First time Pineapple Express Auto

Having over-germinated 3 out of 5 seeds, I continue with 2 small seedlings. Day 3: I switch to a 24hour lighting of the seedlings. Day 4: I accidentally axe one with the lid of the humidity dome and I am now down to 1 Pineapple Express Auto, tough odds. Day 5: I lower the lamp to 50cm. Day 6: I decide to plant the seedling in an 11 litre pot at this stage as I see roots coming out of the side of the jiffy pot. Lamp height still at 50cm. 24 hour lights. (Will switch to daylight for the following 2 days due to travel).

There has been very little grow the past week, and yellow appearances are visible on the leaf. I am not sure if my light has burned the plant :( The light is a 600W LED but only draws ~160w from the wall. I have raised the light from ~60cm to ~100cm and will follow the plant closely the next week.

I decide to lower the LED light to 80cm above the plant. I also added Bio-Grow nutes and watered 1 litre on the last day of week 2. I will add Bio-Grow and Bio-Bloom later, hopefully this week.

The plant has grown extensively the last week, and recovered well from the initial light burn. I will try to follow BioBizz's feeding schedule with the nutrients and monitor the plant carefully. If it shows any signs of burn, I will flush and lay off the nutrients. I haven't watered the plant all week as the soil was still wet. I commenced LST on Day 5 this week. I watered with nutrients on Day 6 this week.

Week 5 has commenced, and I did a watering on the last day of Week 4, including nutrients. The LST is looking good, however, I am unsure whether I should remove the leaf that is shadowing the lower new leaf-nodes. The lamp has been lowered to 70cm above the plants, and could perhaps be lowered more.

The plant has grown significantly during Week 5, and the LST is showing it's impact already. A branch on the right side of the plant is growing a lot. The water is still very moist two days after watering, it looks like I will only be watering about once a week, or maybe less. The plant has also grown closer to the light, now the distance is 56cm. I decided to perform more LST on Day 2, and further adjustments on Day 3. Day 4: I lowered the light to 50cm above the top of the plant. Day 5: Removed two leaves, they were shadowing a grow site. Day 6: I notice what I expect is a slight light burn on some new top leaves. I noticed the lamp was down to 46cm above the plant, so I have raised it to 52cm. I also did a nute watering with the specified ratio. I watered with approximately 1.5 liters.

I believe the very first week of flowring has begun, vegitative growth has slowed down, and a lot of tiny growth is appearing around the bud sites. Day 2: I notice a weird yellowish leaf, 3 days after watering with nutes, could this be nute burn or ph lockout? Day 3: I'm unsure if I'm getting the most from my lights, what I though was light burn seems like leaves just rotating around the tips. Day 4: Watered with nutrients, the Bio-Bloom was upped by 1 ml/l. It sucked up approximately 1.5 litres. I also decided to lower the lights to 41cm, as the light colours on the leaves were just rotating new leaves (no idea why they do that). Day 7: Plants are looking slightly droopy, I wonder if this could be the lights or the heat. I see no evidence of light burn otherwise, but the tent is warm at around 28.5c. I decided to lift the light back to 50cm above the plant.

Day 2: The plant was strutting again after lifting the lights to 50cm above the plant. There is almost no smell, I'm afraid the heatwave might have killed off the smell and taste of the buds permanently :-( Day 4: Watered with nutrients.

I think the watering of last week with nutrients might have burned the plant, as seen on Day 2. Thankfully it didn't spread throughout the week and the plant was watered without any nutes on Day 6. On Day 6 through Day 1 of the following week (3 days total) the plant was without light as I forgot to turn them on after watering.

Day 1: Still no light since Day 6 of last week. Day 2: Light is turned on again, and we are back on schedule! Day 3: The nutrient burn (?) from Week 9 did not spread, and all looks well. It is soon time for a watering, and it might be with blooming nutrients. Day 4: Watered, no nutes.

I have experimented with a timelapse setup, which I hope in time will replace the manual photos, check out the footage from half of last week (I have footage from further back, but it was unstable). Day 2: Watered slightly, with way less water than usual as I am afraid of the soil not being able to dry out. Day 7: Watered.

Things are going good, I am beginning to think about when to harvest. I have tried capturing some microscope shots of the trichomes with a 15x macro lens (BlitzWolf), but they turned out awful. They still look transparent and glasslike, and I did not see many, if any, amber trichomes. I am going on vacation next week, and wonder if plant will be fine with not being harvested before the 8th of July, two weeks from now. Day 3: Watered Day 4: Macro shots. Trichomes look transparent and glasslike, but since this is my first grow, any input from experienced growers is very welcome :-) Day 7: Watered. No amber trichomes in sight, I will wait one more week before the harvest.

This week I was on holiday, so there will only be pictures from the in-tent camera. The plant was watered on Day 1 with lots of water, no nutrients added.

The plant has started to suffer from the lack of watering during my holiday, and was just watered on Day 2 this week. I decided to harvest the plant on Day 3 of this week.

The day came and excitement was high! The harvest was easy and painless, it took time, but we were prepared for that. The cure however was somewhat more difficult. We didn't really know what to gauge for, and feedback in the process was hard to utilize, since there almost was none. The plant smelled of wet grass when curing, reading up on this, this was probably chlorophyll escaping the plant material. It has since cured more, and the jar still has that cut grass smell, but the buds, when smelled have a nice citrus smell. Understand that the lack of smell and taste was most probably due to most of the weeks in flower, was during a heatwave. The tent rarely went below 28 degrees celcius and often over 30. We decided to do a cognitive test of our abilities, in form of understanding the rules of a board game. This was a great success as we understood absolutely nothing and had a great time failing miserably. 10/10, can recommend.