CG Autos Feb20

OKushoma FF Ocean Forest in 5G fabric pots. May go coco next grow. Week 1: PH Water only; Day 10: Started low-strength Nute Schedule. All seedlings taking well to first feeding. Exhaust fan turned off to raise temps and humidity in tent for veg. 2 stationary fans left on. Apologies in advance for photo duplicates, editing mistakes, and general low-frequency stupidity. I'll try and edit as I go. And NO, the air and solution temps are not 50! More like 79 - lights on; 68 lights off. Can't figure out how to edit some of this stuff. ;)

OKushoma 6 inch exhaust lowers humidity to about 30% so still left off except for me turning it off and on at random. It has a variable speed control which drops cfm from 405 to just below 300. It still seems to replenish the air in my 4x4 too quickly, removing needed humidity during veg, and reducing co2 levels during flowering. Eventually may drop down to a 4" exhaust at 195 cfm and plug into external variable speed pot. Will defoliate first set of fan leaves tomorrow, not much else. Been busy outdoors working in main garden while weather is dry and warm.

OKushoma Added CO2 bag to tent during week 4.

OKushoma Lowered light to 24". Growth seems slow to this point. Maybe it's just because I haven't grown an auto in awhile...who knows? It does seem to have sped up since adding the Exhale CO2 bag about 12 days ago. Undergrowth forming fast. Nevermind the poop stains on the leaves lol - I get sloppy when watering.

OKushoma NCH Flowered day 43; Smoothie - 45; MK Ultra 1 & 2 - 47 Seemed kind of late to start flowering but more for me ;). Stopped Grow Big, switched to Fox Bloom. Minimal defoliation this morning (day 48). I don't usually pluck unless it's blocking something more important. Leaf-tucking several times a day since we're not going anywhere... (Thanks, Wu) CO2 is obviously working - super duper veg growth. Can't wait to see how it affects bud structure inside my tent. Last few grows in the tent have been minus CO2. Smoke was fine but aesthetically not so impressive and that's across many strains. Strains from Mephisto that lean heavy towards the Walter White parent are usually whispier than those more expressive of the other parent.

OKushoma Forgot to take training wire off of Smoothie thereby topping itself as it grew - Grrr. Oh well, this is the first auto I've accidentally topped and it was at the beginning of flowering, so probably a small loss (not concerned). I've been wanting to top an auto just to see how it affects yield anyway. MK#2 seems a day or two behind #1. Still out of PH Down so I'm at 6.6 - Little purpling on petioles of Smoothie and NCH. Also, NCH started showing a Nitrogen deficiency late in Veg. The 2 MK Ultras seem completely unphased by all of this and are green as envy. Started my photos inside (It's that time of year, yay!) By this point I'm talking to myself anyway so back to rolling. Night Y'all. Puff, Puff, Pass, babe. ( >^_^)>!<(^_^< ) Zzzz...

OKushoma Nothing this week. Will drop off some pics later. Light went half-out, so nothing is going as planned. On the ‘bright’ side: got a new Spider Farmer LED board. Got sidetracked away from this diary so I’ll have post back later.

OKushoma Started using the SF-4000 about this time - amazing light but these plants had a lot of catching up to do at this point. All 4 plants behind breeder projected harvest times, especially the MK Ultras. I wasn’t really in a hurry on this grow, but I was hoping to have the whole tent to devote to starting my outdoor plants under lights at about the same time. Not happenin’.

OKushoma The Spider Farmer SF-4000 is one of the best upgrades I've made. Way more effective than the Viparspectra 1200, and costs about the same to operate at full power. The light is much cleaner, brighter, whiter, and the plants are loving it. The footprint during flowering is much more obvious. The extra $200 is a no-brainer. Didn't plan on making the upgrade yet but am glad I did. MK Ultra is going to be a nice-yielding auto. I love the original strain - Deep Piney, old school aromas and flavors. Great Indica OG stone - relaxed, giggly. and happy. Great for inducing laughter to work up exhaustion and eventually nap-time. Hoping to get more physical effects than other autos I've grown. Smoothie is a beautiful plant - dark, aromatic, and stately. Looking forward to growing this outdoor with zero stalk training. This is by FAR the sturdiest stalk I've ever seen on an auto. I'm certain that some of it has to do with auxins and my accidental topping earlier on as well as great genetics. Back up the dam so to speak. Looking forward to growing more FastBuds. Northern Cheese Haze is my first Cheese strain, auto or photo. I'm in love with this variety. Where have you been all my life? I've smoked LBS of Mexican brick skunkweed, but can't remember anything that ever smelled this putrid - fantastic! Will obtain some Big Buddha Cheese for next years outdoor photo grow. I'm at my legal limit at this point, so no big cheese for me yet. If anyone reads this and can recommend a great Cheese strain, auto or otherwise please by all means speak up!

