Night Queen Auto Outdoor

Northern_Ent Germinated in a Rapid Rooter.

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Northern_Ent June 18: Fimmed this plant yesterday. June 20: noticeably bigger each day. I love it when the seedlings get to this initial rapid growth phase. 😎

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Northern_Ent July 1: started LST using pipe cleaner and clips onto the edge of the grow bag. This seems like a quick and easily adjusted LST system. Normally I don’t think I would do LST on outdoor plants, but I’m experimenting on how to grow plants quickly without delays due to topping or fimming. July 3: I thought this plant was struggling but it’s suddenly looking really good and the LST seems to be going well. The fimming seems to have produced at least four colas.

Northern_Ent July 6: Released the top LST holder. The main stem is now curved and the lower branches are nicely sized. We’ll see if the plant now straightens backup and gets any taller. July 7: Raining again...

Northern_Ent July 16: still more rain... July 17: starting to look like real buds with even some of the pistils starting to turn brown. I think I over did it with this plant (fimmed and then LST) but it still might work out. The plant is a bit smaller than I expected and I think it was because it was too cool overnight during the veg phase for this plant.

Northern_Ent The buds are thickening and getting frosty. I’m a bit concerned about the lack of height due to my fimming but there are several colas so maybe it will work out.

Northern_Ent July 26: too many colas so I had to apply LST to get some light to the buds. Using pipe cleaners and paper clips which are super easy and effective. The plant is almost ready judging by the trichromes. Will wait a bit longer but just giving it pHed water from now on. July 27: I ignored yesterday’s comment and gave it some molasses water today. 😎 July 29: f*ing hot last few days so doing extra watering. Aug 1: hot again today. Harvested a 5 g wet weight bud as a tester. The buds are looking really nice and frosty. I’m looking forward to trying this plant. 🤠

Northern_Ent Aug 3: looking nice and frosty and the buds are thickening, but still no amber trichromes. Still just getting pHed water. Aug3-6: very hot for this area for last two weeks (near 30C), but rain on Aug 7. Yesterday it felt like 32C and today it maxed out at 14C. Aug 7: drilled two small holes (3/32” to match width of stem) at right angles to each other about one cm apart this morning. This should be equivalent to ‘stem splitting’ and way less hassle. Checked in the afternoon and the buds seem to have more orange pistils since being drilled about 7 hours ago. The buds also seem to be much harder and look better so this might be a good technique even for autos. Pics are from 9 hours after drilling the stem and buds are definitely responding to this HST.

Northern_Ent Aug 9: looks pretty done to me. This is a heavy indica anyway so no need to really push it for maximum couch lock.

Northern_Ent Harvested first thing in the morning after being kept in the dark for about 12 hours. This plant was a short but classic indica phenotype which I’ve read is one of three for this strain. I probably should not have fimmed this plant but I expected it to be a taller and bigger yielding phenotype based on other diaries here. Anyway, the buds are really nice and frosty and appear to be quite hard even right at harvest (I.e. before curing). No bud rot or other problems despite having quite dense buds. This a strong indica and I’m interested to see how strong.