Thank you Royal Queen Seeds for sending me a male seed!
I was away for few days and anxious to see my plants and got home only to see that the Royal Cheese Automatic was a male. Most likely it has already pollinated the other 3 plants which were already flowering and doing very well with no signs of stress. Either their Cheese has the weakest genetics ever, or it was a male seed from the beginning (which is my guess, as you can see the top bud is all pollen sack and no hair at all...). Also, I have NEVER managed to get autoflower to go hermie, let alone this badly, no matter what I have done to it and what the conditions were.
I sent Royal Queen Seeds a polite email explaining the situation, and all I got was a rude reply indicating that this was all my fault and best they can do is offer 20% discount for my next order :D. I have lost 6 weeks in this grow, plus the money for seeds, Electricity and supplies. So pissed off at the moment, specially after the obnoxious reply from RQS :(
Definitely the last time I will ever grow anything from them. It's understandable that sometimes there will be bad quality seeds, but how they handled this situation is the thing that angries me. I have been their customer for many years and grown almost exlusively their strains and this is what it ended up to :(
yo mate! I have a "mutant" Chile in my tent, she's growing like a tree. I would suggest you to cover those white buckets to keep the roots at dark, it's better for them. You may use some aluminium foil, better than anything! Keep on growing! 🤘
Hi! Yes I checked your journal, your Chile is getting Big :D. I will cover those white buckets, I have a huge roll of black/white -plastic I am going to use for it.
Going to start flowering for Speedy on sunday when she hits 3 weeks. I was planning to veg her for 4 weeks but space is seriously going to be an issue with 60x60x140 tent and four plants so I can´t let her get any bigger.
Speedy recovered from topping very fast and is reaching for the skies! She is a very vigorious plant, seems to have good genetics, so thanks @James for always providing the highest quality :). The lime color just keeps getting better and she´s develeping very beautiful smell, fresh & fruity. Today I also received the grow tent I ordered, decided to go over the budget with it - altough it was only 50 euros from Amazon - but still a lot of money for me at the moment. The closet ain´t completely lightproof and I don´t want Speedy to go full tranny on me, and I would have problems with ventilation if I tried to seal the closet with something. I can´t drill air holes into it since it ain´t mine and I don´t want to pay for a new one :). Not sure if I will put the tent up today, because today I also received some Amnesia Haze from a friend and it seems to be doing it´s job very well, feeling a bit too soft to do anything that requies me to move :)
I hope she flowers as good as she vegs, and I am really anxious to see the actual flowering time for her. Like I mentioned earlier, I am going to take some cuttings off from her and veg them on the side while this one is flowering. I don´t know yet if I am going to do one plant with SCROG or a nine plant SOG or something from between, I have to see what happens when I put her into 12/12. @james, what do you recommend for maximum yield in 60x60x140 space, soil/coco -mix and 300w (150w true) LED? SCROG or SOG? I am going to flip lights when she is 4 weeks old, so I have a good 7 or 8 weeks to work with the cuttings and do a longer veg if I end up with one plant so vegging time ain´t an issue.
@SKELETOR, thanks for the info, the plants look healthy and well developed, it was more of a comment on the settings than a remark on the plants. Good job, it's always best to listen to the plant and adjust everything to their needs, sometimes they can be quite sensitive.
Keep up the good work ;)
@bobo420, I have tried placing it lower but leaves start to droop and curl up within couple of hours from lowering the lights. I tried 20cm, which almost killed the autos, and 30cm but they didnt seem to like that either. I will wait until they are flowering before hanging the lights lower again.
Here we go! Just followed this fresh, new and interesting diary. Since you’re growing Speedy Chile, I suggest you to follow @Endriu‘s diary as well! He has one of them, and she’s getting amazingly huge. Very cool diary!! Happy growing bud!!! 😃
Hey hey wats up buddy , i really love your low budget grow really a lot hey makes me thinks back a year ago when i just started no tent box nothing a small plant on a bucket with one damn light big up to you for this show people it can be done !! If you have the time please check out my diary "Rubob" lol guna follow if you dont mind ?!
Girls recovered from foliation much faster than I expected, cut off some leaves 24 hours ago and the new growth is clearly visible! From autos Royal Cheese is responding to LST and foliation very well, Northern Light and Stress Killer are still trying to put most of the growth into the top of main stalk. So if you are looking for an auto that is easy to train, I recommend Royal Cheese.