Scientific's Coconut Coir Dwarf Low Flyer Summer Pot In An Air Pot Grow

Blazin Waffle said:
Finally got done catching up!
Nice girl brother!

Her mobility will help in the heat thenext couple days.
Where are you in the NW?
I'm in OR
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This is our brief sunny period here in coastal WA.

She's looking a little heat stressed, but she only gets sun from dawn till 2 PM and she gets daily waterings, so I'm not coddling her, hoping the the bright light and heat will encourage her to make some resin, which has been in kind of short supply so far as she approaches the finish line.

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Day 62: A little heat stress showing in the leaves and the yellow tips are turning brown, but she's finally getting some trichomes
 
Scientific said:
Day 64 -- CDB

Look who came visiting! You are welcome, Mr. Bee, but you'll find no pollen on this flower.

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Bee
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Actually, I saw a video of bees that collected pollen/resin? from cannabis plants to make canna honey. I don't want to spam your journal with links but look it up.
 
Day 67 -- Starting the Flush

This morning's watering:
Input: pH 6.3, 28 PPM, 1.4 liters
Runoff: pH 6.3, 280 PPM, 0.4 liters

Almost all of the trichomes are cloudy and none are amber. Most of the pistils are brown. There are still a few new, greenish-white pistils at the top of the biggest cola, but overall I think she's ready for the flush cycle. (I'm not 100% sure the flushing really does any good, but it's easy enough, is kind of fun, and I don't think it does any harm over a limited time span.)

She is finally even a little bit sticky and has developed a very pleasant almost pineapple smell (ethyl butyrate?). Dwarf Low Flyer doesn't seem to be a strain that produces buds with amazing aromas (people who sniff the carefully cured buds that I have in jars usually just say something polite while shrugging their shoulders), but every now and then I can detect one of the subtler aromas.

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Day 67 -- Almost all trichomes are cloudy, none are amber, and most pistils are brown.

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Portrait at Day 67 sans camouflage flowers. The tallest of her eight stalks is about 14" tall (35 cm).

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After 12 days of Nebula Haze's diluted version of General Hydroponic's "Week 9 Late Bloom" mix that I further diluted 60% to 360 PPM (including 2.5 ml/gallon GH CALiMAGic Ca/Mg supplement), today she got 28 PPM, pH-adjusted tap water.

Since none of her trichomes have turned amber yet and there are still some new pistils appearing here and there, I'm in no hurry to do a massive megaflush in a rush to harvest. Instead, my plan is to gently flush the nutes out of the coco and see how she looks. (When I did a multi-gallon megaflush, starting at day 75 of my hydro DLF grow, the plant showed no changes after three days, so I'm guessing this girl may coast along for another week or more.) I'll see how she does and what the weather looks like, but harvest is now on the horizon. :)

As Canada Guy says, "Thanks for following along." Getting there...
 
Day 68 -- Molasses?

I doubt that adding molasses to your water actually makes your buds somehow better, but it's easy to do, it's kind of fun, I've never done it before, molasses is cheap, and frankly, Dwarf Low Flyer buds are not very exciting to taste or smell and can use all the help they can get, so what the hell, I'm adding half a teaspoon per gallon during the flush.

The down side that I hadn't anticipated is that sugar water is sticky and messy, not the usual dilute salt solution but something that you actually have to make sure to clean up and not get where it doesn't belong. I wonder if it attracts flies or something, too. (Maybe the hummingbirds will eat any flies--it's nature's wonderland out on the deck at this time of year).

A three-day supply is also likely to ferment if left sitting out in a 75 degree kitchen, so the jug is in the reefer now.

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Brer Rabbit blackstrap molasses (the brand that momma always had in the kitchen)

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Dwarf Low Flyer, 68 days from seed. (The weird orange color of the sunlight is from the smoke blowing south from the forest fires in British Columbia.)
 
Day 70! -- Ten weeks from seed, seven weeks in flower

She's looking good on her 10-week birthday. The buds are looking solid and mature and I don't think they're going to grow much more, so I think I have timed the harvest about right. (I'm planning to give her a seven day flush, which would make harvest day this Saturday.)

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After three days of flushing, the PPMs out have gradually declined. No sign of change in the plant.
<edit>Maybe the PPMs out jumped yesterday because I gave here 30% less fluid (i.e. less dilution/more concentrated runoff). That's nothing like proportional, but it must be a factor.</edit>

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Day 70: Dwarf Low Flyer bud has filled in nicely. The tip yellowing caused by too concentrated 500 PPM nutes three weeks ago is now brown tips all over the plant
 
I'm pretty sure you can't compare this grow to that crazy fireplace thing you did! It's like comparing apples and bonobos! I would just check the trichomes without even thinking about the fact that you've grown this before. I read a lot of journals where growers are wondering what is taking this plant or that plant so long, all the time with completely different strains or techniques for the two plants rendering all comparisons useless!

I'm sure when the seedbank said my Blueberry was a 55 day grow (as opposed to the 84 days it was) they were growing indoors in hydro 24/0 or something. Meaningless to me.

All that said, this dwarf it looking mighty mighty. She'll tell you when she's ready for harvest.:thumb:
 
Day 71 -- Her Dankness!

Coming through the front door this evening I was immediately struck by the dankness permeating the house. She's out on the deck, four feet from the window, but a fan blowing air into the house on a hot day was all it took to permeate the entire place. ;) My little girl is finally all grown up!

