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Seeds have germinated and planted into main pots.
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Third day - Waiting for the seeds to sprout.
Soil is packed with nutrients for two weeks to come then will switch to T.A tri pack nutrients.
Soil is still moist from first watering - Humidity between 45-55% and 28 degrees Celsius.
Slow growth so far, all sprouted in last 4 days.
Update: Really hot weather lately - Using two frozen bottles (One in freezer and one in grow room) to cool down the closet and adjusted fans to just take out air for the following few days.
Otherwise plants are growing fast other than the 1 mini black opium plant.
The growth feels quite slow - Have outdoor seedlings growing at a much faster rate (Especially stretching towards the sun) - Could this be my lighting?
All sprouted over the last 4 days (50 CM from LED - Just switched over to the VEG only light mode to see if they stretch a bit)
Getting your plants to "stretch" doesn't really mean bigger plants, just taller and more spindly growth and where there is a bigger distances between the nodes, with corresponding stretched and fluffy flowers. Plants growing in full sun with a gazillion watts will grow bigger and faster than under a 400 watt LED light indoors. Have patience with your seedling, she is just a slow starter and try and resist temptation into trying to get her growing faster by bombarding her with nutrients of any sort. Hope this helps,... Organoman.
Two of them are showing great new growth day by day.
The one Black Opium is incredibly slow but will hopefully pick up during the week coming.
Have a random bag seed growing inside the closet - really strange growth and stiff/hard leaf's.
01/18 update: Removed black opium 02 - plant is making no progress and all new growth is deformed - so outdoors from now on to provide more space for the other 3 plants.
Good growth on two of the plants - lower nodes have started growing faster so started training the two larger ones.
One plant - Sweet rebel has very slow growth but is growing.
Auto black opium went into pre-flowering yesterday - pistols are shooting out - Not sure if this is a good thing or not in terms of time - 60 days to harvest from first sign of pistols according to seed bank.
Auto girl scout cookies is showing excellent growth and no signs of pre flowering yet.
Can anyone with experience with auto flowers please let me know if the Auto Black Opium plant is too small to be in pre-flowering? Wondering if I still have another week to let her lower nodes come out before she goes into full blown flower. In terms of yield should I be worried?
She is showing preflowers so she has hit maturity. Ull get a couple weeks of stretch but at the size she is she will almost certainly be a small lady. If u keep her tied off and anchored ur restricting her ability to lengthen the main stalk. She hasn't produced many lower branches to utilize the LST technique. Imo its hurting ur potential yeild doing it at this point ur hurting development of ur main cola for 2-4 side branches. Dont think it's an effective way to utilize this little girl. I'm in now way telling u what to do. Shes ur plant fam! Just letting u know my opinion. Happy growing and stay lit fam.
LIGHTING CHANGED 2 days ago - This will only be for a short period of time - Mars tsw 2000 + 1 x 185 watt light currently inside closet.
Also upgraded closet with Mylar diamond pattern
Auto black opium (FLOWERING)- This lady is in flowering and stretching, almost every lower node is receiving light (Only doing very little low stress training due to some advice from a grow question) Her pistols are shooting out now and cant wait to see bud formation.
Auto girl scout cookies (VEG) - Incredibly healthy growth - fat leaves - have a feeling this baby is going to make 3/4 Large heads - Hoping she does not go into flower soon so I can distance the nodes and get them to stretch a bit more. - No signs of pistols
Auto sweet rebel (PRE-FLOWER) - Still very short and stocky - internode distance is tight and honestly just disappointed with the overall growth this week and on top of that she went into flower......
BONUS: My first hydro (From clone) - DIY'd my own little DWC with a top feed. Also busy doing lst on one of my outdoor plants (Going to create 6 large cola's on this girl)
SETUP - Updated to tent, ts 3000 light x 2.
AUTO BLACK OPIUM - She has reached 32 CM in height - definitely stopped all vert growth and concentrating on the buds. Gave her some nice top dressing recently and daily watering when top of soil is dry - She is definitely fattening up a lot now.
I am getting some AMAZING pink hues from the base of the bud coming out the calyx's - Pretty sure the day to night temp is encouraging this, try reach 29 in the day and 21 at night.
