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The AutoToka grow....first auto... 2nd grow!

Yep they are growing alright !! They are starting to look like golf ball sir. I'm looking forward to see the transformation. This is my last grow for 2021. Well here anyway loll A few of my expat gringos are getting ready for their next grow over in Yucatan so I'm looking forward to participate with them with their gringo's grow.
 
Ha ha SoOrbudgal sharp eye still huh! I noted it at 8 when I shot the pics. Over 3 qts each in 5 gal did not run off at all. Bone dry after 2 days when they had 6 each at that time to slight run off.
 
Day 45 or 6 1/2 weeks from sprout. Stretch growth continues. i know these are redundant pics but I'm still awed and amazed! I pulled the stakes up even yesterday at 4pm. By 4 today there will be another inch. Looks like buds are preparing to stack and fatten! The one on the left was shorter 5 days ago now is tallest It grows an inch and her sister grows 1/2 inch every day! I expect another 2 or 3 days of this then they will slow and concentrate on fattening up. They drink a gallon a day now. I put a Tbs of molasses per gallon to feed the root microbe colony which helps them get fat. That's all they will get for 10 more days when I give a final feed of fish poo at 1/2 strength then just water/molasses until harvest. I have not used any chemical nutes at all and do not pH my input or runoff. The soil is taking care of it fine!

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An inch in 24 hours?!!
 
I see I was right, A little less stretch last nite so i think that is close to over. Now it's fatten and ripen time!
 
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BUGS! I never woulda thunk it!? My cabinet is pretty bug proof except for a 4x6 inch bottom intake vent with a grill covering it but not screen. The yellow sticky sheets are great! They capture very large or very very small. When i first hung them i quickly had a collection going, lol! I'm talking critters here so small they're next to invisible w/o magnification. Black specs smaller than dust! And they can fly!? Then this morning OMG! i had a few moths on them too but this morning I found 3 new ones, then i saw one on a leaf so I grabbed it, threw it violently to the floor and smashed it! Now I can have my morning toke and coffee while I peep at the ladies, right? Uh oh, my gaze wanders up to the corner of the cabinet and finds this monster! I don't know what it is called other than freaky! Just looks evil! Another damn Halloween demon looking for trouble! I grabbed a sticky sheet with a handle and stuck it on him. Gotcha...damn thing starts to flutter so hard it's shaking my hand! He gets a wing stuck on either side of the trap. Ha, now you're mine! One wing rips free and then the second but he falls to the floor still fluttering. I try to stick him again but no he crawls away behind stuff. OK I'm sitting on high alert status when he makes a break into the open. Alright I'm just gonna smash you then. Sure!! He springs into the air straight at my face so I duck while he circles me once and heads for the deck where I lose him in the junk pile. I'm hoping that's the last I see of him!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!

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I have to kill the moths here - summer, dogs, patio, nighttime - the dang cat's no help. I keep a sticky over my kitchen sink to catch bugs in the room they enter, variety.
 
Just a quick update this morning...
The stretch has slowed to 1/4 inch or less a day now but the buds are filling and stacking very nicely! Tichomes are just getting started so if you enlarge they are there.

As they are now becoming sweet now and even more attractive to bugs I had concerns over plant defence so I formed an armed security force and it's my pleasure to introduce Capt. Itsy Bitsy as commander of the Tokadom Armed Forces! Passive defence is not enough anymore!

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And now the news....
Today is the ladies 7 week birthday so they're looking pretty for the camera! Many colas close to 8 inch now and fatter every day! Pistils are just starting to curl at the tips with slight browning. I'm thinking about 5 to maybe 7 more weeks tops. Early Dec anyway. I wouldn't mind if I had to support the branches due to weight!

