Re: Dick23rk's 1st Journal - 1st Hempy - CKS Autoflower Candy Cane & Amnesia Haze - 2
**Update - April 12th - Day 29**
Hey there folks! Hope everything is well with all of you. Time for a bit of a bigger update than normal, I have lots of pictures for everyone to look at this time and some extra info to go along. Been doing some measurements, re-arranging, a little leaf tucking and close examinations of all 4 Crop King Seeds feminized autos.
First on the agenda today, all 4 plants have now shown sex and are now on their way into flowering. Pictures are added in each plant description for the day. I'm not sure whether to mark the day they showed sex a the day they went into flower, or to mark that day when I switch over to using more bloom nutes than grow. Any ideas from the readers (you) would be greatly appreciated.
So, I have re-arranged the grow space to a more manageable and efficient way for myself. I have all 4 of the autos up front in a row with the 2 - 54w T5's hanging at their sides and they are just off center of the 430w HPS above. All of my other bagseed girls are situated at the back half of the grow space now and more out of the way so I can keep a closer eye on the more prized plants each time I poke my head in to have a look. Finally got them all sitting close to the same height. Here is a picture of the space now, much easier in my opinion.
As I said earlier I have done some leaf tucking, this was on the 2 FIM'd ladies. More so on the Amnesia Haze over the Candy Cane due to the different growth rates. You will see this in the seperate pictures I add of all the girls. I will also add measurements of all the girls under the pictures in the description of each photo. So, here we go!
This is a couple pictures of the autos from Crop King Seeds, relaxing in the light after their check-up and photo shoot. They are enjoying the added light from what I can tell.
Amnesia #1
Undergrowth starting to pick up on this lady. This one has had no training and is growing naturally. Seems to be pretty healthy overall. She stands at 3.5" and is 7" across each direction.
Here is a top view of her, nice green lush leaves, just waiting for her to sprout up some.
Here is a look at her pistils
Amnesia #2
The shoots from below have started to pick up nicely with the top of the plant, top 2 shoots are developing nicely. Also noticed where I made the FIM cut there is some small new growth happening here as well, will see what it decides to do. You can sort of tell I have tucked some leaves in behind the other shoots and future bud sites. She is the best looking of them all. Standing tall at 4.5" and 8" across one way, 10" across the other.
Top view of this lady. Can see how nice and even the top 2 shoots have come out and the other lower branches poking out from around the leaves I tucked.
Candy #1
This is the other untrained, naturally grown lady. Starting to fill in nicely, may need some leaf tucking eventually once its sprouts up some more but that will be all she gets. Another with nice lush green color throughout. This lady stands at 3.5" tall and 8" across each way.
Here is the top view. Looks really nice and full from above, hard to believe she is really that short!
And here is a picture of her pistils poking out! Lots more showing than that on this one at the top growth but couldn't get a clear picture.
Candy #2
The slow poke of the bunch, finally starting to catch up with those lower shoots but they are also still fairly skinny. Hoping that maybe she will come out stronger than the rest and stalk up some for me. FIM worked nice on her but I must have stunted her in the process. Still growing so that's what counts! She is also only 3.5" tall and is 9" across one way and 8" the other way.
Top view of this lady, new growth growing nicely and also has some new sites forming where the FIM was made. Hoping to end up with some decent little colas.
Here is this ones pistils finally showing at the top of her, this was the last girl to show sex. Hard to see but they are there.
Well that about sums it up for today. They were all fed in the afternoon of day 27 (now day 29), they went 3 days before that without feeding and I will go 3 days again this time. Still giving veg nute schedule for now to get a little more growth out of all the girls, will likely start adjusting my mix for more bloom nutes by the end of the week. By then we would be well under way. If anyone has any suggestions about when to start slowly changing over to bloom nutes with autoflowers please, feel free to drop some info. My decision for now is to give them all 1 week after showing sex and then start switching my nutes over.
Hope you all enjoyed the show for today and have a great day. Best of luck, take care all!
, I had mixed up some information in my head about the autoflowers life cycle. 
