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About 4 weeks from seed. Started flowering 5/13. Started getting some spotting on the lower leaves. Wasn't sure if it was Fungus or Calcium deficiency, Sprayed with a neem solution and added garden lime and it seems to have stopped. Been raining like crazy, I'm thinking the rain flushed most of the calcium from the soil. That or the rain and rising temps started to cause the fungus. Either way it seems to have stopped.
The Fruit Punch had a serious calcium deficiency. Misidentified as a Phosporous deficiency. At that time I gave it plenty of garden lime but that wasn't enough. I ended up stopping the progression of the leaves dying but I'm scared too much died off. I'll try to keep it alive but not keeping my hopes up.
Started to really blow up this week. Lower leaves are dying off, only two weeks left, I hope that it's not too soon for that.
Fruit punch seems to have pulled through the cal mag deficiency. Very little foliage left, hope she still yields well, gonna keep her on a consistent diet until it's time for flush.
Any guesses on how long to harvest. I'm starting to see some gold trichomes glistening in the sunlight, but definitely less than 1%. A good chunch of the calyxes from the side branches are swelling and pistils changing orange, main cola still mostly white pistils.
I'd say two weeks atleast. Wait till you have good amount those golden/amber ones to get that couch lock/narcotic high not paranoia effect that soothes body and mind..
Getting anxiouser. Took a clipping from the bottom. I know, I shouldn't have but I was curious. Flavor was pretty awesome even though it wasn't dried properly and still had chlorophyll. The effects were pretty gnarly too. Can't wait for finished product.
Think I'm gonna go ahead and harvest. Looks like most of the swelling has slowed and most of the pistils have receded into the calyxes. It's not supposed to be a very high yielding strain and it already looks fat for what it's supposed to yield. I'll push the fruit punch a little farther if I can but this will at least hold me over until way after that and together they should keep me good til my photoperiod harvest is done. Then it's gonna be game time and I should have enough ability to judge by eyeballing to not be dissappointed.
Think I'm gonna give the Fruit Punch at least 5 more days. The main cola and another top had to get chopped due to mold. One of the wettest years I've seen in a long time.
Have pushed the Fruit Punch to 77 days so far. Looks like a good number of calyxes still need to fatten. I'd say about 50%. The breeder estimates 70-80 days from seed. The bubble breeder recommended 70 days, but I think I harvested it a little too soon. The smoke is really good and leaves the fruity flavor in my mouth for hours, but I think I lost a lot of yield. The fruit punch definitely has more compact buds, more budsites, and a lot less sugar leaves. I like that.
Night time stuff for sure. Definitely had my ass passing out. I think I may have harvested early cuz it lost a lot of mass after cutting and I smoked it fast. The buds did leave a very delightful fruit flavor on my tongue for hours.
@SortOfNovice, If you can't magnify trichomes then I'd keep her that full 10weeks that seedbank is giving for it's life cycle for auto bubble.
You don't wanna be early and I'd say monday is early wait a week atleast!
Happy growing!
@PatMcCrotch, the Sun is a very good light source. Probably why so different, bugs are probably worse but they don't like this as much as they like my other strains. She also seems to possibly be showing some sort of problem with the leaves since this pic. I'm hoping it's just because it's dying as we are 2 weeks away from 10 weeks.
@SortOfNovice wrote “Flavor was pretty awesome even though it wasn't dried properly and still had chlorophyl”
Isn’t that delectable?! YOU grew that! Nice work.
I recommend vaping for best flavor. Of course for smoking you want a proper cure.
Bear no shame for plucking lower buds. it’s akin to picking ripe tomatoes off the vine. You’re growing the plant. It’s yours. Consume it. Enjoy it fresh, like every other vegetable. Delicious and wonderful!
Super excited, her smell is already pretty pungent. These were freeby seeds I got from GYO. I got another diary started with my regular strains. This is just the Autos. Doing them separate as the length of veg time will be way different. Got the original Northern Lights and White Widow as well as Landraces Hindu Kush and Malawi in that one. Hoping to catch some pollen from the landraces so I can do some legit breeding down the line.
SortOfNovice
