Hey I’m on day 51 of 65 , I already have some amber trichomes the buds look nice but there not fat like they’ve been lacking what they needed to get to their full potential. I know she is not there. I’ll be lucky to get a qp probably , a lot of wasted time for very little. Somewhere along the way I messed up big time
So I just kinda noticed this does anyone else see pre flowers and pistols on this update at all ? I’m thinking it would be safe to call this day one of flower , because my next pic on my phone after this it’s full of pistols , and she is now already showing bud formations I think I may struggle to get to the QP mark on this auto08/13/19
UPDATE- Hey everyone , once again here we are with another update , so as you know last week I swapped my cfls out for hacked leds, well in 2 days a didn’t notice much growth , so I switched back to the cfls and she exploded with growth, so cfls it is for now. I have switched the light schedule to 20/4 for now , I firmly believe the plants need a dark period to match up on some rest . I also just got my own worm compost farm, and will be regularly top dressing with worm castings to keep microbial life going strong.
Training- I have been doing low stress training on the regular to try and keep a handle on it, and so my stalk doesn’t get so stiff I won’t be able to train , as soon as I see a few nodes she gets bent over , I use something to support the stalk on the bend just to help hold it in place, every other node I twist the stalk so all my nodes are horizontal to the ground ( no wasted nodes on this baby)
also I usually do heavy defoliation on my plants and for this run I will not be touching any until flower , and even then I will only remove what is blocking light to prime bud sites.
MORE TRAINING- I have also been training my root ball with carefully planned waterings , at first I start with water directly under the plant , but then I do circles around the plant I move an inch out each watering. Until I hit the outside of my pot and then work back the other way. I feel like it helps build my root ball and train it to fill my entire pot. Gotta love fabric pots though I wouldn't be able to finish a plant in a plastic 3 gal pot , start to finish , gotta love fabric pots
ENVIRONMENT- Temps are sitting between 24-28 degrees Celsius, and a relative humidity of 40-50% so I am very happy with how the bucket is holding it’s environment. as you know I am growing this in my space bucket for the time being , it’s a 5gal pale with a bunch of bucket tops for spacers. I have an intake fan and out take fan. And a fan on the inside blowing air around ( I actually broke that fan this morning so I will have to figure something out tonight .
I have been just watering with dechlorinated water , ph’d @ 6.5-6.8 with a water temp of 21 degrees Celsius
She is growing nicely , I was suprised to see this amount of growth in a few days , almost makes me wonder if she is stretching for flower. Never grown an auto so idk how they act or how long they veg for
This is her after I applied the tie downs into the soil , every time I twist the stalk to get the nodes horizontal I put a pin to hold her that way , I have to check it daily to make sure this doesn’t get out of control on mei am going to train all of the nodes to fill the rest of the bucket
I also made smaller pins to just hold back the fan leaves so they don’t block light from the nodes ,
But I am very happy so far with the growth of this plant , I canno believe how vigorously this plant is growing .
And here is my very own unlimited supply of worm castings , I just can’t wait till my population sky rockets and I can put them in a big tote , it be nice if they could keep up with the table scraps
Anyway that’s all I have for today , thanks for spending the time to read this and a special thanks to all who have gone above and beyond to help this noob out on his grows, thank you 420 family
Here ya go.
Thank you very much for that’s , much appreciated friend
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Thank you sir , I really appreciate it
