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So, I decided to stop being paranoid and hesitant and see what these Autoflowers and DWC is about.
After seeing so much good advice on here from fellow members, I thought I'd start a diary.
This week the plants will be in propogation until I can see routes through the Rootit Cubes (seen these advised in other members grows and so far so good, hold the correct amount of moisture without drowning the seed).
Running purely PH water at 6.5 after using miniscule amount of Rhizo.
I decided to go with Fastbuds Stardawg strain as its one of my all time favourites, so why not 👌
Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated people, stay blazed 💯
Day 1 of week 2.. really dont know how this plant is doing as I'm new to autos and DWC however , seems to to be growing....
Please , if anyone sees something that could be a diagnosis of a problem then then please let let me let me know guys , thick skinned haha...
Week 2 Day 6: plants starting to fill out nicely now , one root has grown roughly 2" in length in the past 24 hours and there are now numerous roots poking through through the net pot dangling in the res :)
The little Dawg is coming on great , res change and some more nutes and it's started to open up.
The difference in only 48 hours has really surprised me :)
Day 3: seems like the little Dawg loves the res haha. .. doubled in width and grew 2cm in 48 hours , drank roughly 4 litres of water , poms were 350 then then dropped to 315 so it's definitely loving them nutes :)
Day 4 : decided to do top my dawg and defoliate last night/this morning, came back in tonight and it's drank 2L of fluid and exploded with roots and perked right up.... I know it's it's classed as sin to top autos but i love to experiment and I've assumed if it it can grow this much in less than 21 days then then it should have enough time to heal and stretch some more before flower - well well that's my theory haha. .. All a learning curve for me :)
Day 5: perked up since topping it yesterday and I'm positive i can see new leafs trying to poke through the top already so , I've applied some cablr ties to begin training it.
Day 6: the little dawg seems to have took took the topping and training in its stride haha.... can see 2 new sets of leaves poking through the top, the plant stands roughly 12cm as it's topped and being trained , spans 20cm
Day 1: upped the ppm to 500 as this little dawg is consuming the notes. As you can see, this auto is acting like a photo, topped it 4 days ago and have 4 new shoots growing already , let's see how the next few days roll out :)
Day 2: plant was showing signs of stress due to being topped and defoliation however , as as expected , the little dawg seems to be stretching whilst recovering , in 24 hours it's drank 1.5L of water and 120 ppm !!!!....
The journey continues .....
Day 3: little dawg seems to have have bounced back .. reduced the light to 250w and ppms by 200 for 48 hours and this is is where we're at...
Day 4: seems like like lowering the nutes, light and res change iis helping the little dawn. ..
Looks like it's had a nitrogen deficiency but It seems to be on the mend. Leave it another 24 before adding some some more nutes as it's taken a stretch overnight.
Week 5 day 1 - plant still seems to be stretching and reacting well to the training .
Day 2 Excuse the poor quality pics , still using an old phone as apple haven't haven't got round to fixing fixing mine yet -wankers haha!
Day 4 - new pics with iPhone, little dawg looks to be doing well :)
Day 7: last day of veg for the Dawg , res change and light flip (600w bloom) tomorrow :)
Day 2 : officially flipped the lights today , fresh res and nutes.we shall see how she goes over the next next few days :)
I would say it's reacted amazingly to being topped and partly mainlined !!
Plant may stand less than 50cm (due to being topped) however , spans over 1Metre.
Day 3: plant spans 1.4M , drank 120 ppms and roughly 6 litres of water.
And here we are so far , little Dawg will be barking soon haha. .. starting to fill out nicely :)
Bud sites are popping up everywhere yet maintaining a nice nice even canopy, couldn't be be any happier with the progress of this little dawg, @fast_buds , I salute you !!
Day 2 : Plant is looking nice and healthy , will update pics later , as for today , snow man building with the little man :)
Day 3 : ppms sitting at a stable 650 , little dawg is looking awesome, starting to bulk right up!!
Day 4 : dawg drank 4 litres of water and 120 ppms overnight , upped ppm to 750.
Day 5: This little dawg just keeps on drinking haha... Further stretch and bud sites starting to open up.
Day 6: slight defoliation and tightened wires to open the inner branches
Day 60 : as I topped and trained the little dawg, I suspected it would add on a couple more weeks however , its looking awesome, time for the flower stretch and swell now :)
Day 63 : little dawg is still doing its thing, I think it's taken its final stretch and starting to swell :)
Day 64: in 24 hours starting showing purple phenos. ... Everyday is is a joy with this little dawg, it's gonna be a big one !!...
