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This will be an outdoor grow of three Purple Haze Auto seeds in soil. We live on top of a mesa in the Painted Desert at 6700 feet in evergreen woods in northeast Arizona.
Our homestead grows organic heirloom seeds for vegetables, flowers and herbs.
The air is indescribably clear and the sun is amazingly intense. Water is from a sandstone well.
I make my own soil with rotted pine and juniper mulch from ancient trees, composted manure from open range cattle, donkeys and horses, elk, deer and antelope, chickens, sheep, goats, composted straw, coffee grounds, egg shells from our free range chickens, hardwood ash and biochar made on-site. Also crop remains, cut weeds and small bits of rotten wood.
June 26: First seed is up, germinated in rotted Juniper mulch. Planted June 23. Looks vigorous. She will be named PH1, very clever. I'll let her build some strength and then transplant her into a 5 gallon pot, probably tomorrow.
June 27: She looks vigorous with good color. Hints of purple around the edges. I want to let her build some more strength, but I know it's important to get autoflowers into their container rapidly. Maybe tomorrow.
June 28: She's looking strong, so I moved her into her 5 gallon container today.
I read on the Humboldt County Growers Association website that it's best to move autoflowers directly into their final pot right away rather than step them up through several sizes.
They recommended the possibility of planting directly into the final pot from the beginning. Our nights here are too chilly to go that route. To sprout well and get roots started, they need to be in plugs or nursery trays to keep the roots warm enough. I have two other seeds left.
I am considering an experiment to step up rapidly through several sizes to coddle the root system over the first 10-20 days. I understand their point. Autoflowers grow rapidly and don't have long to live. So you don't want to shock them because they can't afford the recovery time.
It should also be taken into account that this advice comes from commercial growers who have to deal with a lot of plants at once. I work and live on the same property and only have three auto seeds so I can give each of them lots of attention.
This is my first grow with autos. I think I'll run one up through the sizes and learn what I can.
June 29: The other two seeds are breaking surface now. PH2 will get the same protocol as PH1, spend a day or two in the six pack and then go into a 5 gallon. PH3 will go through a rapid step-up protocol.
She will remain in the six-pack for maybe a week, little less, then go to 4-incher for a week or so, then to 1-gallon, then 5 gallon.
This lets me compare both methods side by side to see if planting autos straight into big pots is the better protocol at the other end of the season with our farm specific conditions at this latitude, altitude, sun, soil and water etc.
June 30: PH1 looks great so far. Nice color, gaining size. PH2 shows good strength ad color. PH3 is still gaining strength, but seems fine.
July 1: Transplanted PH2 into a 5 gallon and moved PH3 into a different six pack with growing soil instead of sprouting mix. Experiment underway, but ran out of space on my phone so no pictures.
July 2: All three ladies looking happy. End of week 1.
👊July 3: All three girls look great. PH3 is bigger than PH2 right now. PH1 is at least twice the size of the other two and has two sets of leaves growing. Phone is out of memory so no pictures. Will have pictures on July 4.
July 4: Had a lot of rain a day or two ago. They don't seem bothered. Tough strain. The experiment with stepping through containers vs planting in final container is already interesting. PH3 is bigger than PH2 and at least as big as PH1, which has leaf set two coming out. Time will tell. All three look great. PH2 has lost her incredible purple and she's just green now with only hints of purple.
July 6: All three ladies looking great. PH3 is as big as PH1 now, but PH1 has bigger second leaves. Pictures tomorrow.
July 7: PH2 seems to be a different phenotype than the other two ladies. She has skinnier leaves and darker coloring than the other two. PH3 is as large and tall as PH1 now, but PH1 has a bigger second pair of leaves.
July 8: All three ladies are beautiful but a little small. Great color on all. Put PH3 into a 4-inch pot today. Because PH2 seems to be a different pheno than the other two, I'll only be comparing PH3 to PH4. So far she's keeping pace with her big sister.
July 9: End of Week 2. All three starting to speed up. Great color, shape and vigor. PH3 is still bigger than PH2 but not as developed as PH1.
July 10: This week just left them to grow and dry out a little. Started growing faster.
July 14: PH1 just started getting more complex leaf structure. All three are accelerating. Will put PH3 into a gallon container when it's time to water in the next couple days.
July 16: Transplanted PH3 into a one gallon pot today, because it was time to water and there was a batch of seed corn sprout tea ready to go.
