The Great Auto Showdown

[Retodd]

You guys can only imagine my heartbreak after being one of the founders of this competition, but looks like my total fuck up has taken me out. My stomach is sick right now! All the time and effort I put into these girls just to kill them by ashing my cig in the corner of my box and starting a fire. FUUUUUUUUCK!
Im going to go ahead and add soil to the box. The leaves aren’t dry, but seriously discolored. I’m gonna water the piss out of them and add nutes, no defol, close the tent and give them a couple more days till I totally give up on them....FUUUUUUUCK!

[Mr.furley]

That is shiiity Man! So sorry to Hear @Retodd.
Sometimes moving your light up and/or turning off will help with stress and recovery. B-1 which can be found in things like super thrive could help.
I'm going to be so bummed out if you loss your plants I have been really enjoying watching them.

[starramus]

That's the fuckin breaks. Another good reason to quit smoking. I quit 30 years ago, and don't miss it at all.

[oldjarhead100]

Unbelievable what a bummer. I have seen them bounce back and survive I've had 2 plants in bloom get sick and die ,apparently my watering system is not doing what its supposed to

[Retodd]

I turned and added new soil and over a gallon of water w calmag, terpinator, and molasses to them and then sprayed all the leaves really good with distilled water. You can see that the stems all look good and even some of the leaves have some green in them, along with the buds. If they survive I’ll be elated and happy. If not, I guess I’ll just start over and be a super late finish to this. In case I didn’t say it earlier......FUUUUUUUUUUCK!
🙏🏼✌🏻

[Doubledealing72]

Hope they bounce back retodd! That's a major bummer, your plants were looking awesome. Hoping for a full recovery for ya!

[Retodd]

Thx bro..doing what I can

[Rwise]

The up side is it was not worse, a little TLC your girls should jump back up.

[Bishop882]

So this is my California snow from fast buds started on 12/8 it stayed very small but the breeder said it would they also said an 8 week flowering time I’m coming up on 8 weeks now what do you all think is she close or should I let her go a couple of weeks longer. I also have a Gorilla glue auto and a sour diesel Haze auto in the last pic the sour diesel is taking a long time to flower though

[Bishop882]

Im not sure this is only my second grow and the breeders said 8 weeks from germination i just read that you should let them go a lil longer than the breeder says

[Juicyj89]

Hey bishop I read up a little on your strain and it does say 8 weeks from germination but also it say they will be cover in “snow” when in peak flower. Also your girl has a lot of white hairs. I’d wait until you see more red hairs. 80% typically.

[oldjarhead100]

I use the 8 weeks as a suggestion and I look at the tricholmes ,get a cheap 60x hand held scope and check them out you want cloudy with some amber mixed in yours look clear great pics by the way

Haha so I spelled Tricholmes wrong so I clicked on spell check it gives me Ostriches thats close

[Juicyj89]

SaTurDAy

[Juicyj89]

Thanks a lot guys. For real. I really appreciate. Been a nervous wreck this whole grow with these autos. But hell they’ve been through a lot and they’re still alive. So they’re troopers for sure.

[oldjarhead100]

I agree Juicy Outstanding job

[Juicyj89]

Thanks ojh

[oldjarhead100]

I noticed some pistils yesterday so I'm getting their lol

[KTM690]

Good looking grows wishbi could load pics been like 3 weeks lol ill have my auto grow posted on another site. Prolly check in a few more times.good luck

[uncledoug]

I still can't post pictures either, wonder why? nebula

[Rwise]

A pic to show I am listening, perlite has been added to all unoccupied pots. This one is not an auto though, Bruce Banner 3 at 24 hours old, fingers crossed its female,,,

[oldjarhead100]

if you give her a little extra N increase humidity and keep her cooler than normal by just a little it should influence her to be a female ,all this has to be done the moment she gets her third set of true leafs

[Juicyj89]

Good to know ojh. That’s cool!

[Rwise]

The temp is something I am fighting to keep down, maybe this near 0*F weather will help,,,
So some chicken poo tea, extra RH (I am usually 60% or higher naturally below that I make soup)
I will be watching for that third set,,,thanx!!

