Crystal Candy XL auto soil grow

No photos from week 1. Just regular small seedlings. Germination rate was 100% and i didn´t water until the second week. Soil mix is just a regular mixture of quality gardening substrate mixed with sand, perlite and peat moss. I also added a small amount of substrate for seedlings (very airy and without fertilizer) into a small hole in the middle of the 12l pot for the first few days of growth. The lights are DIY COB led lights. 3x 50W of blurple and 100W full spectrum. Not really high quality but it gets the job done until i buy new ones.

No photos from week 1. Just regular small seedlings. Germination rate was 100% and i didn´t water until the second week. Soil mix is just a regular mixture of quality gardening substrate mixed with sand, perlite and peat moss. I also added a small amount of substrate for seedlings (very airy and without fertilizer) into a small hole in the middle of the 12l pot for the first few days of growth. The lights are DIY COB led lights. 3x 50W of blurple and 100W full spectrum. Not really high quality but it gets the job done until i buy new ones.

Week three is seeing some serious growth. For nutrient schedule see Tang´s easy auto feeding schedule (AN sensi Bloom) currently at 1ml/l

Growth is still rapid, all plants have preflowers now. Bottom left plant is the largest of them all, didn´t even have to do LST on it for it to develop multiple tops (can´t really do LST anyways because of my schedule). This one had the slowest start but it overtook them all in the third week. If i were to number the plants on a grid like this: 34 12 numbers 1 and 4 grow wider with very long branches numbers 2 and 3 are a regular christmas tree shape with very thick branches. We´ll have to wait until harvest to see which ones give the best yields and flower. Right now my eyes are on number 1 FEEDING: Since my substrate was on the hotter side I´m keeping the nutes low with adding just 1ml/l of AN sensi bloom (lower than TANGS feeding schedule) and 0,5ml CalMag just as a preventative measure. Going to start adding AN Overdrive next week.

Flowering came on really fast, keeping lights close because I don´t want them to stretch too much (don´t have a lot of space). My guess about the fast flowering is because of small pots but idk, if you know better please correct me. Compared to some other diaries I´m 2 weeks ahead of regular grow time. Plants aren´t huge but I think they´ll yield nicely. Seeing a lot of branching. Keeping nutes low at 1 ml/l (AN Sensi Bloom + Overdrive) seeing some burnt leaf tips on one plant so I think there´s no need to add more.

Had to go away for 2 weeks. I gave instructions to my plant babysitters but there´s only so much a noob can do. Sadly I couldn´t spot the nitrogen deficiency + there was a period without watering. My plants had a rough couple of days but they´re back now. A lot of fan leaves went yellow. I don´t think that would´ve happened this early with proper feeding. Nutes were AN sensi bloom + Overdrive - all at 1,5 ml More photos in week 7

Week 7 Lost almost all big leaves to a drought and a nitrogen deficiency (i think), plants are looking better now. Removed dead leaves, raised the feed to 2ml/l of AN sensi bloom and Overdrive. Smell is very sweet and flowery, starting to understand some growers saying it´s like opening a bag of skittles. Hints of "overripe" fruit. Took plants out of the closet to clean it and reorganize some wires. One is significantly smaller than the other plants. All of them are putting buds on nicely. Maybe another 3 weeks until harvest? I believe I could do a better job with them if I had more time. But for the absolutely minimal care I´m happy with how they´re looking.

Buds getting fatter, still seeing a lot of new growth

Day 60 update At the beginning of this grow I thought these would be super speedy, however, now I´m not so sure. The flowering is going slow and steady, buds are getting fatter all the time with new growth all over. To people who grew this strain before: How much longer do you think? 2-3 weeks? Started seeing some deficiencies. Maybe manganese deficiency? Don´t really know how to fix that or if I should even bother at this late stage. I made a mistake! The pots are 12l but there´s just about 9l of soil in each of them - I believe this greatly limited the growth potential of my plants, next time I´m buying 16l pots for sure. Smell is absolutely amazing, can´t wait to try it. Smells like candy and berries. Started adding more nutes because I think they can take it and I´m expecting a couple more weeks of growth.

Day 65 Branches are getting heavy, smell is getting heavy too. At first I wanted to harvest as soon as possible, now I´m just happy to see them pack on weight 😎 I´m used to Dinafem´s ~70 day autoflowers - never really grew a "100-day auto" but these just seem to go on and on. The smallest one might be ready for harvest sooner than the rest though.

Day 74 For a week now I was away from my plants and I won´t see them for another week or two (corona quarantine complications). Family has been taking care of them and I´m nervous about humidity etc. I´m stopping with nutes on 2 of the plants and I´m planning to have them chopped next week. The other 2 seem to have more time to go. Sorry about the picture quality, don´t want to bother my plant babysitters about pictures for my diary :/ this is the best I got from them

Still away from my plants, the smallest plant got chopped.

DAY 85 UPDATE! The smallest plant i harvested a week ago yielded just about 25 grams. Not really surprised, but still hapy with the yield considering how small it was. Smoked a freshly dried bud and it was great already, can´t wait for the cured buds. The others are at least twice as large so we´ll see about the yield. Today i chopped another plant, did a wet trim as I really hate dry trimming. I know it ain´t right, but I´m lazy. Leaving the other two about one more week to go. Looking at my grow, I´d say I´m "SUFFERING FROM SUCCESS" as I just started consuming CBD instead of THC, don´t really know what to do with all these buds. I´m very happy with Sweet seeds, these plants are amazing considering I stressed them in many ways (heat, drought, light stress...).

I grew 4 plants under some old DIY Blurple LEDs - not the best grow light, definitely. I also wasn´t home for most of the grow - these plants basically grew themselves. They yielded great anyway, giving me a great stash for the spring and summer. Plant 1: 25 g - this one was the smallest plant, grew small probably because of its position in the tent. Plant 2: 43 g - great, very hard buds, citrus smell. Plant 3: 47 g - this was the largest plant from the start, could´ve gone longer but I wanted to harvest already. A little more leafy but it has purplish buds. Plant 4: 45 g - the gassiest smell, can´t wait for the cure.