I think these ladies are going to love the SST because they're making leaves nicely and have really picked up the pace, but they're not lifting much vertically.
July 17: End of Week 3. All three ladies are beautiful and vigorous, but very, very small. Starting to take off, but I don't think there's going to be much smoke here.
July 18: Starting Week 4 looking good, nice color, lot of vigor. PH2 is really starting to accelerate. PH3 is big and tall compared to the other two ladies, but she doesn't have as many leaves. PH1 is taking off now.
I'm going to put PH3 into the 5 gallon container at the end of the week. Getting up against flowering time pretty soon.
July 20: PH1 and PH2 started pre-flower this morning. Crap.
PH1 is maybe 3 inches, PH2 and PH3 are 2 inches. PH3 isn't showing yet. Transplanted her into the 5 gallon and gave all three ladies another dose of SST.
I understand the quick harvest angle, but a good grow will produce leaf that will kick your ass until the buds are ready.
Trying to harvest from a 6 inch plant makes no sense at all to me. All that money, time and labor for a few bowls?
Obviously supposed to do this with like 100 plants in a SOG hydro with 24 hour metal halide. That could work, but wow the money.
Now the challenge is to see what kind of yield I can squeeze out of these tiny little plants that aren't even a month old. I'm predicting like 20 grams maybe out of all three girls.
Hoping the flower lasts long enough to pollinate with a Thai Stick. Their males will be blooming in about another month.
July 24: End of Week 4. All three ladies doing well. PH1 isn't too small really, but the other two are small. No sign of pre-flower on PH3 yet. She may last long enough to be pollinated by my Thai Stick grow.
July 31: PH1 and PH2 are settling into the stretch. Both are starting into flowering now. Normally would be another two weeks of stretch but I don't know with a fast 75-day auto like this one.
One of my Thai Stick males started into pre-flower this week. I like it being big, fast and early with my short seasons. Will breed him to PH2 because she has nice color in the flowers.
Would love to work her nicely, but need to think of the future and I want purple color and flavor. PH1 is a lot bigger so she'll make more herb for this season.
PH3 hasn't shown pre-flower yet so she may give more weight than PH2 as well.
August 3: PH1 is getting more productive. PH2 is building up and has a great fragrance and color. Still quite small.
PH3 got fried in the sun while we were gone. She's dead now. Will be harvesting PH1 when she's ready. PH2 will be bred to Thai Stick for seeds. Can't wait to taste her.
Wish I could just cultivate the finest herb possible, but looking to the future with gorgeous Thai Stick x Purple Haze genes. That means a little sacrifice right now for big benefit later.
August 14: End of Week 8. Plants are starting to finish. Pollinated them with Thai Stick pollen.
Might be too far along for seeds, all the pistols are pretty much red already on PH2, so I also pollinated PH1 since she still had some white hairs.
Well, the trichomes are changing to amber all at once and the outer leaves are dying.
No sign of seeds. Looks like it was just too late in the cycle and they were too far along before the Thai Stick started making pollen. We'll try again in 2021 with better information to coordinate them. Fragrance is extremely strong with both plants.
PH1 smells of candy, pine, flowers and fuel.
PH2 is minty, candy, skunk, citrus, incense, floral.
Next entry will be for harvest.
I allowed the nitrogen and pH levels to get out of whack. Got them tuned in finally, but this strain finishes so fast they didn't have time to get back in the groove. Mine started flowering at 21 and 24 days. I felt that was just too fast considering I have to grow outdoors. Felt like they could go at 5 weeks instead and do really well, and still fast enough. Top shelf genetics with great form, color and fragrance. Very vigorous growth. If this strain flowered in 5 weeks instead of 3, I would definitely give the other two stars. Very very small plants, but that's my fault, not OSS.
My first time growing autos. Will grow this strain again. Screwed up bad with nitrogen and pH. With autos this fast at 75 days seed to harvest, 70 for me, you just can't do that. Ended up super tiny. Excellent, tasty smoke, very smooth even with only a week on the cure after two days drying. Tasty, tasty tasty. Great high, instant effect. Wide open, spacy yet focused, energetic. Mellows out to the indica relaxation mode in a couple of hours without going couch lock. PH1 was floral, incense, fuel in the nose and pine with honey going out. PH2 was purple flowers, with floral, berry, fruity, hint of citrus, skunk and honey. Outstanding weed in every way, but real fast and that means no mistakes when growing outdoors. Didn't overlap with my male Thai Sticks far enough to produce seeds. Will try again next season for sure.
