Jon's First Outdoor Grow: Sugar Breath Photoperiod & Strawberry Banana Autoflower

[Jon]

Gorilla Zkittlez
Day 72
Partial Harvest

Took one main cola. It looked all the way done. I left the rest to go another day or two or three.

Here's what I took, and some buds shots on the plant still left. The buds look pretty done in the pictures, but there's a bunch of new growth below them I want to develop for a few more days. Close enough to not take the cola buds. The main branch of the two I took was ahead of the rest of the plant.

 

[Jon]

Gorilla Zkittlez
First Bud Pictures

 

[cjsbabygirl313]

Gorilla Zkittlez
First Bud Pictures

WOW! Beautiful bud!

 

[Michael Hunt]

Gorilla Zkittlez
First Bud Pictures

Incredible man your attention to every little detail has paid off again.

 

[Jon]

Incredible man your attention to every little detail has paid off again.

Thanks Michael! Did you understand that I lost certain information in a moderator purge before I could copy it down? Sorry...Anyway, hope all is well with you! Your namesake auto, the Gelato, now that she's cured for almost a month, is maybe the tastiest of all my strains, depending on what you like. It's so sweet, like citrusy candy, and dense, gorgeous buds that smell like cotton candy and dank. Nice job. Lol.

 

[Jon]

CJS Apple Blossom
Veg Day 46

The Apple Blossom looks so damn happy in the tent under the 420h I almost don't want to move her outdoors to flower when the time comes. But we need the tent, so.....

Here she is this morning from three different perspectives. The suggestion to remove the growth between the cola and the adjacent new nodes was spectacular, thanks, @Bill284. I have so many options at this moment with this plant I can't decide how I want to train her from her. Lol. What a great problem to have.

Also love the whiteness of the 420h spectrum. The plants love it, and the camera loves it.

Enjoy. A little Wednesday veg porn. Lol.

 

[cjsbabygirl313]

Ooooh! She’s really “blossoming” (sorry - couldn't resist!) into a beautiful little lady!

 

[Bill284]

CJS Apple Blossom
Veg Day 46

The Apple Blossom looks so damn happy in the tent under the 420h I almost don't want to move her outdoors to flower when the time comes. But we need the tent, so.....

Here she is this morning from three different perspectives. The suggestion to remove the growth between the cola and the adjacent new nodes was spectacular, thanks, @Bill284. I have so many options at this moment with this plant I can't decide how I want to train her from her. Lol. What a great problem to have.

Also love the whiteness of the 420h spectrum. The plants love it, and the camera loves it.

Enjoy. A little Wednesday veg porn. Lol.

Spectacular.

Stay safe
Bill

 

[Jon]

Dos Si Dos Mini Report

Here's a teaser picture of the three Dos Si Dos auto phenotypes. now that they're hitting the jars. Left to Right we have DSD 3, 1, and 2. As you can see, 1 and 2 were very similar, and I would argue the "hybrid" phenotype, despit the indica-like nature of DSD 1, as compared to DSD 3 which is definitely the sativa. Enjoy!

 

[Jon]

Spectacular.

Stay safe
Bill

Hey @Bill284...so for our next trick, I think I want to let the main two colas and the other two 90 degrees separate from them, grow out a little more, and top the four of those again. That'll give us 8 colas there, plus 4 from the four sweet nodes in the middle, plus 4 more from the next node as those branches continue out. By then the lower branches will have caught up and Ill have a canopy with about 20 colas. I think maybe that'll be good for this girl, I want to see what NOT going nuts, but doing an appreciable amount of training, will do. 50-60 gave me too much flarf. What do you think?

 

[Jon]

Cocotown
Flower Day 33

I turned of the flower booster to get some full spectrum pictures. My tent smells like a dank fruit salad. Here's a big cola from each of the plants. This is half decent bud porn, enjoy.

