Whether she makes it or not, i'm sure once your a jar or two into enjoying your harvest(s) you'll be saying Jelly-who?
Yeah it's looking more and more like you were right on on this. Which is amazing and super cool and thanks. Never occurred to me - of course! - it isn't garbage in the MG soil, it's the extra built in nutes on top of the nutes they were already getting!!!! DAMN. Learning SO many good lessons on this grow. Well, now I'm gonna let her go and see how big she'll get. Have some fun with her.She looks better... probably just some left over fertilizer in that dirt. Miracle Grow soil contains time release fertilizer, those little round balls in the soil, add that to what you were feeding them and presto, curl. Leaves are perking up and no longer droopy.
That lemon look promising with those elongated trichs.
By the end of the day today she was displaying just a little bit of the curling and rusting symptoms, and on WAY fewer leaves. It is definitely WAY better than before so far. Once she's dry I'm going to do another 10 gallon flush through her and then restart her on the nutes. Hopefully that'll take care of whatever this was once and for all and she can just get big and bushy.
Sounds like a plan... let the plant tell you what it wants.
Thanks Costanza, and thanks for stopping by! Honestly it is my first auto try and my first stab at LST, but the autos are so easy to manipulate that I found it to be pretty easy. All I really did was wait til the plant was tall enough, maybe 8 inches or so, and then I grabbed her top main cola and bent it all the way over and secured it to the edge of my pot. That exposed all the new growth hiding under the main cola to light and space, and there are four branches there. They all went nuts. Meanwhile that opened up the middle of the plant, and the extra side branching the strains produce anyway had light and space. Then as a branch got long I did my best to manipulate them as evenly (like a clock face) as I could. I also was CONSTANTLY tucking leaves. It took a lot of time, but it was easy. But I think that by continually exposing every single new growth site to light as early as I possibly could I got a lot of well developed side branching. Now that I've done this once, I know I can do whatever I want with the autos. I'm gonna try a real low scrog next time with all the same strain and see if I can fill a screen completely by the time they decide to bud. But thanks for the kind words, and please comment anytime on anything you want - I value other's input a great deal. Thanks.
Hey @JonUpdate from Autotown
Saturday Night Bud Porn Special
Strain Specific Pictures/Discussion
Day 48: 3 Cinderella Jacks, 1 Gorilla Zkittlez
Day 40: I Pineapple Express, 1 Lemon
Day 35: 2 Pineapple Express, 1 Lemon
Trying a slightly different approach with this post. This one is more strain/time specific, with pics of each.
Cinderella Jacks: CJ is a hybrid: Cinderella 99 x Jack Herer. If you google "world's strongest autoflower," this is what comes up. They have tested up to 26%! These are from Dutch Passion. All three of these are on Day 48, the first autos planted. All three have grown like sativas, as they are supposed to. All three supposedly take a long time to finish for autoflowers, like up to 13 weeks. They have a solid amount of side branching, although not as abundant as the Pineapple Express. All three of these plants appear to be the same phenotype. They're all three basically identical. They don't drink water as fast as any of the other strains and get watered less often than any of the others. They leaf back up after plucking very quickly and they are just beginning to frost up visibly. I have been plucking leaves covering bud sites for a long time now, and it's a never ending job. There must be some frosty something somewhere in there because these girls stink. My whole tent smells like them, the three of them overwhelm the odor from the Gorilla Zkittlez. They smell like Jack Herer. It's dank and lovely. The buds are very dense. These plants have zero issues with nutes, the love a ton of light, and the buds grow visibly every day and are going to be gigantic. They got nutes starting in the Dixie cups, and I approximated the FF Trio feeding schedule with them although adapted to an autoflower time frame. Basically I made a week five days for sake of the feeding schedule. All I did on them was LST with tying branches and tucking leaves and a bit of targeted defoliation. The went from Dixie cups to three gallon pots.
Pineapple Express: The weed from the movie. These are from 420 Fast Buds. They are a balanced hybrid which in the case of this company's genes equals Pineapple Trainwreck x Hawaiian. The grow like a balanced hybrid - big and bushy. The largest of my four strains by far. Incredible amount of side branching. Beautiful, light green plant. These are just starting to bud in the last couple days. They are going to yield big based on the pictures. Supposedly done in around 11 weeks, and up to 22% thc. Also no nute issues. Thirsty plant that needs water often. Also cannot have enough light. Also just LST, same as the CJs. So PE #1 in the picture is on Day 40, PE #2 and #3 are on Day 35. I believe PE #1 is a different phenotype than the other two. It has grown eight main branches/colas with minimal side branching. The leaves are shorter and fatter than the other two. And it colors up differently with wild greens/yellows, especially when the new growth is in process of turning green. PE #2 and #3 are basically identical as you can see in the pics. No smell from these plants yet whatsoever.
