Grape Icecream by Going2Fast

[Mollisol]

Day 35. I did some LST on the two healthy ones. I plucked a few lower leaves and a few more that were in the way of bud sites.

I mixed up some nutes, grow and bloom mix. 1/3 strength. Im loosly following the FF schedule. My schedule is for photos so Im kinda estimating.

The damaged plant I'm just going leave alone and see how she does.

[SoOrbudgal]

Yes the autos are not forgiving of us at all. But who knows what she'll do? I just keep going with wierd plants i keep under performers just to keep the tent full LOL. Yours look healthy except for the injured one. I give about 1/2 the amount of food that i would normally give my photos. I mean if all else is healthy i do push them with more, all i get is a little burn leaf tip.

[Mollisol]

Thanks SoOrbudgal I was pulling over the main stem and thought I might snap it. I slowly was able to get it close to 90 degree bend. They got woody much faster than I expected.

[Mollisol]

I got behind on updating this thread. This is day 56. They are making nice dense flowers.

I think they would have grown bigger if I had babied them a bit more.

[Bluey]

What light schedule are you giving those?

[Going2fast]

Hey you will get something out of them.👍👍👍 I think they were just underwatered and didn't get an opportunity to stretch out. Tis why I'm not a fan of fabric pots. You have to be on top of them. They look nice and sticky.

[Mollisol]

Bluey 18/6 light schedule. The buds are dense and I'm sure they will be awesome.

The watering did get away from me a few times and that probably hurt them. I'll do better next time. Lol.

Thanks again Going2fast. I have three more seeds to take another shot at them

[Bluey]

They're still chugging along nicely. Keep em going as best you can man and you'll be well rewarded.

[Mollisol]

Day 64. They are making great buds. Even the plant I accidentally damaged and did zero LST is making a single fat cola. I'm certain they would have been much larger, if I had not screwed up the watering.

Lol... it's my first time with autos. There is definitely a learning curve.

[Bluey]

Big change for the better. Keep em going man!

[Mollisol]

Day 72 they are still thicking up a little bit.

[Bluey]

They are looking very frosty. Nice one. Not long now

[SoOrbudgal]

Hey those colas look great lots fatter. I bet it smells wonderful

[Rootsruler]

Looking great but I look at your pictures and think "Look at all those wasted photons!" LOL!

[Going2fast]

Looking great for a first time. Give them another week.

[Mollisol]

Thanks for all your comments guys.

I still see quite a bit of clear tricomes and zero amber.

Well my phone pics aren't any good. I guess a few more days and cut them

[Bluey]

What is the temp and RH?

[Mollisol]

Bluey My temp is 80F and RH is around 50%. I can't drop the temp anymore. Fan running full speed and all the tent vents are open.

[Bluey]

You may be able to keep them going without a problem 🤞

[Rootsruler]

SoOrbudgal I think the temp drop is to keep the VOC's in the trichs from evaporating.

I just read about a technique where they put the flowers into an 8on/16off light schedule the last few days to retain as much of the terps from evaporating along with turning off the amount of time the plant spends photosynthesizing and concentrating its energies on making more resins and terps.

[Bluey]

Lower temps in late flower around 72⁰F is the go for Max yield and potency but not many can get that and it may not be worth it energy cost wise. I'm giving it a run this go though. My previous goal was 75⁰F which I managed pretty good for the autos. 🤞

I'm early flower coming into mid flower this week and 75⁰F and 49% RH is about where I'm at atm and will go down with both over the next 5 weeks.

[Mollisol]

Day 80. Harvest!

Growing these autos was a lot of fun and I learned alot. The buds are super dense and sparkling. My camera doesn't do them justice.

Special thanks to Going2fast for the seed. And thanks to everyone who commented and followed along.

[Going2fast]

Congratulations on your harvest!!!!😍😍👃👃👍

[Bluey]

Well done. Looking forward to your testing