Hello,
First if you do not have time to read my entire paragraph my main issue is Im getting fluffy and flavorless buds in my last grow and my early harvest autoflower this grow. Need help or input.
I am not new to growing, but I am not an expert yet either. I have grown indoors and outdoors for the last 6 years or so. Every season I do an indoor grow and an outdoor grow. This year I tried an Autoflower Roadrunner seed from Dinafem bank I got for free with an order from Theattitude bank. I am growing 2 white widows from diff banks, 1 Barneys farm blue cheese, 1 green house super lemon haze, 1 green house hash plant haze, and I finished my road runner plant around 2 weeks ago. The road runner was the only auto flower plant in my grow. It looked awsome the entire time it was growing until the last week or 2 it began to loose its fruity skunky smell. I have no clue what caused this. I let the plant grow for over the recommended 60 days. I let the buds dry for around 8 days in a large card board box suspended from hangers. usually I let my crops dry for 10-14 days but the autoflower buds were smaller and the stems snapped after 7-8 days. So I moved them to Mason jars for 2 weeks or so. So I sampled the finished product today and it is almost flavorless and extremely fluffy. It gets me very high still, and it burns to a white ash no black carbon shit left over, so it seems its flushed. With my microscope the THC appears to be developed, but the calyxes do not seem as swollen as they were a week before harvest. Recommended time on the plant is 60 days from germination to flowering. I gave it 65 days or so. The funny thing is it smelled better during days 45-55. I do not know what to do, my last grow indoors with bagseed also turned out very fluffy and flavorless, but I blamed it on my friend b/c i had to go out of town for 2 weeks, this time I dont know if its the strain or me!!! I dont want the rest of my girls to turn out this way, and since they are not autoflower they have several weeks to go. I am using Blue Mountain organics (BMO) nutrients from Ebay. I used to use foxfarms, so I have the entire Beastie blooms, cha ching, open sesmae, tiger bloom, big bloom, grow big line as well. I have some diamond nector, thrive alive, and I Ph the water to 6.3ish after adding nutrients. I water with nutes every other watering. And I Do not use all of the above mentioned in full doses as they have burned my plants in the passed. The only nutes i Use in full dose is the BMO as they are apparently made for growin maryjane. I use spring water from the grocery store or filtered house water which is not so bad where i live, a little high in cal and mag, but ok PPM and PH. I flushed the road runner with distilled water and used molasses on it a few times before the flush. I also changed the light cycle of my grow room to 12/12 in the last 2 weeks of the roadrunners life to start budding my other girls which all look good at the moment. So there are a bunch of factors I can think of that may have contributed to my fluffy, flavorless Roadrunner buds. And not to mention my last seasons grow.... I was using a 600w HPS with hortilux bulb, but I just put my 400w in and it seems brighter. I think i have to much electronics on 1 breaker and the voltage is very low in my room its supposed to be 120V but it goes down to <99v with PC, and grow lights on. I am thinking the 12/12 cycle, and 600w not getting full power or something caused the fluffy flavorless buds in my grow... I also read maybe the molasses masked some of the flavor and smell, but I just do not know! I also have sealed my closet more to prevent light leaks if there were any... Here are some pics of the fluffy flavorless Road runner which yielded around an Ounce. And my current grow.
If anyone has any input or recommendations on how I can make sure my lasting girls have dense and flavor-full buds please respond or if you are just curious about my grow opp ask any questions you want I do have some knowledge.
Maybe I should of let the plant go longer? Confuses me how it smelled great before switching to 12/12 for the regular feminized plants i Have.
The pic's of dried buds on a plate are the road runner. you can also see it right before i Harvested it. The rest is my current opp.
PS. I never seen fully amber trichomes with my pocket microscope even on buds i got in Amsterdam. Not even 1/3 amber all of them were milky or clear.
First if you do not have time to read my entire paragraph my main issue is Im getting fluffy and flavorless buds in my last grow and my early harvest autoflower this grow. Need help or input.
I am not new to growing, but I am not an expert yet either. I have grown indoors and outdoors for the last 6 years or so. Every season I do an indoor grow and an outdoor grow. This year I tried an Autoflower Roadrunner seed from Dinafem bank I got for free with an order from Theattitude bank. I am growing 2 white widows from diff banks, 1 Barneys farm blue cheese, 1 green house super lemon haze, 1 green house hash plant haze, and I finished my road runner plant around 2 weeks ago. The road runner was the only auto flower plant in my grow. It looked awsome the entire time it was growing until the last week or 2 it began to loose its fruity skunky smell. I have no clue what caused this. I let the plant grow for over the recommended 60 days. I let the buds dry for around 8 days in a large card board box suspended from hangers. usually I let my crops dry for 10-14 days but the autoflower buds were smaller and the stems snapped after 7-8 days. So I moved them to Mason jars for 2 weeks or so. So I sampled the finished product today and it is almost flavorless and extremely fluffy. It gets me very high still, and it burns to a white ash no black carbon shit left over, so it seems its flushed. With my microscope the THC appears to be developed, but the calyxes do not seem as swollen as they were a week before harvest. Recommended time on the plant is 60 days from germination to flowering. I gave it 65 days or so. The funny thing is it smelled better during days 45-55. I do not know what to do, my last grow indoors with bagseed also turned out very fluffy and flavorless, but I blamed it on my friend b/c i had to go out of town for 2 weeks, this time I dont know if its the strain or me!!! I dont want the rest of my girls to turn out this way, and since they are not autoflower they have several weeks to go. I am using Blue Mountain organics (BMO) nutrients from Ebay. I used to use foxfarms, so I have the entire Beastie blooms, cha ching, open sesmae, tiger bloom, big bloom, grow big line as well. I have some diamond nector, thrive alive, and I Ph the water to 6.3ish after adding nutrients. I water with nutes every other watering. And I Do not use all of the above mentioned in full doses as they have burned my plants in the passed. The only nutes i Use in full dose is the BMO as they are apparently made for growin maryjane. I use spring water from the grocery store or filtered house water which is not so bad where i live, a little high in cal and mag, but ok PPM and PH. I flushed the road runner with distilled water and used molasses on it a few times before the flush. I also changed the light cycle of my grow room to 12/12 in the last 2 weeks of the roadrunners life to start budding my other girls which all look good at the moment. So there are a bunch of factors I can think of that may have contributed to my fluffy, flavorless Roadrunner buds. And not to mention my last seasons grow.... I was using a 600w HPS with hortilux bulb, but I just put my 400w in and it seems brighter. I think i have to much electronics on 1 breaker and the voltage is very low in my room its supposed to be 120V but it goes down to <99v with PC, and grow lights on. I am thinking the 12/12 cycle, and 600w not getting full power or something caused the fluffy flavorless buds in my grow... I also read maybe the molasses masked some of the flavor and smell, but I just do not know! I also have sealed my closet more to prevent light leaks if there were any... Here are some pics of the fluffy flavorless Road runner which yielded around an Ounce. And my current grow.
If anyone has any input or recommendations on how I can make sure my lasting girls have dense and flavor-full buds please respond or if you are just curious about my grow opp ask any questions you want I do have some knowledge.
Maybe I should of let the plant go longer? Confuses me how it smelled great before switching to 12/12 for the regular feminized plants i Have.
The pic's of dried buds on a plate are the road runner. you can also see it right before i Harvested it. The rest is my current opp.
PS. I never seen fully amber trichomes with my pocket microscope even on buds i got in Amsterdam. Not even 1/3 amber all of them were milky or clear.
