i finally harvested the automazars a few days ago, so they took around 12 weeks (sprouted 1st august) in total. i could have taken them earlier, but i misjudged the flush, had rain and bug issues.....still its given me some nicely ripe top buds with some slightly less mature lower ones so i hopefully will get a range of highs. picking a nug to grind up will literally be like pot luck in terms of heady vs couch lock hehe. so after the terrible (but well informed) decision to spray with neem dilute so close to flower, combined with the rain, higher night time humidity, a couple of the automazars had some bud rot. i decided there and then to harvest, even though they hadnt had much of their flush and had neem only a few days before. i cut away the bud rot and surrounding areas, trimmed and proceeded to hang to dry.
a lot of the nugs i wanted to inspect as carefully as possible so i took them off the plants and the ones that were clear of rot were placed into a shoe box, this shoebox was placed under the hanging plants in the cupboard to dry. my rh here in the daytime is currently around 50 - 60%, and i had a fan on facing a small opening in the cupboard door for ventilation. this plus the fact they are small plants meant after a few days they were starting to feel dry, so i jarred them, but in the closed jars theyre getting upto 70% humidity, so i leave them in the jars with the lids open til the RH lowers, then i can close the lid for longer periods. I believe i overdried my last plants and it led the to be quite crispy even during the cure. was still decent smoke but lacked smell and flavour.
been checking regularly for any signs of rot or mold, had to cut away another bit the first day of drying. i probably had to bin around half an ounce, including some previously looking beuatiful main cola parts. dammit! i noticed it early, within 2 days of noticing the top colas start to look weird so got lucky, saw the leaves twisting and curling on some sections, then realised they were super crispy and dry and brittle. thought it was a ph issue so added some ph adjusted water to the res while i researched, found out it could be rot, went digging and found some really fucked up bud at the lowest bud sites. it was hard to get to cos of the net and also the AMs had pretty dense foliage which i should have trimmed more of, earlier. i just thought being outdoors ventilation wouldnt be an issue, how naive! now i know that that one leaf that was sticking out lower down, which had lost its colour and vigour was an earlier sign of the rot and know for next time. i proceeded to trim the hell out of the NLB to ensure ventilation and to give bugs less places to hide....little bastards!
i weighed the nugs today while checking them individually for any mold or rot. no sign. i did find a few bug corpses and one weird thing like a little worm/larvae thing, bigger than spider mites but still really small, wrapped in a kind of silk coccoon....i thought it was mold but on closer inspection it wasnt.....gonna see if i can find out what it was... not too worried, i will check again daily and shake the buds over a tray to get any more cadavers or living bugs off the buds. i think the buds are almost dry in their current state i have around 50 grams of bud from the 3 autos.....much better than my previous (and first) grow i got 13g from 3 autos. lst training is the way forward with these.... pretty sure my next ones will yield me even more. the buds are losing the hay smell and starting to smell lovely, definitely a very sweet potent smell when i break up the nugs but still get hints of it just sniffing around in the jars.
i also went ahead and ordered some seeds. my NLB is going so well i wanted to try more Delicious seeds, and herbies were giving away a free cotton candy not long ago....so i ordered one of each of the following:
Medical Seeds channel +, i got some of this gear a while ago and its some good shit its big bud x skunk
Indoor vegetative period: 2 to 3 weeks.
Indoor flowering period: Very fast, 45 to 50 days.
Indoor production (per m2): 600 grams or plus.
Outdoor height: 3 m.
Outdoor flowering period: Late September.
Outdoor production: Very high, occasionally more than 1 kg.
THC: 15% to 20%.
CBD: Very high.
Genetics: Highly potent Indica, with a Skunk touch.
Enormous aroma and amazing bouquet, perfect for SCROG cultivation. It grows up like a Sativa, thin and without many leaves. When flowering it grows taller but keeps a compact shape, as an Indica. Very fast {45 to 50 days}, and suitable for all kind of growers and growing systems. Brilliant as a mother due to the fast-rooting clones it produces. Extraordinary mental effect and also a very pleasant physical one, since its high THC and CBD percentage.
Ripper Grape Gum: im looking for tasty flavours and ripper seeds are super cheap atm
Vegetative: Of 1 a 2 semanas
Genotype: 60% Sativa
Flowering outdoor: End of September
Indoor flowering: 65 a 70 days
Production: Medium / High
Effect: Balancing / Relaxing.
