The Big Great Summer Auto Grow

[No3odiesShad0w]

Sorry I've been quiet. Just been super busy these past 2 weeks. I'm in overdrive trying to finish this Talharpa. I might have a buyer so that's been my priority. I could use that $1000. It would buy me more materials to build more instruments as well as other grow stuff.

The sweet zombie is so stinky omgl You walk into my apartment and the whole place just smells like berry funk. If you bump into the plant it's like a skunk trying to defend itself it just stinks up the whole room. I'm super impressed with it cuz she's getting fat She's super Frosty and smells absolutely amazing. Very surprised very happy!

The poundtown from Humboldt seed company. She's a beauty. The colors on the leaves the structure the side branching everything about this plant is just perfect. I'll definitely be buying more seeds from Humboldt Seed company in the future. 100%
That's not to overshadow the cherry pie because for a black and white label seed, This plant looks absolutely fantastic. I regret even training her because the lowest nodes ended up stretching so far up that they would literally be even with the top cola. Just amazing growth amazing structure Love everything about her. If she ends up tasting and smelling like cherries I'm going to be even happier. Absolutely love cherry.

The Hot Cakes .. Woah. Let's talk about flower density here. Hey it's a lot of big blooming flowers on here. Compared to the other two the Humboldt and the cherry pie she is way ahead in terms of flower structure. Nice big beautiful flowers I can't wait for them to start producing some smells.

The bloody runtz Is exactly that a runt. The purple spotting that looks almost black is really cool looking. I'll give it that that's pretty neat. I'm just disappointed with the structure. She's not side branching she's not really doing anything. So it's really become a "Battle of the Dwarfs". I'm going to see who's going to yield more. Is it going to be the Acapulco Gold growing out in the Sun with terrible VPD and only 4 hours of direct light or will the Bloody Runtz prevail and still do better then the Acapulco Gold? 🤔 Only time will tell. I can't join Battle of the breeders because I have my own breeding project in the works so I'm having my own fun with my runty plants. 🤣🤣. I always keep myself amused.

With all the other plants, I got some saplings I guess you could call them? It's a plant called mother of thousands from Madagascar. It apparently grows on Black magic... Since it needs like almost no fertilizer ever... I'm guessing it's some sort of nitrogen fixing succulent? It's just bizarre how it doesn't need fertilizer. And it drops all these little babies off of its leaves which almost all of them root almost 100% of the time... I've also taken some cuttings of a pink and a red Christmas cactus. And I took a cutting of my 6 foot tall African milk tree. There's no way I could possibly bring that giant cactus over to my house So the best thing to do is to take a cutting and just grow it all over again lolol.

My other planter has cover crop coming up already. I'm a few more days I'll plant that blue dream seedling in there. I got wheels and mulch covers for the City Picker Boxes. They're all ready for my pheno/breeding hunt.

Time lapse will be uploaded shortly for week 6

 

[Going2fast]

Sorry to hear your bloody runtz was a runt. Taking notes on her. Hot cakes is a fave of mine for her size and density. Hope she works out for you.

 

[No3odiesShad0w]

Bro I'm MAD AF.... And not for the reasons you think 🤣🤣. Tell me how she's so small but when I go into that room all I smell is her. It smells like dark chocolate and orange peels. I thought I was going crazy so I had other ppl go into the room and they all smell the chocolate. It hits you like a ton of bricks.... It so bizarre.... All that smell.... Where's it all coming from?? Why isn't there more??

 

[No3odiesShad0w]

Woah it's a whole forest up in here!! Woooowiieee. And all I can smell in this forest is the runt in the corner.... So confused. I guess big things come in small packages? So bizarre. That chocolate smell is almost overpowering like someone left chocolate in the sun with orange peels.

The hot cakes though.... REMEMBER all these plants are the same age.... The size of the flower on those hot cakes... Good Lord..... The pound town only JUST started to flower. The cherry pie started flowering first at 20days and the hot cakes is just absolutely killing it! They're the size ping pong balls for gods sake. Probably focusing all that energy into the flowers since there's not much stretch. While the other is just stinking up the room and just looking all weird.

​​​​ Cannabis is fun. So much variety. It's like heaven. Happy growings y'all

 

[No3odiesShad0w]

Planted my Blue Dream in the planter and for once we have weather that a seedling would love. Hot and humid AF. The past 3 weeks were at 30% humidity while the past 4 days have been in the 70% area but with 90° temps, it's the right amount of VPD. The Acapulco Gold is growing along. Not sure why all the cover crop is yellowing up on me... Not for nothing when you shake her a little she smells really nice. This smells coming off of her are really really good Just sucks about the size. Maybe a photo. Will do better. Hopefully cuz I'm still mad about that blue dream I lost.

