snezola
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Snezola’s Aussie Autumn outdoor auto 2018 (3 different strains)
Sour bubbly (or chem bubbly, the site is giving me mixed signals) by a NSW breeder
Indica/sativa/ruderalis (doesn’t specify percentages)
Start to finish: 9wks
Reckons you can get up to 90g yield p/plant outdoor but we’ll see.
Green Crack by Fast Buds
Afghani/Skunk 1/Ruderalis (doesn’t specify percentages)
Start to finish: 8wks
70 – 300g per plant outdoor
Gorilla Glue by Fast Buds
Indica/Sativa/Ruderalis (again, doesn’t specify)
Start to finish: 8-9 wks
50 – 300g p/plant outdoor
These are all auto-fem seeds.
Seeds have been planted planted in those little jiffy peat pellet pots. I plan to get some big pots (20L, about 5 gallons) and use a mix of coir block and vermiculite/perlite (I am open to suggestions on what ratio to use these in.) and just bang those jiffy pots straight in there. It was my partner’s idea to use these peat pellet thingies and at first, I was worried they’d take too long to break down to allow for an autoflower’s roots to grow quickly but after wetting them they’re already fragile and I can see it’s not gonna be a problem.
I grabbed a soil pH tester and I tested the ph of three things: the wet jiffy pot, the tap water, and the damp coir mix. Both the jiffy pots and coir were wet with regular tap water that had been sitting in my watering can for a day or so. I tested after only about 10 minutes.
Since it is a soil testing kit, I’m not sure how effective it is for testing water. I just put a drop of water (instead of a soil sample) on the white plate, added a drop of dye and mixed, and added the barium powder as I did for the soil.
Coir: 6.5 (neutral)
Jiffy pot: 4.5(acidic)
Water: 8.5 (alkaline)
I find it hard to believe that a jiffy pot would test as 4.5 for raising seedlings? Is that not a bit harsh?
Will the alkalinity of my water balance this out quickly enough that my poor baby beans won’t suffer a traumatic childhood?
As my water is alkaline and my coir is neutral and google tells me vermiculite is neutral, will I run into issues with pH after putting them into the final pots? I guess I’ll monitor the soil ph as I go and find out.
Note: i didn't test the pH of fresh-out-of-the-tap water, only the water that had been sitting in the watering can.
I plan to use 2 fertilisers after the first couple of weeks: nitrosol for veg and potash plus for flowering. I haven’t bought/used these yet so I don’t know how strong to mix it or whatever but I’ll figure it out. If anybody has some advice about these fertilisers I’m all ears.
the first and last 2 weeks of the grow will be just pure water. Well… pure tap water.
It’s autumn and we’re having some tropical weather with an unusual amount of cloud and rain for this area. Today it’s lovely and sunny and 26 degrees (76F) but the last week has been miserable. I just looked at the 7-day forecast and it’s all over the place.
13 hours of light (in their place in the garden they’ll be lucky to get 10 hours)
Highest day temp for the week is forecast at 37c and lowest night temp is 13c (99F and 55F respectively)
Thunderstorms on the hot days
RH ranging from 24% – 68%
under the text box it says 35 and 37, whoooops
So I think that’s not a bad start to life for my baby beans. My main aim is to not kill them and waste my money! I’m a broke-ass bitch, that’s why I want to grow instead of buying the crap people sell around here. I'm aware that autos don't usually yield a whole lot and this is my first informed grow (grew 3 bagseed photo-regs last year that didn't turn out great because we had no idea what we were doing; so I decided to do my research this time!) hoping to achieve at least the minimum yields stated above^^
also! in case of bugs I plan to use Neem coz a) after doing research I realised that last year's plants had evidence of spider mites and I didn't do anything about it and b) neem is fairly cheap and has a good rep I've got other stuff in the garden such as tomatoes, capsicum, pumpkins and herbs so if i've got existing bugs it's really only a matter of time so I thought I'd be prepared.
this is day 1 over and out, wish me luck!
