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Germinating...
So this seed was a little cracked open.. My first ILGM White Widow autoflower was also cracked but that didnt slow her down one bit! She actually sprouted in 2 days! So I'm hoping this one will do the same!.. keeping the cup on top of my Mars Hydro TS 1000 driver which keeps it pretty warm.. Not even 6 hours and she has sunk to the bottom of the cup.. I like to keep them in the cup for about 24 hours.. No longer than 48 hours. They USUALLY will be spitting out a tail by then.. That's when I put them straight into medium (coco/perlite)... This should be a fun grow!
12 hours of germination...
Wow she has already sprouted a tail! Not super long but its enough to know that she is definately germinating!!!.. I have a feeling that the warmth has ALOT to do with how quick they will sprout. I had the light on 100% while the cup was sitting on top of the driver.. Now that she is in the medium, I bumped it down to 50%.. Should still be warm enough for her.. Also sprayed the medium around where the seed is housed and placed a cup on top.. My goal was to get her sprouted up by Monday (just easier for me to keep track of the weeks lol).. But the way she has already sprouted.. She will probably be up by Sunday (2 days)!!.. At this point, i just make sure everything is kept moist.. The cup.. The medium.. And just wait for the girlie to poke her head out! ILGM ALWAYS has some decent stuff.. I have no doubt that she will be up in no time! I even put her down a little deeper than I normally like to.. Really hoping to begin my weeks on Mondays lol
Sunday...
She has now made her way to the top of the medium.. But won't be up and open by the morning! Perfect timing! So she will begin her life tomorrow which is what I was hoping for! Perfect!!! Updating tomorrow with pics! I tried to get a pic of her but I couldn't get a good one.. Blah whatever. Not that important lol..
Later...
One thing I think I feel I should mention.. This was the medium and fabric pot that I used for my Purple Lemonade by FastBuds.. Literally I just flushed before harvest for 2 weeks.. Bringing the runoff TDS down to about 200 PPM.. Harvested.. left the pot a d the tree trunk in the tent with the fans on to let it dry a little for about 2 days.. Carefully removed the rootball to get a couple pics.. Spent about 30 seconds removing the roots that had grown into the fabirc (then relized I dont really care that much hahah) And put the medium back into the fabric pot.. And began germinating this girl here.. Just showing how BAD ASS growing in coco coir/perlite is.. I fucking love coco coir.. I never even made it to the point of trying organics.. Grew in soil my very first grow and realized that I wasnt able to spend enough time with my ladies lol.. Only watering maybe twice a week was not enough.. So I tried coco and I fell in love.. Best medium for me and my ladies.. I like to add alot of perlite.. And keeping my fabric pot elevated about the saucer because it helps dry out the medium enough for me to water everyday.. Coco coir is super easy to grow in.. Alot easier to flush if you run into a problem.. If you have time for frequent fertigation than more power to you! I didnt.. Shit takes like 6 waterings a day.. That's just insane.. Youd have to use some sort of automatic watering gadget which just takes the fun out of it for me.. And manualy watering it was too much.. And a waste of nutes if you ask me.. I can probably still skip a day if needed and she will still be perfect with just watering/feeding daily.. But I have found my sweet spot when it comes to growing medium.. Dont get me wrong.. I would still like to try hydroponics DWC but damn I cant seem to get a plant to stay healthy from seed to harvest.. They will be good for a few weeks then all of a sudden some horrible things will happen.. Get it fixed and then a couple weeks later another horrible thing happens.. Lol.. Im no scientist and DWC has shown me that. But I would like to give it one more shot before I toss out my bucket, clay pebbles, air pump and little water pump I was going to use for drip feeding while she was still a youngster.. Sorry Idk why Im putting all this into thie grow diary.. Haha I doubt anybody reads all of this.. If you have made it this far.. Thanks.. Just know that coco coir is beast of all mediums.. If you have not tried it.. You should.. As long as you know you can spend about 5-10 mins a day loving your ladies like I do lol... Now to begin the 1st week of this Zkitttlez Autoflower's life!!!.... I cant believe that GD doesnt have the auto version of this in their options yet.. Its been out for a good while now.. Oh well.. You get my point lol
I have this autoflower that is growing really slow. Everything seems perfect as far as health, lighting, temps, humidity, pH (including runoff), PPM (including runoff).. She has been growing slow since day 1... Why??? Pic is 8th week from seed.