Gorilla Zkittlez: This plant is unreal. She is on Day 48. Barney's Farm was the breeder. A hybrid cross: Gorilla Glue x Zkittlez. Should come in around 23-24% thc. Her buds are huge. They grow very very quickly. The biggest one almost fills a 4"x 4'' screen spot. The buds grow visibly every day too. You can see in the picture how she sprouts these little white patches of new bud that for a split second looks like foxtails but over the course of a day becomes just part of the bigger bud. The plant is short. She never developed a lot of side branching but the branching that supports these buds got solid pretty quickly. She smells like fruity cotton candy, a cross of the blue kind and the pink kind. She is really beginning to generate frost now, it took a little while before the sugar leaves were starting to be as frosty as I'd like. She doesn't drink that much in budding, and was an average drinker in her veg cycle. This plant is supposed to be done in around 68 days and it appears she is going to be or very close. That gives me more than three weeks for her to just keep building these buds. There are purples and reds and light browns and several shades of green all over the place, this is a very attractive plant. The leaves around the buds are starting to turn purple too. The buds are WAY WAY DENSE.
Lemon: Two of these plants, one on Day 40 and one on Day 35. Company of origin omitted at moderator request. Pretty plant. Not a lot of side branching. Grows kind of like a Christmas tree, even the new growth comes down like that top to bottom, as you can see pretty well in the picture of Lemon #1. The two plants are identical. They are sort of average in every way. Nothing terribly special about the way they grow or their side branching or their number of bud sites. Supposedly done in 10 or 11 weeks, and I'll be lucky if she hits 20% thc, probably more like 18%. I don't normally grow lower thc plants like this but I had the freebie seeds and wanted the two to round out the nine plants. They do look like they will yield well, and the buds on the Lemons are building faster than any of the other plants except the Gorilla. She shoots a ton of white hairs up daily. These plants are sensitive to overwatering and take longer to bounce up from a watering than any of the other strains. The picture of Lemon #2 comes with my apologies as she was just watered and is droopy as a result. She'll perk back up in an hour or so. Didn't have any nute issues or otherwise, just kind of a boring plant, to be honest. But I'll smoke a couple ounces of her anyway. Lol.
So some of that info you can easily see yourself with research, but I tried to present the info as specific to how my plants are growing. On to Saturday night bud porn:
Photographs:
- The gang partying on a Saturday night with impunity
- Gorilla Zkittlez
- Cinderella Jack 3 bud closeup
- Cinderella Jack 2 bud closeup
- Pineapple Express 1 different pheno
- Pineapple Express 2
- Pineapple Express 3
- Lemon 1 just watered and looking a little droopy
- Lemon 2 showing "Christmas tree" looking growth pattern
- Tent conditions shot
Hope you guys are having a good time! Happy Growing.
She's looking good... I think you are right about a second flush with that curl happening.
They dry a lot more quickly in the sun. This morning she was dry so I just flushed the crap out of her again. The growth that was curling yesterday is obviously still curled (it's not going to ever UNcurl), BUT it's still green. There is zero new brownish reddish rusty looking crap on any of the leaves. That said, where there WOULD be rusty brown the green looks like it's fighting a little bit to become the correct shade. Those leaves display like an uneven green sort of thing, as if the real green is slowly filling back in. We'll see how the new growth that comes out today is, but the little bit that shot out overnight is not curled. So we're getting closer. I can see she's gonna come all the way back now and then some. My problem is going to become how to keep her in veg long enough to empty the auto tent so I can bud her without her becoming so big I can't move her. Lol.
Nice! Lmao. Nothing like having two pounds of weed you didn't have before that's not overly dried out, and still has all it's trichomes intact and hasn't lost it's smell or taste and is AWESOME, UNLIKE 95% of dispensary weed out there. Two pounds from a 3x3 is amazing, man. Really great work.
Bring on the cold!!! HahaA word on temperature as it relates to colors....
So I have read in many many places that when your plants are budding, especially in late budding, if you want to try and bring out their potential in terms of color you can do so by lowering the temperatures at night. I guess the theory is that the colder temperatures force the plants to throw out all sorts of defense mechanisms which translate to us as colors, trichomes, and terpenes. At least that's my understanding of it, simplified. I really like colors, trichomes, and terpenes, so I have been doing that in the auto tent ever since all nine plants began budding, and I have been gradually letting it get colder and colder for about four hours a day, specifically the hour before and after, and including, the two hours the lights are off a day. These autos are tough, man. They can take some abuse. Last night after seeing the trichomes on the Gorilla and realizing how close to harvest she is, I decided to bring the temperature down as low as I dared - 58 degrees. 58.3 to be exact, the very coldest temperature I am capable of creating in the tent. I was a little concerned about what I might see in the morning, but hell they took 60 degrees and didn't blink so I figured what the hell let's try going a little lower. And yes, the plants were a bit "wilty" looking this morning, but they very quickly bounced right back to standing at attention a short time after the temps got up to the mid 70's. So apparently 58 is okay. I would not go lower than that even if I could. Too risky.
Well, I'm not saying that one night of 58 degrees is responsible for the colors on this Gorilla in the picture. She's been a bit colorful since the beginning. But in the last two weeks, when it's been around 60 degrees at night, she seems to have really poured on the hues. Maybe this is just my eyes doing some wishful thinking, I don't know. You be the judge.
Here's a half decent closeup of a bud as she looks this morning. Those are her actual colors. Photo has not been altered in any way.
Have a great week everyone. Happy Monday.
True. I was thinking the natural light from the quantum board was dominating her look but I guess she's getting both so it's hard to tell. Didn't really think of that, thanks. I don't want to turn off the lights. How else can I get a real color picture? How about flipping off the one blurple above the Gorilla just long enough to take a picture and then turn it back on?
