Grapeing me crazy G2F autos

[bdeegan]

Happy almost spring everyone! It’s about time I posted on my Going2fast autos. He graciously gifted me two strains of his fine work, Scarlet Grapes and Grape Ice Cream. I started germination with the full moon on 1/25 with my normal paper towel in a zip lock on a heating mat controlled to 80f. I had tails showing in 24 hrs but waited another 12ish to plant. Seedlings up on 1/29 in 1 gallon plastic pots with happy frog with added perlite and dolomite lime.

[bdeegan]

I gave them 1/2ish cup of water a few days later and then 1 cup each of recharge after this pic on their 1 week bday



the next week and a half was kinda boring. The received 2 waterings of 1 cup. They were then transferred into their final homes, 5 gallon buckets on 2/18. The buckets are filled with strawberry fields with added perlite and dolomite lime, and the plants had a nice helping of worm castings in the transfer hole. They took it well, pics to follow…

[bdeegan]

Transfer day



2 days later

[SoOrbudgal]

Awe look how happy they are great job bdeegan

[bdeegan]

Thank you 🙏 budgal! Scarlet really seemed to take off after the transplant. I wish I took pics of their roots 💪

[bdeegan]

Forgot to mention they were watering in on the transfer with recharge. They have not been watered since. I started lst on scarlet yesterday and ms ice cream today. I am using lst clips after success using them on an auto during my last grow. I’ll get some more pictures and any missing info up tomorrow. Thanks again to Going2fast for the beans! I hope this grow ends as well as it has started!

[Mollisol]

Looks like everything is going great. Going2fast generously gifted me some of his grape ice cream autos as well.

I'll be following your grow closely.

[bdeegan]

Sounds good, and glad your following along. So far the grape ice cream has been easy peasy no fuss. So far she is short with tight node spacing and a nice think stalk.

[bdeegan]

I tried to time the transplants with when the plants showed sex. Scarlet was 20 days old when she showed so I transplanted them both then. GIC showed the next day. They are both pretty vigorous and have not been fussy.

[Going2fast]

Awesome I'm sure you will enjoy them. Grape ice cream has slurricane as a co parent so she has a tendency to stretch during early flower. Thank you for sharing your grow

[bdeegan]

Absolutely buddy, thanks for sharing the beans! This’ll be my first forum grow journal, so no pressure at all, haha!

[Going2fast]

That scarlet grapes is definitely indica leaning.

[bdeegan]

Alright so we are pretty much caught up. The girls are 26 days old today. I started lst with clips on scarlet day24 and gic yesterday. I would have liked to have gone lower with scarlet but the stalk was too thick, and I would have like ms cream to have been a bit taller but her stalk was thickening up quickly so time to act.
scarlet first 2 pics

[FrankC]

What are the blue clips you are using for LST?

[bdeegan]

They are plastic clips meant for lst. Those are the second type I’ve used, found them on Amazon…

https://www.amazon.com/AirTech-Home-Automation-LSTclips-California/dp/B09CB5MSZZ?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1&psc=1

They bend the plants a bit more than I’d like but they are very sturdy. I used some I got from my local grow shop with less of a bend but they were weaker and a few have broken.

[bdeegan]

They have a couple of tent mates that are 1.5 weeks old. Mephisto Deez Nugs and Bear Assed Monkey. Started the same way as G2F autos and germinated with the new moon on the 9th. They have gotten 2 small waterings plus a 1/2 cup recharge on day 5. They will wind up in 5 gallon buckets as well.

[bdeegan]

Missing some grow info… 2x4x5 tent with 2 spider farmer sf1000’s (100w each) and a few cfl’s in work lamps for supplemental heat when needed. ACinfinity 6” exhaust with controller and a carbon filter when the stank sets in. Hurricane clip fan and a new addition 6” ACinfinity oscillating clip fan. Small humidifier in the tent until the plants take over.

I’m trying to hold 75f 62rh for now and will drop the rh as the flowers come. The damn weather has been all over the place and I’m struggling to keep it consistent right now. Nothing terrible but not great for weak ass genetics, so I am doing what I can and grateful for the 🔥 in the tent!

