Well here we go into Week Seven / Week Two of Flower! 👏😎 With seven weeks of initial growth behind her now, the Dutch Passion Auto Power Power Plant has had a few issues along the way, most recently she was severely lifeless looking and very droopy, which now has been resolved for the most part...She has her good days, and some not so good but she's hanging in there so I'll keep 🙏 that she pulls through!
Thank you for following along this journey with me, growing these beautiful cultivars is always better with someone to share the experience with....come along and enjoy! 😎🙏
~Grown 100% organic in a 10g fabric pot with Mother Earth 70/30 Coco/Perlite medium amended with 2tbs/g Down To Earth 4-4-4 / 2 cups/g Earthworm Castings / 1tbs/g Dr. Earth Flower Girl 2-8-4 and 1tbs/g Dr. Earth Bat Guano.
~24hr light cycle during germination / 19/5 light cycle for Veg & Flower
~Straight water ph'd @ 6.2-6.8 when needed, top dressed every 3-4 weeks and weekly Compost Tea's.
4/12- We're starting off Week Two of flower on a somewhat down note. The Auto Power Plant is back to being fussy and has that terrible droop to her which is most noticeable when the light first comes on. I can't seem to get her constantly happy...smh!
Today I turned her pot 1/4 turn, pulled a few leaves that were blocking light and monitored the temp's in the tent.
We're in-between seasons now and on warm days the grow room A/C unit has a difficult time keeping the tent below 80 degrees with the HLG 650R now cranked up to full power pulling 660w at the wall. On the warmest days I have been cranking the light back to 400w later in the afternoon, which is the warmest part of the day, which seems to help a lot. Once I turn on the main A/C, the grow room A/C will have no problem keeping tent temp's at 77-78 degrees max., which I'll be doing sooner than later with summer fast approaching!
4/14- I am still at a loss on this girl...
I went ahead and checked the ph of her medium with my BlueLab Soil PH PEN as this is the ONLY thing I haven't checked (and should have sooner) and it was 4.9... Waaay too low!
I watered her with straight tap water that was dechlorinated and without any nutrients or buffers that had a ph of 7.4 to try to adjust the medium ph back into the mid 5's, hopefully this works!
4/16- Well she perked up somewhat today but is still not 100%. I didn't water her yesterday after her heavy water the day before.
My RH in the 4x8 is running in the low 40's and the more I thought about it, with the temp's running in the mid to high 70's, the RH should be much higher (like 55-60%) to have a optimal VPD in the tent.
I'm thinking MAYBE this could be a contributing factor as with a VPD that isn't optimal the plant has a hard time exchanging moisture to the air which how it breaths. When the VPD is off it also affects the plants leaf turgor and they will look similar to what my girl is exhibiting.
I went ahead and fired up the humidifier in the tent and set it to 60% RH. I'll give her a day or two and see how she responds to the added RH.
4/18- Today she recieved 0.75g of straight dechlorinated ph'd to 6.5 @ 72 deg. 0.3 EC. I also removed a couple of dozen or so shade leaves out of the inside to keep that light penetration happening as she is BUSHY and LARGE and has no issues constantly putting out new growth at a blistering pace!
It's been a so-so week for this girl but I foresee this girl turning the corner (as I've experienced several times before) and becoming a memorable cultivar! Her eighth week is coming up and HOPEFULLY she'll get her shit together! Be sure to check in on her progress as things continue to change rapidly!
~Thank you so much for following along so far! I hope you'll continue to follow my journey as things will be getting more exciting as the flowering continues... Grow Strong! 😎🙏~
Sure your scale is calibrated. I grown my fair share of autos to say that 240 is inaccurate. Beautiful plant and buds. Just scratching my head on final weight of bud is all.
@Roberts, 😁 You need to grow bigger Auto's my friend! Yes, the scale is accurate. Check out my Seedsman Gelato OG Auto diary...250g yield. There's a lot of autoflower genetics that produce smaller plants with smaller yields, but there's also genetics that when grown in the right conditions become monsters! Happy growing and stay Blessed! 😎🤙🏼
@Inganjawetrust, IDK brother...She's been a handful trying to get her 'dialed in'! She reminds me of a DP Meringue photo I ran. They both were very droopy no matter what I did, but as the Meringue matured she became one of my all time favorite cultivars! I can only hope and pray that this lady does the same! If she does finally get her stuff together, with her size, she'll be epic! Thanks for the compliment! 😎🙏