Sour bubbly (or chem bubbly, the site is giving me mixed signals) by a NSW breeder
Indica/sativa/ruderalis (doesn’t specify percentages)
Start to finish: 9wks
Reckons you can get up to 90g yield p/plant outdoor but we’ll see.
Green Crack by Fast Buds
Afghani/Skunk 1/Ruderalis (doesn’t specify percentages)
Start to finish: 8wks
70 – 300g per plant outdoor
Gorilla Glue by Fast Buds
Indica/Sativa/Ruderalis (again, doesn’t specify)
Start to finish: 8-9 wks
50 – 300g p/plant outdoor
These are all auto-fem seeds.
Seeds have been planted planted in those little jiffy peat pellet pots. I plan to get some big pots (20L, about 5 gallons) and use a mix of coir block and vermiculite/perlite (I am open to suggestions on what ratio to use these in.) and just bang those jiffy pots straight in there. It was my partner’s idea to use these peat pellet thingies and at first, I was worried they’d take too long to break down to allow for an autoflower’s roots to grow quickly but after wetting them they’re already fragile and I can see it’s not gonna be a problem.
I grabbed a soil pH tester and I tested the ph of three things: the wet jiffy pot, the tap water, and the damp coir mix. Both the jiffy pots and coir were wet with regular tap water that had been sitting in my watering can for a day or so. I tested after only about 10 minutes.
Since it is a soil testing kit, I’m not sure how effective it is for testing water. I just put a drop of water (instead of a soil sample) on the white plate, added a drop of dye and mixed, and added the barium powder as I did for the soil.
Coir: 6.5 (neutral)
Jiffy pot: 4.5(acidic)
Water: 8.5 (alkaline)
I find it hard to believe that a jiffy pot would test as 4.5 for raising seedlings? Is that not a bit harsh?
Will the alkalinity of my water balance this out quickly enough that my poor baby beans won’t suffer a traumatic childhood?
As my water is alkaline and my coir is neutral and google tells me vermiculite is neutral, will I run into issues with pH after putting them into the final pots? I guess I’ll monitor the soil ph as I go and find out.
Note: i didn't test the pH of fresh-out-of-the-tap water, only the water that had been sitting in the watering can.
I plan to use 2 fertilisers after the first couple of weeks: nitrosol for veg and potash plus for flowering. I haven’t bought/used these yet so I don’t know how strong to mix it or whatever but I’ll figure it out. If anybody has some advice about these fertilisers I’m all ears.
the first and last 2 weeks of the grow will be just pure water. Well… pure tap water.
It’s autumn and we’re having some tropical weather with an unusual amount of cloud and rain for this area. Today it’s lovely and sunny and 26 degrees (76F) but the last week has been miserable. I just looked at the 7-day forecast and it’s all over the place.
13 hours of light (in their place in the garden they’ll be lucky to get 10 hours)
Highest day temp for the week is forecast at 37c and lowest night temp is 13c (99F and 55F respectively)
Thunderstorms on the hot days
RH ranging from 24% – 68%
So I think that’s not a bad start to life for my baby beans. My main aim is to not kill them and waste my money! I’m a broke-ass bitch, that’s why I want to grow instead of buying the crap people sell around here. I'm aware that autos don't usually yield a whole lot and this is my first informed grow (grew 3 bagseed photo-regs last year that didn't turn out great because we had no idea what we were doing; so I decided to do my research this time!) hoping to achieve at least the minimum yields stated above^^
also! in case of bugs I plan to use Neem coz a) after doing research I realised that last year's plants had evidence of spider mites and I didn't do anything about it and b) neem is fairly cheap and has a good rep I've got other stuff in the garden such as tomatoes, capsicum, pumpkins and herbs so if i've got existing bugs it's really only a matter of time so I thought I'd be prepared.
this is day 1 over and out, wish me luck!
subbing in! looks good 
They would have to be little chickens (if you’re talking about the cage I covered my babies in when they were seedlings). My triangular cage was pretty small, about 1.5ft high only... and yeah with chicken wire so I can see how it’d look like one - don’t think I’ve ever seen a chicken tractor...?
