So I have my first grow going on right now and I'm super excited! Some of the plants are starting to make very pretty flowers. I think my yield will be low, but my inputs have been low as well. I didn't use any lights to start these and they were really slow to get going at first. Also some of them were stunted significantly by bug damage shortly after transplanting. 4 of my 5 starts survived. I wasn't very methodical in how I treated them so they all got slightly different conditions and I didn't record them very well lol (for example, some of the seeds were started in a mix with earthworm castings, coco coir, and sand, while others were started in a coco/perlite mix). All of them are auto-fems and were started in biodegradable starter cups. They were started at the end of March and germinated about 60 days ago.
Here are some photos with a little background on each plant.
These pics are of my GSC plant (from FastBuds). It is probably no more than 8 inches tall but I think it looks the most mature of all the plants. Some of the pistils are just starting to brown and calyxes look well developed to me. I think this will be a very low yield but she smells beautiful.
The rest of my plants right now are Auto-AK genetics from Advanced Female seeds. They have all grown considerably taller than the GSC but are all at different stages of development despite having germinated at the same time. The one shown above is the smallest and least developed. It's about a foot tall and is barely forming preflowers. For the first month of it's life this plant was putting on only 3-leaves per set and was barely a few inches tall, but it amazingly shot up to this height and I'm hoping it will still have time to put on some flowers before its life-cycle is over.
This auto-AK always looked a bit healthier than the last one and has grown to be over 1 foot in height. It's also showing more well developed flowers (it started flowering about 3-4 weeks ago along with the other plants), but it still looks to be in early flowering stage. She is pretty lanky but again I'm hoping the plant is able to take more time to develop mature flowers before she dies.
These photos show my biggest success. Still not an enormous plant, but she is about 18 inches tall and has decent branching compared to her siblings. The flowers are still developing but the cola especially looks beautiful and she is starting to get aromatic. Below is a photo taken at about day 35, when she was only about 5 inches tall. Amazing that she shot up another foot in the following 3 weeks!
So my main question if anyone has any input to give, is whether I should expect these all to finish at about the same time, or if its possible that the less developed ones will still put on more flowers and will mature at a later date? The smallest one barely even has pistils, so it seems it has a ways to go.
Any other comments or questions are welcome to. I'm new to this forum and it has been awesome to get inspiration from other growers and to have something to contribute as well!
Here are some photos with a little background on each plant.
These pics are of my GSC plant (from FastBuds). It is probably no more than 8 inches tall but I think it looks the most mature of all the plants. Some of the pistils are just starting to brown and calyxes look well developed to me. I think this will be a very low yield but she smells beautiful.
The rest of my plants right now are Auto-AK genetics from Advanced Female seeds. They have all grown considerably taller than the GSC but are all at different stages of development despite having germinated at the same time. The one shown above is the smallest and least developed. It's about a foot tall and is barely forming preflowers. For the first month of it's life this plant was putting on only 3-leaves per set and was barely a few inches tall, but it amazingly shot up to this height and I'm hoping it will still have time to put on some flowers before its life-cycle is over.
This auto-AK always looked a bit healthier than the last one and has grown to be over 1 foot in height. It's also showing more well developed flowers (it started flowering about 3-4 weeks ago along with the other plants), but it still looks to be in early flowering stage. She is pretty lanky but again I'm hoping the plant is able to take more time to develop mature flowers before she dies.
These photos show my biggest success. Still not an enormous plant, but she is about 18 inches tall and has decent branching compared to her siblings. The flowers are still developing but the cola especially looks beautiful and she is starting to get aromatic. Below is a photo taken at about day 35, when she was only about 5 inches tall. Amazing that she shot up another foot in the following 3 weeks!
So my main question if anyone has any input to give, is whether I should expect these all to finish at about the same time, or if its possible that the less developed ones will still put on more flowers and will mature at a later date? The smallest one barely even has pistils, so it seems it has a ways to go.
Any other comments or questions are welcome to. I'm new to this forum and it has been awesome to get inspiration from other growers and to have something to contribute as well!