1. Dos Si Dos
2. Blueberry
3. Strawberry Lemonade

 

[Bill284]

Hey @Bill284...so for our next trick, I think I want to let the main two colas and the other two 90 degrees separate from them, grow out a little more, and top the four of those again. That'll give us 8 colas there, plus 4 from the four sweet nodes in the middle, plus 4 more from the next node as those branches continue out. By then the lower branches will have caught up and Ill have a canopy with about 20 colas. I think maybe that'll be good for this girl, I want to see what NOT going nuts, but doing an appreciable amount of training, will do. 50-60 gave me too much flarf. What do you think?

How long before you put them into flower?
That will take some time is all I see that might be a issue?

Stay safe
Bill

 

[Jon]

How long before you put them into flower?
That will take some time is all I see that might be a issue?

Stay safe
Bill

I'm in no hurry whatsoever. Whenever I want. 60-70 days-ish? That's plenty of time to get it done.

 

[Bill284]

I'm in no hurry whatsoever. Whenever I want. 60-70 days-ish? That's plenty of time to get it done.

Should be awesome then.
What are you waiting for, hehe

Stay safe
Bill

 

[Jon]

Should be awesome then.
What are you waiting for, hehe

Stay safe
Bill

Lol. Funny, but actually a good question with an actual answer...I'm waiting to get more stem under them. I have found that the less stem I have, the smaller my buds turn out. But too much is not good either. There's a sweet spot in there somewhere, and I'm trying to find it. It's close, I'll turn on the training some more in a few days. Just a theory.

 

[cjsbabygirl313]

Cocotown
Flower Day 33

I turned of the flower booster to get some full spectrum pictures. My tent smells like a dank fruit salad. Here's a big cola from each of the plants. This is half decent bud porn, enjoy.

1. Dos Si Dos
2. Blueberry
3. Strawberry Lemonade

Oh god - Strawberry Lemonade sounds like HEAVEN!

 

[Jon]

Cocotown Canopy Finished
@Bill284

Ok, so it only took a week of pulling it down a quarter inch each day to finally get that stubborn Dos Si Dos cola down to the same height as the other two. Obviously I have an upper and lower canopy going on (not by design, lol), so this is about the best I'm going to be able to do with the colas. The cool part of the infrastructure bit is that using bamboo stakes and twisties off them, all I have to do to lower anything tied is make a little notch and twist the twist tie around itself. Each twist lowers it a tiny bit, after about 10 twists you have maybe a half an inch or less. It allows for one to be careful if one chooses to be. Lol.

Anyway, this'll have to do.

 

[InTheShed]

it only took a week of pulling it down a quarter inch each day to finally get that stubborn Dos Si Dos cola down to the same height as the other two.

Excellent use of the patience module Jon!

 

[Jon]

Excellent use of the patience module Jon!

Thanks Shed! Patience is a skill I can never overdevelop and a constant struggle for me. I'm naturally a bit on the other side, so learning to grow is in part learning to battle myself. It's an interesting example that shows just how much of "us" is in our grows, right? We grow what we are.

 

[Jon]

CJS Apple Blossom Training Session
Our First Break!!!
Veg Day 47

It's so funny, I can remember when even a small break like I'm showing you here would have sent me into a tizzy. Lol. Now it's our "first" break. Hey, if you train aggressively, sometimes you're going to get a break here and there. The fun is fixing it. @Stunger has a great extreme example of this in his current balcony grow I've been checking out.

So I was evening things out and pulling branches to the side. I went to work on the four middle growth shoots. The idea with each of them was to supercrop them over so that they filled that middle space evenly, and also so that they sat squarely on top of the middle of the fan leaf underneath them. At the same time I was hoping to generate a bit of extra strength/support from the little knot that'll form at the supercropping bend site. As you can see in the pictures, I went 3 out of 4. These stems are small, and she's gotten 47 days of MSA. I gotta remember to think in terms of compensating for the effect of that in training. I heard the little *snap* sound we hate so much and knew immediately. So it's a small break, maybe 30% of the stem, and it was still upright, just tilted down around 45 degrees. Simple tape fix.

So here's the picture of the break and fix, a closeup showing what I was attempting and almost pulled off, and a picture of the whole girl from overhead post training session. I believe that stem will be fine, but we'll see. If it dies I'll make more. Lol.