AUTO GIRL SCOUT COOKIES - Pre flower has begun! She is going to make some massive heads after her pre-flower stretch. Did some LST to ensure she has the space for her heads - Around 6 Large/Medium heads and another 3 smaller ones.
Great week for the black opium! pink and purple bud all around - her trichomes have started picking up on their production - the smell is an amazing skunky berry (Sometimes even a slight coffee odor) - my neighborhood must be getting some good wiff's.
Girl scout cookies probably has one more week of stretch left - did a final final final LST on her yesterday, shes loving the flat canopy - going to create some phat buds! shes got much more nodes than the auto black opium + the internode distance looks like it will allow for really well stacked buds which I am excited for!
AUTO BLACK OPIUM - Another amazing week - Loads of trichomes, colours are darkening and pistols are turning amber. The smell is ridiculous - The buds are sticky and I cant wait to smoke some.
AUTO GIRLS SCOUT COOKIES - She just keeps on growing larger and larger - did defoliation on her for the second time during pre flower stretch and it looks like I might have to do another.
AUTO SWEET REBEL - Removed this plant from the diary as it grew incredibly small but using it as a comparison to show off the Black Opium colours.
Great week - really close to harvest.
AUTO BLACK OPIUM - She is busy ripening right now - All hairs pulling back and trichomes maturing. We have quite a mix of crystal and cloudy with some amber on the leaves. (Looking to keep her in the tent another 2 days then 2 days of darkness then chop time - hopefully all cloudy with 10-30% amber)
AUTO SWEET REBEL - Exactly the same as the black opium - a ton of cloudy trichomes on the main bud but the others are catching up. around 10 % amber on main top head so thinking I might move her sooner and hope for the best on the lower heads. (ALSO she has started giving off a weak smell but its DAMN skunky, sour mixed with a slight lavender smell)
AUTO GIRL SCOUT COOKIES - Okay so this is starting to really get annoying - shes not starting to flower properly.. its like watching paint dry. -> Research tells me its just one of those seeds that have a very late and long flower OR somehow shes a photoperiod and showed large large pre flower pistols.. I'm leaning more towards being a very stunted pre flower and if she does not flower in the next week properly ill move her outdoors and see what happens. (She does have large calyx's but they are not stacking and building.. 3 weeks since first sing on pre flower)
AUTO GIRL SCOUT COOKIES - Stuck in pre-flower with no proper bud forming.
1. First signs of pistols (4 weeks ago)
2. Pre-flower (3 weeks since large white pistols came out)
3. She is still putting on growth
I would maybe set your lights to 12/12 for a few days. Maybe she just needs a nudge to get fully into flowering. If she doesn’t start production of buds in a few days then put her outside for her flowering and let nature take over. Lol I know some photoperiod strains though will take 3+ weeks to finish stretch and start to grow real buds. I’ve also had some hybrids take on more of their sativa traits in some phenotypes and this will extend stretch and preflower as sativas tend to take much longer to flower and stretch more as well. Could just be this happening too. Honestly though I don’t mess with autos to much so this is only an educated guess.... lol hope it helps ya maybe though, cheers 💨
Should I be looking to harvest these buds?
Hope the image quality is not too bad to see the trichomes.
Still a few clear trichomes on the purple plant and more frosty on the green one.
Hi there,here’s my rule of thumb for harvesting period.During that time,the leaves will show deficiencies, yellowing and most of the white pistils become orange.The best method is using 60x microscope and check trichomes colour.If trichomes are mostly milky/cloudy about 80/90 % and fill with some amber colour, it’s the time to harvest.Flushing or not flushing is your choice.Happy growing... ✌️
Howdy folks - Phone was stolen so dont have much photo's.
Sweet rebel has been harvested and waiting for dry weights
Black opium was harvested yesterday so waiting for dry weights.
Auto girl scout cookies jumped into flower.
Very humid weather lately so will be a slow dry.
Was incredibly happy while growing the strain BUT!
1. Iv had 4 seeds now come out deformed (Mutations that completely stunt the growth of the plant) - I wont be getting these again.
2. I got the bud tested by GemmaCert and it turns out this is a CBD strain - My bud came out 7.1% CBD and 3.4% THC. - I am incredibly disappointed by this and not really sure why its advertised as a high THC strain.
