When Life Gives You A Lemon

I started these on Wednesday by soaking overnight and then putting in Fox Farm Ocean Forest potting soil. 1 germinated right away, the other seems to be a dud. The plan is to transplant into a 5 gallon fabric pot. My first auto! From the Barneys Farm website: "The collaboration produced CBD/THC ratios at 2:1; with Cannabidiol content (CBD) up to 15% and a delicious autoflowering CBD enriched strain, combining a Barneys Farm Lemon Kush x CBD Crew CBD enriched x Auto. CBD LEMON POTION AUTO™️ is a generous bushy plant that grows to just under 1 meter tall. Resin dripping buds cluster tightly together on all branches with an intense spicy lemon fragrances ooze from the plant." Looking forward to tasting this strain which I'm guessing is dominant in Limonene and Myrcene.

Transplanted to the Root Pouch and out in the garden with the big girls! I used a little Fox Farm Ocean Forest and the majority of the soil is the Coast of Maine blend that's pictured.

So this sad little baby is definitely having some nute issues, therefore I gave it a little lime water this morning to hopefully balance whatever uptake problems it's having. I had to put tomato cages in with the autos because my evil 😼 was trying to take a 💩 in them. Heat wave is moving through.

I've come to the conclusion that I'm dealing with an Iron issue with this one. Giving it more Calcium in the lime water probably wasn't the best idea, though I thought it would help stabilize the PH. Hard to tell if it's an excess or deficiency. I figured it would be an excess since we have a high amount of iron in our water. So, I think my best course of action is flushing with some sledgehammer first of all. That's what seems to be the recommended course of action. Then we can top dress with some Coast of Maine 5-2-4 for a good round amount of nutrition and hopefully that will help it out of it's funk so it can recover before it's too late😳.

This poor girl. She doesn't look great but she's still trying. I'm hoping that even though the new growth doesn't look great that hopefully she can continue growing and push through. I think the flush last week helped. But I think I need to move her into more direct light, because I had her sort of tucked behind the larger plants photos because I was worried about her being weak, but given how leggy she's become since she was pinched I think she needs to go back into direct light and then she might do better. Fingers crossed🙏

This little lady is looking more hopeful this week. I moved her (well, all of the autos) further away from the photos so she could get more direct sun. She doesn't look great, but I feel like she's working through. The newer leaves are still pretty yellow, but at least they aren't contorted and there's no horrible brown spots or anything. I gave her some of the Coast of Maine 5-2-4 around her base so hopefully she'll gobble some of that up and will look better next week when she'll have gone to flower. Stay tuned!

I know, I know, she looks like hell. Yeah, it's embarassing. But you know what? I'm just going to let her be and see what happens. I'm feeding her like everyone else. I've got a finicky strain. I had a High Amperage who never fully recovered from transplant shock last year that still put out flower. So we'll see what happens. She's trying to work through.

Yep, she's still yellow. That's why there's "Lemon" in the name😂 Definitely acting like a lemon! I'm considering going out this afternoon and top dressing her with some home compost and adding clover. It'll be an experiment. Clover sequesters Nitrogen. I mean at this point it wouldn't be a total loss. I think it's worth it to see if the experiment works.

Still looks like crap but I'm letting her do her thing. I didn't have the heart to cull it, and I wanted to see how resilient this girl could be. I top dressed her and gave her some nutes. She's looking better than she did so that's encouraging. We'll see what happens in the next couple weeks until she finishes.

Well, I have to admit I didn't think she was going to make it this far. But with some patience she has actually turned into something. She's still pretty yellow (That must be the "Lemon"!😆) but, like most of the previous weeks she is looking better. At this point anything is a win. I gave her a chance and slowly but surely she's been working things out. I just hope she finishes before it gets too cold!😨

All I can say is I'm glad I gave this girl a chance. She has come around in the past couple weeks and is looking so much better. She's losing that sickly yellow and there's more green coming into her leaves. She won't be anything impressive and some people may not have thought it was worth the trouble, but I think she's a testament to resilience.

This little lady continues to improve every week. She's getting more color and a little bit of sugar on her leaves. I'm just tickled that she's improved this much. I think 99% of the other growers would have put her out of her misery, but I'm too stubborn I guess. I wanted to give her a chance. Well, I guess that's the same case with unwanted animals, since I have too many of those (37, but who's counting? Oh and don't forget the beehive...) I have no idea when she'll finish. Barney's says 10 weeks but we're past that and still have a way to go.

She's still going! I have no idea what's going to happen, but I'll continue feeding her. She's nothing special to look at but that's fine. I was removing a withered fan leaf and I ripped off one of the flowers with it so I feel horrible. I put her under the roof in the Cure's place since that got chopped. I don't know what else to report. I'm still nursing her along, and I'll continue to do so until she says she's done.

Welp, this one was definitely a lemon😅 The plant didn't even weigh a whole ounce (.99, really?!) She could have gone longer, but with nighttime lows being in the 30's and her looking like she wasn't taking it very well I decided to give her the chop. This strain started out promising. Germed well and was strong the first few days of it's life, but the second I transplanted it went haywire. I think the high iron in my stream water threw her for a loop. She struggled for several weeks before she showed signs of coming around. Unfortunately by that time the weather was turning. Had she been with someone growing indoors who could monitor her better and make adjustments as needed I think she could have thrived. I would assume that this strain would do it's best indoor/hydro. When it was apparent that she was having serious issues, this was no longer a "How much medicine can I get?" type of diary. It was a "Is this thing going to survive or not?" diary. Which it did, so I guess this is a win?😕 But with this being a difficult strain, I can comfortably say I will not be growing this again. It does have a lovely smell tho😏