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I'm pleased with this grow in a big way as I violated a lot of 'rules' with great results so far! I got real tired of pH this or pH that so I set about to create my own easy peasy soil so after a lot of study and field testing I'm pretty sure I'm on a good track by the looks of them. NO pH adjustment at all. The soil is self correcting and nourishing with out the use of chemical nutrients even with a coco base. Worm castings, guano, perlite, crab meal, kelp, basalt for minerals, completely organic mix. They're drinking pretty heavy so 2 to 3 qts of plain water a day alternated with compost tea and casting top dressing. At about 5 weeks I gave them 1 oz to a gallon of Wild Salmon fish emulsion. the results were amazing! From slow growth at start of flower to explosive within 2 days! They added another 6-8 in. in as many days and tripled their girth!
I did not originate this recipe but really haven;t heard much about growing this way so I picked and chose from a few different ones with success. There are commercial mixes on the market pretty much the same thing but I see none that claim to correct pH this way. If anyone has I would love to hear about it...
Have a great week!
 
Really you think so?? Nice of you to say but I see comparison pics that say different, lol! Yes Capt. Itsy Bitsy is a spider. Hard core, mean as they come, (spider) Bitch!
 
Well 8 inches in 7 weeks !! Some of mine were 6 inches at 7wks. So I say yes sir. A Spider ? You mean a real one ????? ARGGGGG a White Widow !!
 
SoOrbudgal, Hi Gal, Nope just 2, 1 died at sprout and 4 more seeds followed suit so 2 it is. The other 2 pots are to help with RH as it has been in the 20's the entire grow. The girls are doing fine with it anyway. The bug stories were all in fun. i had never used sticky traps and was surprised at the
variety of critters I was catching, especially the teeny tiny ones. The issue would go away if I weren't too lazy to find a piece of screen to cover the bottom vent. It's in a difficult place to bend my old body down to. I know your soil is similar to what I'm doing, have you ever tried not pHing your input or are you doing it because you're still using chemical nutes? I am still surprised how simple it is If you have confidence and watch with an eagle eye. It will be interesting to find out if photos respond this way as well.

Have you ever heard of anyone trying this in a grow?
 
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Yessir a real one! I love having her on duty, lol. i just saw one of her troops walking her post around the rim of the pot. Tiny but mighty!

BTW have you heard of anyone growing in soil w/o manually correcting pH?
 
Quicky update:
Bro BU2B suggested a shot w/o lights on, just flash. Makes them a bit more impressive I think, thanks Bro! Pic is this am flash only.
Even tho they are both Maui autos from the same pack, I'm pretty sure diff linage. The tallest colas are approx 8-9 inches on the left. Structure is diff. Note also the coloring, Left is darker verging on nute burn and a few tips yellowing so I flushed it with a gallon of plain tap water. It looks better today. Not an issue as the plant is healthy just genetics. Explosive growth on both plants after a feed of fish emulsion but I may have been a little too aggressive when I added casting tea and top dress 6 days later. This whole grow is an experiment as I didn't follow the 'rules' about any aspect of it. I am having fun! Always good when an experiment goes well! Am I a maverick?

Sorry Puglover1 but no dwarfs in these autos!

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As I believe healthy leaves need to remain as long as possible unless they are blocking light, I opened them to the breaking point w/o harm. Now all bud sites are getting good light and left girl no longer threatened by the light. This may be a long flowering auto! No yellowing or browning leaves at all, just healthy green growth!

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Sorry about the knee porn! :o
 
Week 8 update:
This is week 8 plus 2 days and finally an indication of plant aging in the lower fan leaves. Saw 1 two days ago now about 3 on each girl. Left lady stretched the most but her colas are spread so they are mostly bud clusters 1 inch to 3 inch dia. Right lady is more squat with 6 inch colas 3 inches in diameter at the butt. Kinda cone shaped. Mostly white pistils, just a little visible sugar and about 25% cloudy. my guess is 4 weeks yet but I don't really know autos but this is in line with what I read. Tallest colas are about 14 inches from dirt. SEven inches in 10 days.I'm looking or cloudy with just a few amber. If I get shimmering, flowing colors in my head they will be just right!


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Flash only makes pretty pictures!
Seven inches growth in 10 days!
 
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