Rock Machine [2020]

Preamble 😎 Here I will take few notes about this 2020 outdoor season. Check out my two other outdoor reports from this year: 👉 "Critical Jack" Autofem from Dinafem and 👉 "Green-o-Matic" Autofem from GreenHouse Seeds. Friends, enjoy this magic experience with me 🙌 I hope you get pleasure from observing this report 🙏 I have a lot of juicy pictures for you 😎 The weather conditions in my area are pretty harsh. Not the harshest ones 😈, but sharp climate affects all ongoing processes usually slowing down the development for few weeks. Cold mountain air at nights (sometimes temperature drops to 5C). You can see snow in mid of the July Just in tens of kilometres from this place. Heavy rainfalls, hails and high winds happen every summer and their probability increases significantly towards the end of the cycle. Nevertheless I have high temperatures in the open sun (up to 35C) with relatively short daylight hours (8-12 hrs) and some shading of the homestead by other plants, in particular trees. I am sure that the terms announced by the breeders will not be enough (common 10-12 weeks from the seed for auto-flowers), but period of time from late May to the end of September is at my disposal to achieve best results 💪 16 weeks of contact with delicious crop, sounds good! My goal is to get low plant with lots of side branches. I'll definitely use LST trying to keep plant's height at 50-70 cm, don't want to get em too high. I'll try to avoid any leaves losses, so won't be using defoliation techniques. Not this time for sure. I growed "Lowryder" from Joint Doctor few years ago so I'm sure this strain will be tasty 👍👍👍 My hopes are for sweet Afghani with stone Indica effects 😋 __________________________________________________________________ Last week of the May is my start point for this growing season. Weather: It's sunny almost all days this week. No strong wind and no rains. Hot days (26-35C) and warm nights (14-17C). Growth: The seed took less than two days to germinate. I believe in the power of Space, so I germinate seeds only during the growing Moon 😂 Many growers are sure that this is a superstition, but not me, because jokes with the Space always end badly 👽👽👽 I use sponge and zip lock for seedling. At the end of the first week, my plant has 2 pairs of real leaves. The plant is healthy and shows stable growth. The plant is indoors near to windows almost all the time. She's stretching to her first sun beams and getting stronger. That's a nice start 👌

Weather: Got lucky with the weather again. Summer sun and warm sunny days this week. Growth: During the day plant stands in a pot outside, but not in direct sunlight to avoid burns. Gaining mass and getting stronger 💪 At this point I use air humidification instead of watering a soil.

Weather: Rain, wind and temperature drop this week. Growth: The plant has 3 pairs of real leaves and it is ready for transplanting outdoors (at 18th day). The next day I started low stress training. Height control right from the beginning 😁

Weather: Wind and cloudy, only few sunny days this week. Hailstorm in the end of it. Growth: The plant shows good adaptation, there's no stress after transplantation: no burns, no necrosis. It bends well, stretches up and new leaves appear. Light scattering grid saved plants from hail 🙏 It was rough and damaged a lot of plants around. Waiting for roots to develop, that's what she's doing now.

Weather: This summer is cloudy to this day. A lot of rains and lack of sunny weather 😒 Growth: She grows well even with these rains every second day 💪 Gaining mass with leaves, bends well.

Weather: Not often rains but there's a little temperature drop. Growth: This plant showed its gender with nice snow white stigmas 🙏 It's in pre-flowering stage, gaining mass with leaves and spreading with new branches. She got phosphates and potassium 😎

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Weather: Sunny days at last! 😇 Growth: The plant absorbs minerals continuing to develop. She's gaining mass with leaves and throwing out new branches. Found a lot of slugs trying to eat my plants at nights after few rainy weeks. Plants are very vulnerable to them especially because of LST (leafage is low and wide that makes slugs spreading way easier). I decided to use some wood ash and pesticide against shellfishes. I made traps with pesticide near girls for protection from these hungry demons, these plants are not for them 😂

Weather: It is raining one day and warm sunny day after. Growth: Slugs were stopped with pesticide 💀 so leaves are safe now. She gains mass with every new day! Doubled size in 2 weeks and becoming bushy 😋 More than 12 branches here. The plant is very responsive to LST and takes up the space around so easy. I'll think about ScrOG, but right now LST is enough. Trying to acidify the soil a little with compost-based bio fertilizer. It should also help with minerals absorption. Going to feed her with phosphates and potassium next week. This babe looks yummy-yummy 😍😋😜 Some kind of really serious auto and nice result to this point 💪💪💪

Weather: Rains, wind and temperature drop 😒 Lack of sun and cloudy 😒 Sometimes there's summer for half of a day 😂 Growth: She becomes bushy, such a nice plant 😍😍😍 This girl is going to be curvy 😋 Feeding her with bio this week. A little bit slowed because of the weather, but still rocks anyway! 😎 Stopped LST for few weeks. Want these side branches to stretch up 🙏 Weak hash smell, yummy 😋

Seems to be the final steps! Stopped to feed one week ago. Going to harvest in 7 days. 🙏

Finished this outdoor cycle at day #80 with Shiva's help 😇 My second "Rock machine" plant become incredible red 😍 Harvest! ✊

This was such a nice bright line at wild 2020th. Memorable experience for an appreciator of entheogens. Pure contact with Mother Nature. With Shiva's favors 🙏 4:20