Winging It In Winter By The Window: Soil Auto Grow

[Carmen Ray]

Saturday 13 Aug UPDATE

HARVESTED AUTOS

Caramel King
Smoke report coming soon.

Lavender Best
I snipped my buds off their stems to finish drying. They were not quite there, with stems not quite dry snapping. I don't have hygrometers, so I usually bottle when the stems snap. This time I am trying to speed up the dry a bit as it has gone more than a week of hanging. I usually hang for a week then burp for 2. I got 104 g / 3.67 oz of dry bud off that auto. The buds are airy but denser than the Caramel King. They are spread out on newspaper atm and will be jarred this evening and the jars will remain open overnight. This may affect the weight a bit but I’m not going to be pedantic about that for my purposes. I know how long supply will last me.

PHOTOPERIOD PLANT

The two photoperiod plants are taking their time to flower. I worry and have sleepless nights that I won't get them far enough come mid-October. They are still showing pre-flower but no stacking yet. They don’t seem to be stretching much… I literally have two months to finish this. I flipped 14 days ago.

Bruce Banner # 2 68 Days AG, Flip 14 days
I’ve replaced hooks with longer sticks and spread some stems around to give the canopy more air.

Wedding Cake 68 Days AG, Flip 14 days
I’ve super-cropped three more stems that were outstretching the others.

The sun is shining, it's snowing in the mountains and it's gonna get cold. We've been sitting between 14 and 6 degrees C for a couple of weeks as it is. I hope you have a glorious weekend. Thanks for looking in.

 

[InTheShed]

Congrats on the haul! 3.7 ounces is not too shabby.

I'd say those are flowering, but because they're not getting 12 hours of total darkness the process will be slower than if they had actually been flipped.

 

[Trala]

Your work!

Next level.

 

[Carmen Ray]

Congrats on the haul! 3.7 ounces is not too shabby.

I'd say those are flowering, but because they're not getting 12 hours of total darkness the process will be slower than if they had actually been flipped.

Thank you Shed, I'm happy with the harvest and I wish I had rather grown two more autos but I didn't and now I'm in this and potentially in a bit of trouble.

I love my plants and I have a horrible feeling that they are going to be far from ready come mid-October. I am already thinking that I might have to give them away if they are too far off. They aren’t stretching much and they are taking so long to push out pistils. This has been a risky grow but I have learnt a lot in terms of training. I haven't given up hope yet!!!

I'm pleased that I know more about how autos behave because in my circumstances, at least for a while, autos are going to be my way forward. Being confined to quarters to give the plants the darkness they need is not sustainable in the long run. I can push it for two months but not again.

Your work!

Next level.

Thank you, it's a mutual admiration then because I think that of yours

 

[Carcass]

Congrats on the nice 3.7 oz. harvest!

I can push it for two months but not again.

Props to you for sticking with it for now, Carmen!
I hope your ladies are done enough by mid October- you deserve some good weed for all the work you've put into them!
Fingers crossed !

 

[Carmen Ray]

Congrats on the nice 3.7 oz. harvest!

Props to you for sticking with it for now, Carmen!
I hope your ladies are done enough by mid October- you deserve some good weed for all the work you've put into them!
Fingers crossed !

Thank you Carcass! I spoke at length to a local growmie and it's cutting it fine and gambling with the light but he assures me he finished his spring grows outdoors in early Nov. So I am going to hang in for as long as I can and cross fingers that the dark cycle is dark enough and long enough. It is 14 hours of darkness and 10 of light atm, and by Oct daylight hours will have extended but I will keep the LED to 14/10 (is it written like that?). I hope it works.

 

[Azimuth]

The light cycle relationship is usually written the other way around (light:dark), so your's would more commonly be written 10:14.

I don't think it matters all that much if you spell it out like you have, but if you use the shorthand without specifying you'll confuse people.

Sending you 'good luck' vibes for your timing!

 

[InTheShed]

I will keep the LED to 14/10 (is it written like that?).

As Azi mentioned I hope you mean 14 hours of dark and 10 hours of LED! That would be 10/14.

 

[Carmen Ray]

I do. I wrote it the other way and someone told me I had it back to front.... oh boy... the good thing is yes 14 hours of darkness and 10 of LED Thanks for the luck, I am going to need it! It appears that the stretch has begun. I keep forgetting to ask... does super-cropping slow flower development? Perhaps that is a factor?

 

[InTheShed]

I don't believe that supercropping will slow pistil development, though it will slow down vegetative growth.

Some folks fins the supercropping in flower makes for bigger buds due to the expanded nutrient pathways in the healed knuckle.

 

[Adora]

Love this canopy pic!!

