Thanks man, she's up to 26.5" from dirt to tip of cola.
Obviously I jest. Psyched to see this girl has purple in her, as it's not completely obvious from the outside. The trimmed buds are going to be gorgeous. Anyway, here's three trichome shots from today. Obviously not ready yet. But getting closer. Ten days-ish or so I'm thinking. Enjoy. Sorry, a couple of the shots could have less light, I did what I could to reduce the glare.
I only just started, but I'm 8 for 8 in germination so far.... knock on wood...And, 48 hours later, we have a brand new light junkie.
She's up!
I will take one sentence to pat myself on the back for now being 21 for 21 lifetime on popping and germinating seeds. It's the only thing I've never screwed up. Lmao.
Anyway, it's on like Donkey Kong. Today would officially be Day One of the Sour Apple Auto grow!!
Lol! Yeah, it's a silly, immature thing to even keep track, but as it's the ONLY thing I haven't managed to screw up so far on any grow, I'm keeping track til the streak is inevitably broken! Lmao.
I've read a lot of journals where they don't pop worth a shit, and I'm all like ... that's right ... I'm a fucking natural.... or just as Mr. Miagi said "Beginner luck"!
Yup. I alternate between thinking I'm god and thinking I'm a lucky bastard destined for a serious fall from grace.
Thanks man. Yeah, it appears she's almost finished popping new calyx's like the one you see in the top cola picture in the middle of the cola near the top. They turn red in a day. I think she'll still shoot some more red hairs out yet as she's a little green heavy and red light at the moment, and they have to curl in and all that, but I'm thinking all that is gonna happen in the next three days or so based on the trichomes and the speed with which they're changing. She's a lovely auto for sure. Thanks.
I'll tell you what, I've never had interest in doing a SOG grow, but if this strain generally grows like this if left to it's own devices, it occurs to me that it would be perfect for that kind of grow. I could fit literally 16, maybe even 20 three gallon pots in my 5x5. A field of this strain. All with gigantic main buds and there'd be plenty of room between plants so they'd probably never even touch! Of course, that's IF they all grew like this one. Lol. I would say the odds of that are slim to none. But fun to think about.
Sue Anne's fan leaves got crispy when she was outside, and at this point I just kind of rubbed to break down point the crispy parts of the leaves, and the way they look, with the squared off tips and all that, is from doing that. This plant is going to be exceedingly easy to harvest and hang. It is going to take me literally less than five minutes. I'm basically going to chop her at the base and hang her as is upside down in the dark. No need to trim anything off this girl to dry her, as the crispy leaf lost volume is pretty much what I would have removed before hanging anyway. And that heat and crispy did NOT affect the bud itself negatively at all. Nor has being in the auto rig where its a little hotter and a little more humid than she and I like. I make up for it with a TON of air flow from six fans coming from all directions as well as the AC unit set up to blow at the top half of the plant. She's in GREAT shape going in to harvest. The par level she's been finishing at given her proximity to the blurples, even with them on full reds, is around 980, which is plenty. It appears I may have actually grown a plant start to finish with little or no issues. WOW. Didn't think I had it in me just yet. But it seems safe to say now. Yay for me, lol.
Holy S*#t Jon.. another majestic specimen.. brilliant mate.. However…apologies in advance for perhaps lowering the tone a little on your fine journal..Sue Anne Update
Day 66 (HSC counts from the seed popping, so in HSC language, Day 70)
First Flush
Natural Light Photo Special with perspective shots
Hi Guys - Day 66, or day 70 if you want to count the way Humboldt does. Sue Anne is beginning to show a few amber trichomes here and there - maybe 1%. We are real close. So today I end flushed her for the first time. I will be able to get two complete flushes in before she finishes, which in my limited experience so far is plenty. I have flushed all the autos I've grown in a similar manner and two has done the trick every time. To flush her I took her out of the auto rig and brought her out to the driveway, as flushing her in the rig would be extremely tricky with all the power cords and such. Way easier to put her on the driveway, and let the runoff simply run out there. Which also gave me the opportunity to take some real light photos of her, which is cool. Flushing her consisted of running 10 gallons of clean water through her one gallon at a time. I put five through, wait a bit, smoke some weed I grew (lol), and kill around 15 minutes. Then I come back with the next five gallons, again a gallon at a time with a wait in between each one of a few minutes. I guess in my mind the wait allows the salts to flow to the bottom and get closer to flowing out, versus just using the hose and a continuous stream, although I've done that too and it works fine. Anyway, after the ten gallons of clean water and another fifteen minute wait, I top her off with a gallon of water with molasses. For the last two flushes I double up on the molasses and use two tbsp. per gallon. A last sugar rush for the junkie. Soon Sue Anne will find out if she's afraid of the dark, as this plant is high enough quality to justify the 36 hours of darkness. So when she's ready in a few days, that's her next step and last one before the chop.
So some description of Sue Anne:
Appearance: you can see, but you can't see the plethora of purple tucked inside this bud - the finished buds are going to be gorgeous
Smell: SUPER strong, dank from the Sour Diesel side, sweet and fruity from the Magic Melon side
Density: I find it hard to translate how it feels on the stalk to what the final density will be, but she is heavy and seemingly rock hard. She is harder/denser than Sadie was at this point, for comparison.
Trichomes: Not sure it comes through in the photos, but she's covered with trichomes top to bottom. They're fairly longish - much longer than the trichomes on the Cinderella Jack were for comparison. The densest blanket I've been able to generate on an auto yet.
So we'll see how much longer she takes. We're going for around 10% amber. Daily trichome watch underway.
Photographs:
- Outdoor natural light full plant shot
- Side Bud #1
- Side Bud #2
- Cola top shot
- Cola top closeup shot
- Good light photo of full plant on the way back to auto rig showing her actual colors really well
- Top shot showing girth of plant in relation to pot (this is a five gallon AirPot)
- Perspective shot with my hand showing girth of cola in general
Happy Monday Everyone! Good luck this week!