OKushoma NCH and Smoothie both outside now to make room for photos. Some parts of NCH, where leaves and flowers overlap, are so caked over with white that it looks like a happy ending. The MKs show obvious differences between sativa and indica-dominant phenos. MKU1 (Shine On) started flowering 2 days sooner than #2, and being sativa dominant will probably pull her at first sign of 10+% amber to keep her great for daytime use. MKU2 (Crazy Diamond) is indica dominant, and I plan on letting her go a bit longer than 10% for a more nighttime effect - up to 30%ish as long as she stays un-hermied. Smell is bright, pungent citrus and mostly the same, the difference being that #2 leaning more toward orange (G13?) on the Indica dominant, and #1 more lemony (OG Kush) on the sativa dom. All this said these strains should have been finished by 4/20 (now May 4) if the breeders info were more accurate. No worries, I just wanted to have the autos hanging upside down by now. AND BTW I ordered some Big Buddha Cheese (FINALLY found some restocked!!) I may go ahead and swap one of my Afghan Kush plants out to grow one of these babies. I swear have the best smelling garden in my town, even though my friends say I'm nose-blind to pot. ;)

OKushoma Not too much to say about this one. It's like Northern Lights with an earthiness and no sweetness. Much like a cheap cigar minus the bitter. This particular pheno is the smallest I've grown structurally. It started off great and then just fizzled out at the start of flowering. Stretched 2 or 3 inches then nothing. In the end I only harvested about 3 quarter ounces. A total waste of a 5 Gallon pot/space. Should have been put in the corner in a 2 or 3 at the largest. Smell while growing was fantastic. Floral, pungent, sweet, musky - very Cheesy. WHERE is the Haze, peops?? Other than whimsical bud structure there is almost no Haze presence: not the high, not the smell, not the taste. I love my SPICY, Haze, but this seed lacked it totally. Maybe I'll have luck with the other 2. Not really much cheese flavor, either. Stone is excellent! Very potent little Auto, which is why I even bothered with a 6. Something that smells that DANK while growing it should at least have some dankness to the final cured product - this one turned out bland. I feel like I just stumbled across one of those few seeds that put out a weak, inferior pheno. I do believe this strain has great potential, though. Not my fave Mephisto strain (LOVE Sour Stomper). Much luck growing it! P.S. Let her go past the recommended 80! These doubled up during the second swell and would have otherwise been extremely thin buds. Many, many Triches on this strain.

OKushoma Low harvest weight due to me not taking wire off of main stem while growing, thereby severing the Khola from the plant early in flowering. 😔

OKushoma Stomp my feet for this one but I did not weigh it. Nope, I smoked it. My bad. I started out only smoking a small bud and then one led to another and I got busy, yadda yadda LoL Go to plant #2 for better details.

OKushoma This whole thing took forever and the overall finish time was horrid, but my bad. I didn’t realize that half my lights were out until I noticed the plant wasn’t developing properly. I dunno, I just never bothered getting down low enough to look. I did grow one of these out on my balcony with a small amount of lower bud removal (no diary though). It finished in only 8 weeks using True Signal. If growing in soil you would do fine if you prefer 3 gallon pots or smaller. Yield was fantastic considering there was a pause in growth and a change of lights. 3 ounces (exactly) for an auto grown in soil is amazing. MKU1 was about a half-ounce lighter, but still great. I would grow this again if there were not so many new things out there. This is a real Stinker - bright, aggressive, pungent, earthy, heavy duty citrus - absolutely ethereal. This is going to test your carbon filtration if you use it. P.S. I’m so glad my old LED broke. Gave me a chance to try a quantum board. Best break ever.