Just had to share...
 
Scientific said:
Day 71 -- Her Dankness!

Coming through the front door this evening I was immediately struck by the dankness permeating the house. She's out on the deck, four feet from the window, but a fan blowing air into the house on a hot day was all it took to permeate the entire place. ;)
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Reminds me to NEVER grow that strain!
lol
 
Speaking of smell and AK-47, my AK has no smell at all. You have to stick your nose directly into the trichomes to even know it's dope. Blueberry on the other hand has stunk since it was about 3 weeks old, and now can be smelled in a 50 foot radius. One plant!
 
InTheShed said:
Speaking of smell and AK-47, my AK has no smell at all. You have to stick your nose directly into the trichomes to even know it's dope.
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Can you give some more info on the AK? I have to find a low odor strain. Think the African strains I have may not be suitable for my situation. I had C-99 and it was like that in odor and I considered ordering it again...just to find the Pineapple though. Your nose had to be right on the plant to smell anything, except for the Pineapple pheno (I had both phenos). The Pineapple smelled when disturbed, but didn't smell like pot. Like rotting Pineapple and decaying meat is the closest I can come.

I've read the descriptions for AK (47-48 and others), but someone experienced growing it would help more. Was it more indica? How much does it yield and what effect does it have. Couch type or more like an up sativa? Right now I'm looking at Heavyweight Fruit Punch and Incredible Bulk...though not sure about odor for them.
 
gato said:
Can you give some more info on the AK? I have to find a low odor strain. Think the African strains I have may not be suitable for my situation. I had C-99 and it was like that in odor and I considered ordering it again...just to find the Pineapple though. Your nose had to be right on the plant to smell anything, except for the Pineapple pheno (I had both phenos). The Pineapple smelled when disturbed, but didn't smell like pot. Like rotting Pineapple and decaying meat is the closest I can come.

I've read the descriptions for AK (47-48 and others), but someone experienced growing it would help more. Was it more indica? How much does it yield and what effect does it have. Couch type or more like an up sativa? Right now I'm looking at Heavyweight Fruit Punch and Incredible Bulk...though not sure about odor for them.
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Bought it here:
AK-47 Autoflower | USA Shipping – 420

Their descriptions are useless, e.g. it's described in the text as "sativa dominant" and then in the details as "Sativa or Indica: 50%-50%" so take all that with a grain of salt. All I can attest to is it does not smell, at all!

Can't give you any info on yield or effect yet as this is the first one I've grown. You can follow my journal below if you want updates as it goes under the knife in the next week or so.
 
Day 72 -- Harvest!

This morning I noticed that after five days of flushing, four leaves at the base of the plant were starting to turn yellow. When I plucked them off, I noticed that one was covered with aphids. I couldn't find any more aphids on the plant, but that combined with the yellowing convinced me to chop a few days early.

The Harvest:

Dwarf Low Flyer in a two-gallon air pot with coco coir and 20% perlite, receiving about 8 hours of sunlight a day, from dawn until two PM. Nutes were General Hydroponics FloraSeries (FloraGrow, FloraMicro, and FloraBloom) plus CALiMAGic Ca/Mg supplement throughout the grow. (I also gave it HydroGuard bacillus culture at every feeding just because I had it left over from my hydro grow and it was going to expire, so what the hell.)

Wet weight of eight untrimmed buds: 266 g
Wet weight of eight trimmed buds: 222 g
Wet weight of sticky trim: 23 g
Wet weight trash (stalks): 23 g

This plant made a total of eight ten fan leaves in its entire life. As soon as I topped it at day 20 (the day before this strain typically starts to flower) all of its energy went into growing the eight stalks and their flowers.


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Leaves at base of the plant that were suddenly starting to yellow on fifth day of flush

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Aphids on one of the leaves. (I didn't see any more than these anywhere.)

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Final portrait before the chopping

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Stalks from node 2, node 3, node 4, and node 5

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Roots permeated all of the coco in the home-made air pot

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The root mass after shaking free the coco (during which a lot of the fine roots broke free)
 
Excellent harvest post! Love the buds laid out in their original positions too. Nice touch! :goodjob:

Questions!
How many additional hours under the lights/day would you say it got?

Are you going to use the roots for anything (canna-root lotion or tea)? I asked about the enormous root ball from the fireplace but you had already tossed it.

Any reason you went to chop early rather than get the insects with soap spray? I have always found aphids the easiest bugs to kill in the garden, along with white flies.

Are you going to water cure any of this?
 
Day 72 -- Processing the Harvest

The stats again:
Wet weight of eight untrimmed buds: 266 g
Wet weight of eight trimmed buds: 222 g
Wet weight of sticky trim: 23 g
Wet weight trash (stalks): 23 g

These buds are nowhere near as sticky my last grow, which was hydroponic with 24/0 light. And the yield is only about half as much as well.

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The biggest bud: 52 grams wet, untrimmed and 34 grams wet, trimmed. It's no bud of the month candidate, for sure, but I should be able to get about 34 ten-milligram Cana Coco capsules out of it. ;)

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266 grams of buds, wet and untrimmed

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222 grams of buds, wet, trimmed

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Buds and trim drying
 
Looks like so much broccoli. Nice makeshift sky-hooks too.
 
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