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She's stretched a bit toward the light, so I've added support and lowered the light to about 8 inches away. Making a nutrient schedule to implement either the end of this week or the start of the next. Plain ol' waterings til then :)
Added my (approx.) 600w LED board into the tent. This oughtta aid in robust growth. Nutrient feeding schedule coming thursday/friday. Going to be taking a less is more approach with this girl.
Watering with extremely light nutes this week, and going to be hitting them with 1/3 strength the next. Week 6 will likely begin full strength. Still bottled water as far as base water goes.
I've heard topping autos is ill-advised. Any advice on the topic? Should i just let this girl go on naturally or should i top her? I want to milk her for the best yield possible.
You can top autos...but definitely top the ones that are very healthy to begin with, then there's less chance of slowing it way down. The #1 thing that helped me get bigger buds on the autos was cleaning up the bottoms. Right before flowering and right after go through and pluck or cut away any budsites/branches that are gonna be the shady ones, and some leaves too.
Happy growing the plant looks great this week hope the calmag helps it out.✌️
Began feeding with 1/3 strength mutes. Will be feeding mutes twice a week, starting from week 2 in the Fox Farm Soil feeding schedule. If they respond well, I will continue feeding 1/3 strength until week 1/2 of flower. Spotted signs of K def. Or light burn on Sunday the 27th of October.
So she seems to be growing well aside from her lower leaf coloration which is showing signs of deficiency or light burn. Almost positive it's a calmag issue, so once she dries out, I'll hit her with some Calmag plus. No other nutes this week though. Unless she's deficient in something else. Tangerine dream is also showing signs of calcium def.
First sets of pistils were spotted on Sunday and so I decided to make today the official first day of flower for this plant, woot! Gave her a 2/3 str. nute feeding and will be monitoring her closely. This week I added in 5mL of the tiger bloom when I mixed my 1gal of nutes.
Thursday update: Got an Exhale CO2 bag hung up, super excited to see how much they help my plant! On other update news, i decided to do some super-cropping on account of her rigourous growth. One of the branches snapped just a little, but enough for me to get the tape. Other than that, all is well! She's drinking plenty of water every day and I haven't fed her nutes since Monday.
Monday update: Ordered some Exhale CO2 bags for the grow tent that will be arriving thursday!
Fed her a 2/3 strength dosage of the FF trio today. Gonna let her dry out then proceed to feed her pH6.8 water with molasses. Already showing trichs only 2 weeks into flower, I can tell she's going to prosper!
Monday, 18th update: Added a video showing buds right after a molasses watering - frosty ;)
She's a beast! Trucking along, just doing her thing.... I hit her with a molasses watering last night and she frosted up today! And now she gives off a super sweet, kind of tangy scent. Dont worry, I rub the branch calyxes, not the buds haha. I will be feeding her with the usual ratio of FF nutes(10ml Big Bloom, 5ml Grow Big + Tiger Bloom). Also up until this point, I've been giving her foliar spray with 5ml/1gal Calmag+. I will no longer be doing that to combat relatively high humidity I've had over the past week.
It's been a downhill battle working with the humidity within my tent this past week. The temps have been dropping down to 70f at times but usually stays at 75f.
But the girl doesn't seem to mind it at all, she's getting visibly chunkier this week! Filled with scent she's producing a super sweet Skittles kind of smell. Remains the forerunner in my tent ⛺.
Cheers growers, less than a month til harvest!
So far I've just fed her molasses this week. Only 2 weeks away and I'm super excited for it! She's been a treat :) Her scent is very sweet and tangy/gassy... Wish we had smell-o-vision x.x
Her next waterings will be nuteless until harvest aside from molasses one more time.
Update: So I guess I made a rather convenient miscalculation - harvest window begins in three days! Wednesday, Dec. 4th officially marks day 67 from seed. The breeder's claim it is ready to be harvested day 70 from seed and she sure looks it. Excited, because this means I can begin my next cycle of plants. I will pull out my macro lens to take some close-up shots tomorrow. Also, I am planning on upgrading to a bigger tent, probably a 3x3x6 tent. I think that'll be good enough to make some waist-high plants. I'll likely be getting this upgrade sometime next week.
Have yet to smoke as I chopped her on the fifth. She has a robustly sweet scent even 2 days into drying, I'll likely sample a bud at day 5 of drying. Til then, no smoke report :) Also can't get a wet weight since I only just ordered a scale today. So stay tuned until Thursday where I'll update with some real stats.
Update Tuesday, Dec. 10th: So I pulled a smaller bud to test in my bubbler. Awesome stuff, kind of harsh on the throat initially, but as soon as it enters your lungs, it's almost easy to forget you've had a hit! Once the buds have leeched their chlorophyll, I'm sure they'll be smooth as can be. They have a sweet taste, not much of the tropical one they had while growing. I'm going to be giving them a 1 month cure so I'm sure that will change. 😎
Saturday Dec, 21st update: Couldn't quite wait to break her open so I rolled a blunt just now and I will be doing an erowid-style hour-by-hour review.
3:35
Sparked up. On the first inhale it reminds me of candy, a pure and smooth, sweet taste. Only the slightest bit harsh. Im very impressed with the smoothness of it. It has that super resin-y gloss yet doesn't have the harshness I usually taste from club bud.
3:47
At this point I really don't feel like I need to update this further. I took a total of three puffs earlier(3:35) and felt it coming on by the end of the third! I'm a heavy smoker so that took me by surprise. I think I'm too high to continue!
Lol. Well I attempted an erowid style review. But in all seriousness, this stuff hits like a freight train. You don't expect much from the smoothness but it gets ya as soon as you let your guard down. Hard. This is likely going to be a staple in my garden :).
Awesome grow! Definitely could have yielded more but I'm pleased with the overall quality of the strain. Easy to grow with only a slight Calmag def. Showing up halfway through. Other than that, she's extremely easy to grow and rewarding at that.
@RunWithIt, I highly advise growing them mine atm are just bushing out like beasts and streching, follow my diary too see how thier going, I have 12 branches which are potentially going too be Colas on the biggest crit orange! Good luck with you're grow!
Many growers recommend against topping an auto plant because stress can stunt your plant. While you definitely want to avoid stunting, I personally think topping autos works well as long as you make sure your plant is healthy and fast-growing first.
To be honest, other factors like overwatering or a poor environment seem to be much more likely to stunt an auto-flowering plant than topping, especially if you’re cutting off just the very tip of the plant without removing much plant matter.
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