3. Creeper high - just a long relaxing buz which started making sense after the test, just not what I expected overall.
My Sweet Rebels were exactly the same (also the smallest plants in whichever grow i ran them in). They stay very short & stack their nodes on top of each other tight than as they start to flower you see the Rebel stretch the spacing between the nodes by a considerable amount & all of a sudden the plant is twice as tall now. Even so, she never really becomes a tall plant or heavy yielder, but she definitely picks up rapid growth at a later stage & does stretch.
Ive planted the Rebels in everything from 1L to 10L pots they just always stay small plants unless i top them & than do LST after the topping, but if i dont top them they basically just stay tiny. The Alpha King strain from the same breeder Christiania Seeds is the total opposite as that one grows really fast & big.
@ChickenWing1024, the Rebel flowers very fast & will start in weeks 3-4 or so, this breeder's genetics always start flowering in under 30 days ive noticed.
I have Rebels & Alphas running right now under a 240W light. This is the 3rd time im running the Rebels now & i like the small stature of the plant due to my closet size. The Rebel is a very uniform & stable genetic it always grows exactly the same - stays small & seems like its never going to get anywhere than when it starts to flower it grows a lot taller (weeks 5-6 from seed) but she just doesnt yield in my experience. My average Rebel harvests are about 20-30g.
Im fine with those harvests as i picked it because of its small stature, but if you want heavy yielding autos than you should look at President Seeds stuff their autos veg for 8 weeks than only go into flower so you end up with these big autos that look very similar to photos
@Tiaan, Hey Tiaan - Thanks man, I was quite worried about the size of the sweet rebel. Will definitely give the Alpha King strain a go next time and see if I can get larger yields but hopes are still high for a decent yield - as long as the sweet rebel does not go into flowering in next two weeks.
How are you grows going and did you manage to get the new lighting?
Bro what are the odds lol
Im from SA & buy my stuff at MSA so i was checking for new seeds to buy & saw the Divine Seeds but never heard of it so i came here to check it out & find another SA & MSA person. Im even growing in the exact same style closet + i have some Sweet Rebels running + i have that exact same white fan running (if its the same than it has a heating function too, but my heater broke so i just use it as a fan now). Ive even bought a single GSC seed too, but gave it to a friend.
My sweet rebels are very small but im pretty sure its because im a noob grower lol because ive seen another diary on here where the guy's plant was way bigger. The Sweet Rebel's "sweet" surprised me because it was something i didnt expect, its like a sweet musk type aroma - not sweet sweet, more of a spicy sweet if that makes sense. Im also doing the Alpha Kings by the same breeder & they are at least twice the size with an old school chronic aroma to them reminds me of buying chronic in SA back in Matric ;)
The odds of all of the above happening is just crazy what a small world.
Happy growing im very curious to see how the Black Opium & rebels turn out
MSA boys 👊
@ChickenWing1024, im using a QTM150 at the moment (from MSA shop), but i also ordered the new 120W red quantum boards they got in stock now so i will be using those 2 lights.
Your garden sure looks great. Did you top your Auto Black Opium? Normally we don't recommend that, so if you did and it went well, we'd love to know about it :)
@DivineSeeds_Consultant, Thank you very much! there is no topping done on the plant - Just LST as the pre flowering stretch begun, I tend to move the main head away from the light for more than half the day to allow the other ones to shoot up more, seems to be working for the girl scout cookies as well - just waiting for pre flower so she will start stretching out.
I have added a video to the week - it shows the main stem just going up to the side - keeping the main head against the wall of the tent so the others keep on fattening up with it.
ALSO: AMAAAZING COLOURS on the strain! You guys rock, I definitely want to start a SOG grow with the black opium for a level canopy inside the closet, the dark colours are taking over my smaller leafs, never seen anything like it before.
Those are some special colors there! @ChickenWing1024, the purple strains are a favorite around my house but I can never see to hit the yields of other strains, looking good my man!
@MrJones, Hey MrJones - Still dont have a phone to take pictures but dry yield was 83 grams - Some really large hand sized buds weighing 5-9 grams each - have not weighed the trim but got a big ziplock in the freezer waiting to turn into bubble.
ChickenWing1024
