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i had to go out of town the weekend right after i germinated, so i rigged up an automatic irrigation system that would water it once in between when i was away. Worked like a charm, when i came back from NYC, all my seeds had broken through the soil
Had to go to new orleans for 5 days, my auto-irrigation setup failed and was barely giving water to the plants , they grew slower than they could have, so i may have stunted a bit of their growth this week. Despite that, they seem healthy and buds are on one of them are starting to mature. The other 3 are close behind.
I posted a video of the timelapse during the time that my auto-irrigation failed. You can see the spurts of growth from a faulty irrigator only releasing a miniscule amount of water. This resulted in the plant slowly wilting, then exploding in growth when a tiny amount of water was released. (about a cup every two days, for about a week.)
Otherwise, been watering when pots dry out, then a full runofof fill
carbon filtered tap water (un-phed) treated with 3mg per gallon cal-mag suppemented
Besides that, no nutrients have been added because I've been using FFOF, and the soil is WAY too hot. Will not use again
Gave a small dose (1mg) of tigerbloom. vegetative growth has slowed, but buds are preparing to fatten up. the smell is sweet and pleasant. not permeating throughout the house though, its contained to the tent.
They are growing very short and bushy, Its hard to tell where the main stem even is anymore from all the LST.
got a digital microscope -- including some cool pictures of trichome development on the most mature plant
vertical growth has really slowed, and buds just seem to be fattening up every day. Posted a picture of the stark difference in phenotypes for these seeds. I am a scientist by career -- and although not a master cannabis grower, i was super careful to keep variables across all four plants exactly the same. Check out the difference in one of the photos -- it is a picture of the bushiest plant versus the lankiest that just didnt want to branch out. You can also see the difference in flowering stage. Once again, all four plants were treated exactly the same.
these are getting pretty pungent, and even touching them makes your hands reek for a while!
one of the plants (this one has been far ahead in maturity since the beginning) has started to burn pistils and has some amber trichromes, so im gonna keep my eye on that
I had to do a lot of defoliation because im having some nutrient deficiencies, which i think that I've tracked down to a PH problem. Will see in the coming days.
not much new this week, growth has pretty much come to a complete halt.
just waiting for buds to ripen at this point! Have stopped all nutrients and will water with only water until harvest
So a few notes I noticed about this strain:
Phenotype differences vary greatly. All four plants had distinct personalities of their own. (and therefore deficiencies and needs of their own) Harvest time varied from the most aggressively growing plant to the slowest by about two weeks. These things made it a little more challenging for a first time grower. Was able to harvest quality bud from all four plants though
Even though they're autos, they grew much smaller than I thought they would in 3gal pots. I harvested an average of about 15-20 grams per plant. Their root systems were a little underwhelming. Not sure if I was doing anything wrong here. My best conclusion is that my LST was a little too aggressive on these, and I could have used a bit more light...They really did not respond well to the LST though....
The high is very pleasant, typically sativa. Definitely potent.
The smell was lost a few weeks into flowering, and during drying, they really stunk of hay. I was really concerned at first that i did something wrong....but after properly drying the smell came back. and after grinding up some for a test, the smell is amazing, and has a STRONG citrus scent. I've never smelled such citrus/orange/lemon in weed before. Very cool.
Overall, I'm very proud and will be growing again in the fall!
I probably won't grow this strain again, just due to the growing difficulties, short lifespan, and low yield, although the bud is definitely quality. I learned a lot as this was my first grow, and the next I'm hoping for better yield quantities.
That'll hold you over to start another grow. And if the quality is nice then all is good. I dont think it was the lst. I think it was the soil. Autos have short life so they need to hit the world in ideal conditions to take off. Hot soil will slow that down and rob u of explosive growth time. My plants don't smell like anything but grass still?
Congrats on your harvest bro.
@capogino, my medium is coco coir. Less buffer than soil so ph has to be on point. It's inert so the plant only gets what you give. But it's sort of a passive hydro. With good drainage so its almost impossible to overwater. It's amazing.
@capogino, my medium is coco coir. Less buffer than soil so ph has to be a lil more on point but it's amazing medium. What you give is what the plants get
@capogino, yeah i have the same type of variances. Im giving full spectrum the entire grow. I plan on switching to bloom nutes when i see preflowers..
Man i dunno why i haven't thought of a long skinny spout watering can. Jus looked some up and that'd be perfect.!
@Mr_Ewell, thats interesting, my phenotypes are definitely noticeable...seems these seeds have high genetic variance then. 3/4 of my plants have nicely reacted to the LST and yea there are a lot of bud sites. One of them however just tried to shoot up and never really branched out, its just developing one fat cola despite the LST. Hard to see in my pics, ill see if i can upload one of it. My waterings are also really hard, but i bought a long-spout watering can that made it much easier.
I took a look at your diary and nothing seems too wrong, although the shapes are much different than the way mine grew. Just make sure you're pulling that main top below the other branches when you do the lst, it forces the plant to rush hormones to the branch sites and pump up the other tops. Im doing 24 hours of light and maybe thats why you're a little taller? Also noticed your light is a bit less powerful than mine, im running 450W (advertised) LED
@capogino, im at 25 days from sprout. And ive done alot of research about different mediums which sent me to coco/perlite with distilled water so i know exactly what they're getting. My plants are having the opposite struggle. They were getting tall. Not from light stretch jus seems like i have two different phenotypes. 3 are tall while 2 are short n bushy. Lstd the shit outta them which is giving me a massive headache at waterings. I do give 4 hours of dark which may have contributed to the length. Yu have tons of bud sites. Your plants are gonna look like they're all buds in a couple of weeks.
@Mr_Ewell,
awesome, they are quality seeds, i had 4/5 germinate, and all 4 very healthy. They are much shorter/smaller than I imagined, but the smell of the buds is heavenly...definitely a sweeter citrus smell. Also, they seem to be very sensitive to this fox farms soil, i have struggled with nute burn from these soils as they are really 'hot.' I would really recommend doing the most research into your soil mix, getting a really mild base, and adding some pearlite plus some dolomite lime for ph stabilization.
(i didnt do this and ive continually struggled with soil issues)
capogino
