Summer Experiment #1: 1L Auto Amnesia

So since I can't wait for the weather to get over itself and warm up already, I've decided to start my two experimental grows inside in a makeshift corner of my room, since I can't be assed setting up the entire tent for just a few weeks. I am starting these ladies under a 150w COB(3x 50W), matched up to the sun hours outside. I plan on topping these babies, really just aiming to make maybe 4 fat tops from this little 1L pot, I plan on growing the Summer Experiments on my balcony, in order for the plants to take advantage of the way the light hits them, they need to be trained and kept at a similar height. Will definately be a challenge, but I'm excited! My main grow this summer will be 6x 10L Air Pot Autos and 1-2x Photo period straight soil(ground) grow! Seed germed after just 24 hours in a dvd case(wet paper towel) and sprouted 36 hours later! The growth so far is a little behind the her Zkittles Auto BFF, but still just as good as my first grow, so I'm happy. However this Amnesia wouldn't stop stretching until I lowered the lights to 20 inches! I overestimated the power of the COBs, and had them way too high for the first 2-3 days as I was finding the right spot. Week 1 Summary: Going great so far! Everything looks good! 😎

Day 8-10:I decided to get a small humidifier as it dropped to 20% RH a few times at the start of the week. Now it's sitting at a nice 50-60%, and it's a tad cooler. Day 11-14:I have hardly been giving them any water this week as I wanted to give them(this Amnesia and her sister Zkittlez) their first big one at the end of week 2(Day 14). I upped the dose of rhiz to 3/4 strength and watered until runoff(about 400ml), and I won't water them again for atleast 3-4 days, depending how fast they drink that up. This Amnesia Auto has been lagging behind her Zkittlez sister but nothing I'm too worried about. Still waiting to put these outside! I'm thinking earliest I can put them out is probably end of the month... Week 2 Summary: Environment is in better condition than before. This Amnesia is lagging behind her sister Zkittlez by about 1 day but nothing to worry about! If she reaches 5 nodes by the end of this week i'm planning on topping both the 1 liters above the 3rd node, and cutting the first node off, so I can get a mini-mainline on and go for 4 fat colas!

Day 15-18: She's continued to lag behind her Zkittlez sister, and I think it might be because it's trying to push out too much at once! Not sur, but her new growth has an abnormally large nub stack of new leaves(nodes forming) in her center. Very wierd, never seen anything like it, or I've never noticed it. I decided not to top her at the same time as the Zkittlez due to lagging behind. Day 19-21: I couldn't resist topping her on day 19. My reasoning being; I think she's going to need up to 48 hours to recover so I'd rather do it now than wait another day, this is an autoflower after all. Also gave a few of these seeds to a friend of mine in the caribbean and they got chewed up by some animal as sprouts and STILL managed to somehow shoot off branches and he's got nice tiny LST'd amnesia bushes! will prob yield about 2-3 ozs off those 2 lil attack survivor plants going by his pictures! So if his amnesia's survived that I think mine should handle the early topping just fine! Been keeping these on a strict wet/dry cycle and they seem to be loving it. I fed em today with a 1/4 strength veg feed. Let's hope they like it! Week 3 Summary: Lagged behind but decided to top anyway! She's recovered about 48 hours later and have been keeping plants on a wet/dry cycle. Fed on day 21 with veg nutes at 1/4 strength. On to week 4!

Week 4 Summary: Really sad to say, but nothing really new to report on. She seems to be drinking her feeds just as quickly as the other 1L Zkittlez, but her growth has pretty much slowed to a crawl... Hoping to get atleast a few smokes off her lol... On to week 5!!

Day 29-32: So after putting the plants outside(on day 28 for these 1 liters), it didn't even take 24 hours for the bugs to rush them! At first I discovered conolnizer winged aphids and also some normal black aphids! The plants were just transitioning to flower so they were crawling up in between the newly forming bud spots! Very nasty thought to smoke that much aphids! I didn't include any pics of the 1 liters because compared to the 3 liters they were showing the best signs of control after numerous sprays with neem oil/water mix at first and then a few days later followed by a water/alcohol mix. The water/alcohol mix seems to finally have done the trick on day 32! After giving them a real good dousing and moving them to the windy side of the house they seem to be more or less bug free! Praise to the heavens! Day 33-35: I check for new pests daily and pick off any i find, but it's been looking very promising so far! On day 34(thursday 06.06) we had a massive cold snap! Temperature dropped to 14 C after being 28 C the previous day lmao... And at night it dropped down to 11 C... My main run just started in te 10L airpots and they were on day 4 when they cold snap hit! Lmao they are being tested right off the bat! This Amnesia is already stunted so I can't tell if the cold has done it any harm lol... Ended the week off with a 24 degree day on friday again. But we're going to keep getting colder nights for a while... looks like another 2 weeks or so... Also started to feed with 1/4 strength bloom nutes! And holding off on the calmg until I see signs they need it now that they are in the sun! Week 5 Summary: Put plants outside! Had pests within 24 hours! Sprayed with neem/water followed by Water/alcohol a few days later and it seems to have worked atleast for the 1 liter plants! Had a cold snap toward the end of the week and the future looks cold(at night) and rather wet as lots of thunderstorms are forcasted the next 2 weeks!

Sorry for late update, was too busy atm. Week 6 Summary: upped her nutes a bit, and added one dose of calmag! Shitty weather with around 12 degree celcius nights and 80% RH... supposed to get a bit better next week. She's already stunted but she's doing her best!

Week 7 Summary: Weather has gotten a bit warmer so she loved that for sure! Noticed some burnt tips so I decided, since she drinks her pot dry within 24 hours when it's nice out, that I would water in rotation, once day with nutes, then one without, and so on. So far she seemed to be responding positively just like the Zkittlez!

Week 8 Summary: Weather has been great again this week! She's loving it! Supposedly it will get a bit colder again the following few weeks 😓 Let's get this baby to the finish line! By the looks of her here I'd say this Amnesia will probably go to 75-80 days! On to week 9!

Week 9 Summary: Damn weather decided to take a turn for the worse once again, and will be even worse next week with proper rain storms and shit... hot damn just ain't catching a break this year it seems. Worried about this one geting mold with the cold humid conditions coming up, since her buds are so close together... Anyway! On to week 10!