Ripper Grape Gum Feminised Seeds Info
After a long process of seed selection in the phenotype selected Canadian and with more potential, We worked long for annealing to one of our most productive indica lines. The plant resulting from such exquisite work is our most elavorada genetic GRAPEGUM. A variety of different character in complex fragrances and flavors of the spectrum allocated to a bright future with a quality amply demonstrated in his lush, shiny crystals of resin.
Chosen for its exceptional balance of multidimensional effect and intense sweet tangy. This distinctive blend of fruity flavors will become your best choice for everyday, since its effect is very tolerable and long in body and mind.
Dinafem Sweet Deep Grapefruit: again, looking for tasty weed!
Dinafem Sweet Deep Grapefruit combines two genetic strains which are appreciated for their extremely sweet and fruity aroma: a strain of Blueberry which is already well-known as it has been used in other strains such as Dinafem Blue Fruit or Dinafem Blue Widow, and a clone selected from Grapefruit, a variety that is known for its fruity taste, theoretically to grapefruit, although it reminds more of a sweet fruit like pineapple. This variety is very much appreciated in Canada and US.
Grapefruit is very well-known in America thanks to its taste of pineapple and sweet grapefruit, added to its strength, yield and its outdoor cultivating possibilities, which has greatly helped production in places like British Columbia, for example, where it has been used for commercial purposes.
The a result of this combination is an Indica-Sativa hybrid developed to boost its aromatic qualities to a maximum and provide a sweet, fruity, slightly acid taste.
Apart from these exceptional qualities in aroma or taste, this variety provides lush heavy harvests as its branches form very regularly, with short knots, which in turn give abundant flowering The dense structure of the flowers produces a greater number of buds than in plants with longer knots. Furthermore, the buds are very compact and numerous thick buds are produced on both the lower, longer branches as well as on the higher branches. This means that the calibre of the buds is relatively uniform, in other words, the smaller buds are larger than in most other varieties. This, and in the flowering speed, is where we can see the influence of the characteristic indica genotypes in this hybrid, whereas we can clearly see its sativa ascendancy in its aspect, in the psychoactive effects it produces -a physical and cerebral mixture- and in the complexity of its taste. Thus, apart from good hybrid vigour and bountiful flowering, which make it a highly productive and effective variety, we can appreciate its fruity taste of sweet berries.
The Blue influence is noticeable in the colour some of the plants acquire, violet, purple, reddish, more intense in outdoor harvests due to the colder temperature, as well as in the vigorous harvest, which multiplies quickly. For this reason, it is important to maintain the height of the plants under control at all times in indoor cultivation. Its strength is fairly high, combined with noticeable quantities of CBD, therefore producing a mixed effect.
Flowering: 55-65 days
Outdoor harvests: Until 15 October
THC: High (12% - 19%)
CBD: Medium
Production: Medium-high
Outdoor height: Up to 3 metres
Composition: Indica 80% Sativa 20%
Genotype: Grapefruit x Blueberry
Auto Seeds Pineapple punch autos x 3: same reasoning but in autoform!
Pineapple Punch Automatic is a high quality autoflowering cross of a classic fruity pineapple strain and a powerful grapefruit variety. As the name suggests, Pineapple Punch is a beautifully sweet and tropical blend of the exotic with a thick coating of resinous THC crystals. This superb automatic delivers vigorous growth for an autoflowering variety.
Pineapple Punch is an indica dominant plant in stature with reasonably wide fan leaves and dense fat sticky buds. As expected the smoke is sweet and fruity with hints of both pineapple and grapefruit and the stone is a typical Indica couch lock. It can be ready in as little as 65 days from seed, but 70-80 days are recommended to bring out the full bouquet of flavours. Connoisseurs who enjoy extra flavour in their autoflowering strains will certainly appreciate the outstanding taste that Pineapple Punch delivers.
Height: 50cm-80cm
Harvest: 65-80 days from seed
Stone: Indica body buzz
THC: High
and of course the free cotton candy. i have some small pots so i may grow them all next year, see if i like any in particular to go down on the favorites list...
Here it comes one of our most perfect and savory hybrids. So tasty and sensory, this variety amalgamates the sugary sweetness of candy and the softness of cotton. COTTON CANDY exploits the delicious properties of the best cannabis. The enjoyment of COTTON CANDY was made with time and patience.
Long time ago the DELICIOUS SEEDS breeder team got the challenge and began to work in our warehouse. The aim was to develop a plant with an enormous grow potential without neglecting the organoleptic features usual in DELICIOUS varieties; a plant with excellent performance both indoors and outdoors and in greenhouses, major producer of THC resin, easy to grow, and resistant to fungi, pests and stress.