He's a picture of the plants about 30 min before lights out. I was noticing in the time lapse that the Humboldt Pound Town was dropping almost 2 hours before lights out. I checked and she had stretched so much... The lights are at their max hanging height and I was getting about 58 DLI so I turned the lights down to 75% and now everyone is getting 42 DLI while the Sweet Zombie is getting about 35. Everyone is where they should be. I'll see how they look in the time lapse going forward.

Also had some flowers bloom in my yard for the 4th of July. I have my own fireworks in the yard 👍 The plants are taking care of themselves. VPD is around 1.25 kPa so everyone is happy, fed and growing nicely. I think from now on no matter how the plant looks I'm just going to do a top dressing every 35 days. I was stretching and stretching it to see how long the nutrients last for a huge plant in a big pot and I was under feeding them. I'm going to be stripping down my soil recipe. To a few basic ingredients. All my experiments and researching have really been helpful in this whole learning process.
Next I'm going to mess with mineral based nutrients. I still have those GH trio bottles. I really want to give it a try again.

 

[No3odiesShad0w]

24 hours later, we have BABY!!!🙏🙏🙏🙏. OMG you don't know how THANKFUL I am that this End Game #5 x Grandpa's Stash #6 aka The Uncle Grandpa seed popped. I purchased the seeds July 13 of last year. That seed had zero problems getting started.
Now it's just gonna be Clone Clone City. I'm keeping a mother plant.... Somewhere. Haven't figured that out yet.
Only down side, could be a totally different pheno then the previous one. Hopefully it's close enough. Otherwise I need to spend $100 to get maybe 3-5 seeds of the cultivar I actually want. Either way. Super happy.

 

[No3odiesShad0w]

Also ordered the Freakshow!! This will be a really fun time lapse grow. Such a cool looking plant.

 

[bdeegan]

Hell yeah! I was just wondering when they would restock!! Best of luck with your projects!!

 

[No3odiesShad0w]

I caught them on the BOGO so I got 12 seeds. Not a bad deal.

 

[No3odiesShad0w]

Sorry I been quiet. Haven't been well. The plants on the other hand are doing very well. The Dropbox is updated. Still keeping up with that as promised. Also took a pic in the dark. It's cool to see the white contrast on the green. You really get a feel for the amount there.
Day 54 for the 3 and day 43 for the bloody Runtz. Can't believe it's been a month and a half already.
Happy growing 🪴

 

[No3odiesShad0w]

All solid genetics

 

[No3odiesShad0w]

Day 58 - 47
DLI is at 40umol @ 14hrs

Everything's growing really well, even the weather outside, although hot, has been more humid. Even the Acapulco Gold has started to put out new flowers. It's nice to see her do something. It's just the 4-5 hours of sun. Three blue dream is a month old and she's still tiny. She's only putting it 3 pointed leaves. IDK if I'm gonna bother with the planters next year. I'll just plant some nice flowers and put the AC in the window. Damn kitchen is 100 all day everyday. Freaking oven in there. But if I put the AC on the window, I can't grow anything in the planter because it'll just be bombarded with hot air from the unit. I just keep telling myself.... Doing it for the science. The suffering will be worth the knowledge. So when the Acapulco is done, I have 2 more autos that I'm going to plant in a larger planter container. Get as much data in as possible. Make the suffering worth it.

The hot cakes is crazy thick. While the others were stretching, she was just fattening up. She smells crazy, looks crazy and is flowering like crazy. Gonna have some chunky buds for sure. Going2fast when are these supposed to be ready? She fattened up so fast that I feel she might be one of those "63 day" flowering autos. Would still need 20+ days but that's soon!

The bloody Runtz is still flowering black. Single cola that's already bigger than my damn hand. I hope she's mold resistant because that's going to be a chunky cola.

The pound town is probably going to be a 5ozer. She's just a beauty and now she's starting to flower. Super excited to see what happens.
The cherry pie is very thin but I'm sure she'll chunk up soon. Just a different morphology but man she smells like GSC I see where the smells come from in that lineage.

 

[No3odiesShad0w]

Soon soon on the sweet zombie. Maybe another 5 days or so?