✌️&💚 thanks for following along! -bd

[bdeegan]

About time for an update. The G2F autos are 32 days old and doing well! We have nice pre flowers forming, what a difference a week makes! I’m all but done with the structure, just try to keep them even and spread out as they stretch.

I watered them on the 25th with some high ph’ed water w/bath salt after a slurry test indicated the strawberries fields was pretty low on ph. I wish I would have checked before I transplanted! Anyway I did another slurry tonight, and it has come up to 5.5 so another high ph’ed with salt and a little nftg aphrodite extraction was applied after the pictures…
scarlet

[bdeegan]

Grape ice cream



tent mates are 18 days old and doing well. No sign of pistils yet but I’ll prep the buckets tomorrow (with some ph correction!!) because it’ll be any day now.

[bdeegan]

I did have a casualty due to some aggressive leaf tucking (on scarlet)


I try to leave all of the fans until the end but i was pushing it for sure and it snapped clean off. I did use one of the lst clips to bend solely a big ass fan leaf out of the way


I’ll check the soil ph in a few days. make the next move and post an update. I hope all is well with you fine folks! I know there had been a bunch of shit weather out there, I hope everyone stays safe and stoned!

✌️&💚

[SoOrbudgal]

Well those breaks happen easily hopefully it heals as well as photoperiods do. Keep up the good work. Ya man Nor Cal is getting hit badly with snow. Not where i'm living but sure is a headache when it happens. I hunker down now adays don't deal well with snowy roads and blowing sideways. Our little town in Oregon got snow yesterday but it's melted in town.

[bdeegan]

I agree with you on the snow. When I was young it was game on every time it snowed but now I look forward to the extra cup of coffee and bowl hit while I watch it fall from the inside!

[ezmaarc]

About time for an update. The G2F autos are 32 days old and doing well! We have nice pre flowers forming, what a difference a week makes! I’m all but done with the structure, just try to keep them even and spread out as they stretch.

I watered them on the 25th with some high ph’ed water w/bath salt after a slurry test indicated the strawberries fields was pretty low on ph. I wish I would have checked before I transplanted! Anyway I did another slurry tonight, and it has come up to 5.5 so another high ph’ed with salt and a little nftg aphrodite extraction was applied after the pictures…
scarlet

Hey bdeegan, This is a great topic and one I've always wondered about...tell me if I'm hi-jacking your thread here and I'll start one...but I assume since it looks like you've got some experience in this: Is that the best way to level out the ph. By using a higher ph to balance it out? I've looked at a lot of conflicting info online and always wondered about that. The way you've described is exactly the way it works in my mind but I've read that it doesn't work so I've never had the cajones to try. Everytime I do a nute feeding the my soil ph drops way low, like I've seen it 3.8 low. It will bound back after about 2 days on a schedule and my plants look and act ok, so I've just expected it. But I'd really like to not put there lady parts under stress. So do you think if I raise my feeding ph from my usual 6.5 to like a 7.3 I'd get it in the 6.5 range? Or at least play around with it until I find the right soil ph..? Anyway, I'd love to know if you've had other experience with this issue because it makes me crazy. Sorry for highjackin the thread a little here...

[bdeegan]

Hey no worries man! I’ll throw my 2 cents in but I am far from an expert, I tend to say closer to newbie. I have been growing for about 3 years now with a good amount of success.

I am not sure if going high ph on waterings is the “best way” but it has worked for me. I had the same low soil ph last grow but caught it much later into the run. The plants were showing deficiencies by the time I started correcting. I was also measuring the run off in the beginning, and switched to slurry tests. I find them more accurate to what’s going on at the roots.

I also typically use dolomite lime mixed in the soil from planting to help buffer the ph. I did use it with the happy frog initial planting but I don’t think I added it to the sf that I transplanted to.

Either way, once the soil ph is in the 6.5 range I will water with 6.5-7. I will always ph adjust after adding nutes (I use nectar for the gods) too. I would have no issues giving my plants 7.3 to try to get the ph up.

Not sure if this helped you but let me know if it did or if you have any other questions.