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Summer Auto show
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Franklin
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Everything is bigger and better. The scarlet grapes are nearly ready to harvest and the blood orange isn't far behind. I'm disappointed by the size and smell of the blood orange but it sure does look beautiful in senescence. The scarlet grapes, OTOH, is huge and just amazing in smell and look. It's hot it all, hands down the best auto strain I've grown. I've started LST on the other little girls, they're all looking great.
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Going2fast
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Beautiful ladies my friend.
Franklin
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Near disaster! Was checking the trichomes with a loupe and noticed some browning sugar leaves on one of the buds. Horrors! The telltale signs of bud rot! Sure enough. I only found it on two buds so eliminated them immediately. I've been down this path before and know there's no stopping it now, so I then made the decision to harvest. I think it would have been fully ripe in just a few days anyway, so I'm not hurt too badly, just going it dries quickly with no spread. However, the bus are so incredibly dense that I'm not convinced this can happen. Even with my dehumidifier going it's 70 percent humidity and 70 degrees. Ugh, we'll see what happens...
Bluey
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I seem to get browning/ dark red blotches on sugar leaves of all my sativas even with 40%RH. It freaked me out that I was getting mold but I watched the buds real close internally in those spots for weeks and no mold.
At 70%RH, yes, pretty much guaranteed I'd think.
Bugger.
At 70%RH, yes, pretty much guaranteed I'd think.
Bugger.
Franklin
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Franklin
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After dry/fast cure of Going2fast Scarlet Grapes I ended up with 2.25 oz of very high quality flower. Probably would have had 3 with the bus I had to destroy due to rot. Great haul. Unsmoked it smells like hoppy lemon/lime/pine. Vaping is phenomenal, very complex flavors, strong with a positive and clear high. Probably the best quality I've ever grown.
The blood orange haze is coming along, I thought I would harvest at least a week ago but the trichomes are still somewhat clear and not a lot of amber. I assume the haze genetics is stretching this one out. If just keeps getting prettier and prettier though.
The blood orange haze is coming along, I thought I would harvest at least a week ago but the trichomes are still somewhat clear and not a lot of amber. I assume the haze genetics is stretching this one out. If just keeps getting prettier and prettier though.
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Going2fast
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Beautiful plants as always. Watching some peeps growing your strains. Good stuff.
Franklin
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I harvested and cured the Blood Orange Haze and it's great, has a fantastic smell, light orange and candy sweet with a background of funk. Very sticky buds and their darker color makes the trichomes glisten. At some point I'd like to cross this with my Orange Zkittles to make a tag team orange smell. Got about 1.5 oz from her, not bad considering it was an outdoor auto and I didn't prune her at all except for a defoliation near the end.
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Franklin
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The Pound Cake and Devil's Food Cake autos from Going2fast are doing really well, as is the Honey Peach auto from Sweet Seeds. the DFC is a couple of weeks behind the others and doesn't have much smell yet but I can already tell the Pound Cake is going to be a winner, it's already beginning to glisten and has a super pungent stank aroma. Pound Town is G2F's cross between Humboldt Seed Company's Pound Town and Gas Reaper's Bessie Cake, apparently 2 must-haves, so the combo might be even better. The Honey Peach is also beginning to express, has that trademark Sweet Seeds sweet/floral smell but it's more of a background than what I found in their CBD red and what had expressed in my Red x AK-47 auto that some of you grew. It's fronted by a fruity smell that I wouldn't quite call peach yet but stonefruit might be a good description. It's smelling real nice. Sweet seeds doesn't give lineage but I'm positive there are some siblings or cousins in the Auto Red CBD and the Honey Peach CBD. Sweet seeds says it finishes in 8 weeks from seed and it popped on July 15th so should be ready by Sept 15th but I find that super hard to believe and think it will be at the earliest the first week of October.
Franklin
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e're getting closer. My vegetable garden was hit with a massive powdery mildew issue on my squash/zucchini that I didn't respond to quickly enough and some of it spread to my weed. I've been fighting by yanking leaves and using 1/3 milk to 2/3 water mix. Definitely keeping it under control, it's not a big spread on the weed.