 

[No3odiesShad0w]

So many plants!
Joining the grow along contest Battle of the Breeders started by a few YouTubers. Since my ETHOS auto Multipack came with a lilac diesel, I figured why not. The sweet zombie it about ready to chop. I'll just reamend the soil. Put some fresh Coco in there with fresh castings and keep it going!
I wanted to just pop the seed right in the soil. Clearly, they get a little bigger as compared to my cup method, but I'm already cutting it really close to the deadline of Dec 1st to have a full smoke report. Thankfully I have that Cannatrol I just need 2-3 weeks max for amazing bud.

 

[Going2fast]

Looking nice. Hot cakes is usually an 80 plus day auto. That's from seed. 20/20s auto mother gets thick.

 

[No3odiesShad0w]

Did my pops a favor. I still don't think he knows, but at least this time he's got 3 females. Also really cool. The cherry tree has sprouted 3 baby cherry trees from the roots I guess. It didn't fruit this year.

My battle of the bands lilac diesel rbx2 auto has sprouted but we got a helmet.

 

[No3odiesShad0w]

VPD has been more in range and look at what's going on with the Acapulco Gold. She's actually flowering she's actually fattening up there's actually going to be some bud there.

 

[No3odiesShad0w]

Been a busy week, but we're growing along!

Day 93 for the sweet zombie. Soon very soon. I was hoping she would be ready by the 19th. She still needs a few more days but she's so very close.

The Acapulco Gold (Day 72) is finally thickening up. We FINALLY had some growing weather with temp and humidity both at acceptable levels. She's getting a bit of new flower on her. I'm glad. The blue dream photo is growing nicely. With 4 hours of light and going down, she's not going to get much bigger than the Acapulco Gold.

The Pound Town (Day 65)is killing it! She's huge, she's flowering like crazy. That Earth box just got a top dress last week. The final top dress. The pound town is so big, she'll probably need the nutrients.
The Cherry Pie(Day 65) on the other hand, hate the morphology right now. I'm really hoping she'll fill in because she's just all leaves. She's sticky AF and she smells amazing. Like dark cherry GSC kinda mix, but that structure is horrific. Even the runt has more meat on her.

The Going2fast side is doing really well. We don't have huge plants but maaaaaan are they CHUNKY. The Hot Cakes has some awesome hot cross buns kinda zesty smell to it with hard rock golf balls on her.
The bloody Runtz is bigger than my whole hand now and looks like she belongs on some alien planet as an alien egg. The pistils are so crazy looking and big against this dark purple and black canvas. My friend was joking "of I get too close to that one, it might burst open and I'll get a face sucking alien attach to my face" 🤣🤣 and he's not wrong. Such a funky plant that still smells like dark chocolate and orange but with a hint of leather boat now or maybe blood orange 🤔. I Didn't top dress this side. I figured they probably have enough nutrients still since they're not so big. I just gave them some castings and some alfalfa/kelp mix. That should be plenty.

The Battle of the Breeders Lilac Diesel is 4 days old and doing great! The UG got transplanted into a bigger cup and she's looking fantastic. The oyster mushrooms are fruiting. Planted a FreakShow by Hi-Elevation Genetics in that pot that the Mac x BD didn't pop. Still have the 3x Mac x BD. I'll probably only pick the best looking female of the bunch. If the Freakshow is a female then it'll be her and 2x clones of the UG for the next grow

 

[No3odiesShad0w]

Finally doing the right stuff at the right times. Just noticed today on the leaves, might be VERY early signs of phosphorus deficiency. I just top dressed on Friday and today I top watered it all in with Recharge. Finally getting the feeding on point. Both quantity and frequency 👍. I notice symptoms faster. Hopefully I reacted fast enough. I noticed that NLS was also having a sale so I bought more of the NLS Flower Power .... It smells too high hell but man is it effective. 2tbsp per plant per month is all I really need. I also got their soil revival. I feel it works much better than Recharge. Not that recharge is bad or anything but the soil revival has extra stuff like amino acids from soy and low dose BTI for IPM.

Some better pictures of the blue dream. She's coming along. I really hope I can have some delicious smoke.

 

[No3odiesShad0w]

She finally came down!!!! Day 95! Wooo. The whole room smells like drunk berries. So much berry it's almost like perfume with the alcohol finish. Man oh man is she frosty!!!! I'm glad I held in there!!! Patience is not my strong point but damn I'm glad. Too bad I under fed her I could have had a lot more yield. Maybe got 1.5oz. Hopefully more but I'm not gonna hold my breath. Thankfully there's more on the way soon. If the hot cakes finishes by day 84 then she's only got 15 days to go. And she's looking like she's getting ready to finish. I haven't filled that res since the 19th and there's still water there. We'll see in 4 days what the yield actually is. I didn't weigh it today.

Enjoy the photo shoot