Jax Rider
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Beautiful plant Blew.Dark Devil @ Dawn...in a greenhouse on the coast of Maine....
Dark Devil Auto: A Community Grow Record
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Jax Rider
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A picture of my DDA's frosty lower bud. Mine is green.
Has anyone grown both Dark Devil Auto and SSDC (Sweet & Sour Devil's Crack, I think?) together? I'm wondering if anyone can compare and contrast the two (both the growing and the bud/effects).
Ganjagrowergu
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Anybody running these in Hempy!
Dark Devil???
I have, Sue is now and think beez is also
Actually think most are now
Ganjagrowergu
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Sue had told me this was her first run in Hempy with DDA. Now that I am almost ready to soak a couple seeds, I wanted to satiate my paranoia just a bit more.
I've never done the auto thing, but was gifted 10 DDA seeds that I don't want to mess up, because I want to do them justice. It was a gracious gift.
Do you know of anyone running maxibloom as a stand alone? I see it in older threads/forums, but not much recently. It works great on my sativas in Hempy, but they have a long grow cycle to heal from my careless mistakes.
If you don't want to mess up those DDA seeds my suggestion would be to germinate them in a hempy solo cup. I tried germinating them in paper towels and got only one of five to germinate successfully. In the hempy solo cups I am 4 for 4 success rate.
Ganjagrowergu
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Thank you
That is good to information to know. I usually soak my seeds until they sink or 24 hours and plant directly in the final container. I generally have great luck with this method If I have to transplant I like to cut the bottom out of the small container and stuff it right into the larger pot.
My final container for this exercise will be a 1 gallon square ice cream pail... I am going to stick with my maxibloom and step them up even slower than I do my sativas. I have one more plant to flush and chop (1 week max) and I will get my journal going.
Peace
dynamo1
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Put them in the gallon to start with, "auto's" flower when the tap root hits the bottom of the container,Thank you
That is good to information to know. I usually soak my seeds until they sink or 24 hours and plant directly in the final container. I generally have great luck with this method If I have to transplant I like to cut the bottom out of the small container and stuff it right into the larger pot.
My final container for this exercise will be a 1 gallon square ice cream pail... I am going to stick with my maxibloom and step them up even slower than I do my sativas. I have one more plant to flush and chop (1 week max) and I will get my journal going.
Peace
I started mine multiple ways
In Hempy I did the soak/ paper towels then into a Hempy solo for like two weeks, then into 1.5 gal Hempy
Either way I made a 1/4 strength nutes and would water the seedling every day to help speed up the grow and get the roots into the resivour , it seemed to help quite a bit
In Hempy I did the soak/ paper towels then into a Hempy solo for like two weeks, then into 1.5 gal Hempy
Either way I made a 1/4 strength nutes and would water the seedling every day to help speed up the grow and get the roots into the resivour , it seemed to help quite a bit
Or he could grow a few at a time.
Only reason I (mostly) stopped using the paper towel method of germination was that I had some concern that the tiny, vulnerable emerging root tip might start growing into - or at least adhering - to the fibers(?) that make up the paper towel. Probably not a real big concern unless the grower leaves seeds in there too long, since the method obviously works, but...
BUSHMASTERAR
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Some random pics of the DDA just over 60 days now.
My #1 DDA is coming along nicely I think. Today is inspection day and although she is growing nicely I couldn't help but notice what I believe to be deficiency spotting on just 3 leaves, all near or at the bottom of the plant. Basically the oldest leaves on her. What do ya'll think?
Hempy???
Looks like a calmag issue
Looks like a calmag issue
Cal Mag deficiency?
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A picture of my DDA's frosty lower bud. Mine is green.
You have a way to go Jax. She may change color before the end. My first didn’t change until two weeks before harvest and she was a super potent baby.
Thank you
That is good to information to know. I usually soak my seeds until they sink or 24 hours and plant directly in the final container. I generally have great luck with this method If I have to transplant I like to cut the bottom out of the small container and stuff it right into the larger pot.
My final container for this exercise will be a 1 gallon square ice cream pail... I am going to stick with my maxibloom and step them up even slower than I do my sativas. I have one more plant to flush and chop (1 week max) and I will get my journal going.
Peace
beez and I are using the same technique Chris describes - soak the perlite in 1/4 strength nutrients, drain, plant (beez and I use a humidity dome on our solo cups), and wait for them to come up.
So far both beez and I are seeing them pop within two days. I don’t even soak the seed anymore. Once it’s in the perlite it’s saturated.
Some random pics of the DDA just over 60 days now.
That sir, is one fine girl.
She must smell intoxicating. Lol! When mine are that far along I look for reasons to be close. 
I don’t think we covered this in our conversations. We use 2 tsp of Cal/Mg per gallon of water used with hempy. I’d bet my life you’re using less than that.
Increase to 2 tsp/gallon and the problem stops right there.
Also, beez, are you adjusting pH to 5.5? This is the perlite hempy sweet-spot. I didn’t mention it because I use nutrients that don’t require pH adjusting. Sorry.
I mix my nutrients in a 1/2 gallon milk bottle. I add Cal-Mag to every feeding at a rate of 4ml per 1/2 gallon. So just under 1ml less then you're using. I can certainly bump it up a bit. I had read the PH should be about 5.8 so I've been a little under and a little over on the PH.
DDA...from a greenhouse on the coast of Maine...
Jesus! That's a tough act to follow. With my head hung low here is my update from today on my Dark Devil autos. The two inside are growing in hempy. Today I fed them and discovered roots behind the tape when I removed it for their feeding. So I know for sure the roots have reached the reservoir and should begin growing with more vigor from here on.
This plant I topped at day 17 or 18 I can't remember. It started to have a problem with some leaf spotting (cal-mag deficiency) but has been remedied by upping the cal-mag by a very small amount.
I wanted to see how the Dark Devil auto responded to fimming VS. topping so that's what I did with this girl. She was fimmed on I believe day 17. She did not love the fimming and showed it by going dormant for 2 days. She has since started growing again and if she decides to go vertical she might be the better of the two plants.
I have a third Dark Devil growing outside. Sadly she was put out there too early in the season and didn't do much. She is flowering but there's not much of her.
This plant I topped at day 17 or 18 I can't remember. It started to have a problem with some leaf spotting (cal-mag deficiency) but has been remedied by upping the cal-mag by a very small amount.
I wanted to see how the Dark Devil auto responded to fimming VS. topping so that's what I did with this girl. She was fimmed on I believe day 17. She did not love the fimming and showed it by going dormant for 2 days. She has since started growing again and if she decides to go vertical she might be the better of the two plants.
I have a third Dark Devil growing outside. Sadly she was put out there too early in the season and didn't do much. She is flowering but there's not much of her.
Ganjagrowergu
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Just babies