[Retodd]

So, today I took them out and cut out 90%+ of the destroyed leaves and have upped the watering a bit. They’ve been getting folier fed twice a day. I’m trying to promote new growth on them. My girls have been in intensive care and just had another surgery. Here’s some before and after pix. I just can’t give up on them. They’re still my babies.
🙏🏼✌🏻

[Canuck147]

Good luck Retodd - with all that's happened, now is the time to leave them alone and see how they grow.

[oldjarhead100]

took off all the sugar leaves, but have upped my molasses content on their feeding to make up for their loss, dum question but I thought the sugar leafs were just a name of the leaf why are you upping Molasses ,Im asking cause its something I dont know about lol

[Retodd]

oldjarhead100 They’re called sugar leaves because their main function is to turn the mixture of water and light into sugar for your plant. I had no choice but to cut them off because they were all damaged. Adding extra molasses or sugar to the root system is my best bet to make up the difference. So far they are slowly starting to come back a little. They’ve been completely trimmed as of yesterday. I’m glad you told me about using some molasses during the whole grow before when I’d only use sugar during the last few weeks. I’m just trying to do it all as a test to bring them back on the botany side of it. I read a book on bonsai too and using some of the knowledge I’ve picked up from that. Just doing what I can brother

[uncledoug]

Ok gonna try and post pictures of thing 2 White Moscow Day 48.

[Juicyj89]

Null 😕

[starramus]

Looks like photos are not posting again. NebulaHaze to the rescue.

[furrysparkle]

Fix it! I wanna see your plant!

[Juicyj89]

Still working over here 🤔

[Juicyj89]

Well try again now uncledoug and yeah I’m just on iPhone. I think it might be fixed.

[Retodd]

uncledoug I do all my uploads on my iPad 7

[uncledoug]

I'm using my HP laptop with Windows 7. Just tried again but still won't load. Funny thing is yesterday morning I posted a picture for Juicyj89 on his thread and it worked fine.

[LurkingInTheGrass]

just had to share, and display some stretching


Thing 1:
was treated the harshest - so, Im ok with her being behind (even though she is 7 days older)
I stopped counting at 13 tops/tips
a compact little 6" tall




Thing 2:
I was easier on her, having been all heavy handed with Thing 1, then almost breaking her main stem ) - she did get some training, as much as I could do, while she healed
she has 5 almost 6 colas of similar height (LOL almost 6, the next one down, is close to 2 inches shorter). there are some good sized stems, but there are alot of "OMG - is that going to grow enough, to hold itself up?"
I would say a good 5-6 inches, has been 'stretch' just in the last 3 days. a couple of times, I swear I could see and hear her growing
she looks all sad and droopy, because I was in her, tucking down leaves, before I decided to take pictures




starting to get the first wispy hints of smell...
musky - maybe earthy. not enough really to tell. just enough to stop and hunt for the smell

[KTM690]

My autos starting to explode to bad I can't load pics wish I had a hr to wait for it to load. Oh well done trying it gave it 3 weeks good luck all my pics will b on 420 magazine

[oldjarhead100]

Mutient Louie has 32 top bud sites ,I noticed that the 3 way growth is on the stems and bud sites to I find that amazing ,I wish she was a photo I would clone her

[Rwise]

I have taken some cuttings from autos for clones to make seed with, the seed from these will be of 1 parent only in hopes to get more plants like the parent. Will it work, IDK never grew autos before, I will get seed,,,, but there is no guaranty they will be exactly like Momma.
That would an interesting trait to see if one can reproduce!

[Retodd]

oldjarhead100 Did some close ups of how she’s reacting to my new treatment method. It only let me upload 2 pix however. I’ve had to cut off a few branches on her. I seen discoloring in the stems and knew they were drawing energy that wasn’t going to be enough, so I sacrificed them.

[Canuck147]

My opinion Retodd - to me it doesn't look so good. I've had a long look and wasn't even sure you want this opinion - but - looks to me like your pistils are darkening and it has trichomes all over the plant. Your plant is trying to bloom and finish. I hope I'm wrong.

[Retodd]

As I said Canuck147 I’m gonna really give them till this weekend to know for sure. The pistols are darkened from the smoke damage done to them. I was impressed with the trichomes production before this all happened. If I don’t see significant change by this weekend I’m gonna pull them and start new ones. I won’t know wether to scream or cry if I have to do that.