Welcome to the first week of my Seedsman autoflower competition diary. Thats a mouthful lol. So this is actually my second attempt at an auto grow but I have a good feeling about this one...she popped up fast and seems to be loving her medium, which is promix pm and Natures living soil, Kates vegan blend for the living aspect. This is also my first stab at living soil so wish me luck!

Yo community! A friend of mine just started a Legal Grow in Germany with his roomate under my Supervision, as it is now Legal to grow in Germany. So I thought about documenting this grow. I've been growing for long time now, but my buddy Bili is a complete newbee at this stuff. I am positive that this "is gonna be huge". We plan on growing 6 plants. Bili is gonna be growing 3 and his roomate also 3 plants. Of course Bili will only care for his own 3 plants and his rommate for the other 3 as it is regulated like that by law. It is Germany where everything has to be like this apparently. lol. This grow will be 2-3 Weeks indoors 51w with low cost 3x17 Watts 4000 k LED Bulbs. (3€ each) Those produce 2500 lumens each, about 147 lm/W 1.45 l pots for the first few weeks indoors. The plants will then go into 5l pots on the window sill until harvest. faced to the south. So far the seeds have been placed into water over night. tomorrow we will put them into the soil. They are all Automatics. Day 2: seeds soaked over night. about 16 hours. The Gelato are already opening their shells.. The others are still closed. All sinked to the bottom over night. We are now planting them into the Soil.:) We soaked 9 seeds. 3x O.B. 4x Kryptonite and 2x Gelato. After cutting the dome off the lamps and counting the LED's (81) it looks like these are 0.21w SMD 31lm per LED (manufacturer says 147lm/w). for bulbs really good little LED's. looks like these are cree 2835 J series or similar types. there are cree 4000k J types that are exactly 31lm wich would be exactly what each LED should produce. (2500/81). Plant in Soil Date was 05 june. 14:00 Today, 2 Days and 10 hours, (58 hours) after planting in soil The 2 Gelatos came to life:) and one Kryptonite basically 3 full days including soaking time. 08.06 at 1:30 is the beginning of VEG Day one We will give them 24 hours light. day 5 after waterglass. Berries still no sign of life. lamp is at 30 cm distance. no signs of stretching. At Day 5 Veg we located the berry seeds and put them into paper towel, cracked them open and scraped the shell. we have enough plants now but nothing to choose from in case a plant has weak genes. So we hope a few berries will make it. probably old Seeds.

Day 22 - Rolling into week 4 looking mean and green! 💪 I need to make a decision on what kind of training I want to dish out to this lady. She's growing a bit faster than her tent mates. Day 23 - Always experimenting - today I begin my first mainline! I've already built the foundation by allowing the plant to grow to 6 nodes, as recommended by the tutorial I followed by the brilliant Miss Nebula Haze @growweedeasy. My next step is documented here in a video, as I take my lush, happy, healthy plant, and give her the kind of haircut that makes you want to storm out of the salon without leaving a tip. 😂 I even managed to get in my signature branch snap early in the game - being held together now with duct tape. 🤦‍♀️ In all seriousness though, I'm thrilled to be trying this out, despite the agony of cutting down my plant to nothing but a stump and antennae. I've seen some great growers create some serious masterpieces using this method, and damn it my curiosity is taking control! Here's to learning something new! Day 27 - Came home from vacation to find that my plant had hulked through the duct tape that held her snapped branch together... I guess she's doing well. ☺️ Over the course of the past few days her branches have gotten notably thicker! 💪 Day 28 - Now that each new main stem has grown out, I removed all the growth tips from below the 3rd node on each side. I left the fan leaves in tact to give plant access to extra energy as she pushes through this intense training. I softened the branches with my fingers, very slowly, to tie down my new main stems horizontally across the net basket. I took a sterilized x-acto knife to then top each of my two main stems at the 3rd node on each side, leaving me with a beautifully symmetrical base to my masterpiece.

Fed Recharge for the first time this week, also fed Espoma Organic Bloom. Did some defoliation too. She seems happy and healthy overall, but I see what I believe is LED light burn on some of the sugar leaves on the upper most buds. I jacked up the LED light as high as I can without completely reorganizing all plants, lights, etc. Even completely reorganizing the tent, I'd only be able to gain 2-3 inches of height so not sure if its worth it. Now that I harvested the Blue Mammoth I have a little room to try some LST-style bending and try to get the plant farther away from the light that way. We'll see what happens during the week.

Amazing experience with the Mix Pack, I will try it again next summer for sure. Love the variety.

Tip of the day: Never let an AI try to set nutrient ratios. The plant on the left is yellowing significantly compared to its neighbor, even though they are both on the same feed. Nutrient rates have since been readjusted to try to help the yellowing plant. I may lose some yield, but hopefully, she pushes through. There are five weeks left until the first yield in nearly two years, with another run right behind it: two clones of the same strain, which will complete the perpetual winter cycle. That will be a wrap until October of 2026. Happy growing, everyone!

Flower32, riego con 6.3 pH y EC 2.8, las plantas tienen cogollos muy grandes y densos comparado con el cultivo anterior, a simple vista pareciera que tendré una cosecha más grande y en menos tiempo, quedan entre 3 a 4 semanas todavía, si que queda bastante tiempo para que sigan engordando.

Este cultivo fue unos de los primeros que hago, fue una buena experiencia ahora a esperar a que se seque

LST is doing great 😌

This plant smells like pure lemon very sharp and sweet. No training or defolition happened this week

Harvest time is coming closer :)

Northern liht bana ilk defa indica sevdiren bir sigara oldu. Diyeceklerim bu kadar

Beginning: 12/11/2020 10:30 Pm 12/12/2020 5:30 Pm approximately Purple Hulk Auto MSNL Seeds (First and only seedbank I use as of right now) (5Gal Fabric Pots) 2 Lemon OG Fem Auto- Genes: OG Kush x Lemon Haze (High Times Cannabis Cups in 2008 and 2009, alongside first prize at the IC420 Growers Cup) Flowering: 8 Weeks Plant Height :Medium 100cm-180cm Harvest: 300 - 400g/m² THC: 15-18% (5Gal Fabric Pot) Purple Hulk Fem Auto- Genes: GDP x Big Bud Flowering: 8-10 Weeks Plant Height: Short 60cm-100cm Harvest: 300-400g/m² THC: 19-22% -Placed under 18/6 light schedule.

Moving along- had some leaf damage from foliar. She will be fine

Initiated flower with a 48 hour period of darkness on the 35th day from seed. #SFgrow

Entrando en la tercera semana de flora se ven cómodas agregándole carbohidratos y big bud para que crezcan como avión siempre menos de la dosis recomendado por el fabricante, cualquier dato somos todo oídos, chauuu.

i will train them LST tmr

Wrapping Up DQ she has been fun growing. Giving gassy… can’t note much till I smoke a tester. On last day cure cycle. 4 days dry and 4 days cure… happen to fall on 4/20 today, happy 420 stay green and uplifting:)