AutoNautPsychoFlower
Well-Known Member
Greetings and salutations!
Welcome to my first grow in 25 years. I'm 50 and an old-school psychonaut that moved to MA recently. My household can grow 12 plants at any given time legally. So I jumped right in after doing a ridiculous amount of research. I went with autoflowers because they are easy in many ways (not so much in others I've gathered). I went with 6 strains because Herbies said I could have some freebies when I was ordering 3. I also wanted to see Indica dominant vs Sativa. Most of all I just wanted to learn as much as I could about autos in a single outdoor grow as I could.
The idea for this grow was to keep the entirety of the budget under 400 dollars for every last little thing. Seeds, stakes, fencing, dirt, nutes, amendments, pots, scope .... everything. I've landed it at about 350 (this includes extras I shouldn't have gotten like trellis netting (just didn't need it for this). The hope is to grow at least 4 ounces of cured decent nugs as I pay about 100 dollars for an ounce. Yes, the bar is low. I better make it over it!! : )
All seeds were from Herbies stock, Strawberry Bananas are from Fastbuds
I'm going to ask for some patience as I'm about halfway-ish through the grow (it's staggered) and I'm going to flashback to early June and all of July with several more posts to get this thread up to the current situation. Thank you!
Stats etc below.
12 plants total
Strains-
Purple Juice (1x),
Godzilla Cookies (2x),
Strawberry Banana (2x)
(The Freebies)
Gorilla Glue (3x)
Zkittlez (2x)
Gelato (2x)
germinated in water and then damp paper towel
(popped June 7-9 for GG, GC, and SB, July 5-6 for PJ, Zz, Gel
transferred to jiffy pellets, watered with h20 and a bit of hydrogen peroxide
transplanted to full pots after about 3 days
(GG, GC, & SB potted June 16-18, and PJ, Zz, Gel potted July 9)
7 gallon fabric pots (with drain holes cut in)
1- 1 & 1/2 gallon of pebbles on bottom
4- 4 & 1/2 gallons local live compost, amended with perlite and DE
1/2 -1 gallon top dress mostly neutral soil (light on the nutes)
All but one Gelato seed popped!
In the pics. A few days after potting, June 22-30.
The closest three are GG, next is a GC and the two at the end are SB, and then another GC in front of the SB on end.
There's 5 more coming so they wind up moving around a bit later.
Out of this batch all of them but two GG had helmet heads. So the learning experience started right away. I lost a GC and a SB because of it. I did get really good at it (not that I wanted to be). The one GG that had a helmet seems to be about a week or so behind the other two currently though (more pics of the differences as we go along).
I'vealready made a few mistakes that you can see in these first pics. This was the hidden piece of property that got the most direct sunlight. I should have brought in pallets and leveled them over a well-mown area at the least. This is on a bit of a downslope and is an ocean of slugs. I bought bait and had it mostly fixed within a week. There are a lot of bug issues and it stays more humid in this little area than I should have the girls in. 7-gallon pots is overkill as well. I should've gotten a beige color instead of black, direct sunlight in the high 90s can cook them roots.
These were hot days with several 90-plus days. I also had to leave them all on their own for three days (I go out, check on them, hang out and chat or play didgeridoo for them 4-6 times a day, cuz I'm dorky like that ; ). They did very well without me though!
Welcome to my first grow in 25 years. I'm 50 and an old-school psychonaut that moved to MA recently. My household can grow 12 plants at any given time legally. So I jumped right in after doing a ridiculous amount of research. I went with autoflowers because they are easy in many ways (not so much in others I've gathered). I went with 6 strains because Herbies said I could have some freebies when I was ordering 3. I also wanted to see Indica dominant vs Sativa. Most of all I just wanted to learn as much as I could about autos in a single outdoor grow as I could.
The idea for this grow was to keep the entirety of the budget under 400 dollars for every last little thing. Seeds, stakes, fencing, dirt, nutes, amendments, pots, scope .... everything. I've landed it at about 350 (this includes extras I shouldn't have gotten like trellis netting (just didn't need it for this). The hope is to grow at least 4 ounces of cured decent nugs as I pay about 100 dollars for an ounce. Yes, the bar is low. I better make it over it!! : )
All seeds were from Herbies stock, Strawberry Bananas are from Fastbuds
I'm going to ask for some patience as I'm about halfway-ish through the grow (it's staggered) and I'm going to flashback to early June and all of July with several more posts to get this thread up to the current situation. Thank you!
Stats etc below.
12 plants total
Strains-
Purple Juice (1x),
Godzilla Cookies (2x),
Strawberry Banana (2x)
(The Freebies)
Gorilla Glue (3x)
Zkittlez (2x)
Gelato (2x)
germinated in water and then damp paper towel
(popped June 7-9 for GG, GC, and SB, July 5-6 for PJ, Zz, Gel
transferred to jiffy pellets, watered with h20 and a bit of hydrogen peroxide
transplanted to full pots after about 3 days
(GG, GC, & SB potted June 16-18, and PJ, Zz, Gel potted July 9)
7 gallon fabric pots (with drain holes cut in)
1- 1 & 1/2 gallon of pebbles on bottom
4- 4 & 1/2 gallons local live compost, amended with perlite and DE
1/2 -1 gallon top dress mostly neutral soil (light on the nutes)
All but one Gelato seed popped!
In the pics. A few days after potting, June 22-30.
The closest three are GG, next is a GC and the two at the end are SB, and then another GC in front of the SB on end.
There's 5 more coming so they wind up moving around a bit later.
Out of this batch all of them but two GG had helmet heads. So the learning experience started right away. I lost a GC and a SB because of it. I did get really good at it (not that I wanted to be). The one GG that had a helmet seems to be about a week or so behind the other two currently though (more pics of the differences as we go along).
I'vealready made a few mistakes that you can see in these first pics. This was the hidden piece of property that got the most direct sunlight. I should have brought in pallets and leveled them over a well-mown area at the least. This is on a bit of a downslope and is an ocean of slugs. I bought bait and had it mostly fixed within a week. There are a lot of bug issues and it stays more humid in this little area than I should have the girls in. 7-gallon pots is overkill as well. I should've gotten a beige color instead of black, direct sunlight in the high 90s can cook them roots.
These were hot days with several 90-plus days. I also had to leave them all on their own for three days (I go out, check on them, hang out and chat or play didgeridoo for them 4-6 times a day, cuz I'm dorky like that ; ). They did very well without me though!