Auto Pineapple Gum (freebies)

Auto Pineapple Gum is an automatic flowering ruderalis/indica/sativa variety from Black Skull Seeds and can be cultivated indoors and outdoors where the female, autoflowering plants need ±63 days from the seedling to the harvest. Black Skull Seeds' Auto Pineapple Gum is/was only available as feminized seeds. Flowering time: 60-65 days THC levels: Medium. (6% - 12%) CBD levels: High - good medicinal strain Yields: 20g-50g Height: 40cm - 80cm Genetics: Ruderalis 25% / Indica 50% / Sativa 25% Strains: SkullRyder X Pineapplegum Diary started at day 3 from germination on 22 Februari 2020. I presoaked 24 hours two seeds, and then planted them into a solo cup as intermediate container, soilless medium is coco coir/perlite 80/20 (reutilized and re buffered). 1 seed sprouted, the other hasn't. These seeds were freebies at Dope-seeds.com if I don't remember wrong. 26 02 2020: Fertigation is done twice a day. Inflow solution TDS 300 ppm (CalMag 5 mL/L, Start fertilizer 0.1 g/L, root excellurator 0.2 mL/L), pH 6

Beginning a new week, she's doing fine. I am fertigating her twice a day using a low concentration solution about 330 ppm. She stays under 400W led lights for 18 hours (distance < 80 cm) and then under a 10W led bulb (distance is < 10 cm from her) to complete 24 hours.

She's responded well to transplant and the new substrate that I had to get in a hurry. I add water with CalMag and pH 6 every two-three days (as I see patches of dry substrate on the surface) and keep on monitoring run off, last time it was aprox 450 ppm. The thing is that I'll start adding nutes and fertigating daily as I see a bottom line value, perhaps a little higher than EC for tap water in its worst times ( 180 ppm), well I'll allow up to 300 or so. 13 03 2020 she's currently on a fertigation regime with grow fertilizer solution 0.1 g/L that I'm experimenting to see what happens, becauseI don't know much of the substrate (because I didn't prepare it which is something I regret not having done) so I see how she responds to light fertilization, every other day or so. I can't resist a little LST on her, trying to get one or two extra colas later. 15 03 2020, it's end of week, by the way.

I see she's doing fine, with the aid of LST I managed to have some more budding sites on the canopy, she's no more like a Christmas' Tree. I am currently fertigating her with a solution 350 ppm every other day or so, because the substrate is not completely composed of coco coir and perlite, but has worm castings I don't think I should fertigate every day in this case, for there is too much N I guess.

I like the way she's growing, and I admit LST has influenced quite a bit in pursuit of that feeling of satisfaction I'm telling you. She's transitioning to flowering so I see she started to strectch a little, I hope she'll grow bigger at this stage, but I don't die for it, she's gotten a reasonable size already. This is the size I expected for her, but I won't dislike if she grows some more. 29 03 2020 She's started to develop flower sites and noticeably stretching, but I don't see her getting a lot taller.

She's stretching a lot and she seemed such a shy lady!. I love the way she's getting in shape to bear nice shoots loaded of nice buds for daddy. I've changed the fertilizer to one more appropriate for blooming. I hope she wouldn't have doubled or tripled her size after having finishing stretching 🙏

She's doing well, I think she has stopped stretching. I'm quite surprised that she became a tall girl, I sincerely expected her to remain short and bushy, but the opposite happened. She's a nice plant, nice buds are forming, and she's healthy so far, that's something I value a lot. I'll keep her for this week on a half strenght solution fertigation (450 ppm) just to give those roots a little rest for the intensive addition of nutrients.

23 04 2020 I have my serious doubts whether this is an indica dominant strain or sativa, I'm inclining to the latter because of : 1) the shape of leaves, too long and thin folioles, 2) the way she tripled her size when blooming; 3) the slow maturation of buds; 4) the shape of buds and the tendency for foxtailing that I see; since this was a free seed, it's perfectly understandable (but not right) that they sent me the first cheap seed at hand, most naturally a sativa or hydrid with strong sativa traits. I'll keep studying her, I'll see what this is in the end. Nevertheless, I'm quite satisfied with her, despite I'd have preferred her to remain short and bushy and quick flowering. I'm glad that the mistake was just made in the strain information but not that they had sent me a photoperiod, or a male/hermie specimen. Judging by the slow change of flowerbuds that can be appreciated , I expect her to take 2 months, give or take a couple weeks, for harvest, easily.

I had to bend or supercrop a main shoot before the flowers remain above the line of light, because this bitch seems to keep on stretching, so before the main buds stay immature while the others mature, I bent the shoot (though woody) and I think it is all right now. .

01 05 2020 Happy May Day for everyone. It's been another week and bud's pistils are getting darker but most are white and look very immature, though buds themselves seem to be compacting and fattening. She also smells like a sativa, another thing for the listing of reasons I think this is a sativa dominant strain and not a real pinneaplegum that I was told, but I'll smoke her anyway. However, since the stretch has stopped (and a few long shoots had to be bent down to be keept under the lights, by LST and supercropping) so I just have to wait and keep her safe from pests (I found ONE leaf that was heavily infected with I-do-not- know-what-the-hell-that-things were. Horrorized as you may figure, I inspected it under the magnifying lens but honestly don't know if those were aphids larvae or whatever, but I didn't like it. It's srange (thank GOD) that I could see only one infected leaf, I threw it away and didn't take a photograh (my bad!). She's drinking a lot. TDS are under control despite very other day fertigations and water comsumption. 03 05 2020 Not for my surprise, some buds seem to be dividing into more little buds, I've seen this very often in sativas. This pheno that I got evidently expresses many sativa traits. Today when I was returning her to the tent , I pushed too much a branch against the wall (because I was looking upwards for the colas not touching the lights, because the tent is quite short for this big plant) and accidentally I supercropped a main cola. A fortunate misfortune, I'd say because I didn't lose the cola and it ended very under the lights.

Lately, things have proceeded to PK boost (weel 1) so I expect to see much fattening of buds but sincerely I don't expect heavy, dense buds, as I have said before this one is expressing sativa characteristics and one of those is bud aspect, kinda little fluffy and loose. She has brown hairs but there are also many white ones on tops, which I think I'll continue to see till harvest, like I see it happens often with sativa. Regarding thricomes, well actualy she's coated with these. I love the smell of her, she smells quite heavily like citrus but there are other delicious scents that I can't tell.

After one week flushing, it's time to harvest. I could have given her one more week but powdery mildew was spreading so I decided to do only one week for flushing, I don't worry much because since I have always been doing low dosis of fertilizers during her life, my plants never need so much flushing time to detox form all those chemicals. After I cut off shoots, I submerged them into a H2O2 solution (200 mL H2O2 10% in 20 L tapwater). The residue that was left floating on the bathing water was very little, because infestation was not very extended. I left the buds hanging in a rope for the day. On the evening I'll take them inside, tomorrow I'll trim.