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Welcome to Stages' Summer Auto Run!
Peace and respect
It's THC Thursday fellow herbalists!
Its Stage here. I would say I'm back but I really just took a sabbatical and never left.
I have been quietly lurking in other grow journals learning about autos and looking take a stab at this auto thing.
If you saw my last journal, I said I wouldn't do a summer grow and now I must eat those words.
The reason being is that I am not happy with the last harvest.
Even after a 4 to 5 month cure, the herb just was um...ok. The truth is the last crop was not as good as I could get from my local dood. :surrender:
I think its very likely that the seeds / stock were quite old.
I don't see many folks growing JOTI gear these days.
As a result I wasn't blown away or even impressed with the high.
I believe I made a mistake choosing some gear that I believe is dated to put it nicely.
Dont get me wrong, I made butter and QWISO from the harvest and I enjoyed the results...some.
But in terms of smoking it was frankly lackluster. Vaping it made up for it somewhat, the AVB (already vaped bud) got me quite stoney.
So... I picked up 3 HSO Sour Diesel Auto beans and for grins and giggles, I decided to drop 1 TH seeds fem non auto Bubblegum and 1 HSO Blue Dream fem non auto.
The HSO SD auto is supposed to finish in about 10 to 11 weeks (75 days) from seed.
I will be using an 18/6 lighting schedule. Going 18/6 makes sense to me and saves a bit of electricity than say going 24/0 or 20/4.
The TH seeds Bubblegum and HSO Blue Dream will be put in veg mode alongside the SD. Once the SD is harvested, The Bubblegum and Blue Dream light schedule change to 11/13 and harvest it about 8-9 weeks(60-65 days) later.
In my mind running autos along side photos sounds like a good idea.
Run the 3 autos on 18/6, then harvest 10 or 11 weeks later. Flip the lights to 11/13 then flower the photos.
I never took a photoperiod plant to 10 or 11 weeks veg then flowered it. This will be quite interesting.
The temperatures in my area are in the constant 90's outdoors. Its freaking blazing hot out there!
Gonna be using a spare room to set up my tent in.
Central air set at 75 degrees. I know even with a 6 inch exhaust fan its going to be difficult to keep temps in check.
I have to vent into the room the tent will be in. This means I have to keep the room door ajar while the lights are on.
I did a test run to see what the temps will be like BEFORE I popped my beans and I cannot go above
450w setting on my 600w HID light without tent temps being 85 to 90 degrees.
At the 300w setting the room sits at 79 degrees. If i run the P300 Led the temp rises to 82 degrees.
Not too bad.
Germination will be by paper towel method.
I placed the plastic bags with the damp paper towels on top of a heat mat keeping temps @80 to 82 degrees.
Once the SD auto seeds pop they will be placed in 3 gallon fabric pots for the duration.
The Blue Dream and Bubblegum will be planted in a 6in plastic square pots.
I'm using Botanicare block Coco with Perlite 75/25.
Grow area is a 4'x2'x7' ft tent. 6 inch 440 cfm exhaust fan with speed controller using 6in Phresh filter.
Using two small fans inside tent for air circ.
The lighting will be 600w dimmable air cooled HID.
I'm dimming it to 300w for seedling/veg using metal halide bulb.
I will then add P300 (185w) Led and change the HID bulb to HPS for flower.
Nutes will be Dutch Master Gold grow A + B, Add 27 micro, and Silica. Watering method is by hand only.
I decided to hand water coco and not use my DWC buckets because I know it will be chock full of problems keeping water below 75 degrees.
I have never grown autos before but I think I got good genetics using HSO gear.
TH Seeds bubblegum is said to be a medium yielder but I hope with a 75 day veg I could get decent weight.
HSO BD is a known med to high yielder that will benefit from the coco hydro and 75 day veg.
My hope is to get 4 to 6 oz. total from the autos, then on the photo grow afterwards, get 6 to 8oz from them. I expect total from both runs about 10 to 14 oz.
Anyone with experience with these strains please feel free to offer input.
And now.......on with the grow.
Peace Stage.
