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This week she was transplanted into her forever home. A 38 litre airpot. The timelapse is the whole week except a few hours when I was repotting. When I repotted her, I buried her deeper than normal because she stretched so much!!! She was a lot taller than the other 3 girls.
Good growth this week but I think she is still in Veg mode.... I hope I have not made a big mistake not FIMing her or any of the others in the tent. She is easily the tallest of all four.
I cannot believe how much growth this week!!! I think she has almost doubled in size!! For the first time I've had to higher the light fixture. It is now almost as high as I can put it. I'm kinda regretting not FIMing her now...... I hope she does not grow much more in height!
She has grown another 10cm/4" this week!
Flowers developing quite slowly compared to her tent-mates. I'm hoping this is a sativa dominant phenotype??? Can anyone shed some light on that please?
I left the tape measure visible in the video for scale. Good? Helpful?
Day 98 - she is still flowering! This week a few stems have bent over, I've had to support them before they break. I can see her going another 3 weeks easy....... I hope she yields A LOT 😋😍
Apologies for not updating last week. She is the last girl left in the tent so I decided to get some canes and spread her out to the extents of the tent.
She is progressing, the hairs are turning but have not gone very dark yet. Still some 'new' white hairs around. I have not even looked at the trichomes yet, the flowers look quite airy at this stage.
As there are no other diaries of this strain I'm flying by the seat of my pants here 😂 I'm thinking at least another 3 weeks left..
Day 124 - I change the lights to 12/12... She is flowering, but painfully slowly. I have never put an auto on 12/12 before so I don't know if it will help.
Day 126 - The buds are quite airy I have to say. I don't think she will yield all that much. I am definitely smelling grape though. Fruity. It's nice! I will stick with it, the trichomes are changing to cloudy but the pistils have too many white hairs yet. Also their brown colour is not that dark but I don't think they are getting any darker.
Been flushing for days now. I put 20L per day through her.
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These pics are Day 132, She will be chopped tomorrow. I don't expect much weight TBH, the flowers are quite light and airy. Trichomes are milky/amber so it is time.
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Upon doing more research on this strain and after speaking to somebody about bud shape/density brought me back to my thinking months back. After a very long (for an auto) veg period I suspected the genetics of this plant were not very strong with the Ruderalis genes. But I dismissed that because why would a seedbank put out a 'sub standard' product?............
I think I would have had better results with her if the lights were on 20/4, I may even grow all my autos from now on 20/4 just in case the Ruderalis genetics are not prominent enough.
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You live and learn, but don't forget: Knowledge is power 😋
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Harvest to follow............
For me this grow was a complete failure. The amount of buds I threw away was amazing.😭
The buds are very airy, not dense at all. Looking at the trichome sites they are spread quite far apart. Not much THC on this plant at all.
If nothing else I've learned to use 24H light on only trusted genetics.
I will give this away (if they even want it 😂) to a few mates.
@wygorilla, Thats great!! I would seriously consider FIMing her to try and keep the height down! She is the tallest plant I've ever grown. If I grow it again I will for sure do it.
Also be prepared for a long wait. She is flowering very slowly for me.
@JerMeds, I am trying to get some Sativas in my life next time round so will look at the other seeds Doc has.
My meda is coco with a little bit of perlite in a 40 litre airpot.
Sorry to hear it dude... that said, it takes a grower with a stash to be able to give away a another stash lol. Chin up homie! A good yield regardless. 👍👊👍
@TheBudWhisperer, Thanks dude. I hadn't thought of it like that...... If it was my only strain I had in 'stock' then I guess I would be keeping it. It would be better than nothing 😂
BUT, had these colas been dense and a few more trichomes honestly it would have been an easy 8oz plant. I threw two colas away! One had wind burn, one had too many hairs 😂
The main thing is I learned something 😉 and will keep that in my memory bank for use in the future.
All the best buddy!! 👌👍
If you want some informed support for your hypothesis then here it is dude. When it comes to autos and their short life cycle, I’d go 20/4 vs. Anything else. I’ve tried it at 18/6 and results are good. 12/12 and the results were somewhat less. With autos I’ve found the more light the better for sure. Either way best of luck with the harvest! 👍👊👍
@Dunk_Junk, yeah dude, couldn’t agree more. Guess the only concern is prolonged light exposure and burning from that. Dealt with that a bit on an 18/6 cycle but it coulda also been nute burn. This is why I like growing photos more these days. Longer to harvest but generally easier on the plants. Good luck with the chop - watching for updates. 👍👊
@TheBudWhisperer, Thank you dude. I have grown autos for quite a long time now with the lights on 24h straight from seed. I've not had a problem before, grown a few different breeders' plants. This is the only one that's had problems with that light regime. I think doing autos 20/4 is a bit of an insurance policy against funny stuff happening 😋.
I am in agreement that the more light you give them the better the plant which led me to 24h, BUT I didn't factor in weak genetics......
Anyhow, as long as we're all still learning and sharing that knowledge for other people to benefit from it's all good.
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Dunk_Junk