COTTON CANDY was obtained by crossing a variety with higher genetic potential from South Africa, the POWER PLANT, with one of our best mothers, LAVENDER (SUPERSKUNK BIG SKUNK KOREAN AFGHANI HAWAIIAN). The outcome is a perfect plant that produces large and long buds as fox queues and acquires a lavender metal pitch in the sheets at the end of flowering.
Because of its relationship calyx-leaf, this plant is easy to manicure. Its a variety with a so intense and pungent scent that gets heady just with smelling it, very rich in THC resin and with perfect organoleptic features. Welcome to the paradise of flavors and colors by COTTON CANDY
All feminised of course. plus i still have one biodiesel mass, one royal queen NL, and one buddha white dwarf all autos so ive got my 2 auto grows covered for next year, plus a handful of photos. just have to decide WHICH photo will be best for the big pot and scrog....which will be worth it??
others on my future "to try" list are:
Female seeds c99
Barneys or G13 pineapple express
barneys acapulco gold
female seeds bubblegummer
delicious critical sensi star
delicious sugar black rose
sweet seeds SAD auto
DP blue automazar
Barneys LSD
Female seeds iced grapefruit
Devils Harvest Strawberry Sour Diesel
delicious seeds fruity chronic juice
Short stuff himalaya blue diesel
barneys grape ape
Short Stuff russian rocket fuel
bulldog bubblegum kush
G13 bluebuerry gum
G13 sour candy
Green House Seeds Bubba Kush
Lowlife ak47xblueberry auto
Cream of the crop psychofruit auto
Medicann bubba kush
nirvana bubblelicious auto
positronics grapefruit
sativa seeds hawaii maui waui
i have YEARS worth of grows to go.....really want to find my favorites strains, then find my favorite phenos, then grow the best fuckign weed in the world!
Time for some pictures! taken on 4/10/13 (Ams were just over 13 weeks from sprouting, NLB was/is around 4 or 5 weeks into flower)
purple much clearer in these pics... also some of the AMs u can see have the twisting leaves. NLB buds are starting to really thicken up mmm
Pics taken 7/10/13
after havign bud rot issue with the autos im not taking any risks so i trimmed the NLB now shes looking mre beautiful thanever!
trimmed well below the canopy, cut off any spindly buds that werent getting much light, loving how shes grown so far. a bit of upward leaf curling only very slighty since i trimmed, i believe due to not having enough leaves to transpire enough we have a few weeks of warm weather again so shes a tiny bit stressed without all her fa leaves all of a sudden but shes still looking fantastic.
some pics of the harvested AMs:
they literally were almost crispy to the touch within a few days so i jarred them and now im constantly watching the humidity to keep em happy. i recommend everyone use hygrometers, mine has turned out to be so much more useful than i expected and im going to get a few more to be able to double check. plus im gonna have a lot more jars once i harvest the NLB!!!! mmm mm mmmmmm
so i know i have a long seeds list. thats not even all of them, thats just a starting point! any favorites from the list? anyone know which would work best outdoor? oh yes and please, out of the seeds i have which would YOU commit to the biggest pot and scrog net (leaving the others to grow in small pots: i will probably germ them early august so they dont grow too big....not concerned with yield of the small pot plants, just want to see if they are any good)
some of the NLB leaves look like they have been munched on by something, i think its probably moths or beetles at night time, ive looked around for hiding slugs or snail but havent seen anything like that. still got a few spider mites knocking around so am squishing them and their eggs, going at it with neem regularly too. luckily the weathers drier and its not soooo late in flower, i can still get away with using it every now and then but need to get rid of them before the weather cools down and gets more humid again. the cool and humid nights are currently probably helping keep their growth slow, definitley a lot less than before. prevention is better than cure of course, i thought i was preventing with regular neem but need to change my approach by mopping floor with bleach solution regularly. also i read somewhere not to lay plastic (mylar) on the floor as it can lead to moisture build up, which could have also caused the but rot as after it rained, i had to pull back the mylar from the floor to let the water dry out...... and i couldnt pull it all up so there are possibly wet patches still under there. plus the little plastic box im using to catch the run off from the NLB is probably not the best idea either as it occasionally has sitting water in it. but i dont want the water to spill all over the place....what the fuck do i do lol??? its not exactly easy to change the box but im gonna give it a go soon, maybe keeping a couple of clean boxes in rotation will help...
anyway, gonna go eat catch yall later!!!!!! (any questions or feedback is all more than welcome...dont be shy!)
nice job
( i mean in in the nicest way)