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Hi!
I couldn't resist to wait till my regular feminized grow is over, so here we go again for an autoflower run. And it's gonna be a 24h-lights-on-run, basicly because my cellar is to cold at night and getting a steady temperature and humidity (after lights on or off) is not easy in such a small grow tent. With the lights on it's 21-22°C always.
Selected the Automaria II from Paradise Seeds, first time trying one of their strains, with hopefully a tasty return.
Germination went fine, soaked 3 seeds for a little over 24h, popped the seeds in ez-plugs with humidity dome and just 24h later 1 seedling was allready peeping, another 24h later all 3 seeds have sprouted.
The soil I'm using is from a local garden center, it's fully organic with slow release nutrients for 90 days, a little on the strong side, let's see how these babies handle it.
Greetz Pangrow
The end of week 1, things are going slow, or so it always feels in week 1. The day after they sprouted in the ez-plugs they went in they're final pots, and I feel it held them back for about a day or so. Next time I'll be placing the ez-plugs directly in the soil again from day 0.
I used 3 seeds to end up with 2 sturdy seedlings because there is't that much room in the veg tent for 3 full grown plants, but I just couldn't throw away the third seedling so it ended in a small 1,5L 1/3gal pot 😍
Watered every other day, about 100-200ml each plant.
On to more excitement in the next weeks.
Greetz Pangrow
The plants are finally picking up some pace, that seedling stage is so slow when you're checking in on your plants every day 😅
Still watering every other day, plants seem to drink ok for the heavy soil they're in.
Halfway this week I started lowering the lights, just 5cm at a time, by the end this week the lights will be at 15cm while starting at 30cm.
I'm thinking of keeping the one plant in it's 1,5L air-pot for the entire run, just curious what will happen, small plant, deficiencies, stunted growth, or maybe a beauty? 😬
Planning on topping the other 2 auto's but on different days/stages, always a guesswork when you don't know how long the veg stage is and can't find many growdiaries on this Automaria 2.
On to even more excitement in week 3 😁
Greetz Pangrow
Week 3 has finally some action in it. Started with topping 1 plant on day 15, pretty early, but just testing how these auto's respond to it. And well they do fine, just 12 hours after being topped there's allready new growth visible.
Did the same for the other plant on day 19 which was 1 node bigger, also handle it with ease.
And when the first pistels showed I topped the first plant again, just to see how much more stretch I'll be getting from that point on.
Removed some lower growth, also removing side branches from side branches 😋 and tucking leaves.
Greetz Pangrow
A week of vegetative growth, tucked some leaves, removed some new side growth and lower yellowing leaves, watered the plants.
They grew fast this week, nearly doubling in height, also because they weren't topped this week 😀
And I switched to 3000k T5HO CFL on day 25 which boosted the stretching a bit more, adjusted the height of the lamp 3 or 4 times 😅
Flowers start to appear.
Happy Growing
Pangrow
Just another week of watering plants, they're still stretching, should be reaching their final height soon.
Since this is still a side grow used for testing I thought I'd try some super cropping on one plant, well that turned out bad 😆 😨
I went in a bit hard and didn't even out the canopy, I trashed it 🙀
The plant in the 1.5L airpot is showing deficiencies in yellowing leaves while the other two have healthy 'dark' green leaves, wonder what she'll do in flower.
Greetz Pangrow
Another week gone by, plants themself have stopped stretching, the buds are still growing in height though.
After my horrible super cropping I thought it was time to remove the branches completely, it's a bit harsh but better now then a few weeks further on. The plant handle it like a champ.
Defoliated the lower leaves and leaves blocking budsites.
I started to add Green Sensation, 0.5ml/L.
Greetz Pangrow
It's been a sad week 😥 on day 45 I noticed the banana's shooting out of one autoflower and still 3 weeks to go. Don't know why, I didn't stress her recently, and she had 6 great tops ahead of her, removed her from the tent and cut her down, sad sad.
Meanwhile in my other grow a plant was ready for it's dark periode, which is in this tent, so the Automaria's will be transfered to the flower tent.
Greetz Pangrow
PanGrow