Great news that some feminized pollen I made and froze last year from a ((Cotton Candy Kush x Strawberry Cough) x Blueberry) generously gifted to me by changeofpace2014 seems to have taken on the one branch of the Honey Peach. So the result should be a sweet, fruity treat maybe I'll call it Berriez Parfait (but heterozygous photoperiod, so kind of a pain to breed with in the future).
The Honey Peach might have too much nitrogen in the soil, or maybe it's just genetics, getting tons of sugar leaves and thin buds in huge clusters as you can see below. But lots of frost. If you look carefully in the second picture you can see at least one seed being made.
The Pound cake from Going2fast is just great, superb smell on that one. It's becoming less funky and sweeter over time. The Devils Food Cake is about 1-2 weeks behind but has stretched higher than the Pound Cake so I flipped them around to balance out sun and shade.
Great news that some feminized pollen I made and froze last year from a ((Cotton Candy Kush x Strawberry Cough) x Blueberry) generously gifted to me by changeofpace2014 seems to have taken on the one branch of the Honey Peach. So the result should be a sweet, fruity treat maybe I'll call it Berriez Parfait (but heterozygous photoperiod, so kind of a pain to breed with in the future).
The Honey Peach might have too much nitrogen in the soil, or maybe it's just genetics, getting tons of sugar leaves and thin buds in huge clusters as you can see below. But lots of frost. If you look carefully in the second picture you can see at least one seed being made.
The Pound cake from Going2fast is just great, superb smell on that one. It's becoming less funky and sweeter over time. The Devils Food Cake is about 1-2 weeks behind but has stretched higher than the Pound Cake so I flipped them around to balance out sun and shade.
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Franklin
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Well boys, the summer ended quickly, we've had cool weather and rainy days over the last week and a half and well, you know what that means. Mr. Rot. I really thought I could squeeze two sets of auto grows in this summer but I had a suspicion I didn't start early enough and was hoping for that Indian Summer we sometimes get. Win some, lose some. Inspecting the plants today revealed that tell tale color on bud after bud. I probably cut out about a quarter of what would have been the harvest. I don't usually use a bud wash for for the stuff that didn't appear to have rot on it I gave it a bath in .5 cup of 3% hydrogen peroxide plus 2.5 gallons of water, hoping to stop any rot that remains while I try to dry and cure these plants. I left one branch of the Honey Peach (the one I had pollinated and is growing seeds)--found some rotting buds on this so it's probably a fools errand but doesn't really hurt anything to leave it. The Devil's Food Cake I also left, as it's a couple of weeks behind and had no rot on it at all (the buds are not as thick), though I did trim out some inner branches with bud just to improve airflow. I suspect that is going to be a lost cause unless things get warmer and drier quick, but that's not on the forecast. Oh well, it was still fun to grow and I have plenty of other weed, so if this stuff turns out bunk I'll just make it into balm or something. I will say that the Pound Cake is quite nice, not as amazing as the Scarlet Grapes but definitely up there. The Honey Peach had an amazing aroma but was pretty leafy and the buds were thin. I guess that probably makes sense for a 1:1 CBD as it's half hemp and hasn't gone through the years of selection like THC heavy strains.
Lookit all this discarded bud. Pour one out for me, will you?
Not the good kind of purps:
Leafy and thin but highly aromatic Honey Peach:
Pound Cake:
Washing them up:
Hanging to dry. I put the fan on high and pointed it right at the buds, normally would never do that but figure gotta get the humidity down fast. I'll divert in a day or two.
Lookit all this discarded bud. Pour one out for me, will you?
Not the good kind of purps:
Leafy and thin but highly aromatic Honey Peach:
Pound Cake:
Washing them up:
Hanging to dry. I put the fan on high and pointed it right at the buds, normally would never do that but figure gotta get the humidity down fast. I'll divert in a day or two.