Se vuoi più risultati devi comprare del terreno apposta e regolare sempre il ph prima di annaffiare altrimenti le piante cresceranno molto più lentamente. Dalla foto non credo che tu abbia dato il meglio di te. Puoi migliorare molto coraggio
Yes we have a short season and very cold winters @Bryankush. Farm season is less than 150 days. Autoflower is an idea to go through winter. We have greenhouses with ground mass rocket heaters in them. Use exhaust to heat the soil. I will breed seeds and plant them weekly in the autumn and winter.
My pH meter was incorrect and needed repair. I'm too far along to do anything now but finish the ride. I will plant again after Christmas or New Year.
@BowlBro,se nel tuo paese ce molto freddo potresti provare varietà autofiorenti più adatte per esempio le indica. Oppure le rudelaris indica che dicono che vivono "in qualsiasi condizione meteorologica" vorrei provarle anche io questo inverno.
August 28: End of Week 10. Time to take these ladies and ravish them. Outstanding smoke in every way. Powerful, tasty, smooth, well balanced.
Floral notes, berry, fruity, fuel in the nose, skunk, honey and pine going out. Long lasting.
Ass kicking and I will be back with this strain.
August 21: End of Week 9. Plants started to bulk, then changed color almost overnight. Trichomes going amber super quick. Next entry will be for (iddy biddy) harvest. Look great, smell is INTENSE, will be great smoke, just not a good season.
August 7: End of Week 7. I've realized too late that I have been running nitrogen levels that are too low. My multi pH meter also checks N-P-K levels.
I did figure out the pH meter was wrong. It's been sent back for calibration. Looks like the nutrient levels also were out of whack. Too late to do much now.
Just hit them with some sheep manure tea. Sheep and goat manure provide gentle nitrogen with high levels of phosphorus to aid in blooming.
At this point it's about getting what weight is available on PH1 and getting PH2 ready for seeds.
July 31: End of Week 5. PH1 is filling nicely, gained 2 inches this week, making branches now, buds starting into flower. Last week of veg except PH3.
PH2 has nice color and vigor, also doubled in size, but still too small. Will breed her to a Thai Stick male that just went into pre-flower.
PH3 is good sized but she has been left behind by the other two stretching. She'll have more time to get ready.
July 24: End of Week 4 with PH1 and PH2 starting to pick up pretty well. PH3 still hasn't started pre-flower yet. Wish they were bigger. We'll see after they get the stretch on. Already getting taller
July 17: End of Week 3. They're really small, but PH3 went into a gallon pot yesterday. Also, watering day yesterday. I made up 5 gallons of water with two tablespoons vinegar per gallon to adjust the pH down a little.
This part of Arizona has alkaline soil and water. I also made some seed sprout tea from seed corn and added that to the water. Should get them woke up a little.
Looking at this rationally, I don't see any of these plants producing more than a few bowls worth of herb.
It's my understanding that autos start blooming at a month old. In another week the big one might be 4 inches if I'm lucky, with no branches at all. Flowering will start.
After the stretch, sativa dominant, might be what? 7 or 8 inches? For experts with perfect hydro/pH and chem analysis/24 hour lights/expensive hardcore nutrients, maybe worth it because they can get normal sized plants.
For me, remote homestead, 14 hours of sun, no temp, pH or humidity control, organic farm soil, I think this is a waste of time and way too expensive at 10 bucks a seed, wait 6 weeks from Europe etc. for like probably 6 grams per plant?
Doesn't make sense from a money and time/labor standpoint.
I'm going to breed some seeds off these with my Thai Stick grow. Maybe order in one more batch of seeds for back crossing.
First gen seeds won't express the regressive auto gene. Will take a couple generations of selection to get some.
I'll back cross some to another batch of these to cut that selection time down. Then with the cost out of the way, I can run some of these on a constant basis, plant every couple of weeks to have a constant supply.
Still doesn't really add up. I can put pounds away on a successful photo grow and have a year's supply from one or two plants. Autos will just give variety and something to hand to friends.
July 2: First week is in the book, although two of them are only a few days old at this point. So far PH3, the one I'm stepping up through the pot sizes instead of going directly to a 5-gallon, is doing very well.
BowlBro
