have to keep a close eye on the buds for problems, but they are nicely spread out to get air and the humidity is down. She's now running on 30ppm rainwater as there's plenty of green leaves on her. Leaves are beginning to yellow but trichomes are still mostly clear. You can see that every single branch from top to bottom has the same chunky flowers, there's no loose stuff at all.

Suddenly right at the end of this weeks they looked like they were ready, leaves were yellow and nothing more was happening, it becomes very obvious when it happens. Chopped on 3rd August.

She did not disappoint with with the result, she was easy to chop and there was no larf it's all bud and very juicy.