Congrats on the Lavender Best harvest. I would be so happy if my autos would give me 104 g. I don't think my last four Gorilla Cookies autos even gave me that much combined (there's a reason they don't get their own journal). I can't wait to read your smoke report on her. If I had cast my vote in the beginning it would have been for the LB.

cross fingers that the dark cycle is dark enough and long enough

Crossing fingers and toes and joints for you Carmen

 

[HappyHazmat88]

I don't believe that supercropping will slow pistil development, though it will slow down vegetative growth.

Some folks fins the supercropping in flower makes for bigger buds due to the expanded nutrient pathways in the healed knuckle.

Interesting ..... so I wonder if you bent all flowering branches at the start of flower if it would do just that....increase bud size

I've only had to "supercrop" for height reasons or risk frying upper cola touching light.

 

[Carmen Ray]

I don't believe that supercropping will slow pistil development, though it will slow down vegetative growth.

Some folks fins the supercropping in flower makes for bigger buds due to the expanded nutrient pathways in the healed knuckle.

Interesting ..... so I wonder if you bent all flowering branches at the start of flower if it would do just that....increase bud size

I've only had to "supercrop" for height reasons or risk frying upper cola touching light.

This is interesting indeed and I will see when I harvest, whether the buds on the bent branches are any bigger than the others. I had to bend another one today because some of the branches are way outstretching the others and the canopies look a bit uneven atm.

Congrats on the Lavender Best harvest. I would be so happy if my autos would give me 104 g. I don't think my last four Gorilla Cookies autos even gave me that much combined (there's a reason they don't get their own journal). I can't wait to read your smoke report on her. If I had cast my vote in the beginning it would have been for the LB.

Thank you. I was impressed with the amount of bud on that plant too I am going auto next time. I'm honestly not set up for photos and it is a royal pita to have to leave the living room at sundown and be confined to quarters so that my dagga can have uninterrupted darkness

Crossing fingers and toes and joints for you Carmen

Thanks Adora, here's hoping

 

[Carmen Ray]

Tuesday 16 Aug UPDATE

PHOTOPERIOD PLANTS
Both plants are stretching a bit and in flower.

Bruce Banner 2 71 Days AG, Flip 17 days
14th Aug 2 L calmag, mycco, epic, 401 microbes to slight run off

Wedding Cake 71 Days AG, Flip 17 days
14th Aug 2 L calmag, mycco, epic, 401 microbes to slight run off.

Have a great week and thank you for your interest in my grow.

 

[Skottelgoed Spons]

Tuesday 16 Aug UPDATE

PHOTOPERIOD PLANTS
Both plants are stretching a bit and in flower.

Bruce Banner 2 71 Days AG, Flip 17 days
14th Aug 2 L calmag, mycco, epic, 401 microbes to slight run off

Wedding Cake 71 Days AG, Flip 17 days
14th Aug 2 L calmag, mycco, epic, 401 microbes to slight run off.

Have a great week and thank you for your interest in my grow.

Hey carmen, how goes? Been cold hey. You photoperiod is really looking good there. Sorry been mia lately. Really gld to see your plants are still going

 

[HappyHazmat88]

Tuesday 16 Aug UPDATE

PHOTOPERIOD PLANTS
Both plants are stretching a bit and in flower.

Bruce Banner 2 71 Days AG, Flip 17 days
14th Aug 2 L calmag, mycco, epic, 401 microbes to slight run off

Wedding Cake 71 Days AG, Flip 17 days
14th Aug 2 L calmag, mycco, epic, 401 microbes to slight run off.

Have a great week and thank you for your interest in my grow.

All prim and proper.....looking great.

Have a wonderful day carmen

 

[InTheShed]

Love the pistils, and the overhead shots SaugaViews® look great!

 

[Carmen Ray]

Hey carmen, how goes? Been cold hey. You photoperiod is really looking good there. Sorry been mia lately. Really gld to see your plants are still going

Hey Skottelgoed, yes I did miss your presence Thanks am glad my plants are finally flowering and now to just get them to the finish line. Sorry you've had some issues with the Hindu but great that your Cheese is going strong. Nice that you've got a local grow store now!

All prim and proper.....looking great.

Have a wonderful day carmen

Thanks Hap! It's the next day now but it's good... cold and raining but good. Hope yours is awesome too

Love the pistils, and the overhead shots SaugaViews® look great!

Thanks Shed! I wish I knew how to make the registered sign to go next to things like SaugaViews or Carhooks! Can you teach me?

 

[Grand Daddy Black]

Thanks Shed! I wish I knew how to make the registered sign to go next to things like SaugaViews or Carhooks! Can you teach me?

Hold down the Alt key and press 0174.

 

[Carmen Ray]

Hold down the Alt key and press 0174.

Thank you GDB, now I can correctly mark the clever stuff I copy from the authors of said ® ideas