If you have been following my diary , skip back to week 3 and and compare lol... see how stressed it was !!... #Team @fast_buds
Starting to swell and sugar up , will be flushing in the next 7/10 days if things go to plan for at least a further 7/10 days. (However all this depends on how the plant grows over that period)
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On further inspection, I have some foxtailing/callyxes on some buds , I'm new to autos so , do I have have a hermie? ? And ifso with autos, are these callyxes more likely to house seeds ??
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I've had foxtailing on a full chemdawg photo which turned out excellent in in the past, I just don't know whether to grow her out or chop it ?
Went with my gut instinct and continued to grow her out and after after some reading , i think were all good so , began the flush today.
Will upload more pics later.
The Stardawg was my first ever Auto grow as well as experimenting with Deep Water Culture.
This was a strong little plant so resilient and reacts like a photoperiod plant to training if you catch it early on.
Over all I'm pretty happy with how the plant finished up, threw a few curve balls in my direction in regards to Calyxes but it would appear to just be in its genetics.
I felt that as long as I kept on top of the PH then this plant would grow in snow haha (joke)..
Would definitely recommend topping and fimming from week 3 if you have 3 nodes or more on your plant.
Bro my whole way of thinking has been Completely changed of autos , I'm buzzing now to start a larger harvest and start to get them dialled in , wouldn't have got this far Bro if It weren't for the help of yourself and a few others wise words of wisdom !
Man the growth from last Week! I would say to heed @biggreens420 's advice and let her heal up some from the Topping before any other stress inducing trainings. Keep up the good work 👍
@ScotlandDrGreen420, I think you'll be just fine! She seems to be recovering already from pic. You can expect a bit of a slowdown on growth cycle from your Topping, maybe a few days to a week extra. Cant wait to see how She turns out for you!
@biggreens420, yeah Bro they're sweet haha... Checked my run off today which is sat at 67ppm and my pistols are milky/cloudy so I'm gonna start chopping her down and begin the drying and curing process, I'll get some more pics later
@biggreens420, went back in again earlier Bro after a res change and cut back on nutes , gonna run them out for this week and see how we get on and then make my mind up from there as the buds are dense man , some have huge potential Bro with pure white hairs still so I reckon this week on cut back nutes and then next week flush
@Zannabis7, thank you once again brother , don't think I could've got this little dawn as far as I have without a few helping tips from yourself and a few members within the forum :)
U will be fine. Autos are a lot less stressful and easy going. People are just sceptical same as when femminised seeds came out. As for DWC as long as you got time to check ph ec etc and get it at right solution happy days. I do soil personally cos have kids and a dog and work stupid hours lol so don't have time. If you do soil autos recommend a light mix.
@islandgrows89, funnily enough , I've already had some good pointers from @bigdaddyk and have already been subscribed to that baldy guys channel haha ... Some right good Information within the dudes channel ..
@ScotlandDrGreen420, as far as I know with hydro from friends that do it. It is essential to check ph once a day ( at least) and cleaning out the res once a week and cleaning it properly (not just a basic rinse) other than that keep on top of things and you will have some amazing buds. I suggest looking at @BigDaddyK diaries he has one that is start to finish guide for dwc systems. Should help you a lot aswell
@ScotlandDrGreen420, I was told by @BigDaddyK too have a look at grow boss channel on YouTube. And I did learn a lot from it. I've been growing for years outdoors and had decent yields. I once had one monster big bud plant that gave me over kg dry.. But I have learnt a lot from grow boss and have corrected what I had been doing wrong on first indoor grow I.e nutes.. lights watering etc.
@biggreens420,thank you mate, I kept my faith in it haha .. yeah the canopy looks nice and pretty even now , adjusted my hold points on the stems to open the inside up a little more.
@ScotlandDrGreen420, Sure thing! Seems she is starting to recover from the top and the defoliation. Could end up with some nice flower sites. Best wishes....
@@Tryhard, thank you mate , it's developing a lovely even canopy as the days go on , I will update later but yeah , full intake with carbon exhaust , Co2 dispenser as well .... looking forward to her swelling haha
@biggreens420, this was in dark period , when it was day light all leaves were pointing up but that is the last of the stress it wiill get , all about training now , just hope it has enough strength as I believe in it haha
Hi , one bit of advice as you are now into the explosive growing stage , it's very important that no light gets to the roots , I put some tape round the top of the net pot , or you can just fill with pebbles , good luck bro 👍
If the light reached the roots , then your tips will go yellow 🌱
@FadedTotoro, 2M squared mate in a sealed room I made , followed some tips from @bigdaddyk , went to sleep and when I woke up it had exploded with roots , less than 20 hours later there were and extra set of top leaves and it had further stretched , due to measure again tonight when I check my res etc so ill update my diary mate , this plant seems to love nutes lol
ScotlandDrGreen420
