Hey, Melville, your plants look pretty healthy. However... I do not wish to seem rude, here, but that Dark Devil Auto seems scrawny. About four years ago, an acquaintance grew out one of Rifleman's selfed DDA seeds that SweetSue gave me. It was a pretty basic setup - a Mars Hydro blurple, mylar emergency "blankets" for reflectivity, five-gallon fabric container of (old, but unused) Fox Farm Ocean Forest / FF Happy Frog / perlite, an initial half-dose of Osmocote Plus as the only added nutrients, and crummy high calcium (etc.) heavily-chlorinated water that he didn't bother to dechlorinate before pouring into the container. It was kind of squat, but bushy like a little multiflora rose. Well, not really; I'm sure his DDA wouldn't have stopped a speeding runaway automobile like that stuff absolutely can
. But it was pretty "thick" for its size. This post shows it in its 14th week, maybe two weeks before he got tired of looking at the plant and not being able to smoke the buds (lol) :
Is it possible the environment available in the Octopot caused it? Sure (IMHO), especially if that thing doesn't have any kind of air pump or other active aeration device in its reservoir. But it could be something else entirely, there's lots of random stress everyday - and some of it is in...
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It still only produced... uh... between two and three ounces, I forget the exact amount. But it looked like it had more mass than yours seems headed toward having. When I decided to hunt up that old post to link for its pictures, I was planning to ask you if there might be a reason why yours appears to be "small." Then I saw a few more little DDA plants whilst searching for the post - therefore I realize that yours is not a one-in-a-million freak. Some of them end up looking relatively sizable (for an autoflowering strain, maybe more than that?)... and some do not. Just one of those things, I suppose.
But I'm wondering why, and if you might have any insights on the question. Again, like your other plants, that one seems to be healthy (not grossly underfed or obviously deficient in some specific element). Could it be something to do with light level and/or DLI? Other environmental conditions (e.g. temperature, humidity, or...)? Because that particular strain is supposed to be of a relatively early "autoflower generation," so to speak, as opposed to one of the more recently developed autoflowering strains (aka "superautos," "XXLs," etc.)? Just something that occurs with random autoflowers? Something else? I should probably point out that his stayed in the growth phase for so long that he asked me (more than once) if I was
sure it was an autoflowering strain, because he'd heard that they tend to enter the flowering phase within a few weeks, lol. And then, ironically, he told me that it had very little actual stretch during the "stretch portion" of the actual flowering phase. And had very little scent at any time, which also seemed strange for a strain that is somewhat known to be so obnoxiously stinky as much as it is for its purple handicap (which he probably didn't exactly help by using O+ and not supplementing phosphorous during its flowering phase, which might have partially explained its leafiness and small bud yield, that plus the fact that it was DDA, maybe, IDK).
Anyway, it was a low-maintenance grow for him. He looked at it once in a while; when it was wilted-looking, he dumped a bunch of water onto it (set the container in a big plastic tote so that he didn't even have to stand there and pour slowly, ha ha ha). So I cannot attribute it not being a tiny thing to his... expert care. Although he probably did top it, once or twice. He used to top everything he planted outside back in the '80s and '90s, those plantings being in the deep woods and him not visiting often enough to do any training, just the usual "sink or swim" guerilla grows.
Ramble on...
I am actually asking for more reasons than simple curiosity. I think I have one Big Devil XXL seed by the same breeder, and the two strains are related in some way or other, if I am remembering correctly. And my experience with autoflowering strains is still slight, so I figure I can use all the information I can get.
I feel (and share) your pain. Sadly, like a cop once told me, shoot a thief I catch in the act, and not only would I be unlikely to face any criminal charges, I would probably get my firearm back within ten days - but I am not allowed to... er...
be proactive. Come to think of it, he might have meant "one either already inside, or engaged in the act of entering my home." I think shooting miscreants on the property but outside requires that I post signs on the property or something, lol. Doggone lawyers. There seems to be less violent crime (and I cannot recall the last time a mugging was mentioned in the local police report) due to the fact that a person does not need to be a criminal to be armed (or even need a permit), and the odds are pretty good that a potential victim IS - Mom, for example, only stopped carrying her .38 Special a few years ago when her hands became too crippled to hit the range a couple of times per month, and she is in her 80s. Sadly, however, we do still have thieves. My little outbuilding has been burglarized, and - at another time - some punk tried to commit suicide by breaking in, in the wee hours. He failed, but probably still has to wipe his arse (etc.) with his off hand.
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If I had to pick my two favorites from last year, they were the Vanilla Kush and the Panama. The Vanilla Kush is an anytime smoke and I do.