Welcome to Stages' Summer Auto Run!
Peace and respect
It's THC Thursday fellow herbalists!
Its Stage here. I would say I'm back but I really just took a sabbatical and never left.
I have been quietly lurking in other grow journals learning about autos and looking take a stab at this auto thing.
If you saw my last journal, I said I wouldn't do a summer grow and now I must eat those words.
The reason being is that I am not happy with the last harvest.
Even after a 4 to 5 month cure, the herb just was um...ok. The truth is the last crop was not as good as I could get from my local dood. :surrender:
I think its very likely that the seeds / stock were quite old.
I don't see many folks growing JOTI gear these days.
As a result I wasn't blown away or even impressed with the high.
I believe I made a mistake choosing some gear that I believe is dated to put it nicely.
Dont get me wrong, I made butter and QWISO from the harvest and I enjoyed the results...some.
But in terms of smoking it was frankly lackluster. Vaping it made up for it somewhat, the AVB (already vaped bud) got me quite stoney.
So... I picked up 3 HSO Sour Diesel Auto beans and for grins and giggles, I decided to drop 1 TH seeds fem non auto Bubblegum and 1 HSO Blue Dream fem non auto.
The HSO SD auto is supposed to finish in about 10 to 11 weeks (75 days) from seed.
I will be using an 18/6 lighting schedule. Going 18/6 makes sense to me and saves a bit of electricity than say going 24/0 or 20/4.
The TH seeds Bubblegum and HSO Blue Dream will be put in veg mode alongside the SD. Once the SD is harvested, The Bubblegum and Blue Dream light schedule change to 11/13 and harvest it about 8-9 weeks(60-65 days) later.
In my mind running autos along side photos sounds like a good idea.
Run the 3 autos on 18/6, then harvest 10 or 11 weeks later. Flip the lights to 11/13 then flower the photos.
I never took a photoperiod plant to 10 or 11 weeks veg then flowered it. This will be quite interesting.
The temperatures in my area are in the constant 90's outdoors. Its freaking blazing hot out there!
Gonna be using a spare room to set up my tent in.
Central air set at 75 degrees. I know even with a 6 inch exhaust fan its going to be difficult to keep temps in check.
I have to vent into the room the tent will be in. This means I have to keep the room door ajar while the lights are on.
I did a test run to see what the temps will be like BEFORE I popped my beans and I cannot go above
450w setting on my 600w HID light without tent temps being 85 to 90 degrees.
At the 300w setting the room sits at 79 degrees. If i run the P300 Led the temp rises to 82 degrees.
Not too bad.
Germination will be by paper towel method.
I placed the plastic bags with the damp paper towels on top of a heat mat keeping temps @80 to 82 degrees.
Once the SD auto seeds pop they will be placed in 3 gallon fabric pots for the duration.
The Blue Dream and Bubblegum will be planted in a 6in plastic square pots.
I'm using Botanicare block Coco with Perlite 75/25.
Grow area is a 4'x2'x7' ft tent. 6 inch 440 cfm exhaust fan with speed controller using 6in Phresh filter.
Using two small fans inside tent for air circ.
The lighting will be 600w dimmable air cooled HID.
I'm dimming it to 300w for seedling/veg using metal halide bulb.
I will then add P300 (185w) Led and change the HID bulb to HPS for flower.
Nutes will be Dutch Master Gold grow A + B, Add 27 micro, and Silica. Watering method is by hand only.
I decided to hand water coco and not use my DWC buckets because I know it will be chock full of problems keeping water below 75 degrees.
I have never grown autos before but I think I got good genetics using HSO gear.
TH Seeds bubblegum is said to be a medium yielder but I hope with a 75 day veg I could get decent weight.
HSO BD is a known med to high yielder that will benefit from the coco hydro and 75 day veg.
My hope is to get 4 to 6 oz. total from the autos, then on the photo grow afterwards, get 6 to 8oz from them. I expect total from both runs about 10 to 14 oz.
Anyone with experience with these strains please feel free to offer input.
And now.......on with the grow.
Peace Stage.