Looking @ your weeks she has been looking fine. There has been lots of growth. You have done lots of training to her. That helps to keep her short and aids in new growth from below. You wanted to keep her short and you have done a good job @ that. Gl the rest of the way.
@homerjgangia,
Thank you, Mr. Simpson! I just did a defoliation.. That probably could have waited till next week... DOH! Lol thanks for the comment, growmie!
@TheThiccBud,
Problem: Dark green leaves, shiny leaves, clawing, weak stems, and overall slow growth. Marijuana leaves that are nitrogen toxic often get “The Claw” or talon-like leaves that are bent at the ends. They also do an odd curving (or cupping) that is often mistaken for overwatering, but is unique to nitrogen toxicity. You can see a “clawing” leaf in the pictures below (click each picture for a close-up).
Leaves that turn into claws often start turning yellow and dying if the nitrogen toxicity is not treated, much like a nitrogen deficiency, only the leaves will continue to get more and more clawed. Leaves eventually turn yellow or brown and fall off. You can tell if yellowing is caused by too much nitrogen because the rest of the plant will be dark green, and the yellowing leaves will turn into claws first.
That is from growweedeasy dot com
@TheThiccBud,
I thought that is from too much Nitrogen.. I could be wrong.. Maybe I'll give it a try.. Water every other day or something.. I just like to make sure I have plenty of runoff.. Salt build ups suck. Thanks growmie.. This girl is a couple days from harvest. Cant wait!
@Professor_Chaos, I think the leaves are far too dark green and through my own experience it looks like they would get to much water. you know? 😅 this leaves are small has Darkgreen color and grow weird 😵 but your flower looks amazing 😎😇
@Terpturtle,
Lol these have got to be the biggest colas I've ever grown.. But the damn foxtails.. But still very happy with what she is doing.. Impressive asf.. Even with all the heat stress, light burn and pH at the rootzone issues.. But she is still not giving up on those flowers.. Good girl lol. Thanks growmie
@Lady_NugWitch,
Haha! Thank you! Much needed! She had a slow start.. Not sure why.. Still kinda slow at this point too.. But she is growing, that's for sure.. Thanks again!
Just for future referance, as it may help out alot in your future grows to look at the seed to harvest time for the strain you are growing. I am growing the same thing (ILGM Zkittlez auto) and I am going into week 11 ready to harvest. The Zkittlez auto takes about 8-11 weeks from seed to harvest on average, and rarely will ever go almost 16 weeks. The reason why you had nanners could of definately been from the stress of heat and everything, but they were also likely due to the plant being over its harvest period and it was going into survival mode and trying to reproduce itself to make seeds for next year to keep her genetics going. Thats what they do when they go longer than they are supposed too.
thanks man...I'll definately make sure to follow yours. I'll be updating tonight at some point with new pictures. The colors on this girls sugar and fan leaves are incredible. So much damn purple. I left alot of leaves too. The main cola's bottom is completely blocked out its so thick with bud and sugar and fan leaves. They are rock hard. I'm very excited. The smell is unbelievable. @Professor_Chaos,
@TJshortstop24,
Oh yeah thats right! Well I'm gonna follow along! Yeah mine was stacking like a sativa so I let her keep going.. But yeah I left alot of leaves so it was difficult to check the bottom nugs.. I wish I would have now.. But I wont make that mistake again. Halfway thru the flush on my 2 ethos stains. They are both perfectly right on track but I feel I should leave them just 1 extra week. My last ethos strain I harvested right when they said.. Alot of cloudy but not enough amber.. It was an ok high.. Very paranoid tho 😳😳😳 hoping to avoid that with these girls.. But yeah bro Im gonna follow along on your harvest!
