Hi all. Happy Sunday. Gonna go ahead and start this new grow by the seat of my pants....
So, I started my first grow in February-ish of 2020 with absolutely zero experience - which is confirmed by the fact that I bought and planted 5 auto flowering Pineapple Express and 5 photoperiod Cinderella 99 seeds. I was watching this site for a few months until I was finally desperate enough to create a journal and ask for help! I have grown several auto flowering plants since that first grow and have had several mutants as well as seeds that just didn’t grow. One of the things that kept coming up in my research and conversations was “genetics”. Now, I just harvested a Zkittles auto from a seed company I wouldn’t purchase from again because of the dud seeds and the mutants that came from some of them...but Lo and behold, I got more than 8 ounces from her so something went right that time - and I can’t take all the credit for that! ANYHOW, this next grow I’m going to do two autos from two respected seed breeders:
Victory Seed co.
The Victory Seed Company is a small, family owned and operated organization that works to preserve plant varieties by locating, growing, documenting and offering rare, open-pollinated, non-GMO, non-hybrid, heirloom seeds to home gardeners. Unlike most seed companies, they actually grow seeds on their own farm and help to support other small seed farmers. The Victory Seed Company works hard at being the best heirloom seed company and strive to be your main seed source. By purchasing Victory Seeds, you are partnering with The Victory Seed Company to support their primary
mission of preserving heritage or heirloom seed varieties as well as horticultural history.
Chocodope (auto):
AUTO Chocodope is a fantastic strain that has all the amazing sweetness of the original Chocodope with an improved yield and flowering time. This strain is sativa dominant and has an incredible flavour of fruit with a hint of chocolate. This is considered one of the best tasting strains around and the original has won numerous awards.
She was born on Dec 30, 2020 and is 11 days old today. She was a quick start in the water, paper towel, and solo cup and is starting her 4th nodes now and taking 2grams/gal MC.
Sweet Seeds: Dark Devil Auto. Sweet Seeds composed the Red Family collection, which comprises dark and purple auto flowering strains. The purple phenotype is taken from its roots close to Afghanistan, in the Chiral region in the Pakistani Hindu Kush. As is typical of many of Sweet Seeds' strains, Dark Devil has a great amount of vigor from the get-go. As with the majority of Indica-Sativa hybrids, this strain presents with a robust central stem and an abundance of side branches, with a big main cola and numerous smaller buds on the side branches. The flowers and their surrounding leaves show an outstanding level of resin production, with a sweet, fruity fragrance and some more spicy undertones, with lemony hues to it.
About 80% of the plants' buds will usually some purple or reddish tones to them, with some of this also transferring to the leaves. It is said the after harvest the dried buds become a very dark purple, almost black, colour, hence the name given to the strain.
This seed has an expected flowering period of around 8 ½ weeks and will grow to a height between 80-130 cm. The expected yield for outdoor growth is around 50-200 grams per plant. For indoor growth this is approximately 400-600 grams per square meter.
A lot of you have grown this strain before and I’ve been envious watching you, so it’s my turn now!
She was dropped in water at the same time as the Chocodope but she wasn’t as “vigorous” - no problem with that and I hope it continues!
Born January 1st she is 9 days old and just getting her third node and currently @1 gram/gal MC.
Hope all are well and thanks for watching!
Seriously surprised by the amount. I thought maybe 6 or 7 oz at the most. She did good.
