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"There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes." -- August Strindberg.
Seeds in a water cup then peat pods then 5 gals. Dr. Earth potting soil + some perlite and vermiculite to improve drainage and moisture retention.
I wetted the peat pods with some nice recharge-dosed water to inoculate those tiny roots with beneficial microbes.
I am ridiculously excited to grow these beauties out. They germinated strongly.
Most of the action is taking place in the dirt. Both these girls working out some kinks as they sprout their 2nd and 3rd set of true leaves. Their overall growth is keeping pace with rest of the tent though, so I am not concerned. Very curious to see what's next.
Last day of week 3 I spotted a few preflowers, but otherwise this week has been a veg.
I'm waffling on whether to grow out the mutant any further - she's still struggling to get out a set of normal leaves.
Her sister on the other hand seems to be doing fine--perhaps a little stressed--but overall well and progressing.
Should be interesting to see what happens next.
Devils are showing their beautiful colors already 😍. Brutal heat wave this week was a battle to keep the tent below 90 during midday (even with lights off)! I’m very excited to be growing these purple flowers . . . full disclosure I’ll be losing my purple flower v-card on these 🤣. I hope they’re good to me. I’m feeling optimistic, but the devil’s in the details . . . ..😴😴
[Note due to a mixup -- the pics from this week are actually Dark Devil, from the journal here:
https://growdiaries.com/diaries/73491-sweet-seeds-dark-devil-auto-grow-journal-by-smoke-weed-maintain ]. Sorry for the mixup; that's my fault. Next week will be corrected.
Holy coloration, Batman! They are like little beautiful purple bonsai. I hope they continue to grow. Controlling the heat in the tent continued to be a challenge for me this week. Supposed to cool off next week, Batman willing . . . .
Cooled off a bit this week and my beautiful purple bonsai seemed to appreciate it. Of course, we now have a heat advisory out for this upcoming weekend ¡ay, caramba!
But I’ll do what I can to support continued new growth and flowering and coloring in these beauties . . . oh la la!
I love growing, almost as much as I love smokin' hah, but some weeks (like this one) are just a grind. Some new side-branches may be comin' in, so I'm looking forward to see if that develops further.
Half my blue leds went out on my “little blurple that could” less than a year old. A replacement is on the way from customer service, but in the meantime I got a spider farmer 2000 in there now and it feels like a big upgrade.
Creeping closer and closer to harvest. We appear to be senescing pretty heavy and all new growth has stopped. So I am waiting on amber trichomes, and hoping that the calyxes will swell up a bit before we are ripe and ready to harvest. We shall see!
We chopped around day 84 from seed and are currently drying and curing. Should be ready in another week or two and I'll have a vape report for y'all.
“All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.”
― Paracelsus
Beautiful color and sweet flavor (perfume and grape were what I noticed) - I was happy vaping this during day and at night. Kind of a mellow and yet uplifting buzz; overall mild. But please look elsewhere if you are looking for a big yielder--these girls were tiny. Probably grower error on my part.. Anyway, I was thrilled to grow this and I'd certainly recommend it to anyone looking for a unique, colorful strain to try (with the caveat about yields, of course . . . ).
This cycle was a tough one: I made some mistakes, my lights gave out on me mid-grow, and it was very warm in the tent throughout. Despite all this, the red poisons delivered pretty colorful buds which had a unique grapey perfume scent to match. Very unique and cool, just not a big yielder and perhaps a bit finicky with my imperfect growing methods.
Consider utilizing Mychorhizae & Balancing PH on your future grows. Your root systems look very lacking, your plants should not be that short and stunted before flower.
@Smoke_Weed_Maintain, Not really, your plants look like they got really stunted early on and weren't able to vegetate properly going into flower, which is unfortunate given that you're growing an Auto, less chances to fix Veg mistakes.
Those leaves looked like they were very deficient of Cal-Mag and Nitrogen. Try using one of the CalMag Brands around the net, it's not very expensive and you can feed it through the plants entire life cycle.
It's best never to trust a "kit" at it's face value. PH meters are cheap, allows you to check the Water pH coming out of your home tap and use that as a baseline to adjust levels throughout the grow. If you can drain your plants into a bucket while feeding them, it allows you to take better Runoff samples. Runoff PH should typically be .5-.8 lower than your incoming Water Ph
Shoot for ~6.5-6.8 during Veg, ~6.0-6.5 during Flower for feed levels.
You could have also been overwatering, as that causes major stress and stunts root development, there's a fine line where plants are perfectly dehydrated and ready for water and overly dehydrated and starving, usually about a 24 hour window between those two phases.
@KommanderKeen, I don't measure PH going into and out of my soil. My understanding is the microbes in Recharge improve the plant's ability to absorb nutes at a wider range of PHs, and between that and "PH Perfect" (I'm following bottle directions / not messing with the ratios) supposedly dialing it in, seems like my problems are probably elsewhere. I'll try lowering the light, thanks. Does the fact that these are autos affect your analysis at all?
@Smoke_Weed_Maintain, okay, but do you actually measure the PH going into and out of your Soil? Either your light is not lowered enough so your plants are overstretching, or the plants are Nutrient locked, causing leggy stretchiness and less bushiness.
@Sweet_Seeds, thanks for checking out the grow! I can't wait to get these ladies flowering; the first few weeks of veg are always so hard to wait for me! No plans on any training or topping here. Later on in flower, I am going to put one plant outside at night (and keep the other in tent) to see if it affects the coloring. But anyway, if you happen to see me screwing something up along the way here - please let me know :) I am very amenable to changing things up when needed. Thank you!!
Smoke_Weed_Maintain