Its actually CBN that it converts to when over ripe. THC will convert to CBN which gives you that very sedative sleepy headache weed exactly like you said. I have been checking the bottoms of the buds and they are right at the harvest point. The tops of the buds are still growing really nice. I wouldn't say the new bud growth is exactly foxtails, as it forming nicely into the buds already fully developed. If I was going by the trichomes on the tops of the buds then I could see where you let them go way too long, because the trichomes on the very top are still clear with only a few cloudy here and there. As you harvest though they will actually fill up with thc and get a little bit cloudy. You will allways still have some clear trichomes in the buds at certain locations but as long as the majority of the lower and middle buds are cloudy with some amber, then you are good to harvest. I will be putting my Zkittlez auto in dark for 48-72 hours, depending on how my weekend schedule is. Then I will be cutting down in the early morning of the end of dark period, with no light at all after the extended dark period. Then I am shooting for atleast a 7 day dry. I would be happy with a 7 to 14 day dry. @Professor_Chaos,
@Rock_n_Roll_Randy,
HydroFarm came out with a new one.. A little cheaper than their last one.. About $140.. Some bad reviews.. But it seems about right to me.. 12 inches from my lights I'm seeing 1000+ PPFD so I seem to have gotten a good one! Thanks again growmie!
@Rock_n_Roll_Randy,
Thanks growmie.. She actually isnt all that great.. I may have pushed her for too long.. I now see all the amber trichomes and nanners were everywhere.. Smh.. But she still tastes ok and does the job.. Just have to smoke a little more.. Ready for my next run in my 2x4 with the OPTIC SLIM 320H.. Beast of a light and I just got a PAR meter too.. No more guessing with the lights! I love it! Thanka again growmie!
@DoDrugs420,
Thanks growmie! I fucked her up pretty bad tho. Burnt off the terps mostly.. And I JUST read that apparently the DLI is already good enough when you keep the PPFD in a veg range.. Between 300 - 600 μmols... Since the plant is getting 18 hours of light, the DLI is right where it needs to be until harvest.. Plus my environment is pretty warm and humid.. And I think I pushed her for too many weeks.. Nanners everywhere.. No mature seeds.. But seeds were starting.. Foxtails.. Oh it was a horrible run lol.. She did grow ok tho.. I wish I had known that I should have left my light further.. This plant smelled amazing when she was growing.. But now that I know how delicate trichomes are.. Not gonna make that mistake again.. She made some fat colas.. And like I said, smelled great while she was growing.. So disappointed in myself lolol
That is some weird bud structure though. I have found there Zkittlez auto to be all over the place. The ones that hermed were all completely different. I had one runt that was about half the size of the other 3 that hermed first. And then I had two monsters that were growing amazing. I thought I was going to end up with over 200 grams just with those two the way they were going, but sure enough out came the balls. Thank God I destroyed them and ended up with one successful Zkittlez plant.
ILGM was very good about it and actually gave me a 99 dollar gift code to use to buy another 5 pack with no questions asked. Thats how I ended up with the Bruce Banner. I planted one of every strain I have and save all the rest of the beans for after this grow where I can get a general feel on how each strain likes to grow and there tendencies and everything. Then next grow I will plant all of them for a huge run.
The buds on my zkittlez auto aren't then biggest buds in the world, but they are pretty damn fat and juicy but they good thing is they are as hard as a friggin rock. And the frost has been pretty damn good too. The colors it is turning right now are absolutely gorgeous. The buds and all the calyxes are more purple than barney and the fan leaves are turning a sick ass yellowish green with purple tint all throughout the leaves. This fade it is doing is pretty awesome. I nailed the timing of my last top dress perfect to get it to fade these amazing colors