Indoor Dinafem Critical Jack and Auto Seeds Sucker Punch

[Dudeski]

My first grow was 2 beautiful plants. Not huge but nice for a rookie. Chopped early and it wouldn't give a fly a buzz! The finish is the hardest but most rewarding part. You can add a LOT of weight the last couple weeks. At 75 to 80 percent brown pistols you are close.

 

[Ydijadoit]

My first grow was 2 beautiful plants. Not huge but nice for a rookie. Chopped early and it wouldn't give a fly a buzz! The finish is the hardest but most rewarding part. You can add a LOT of weight the last couple weeks. At 75 to 80 percent brown pistols you are close.

I wish I had some pictures of my first run in 2009. I had a TDS pen but no knowledge of the different conversion scales (.5 vs .7). Feeding Pure blend pro at better than 2000 ppm, while thinking I was around 1200... Let's just say the parts that were green were very green indeed. I still pulled a few ozs, and a lot of learning out of that first run.
I know where I went wrong on this one.
I was leery of overfeeding, since I was using ffof and coco mixed, and it seemed "hot", judging by early growth. The first feeding was very weak, but appeared to burn the plant a little. I didn't realize it wasn't nute burn, but rather a combination of high temp (90f at times), low humidity ( the highest I have ever seen is 45%), and the LED light was just too close.
With all that in mind, I didn't start feeding soon enough, or aggressive enough, and got behind the eight ball, so to speak.
I added foam board insulation to get the temps under control, and now know to keep the light a little higher. Nothing I can do about the humidity, but that should change when I fire up my new tent, a waterfarm, and add the humidifier to the grow space. It's just insanely dry here (10% or less rh)
I do love learning, and working the bugs out of a challenging grow environment is fun, if frustrating, at times!
Regards, Kyle

 

[Dudeski]

Sometimes you can do much about humidity. Mist them during lights out may help. Greenskell fights low humidity too. As long as we keep learning!

 

[Ydijadoit]

Sometimes you can do much about humidity. Mist them during lights out may help. Greenskell fights low humidity too. As long as we keep learning!

Very true about the humidity. I nearly caused problems in my house, by trying to raise the humidity to keep plants happy. I got it up to 50%, in the dead of winter, with outside temps in the teens. Luckily I noticed it was raining in my attic before any damage was done to the structure, or any mold started growing! Near as I could tell, the humid air from inside the house was creeping up and into tye attic past can lights in the ceiling, and causing trouble.
Lesson learned. No matter how much I love trying to perfect the growing environment for plants, potentially destroying my home is not an acceptable sacrifice.
Living in an RV, it's an even more critical balancing act.
The upside is, it keeps me on my toes. If it was easy, I'd get bored!
Regards, Kyle

 

[Ydijadoit]

Well, here I sit, battling the flu, and watching the grass grow, so to speak. Today is day 70, and I'm getting scissor-itch like you wouldn't believe. Pistils still not turning, but trichomes are getting more cloudy each day. It has been said that the slowest finishing strain on the planet is whatever you happen to be growing, when you run out of smoke. I could not agree more, at this point.
$65 per 1/8 of shyte, at the state-run store here, so a few lower buds have already been clipped, dried, and stuck in a jar, maybe 1/4oz worth.
Even with mostly clear trichs, this strain is already better than store bought.
Wifey has the tolerance around here, and a bowl through her Arizer solo left her retarded, and unable to make dinner last night. She just kinda stood in the kitchen, looking 50% Martha Stewart, and 50% Steven Hawking.
Can't wait to see what happens after harvest, and a month in the trusty mason jar!
I'm feeding her nothing but a teaspoon of molasses per gallon of RO water, from here on out.
Maybe one more week....
Thanks for looking.
Regards, Kyle

 

[Dudeski]

That's a beautiful plant! Will definitely be worth the wait. Should keep the jars full a while

 

[Ydijadoit]

That's a beautiful plant! Will definitely be worth the wait. Should keep the jars full a while

Thanks, Dudeski. For all the abuse this took when it was young, I am somewhat surprised at the results. I wonder if the stress early on is causing it to take longer to finish? Then again, this is my first grow in a long time. The human brain forgets things that suck fairly quickly. Waiting for harvest being one of those. I'd list trimming a couple pounds, while sitting in a tent on a five gallon bucket right up there too, but obviously I dont have to worry about that this time!
Thanks for stopping by, you're my entire fan club for this less than legendary grow!
Kyle

 

[Dudeski]

It was a fine grow, many missed a good show! I think the stress will make autos go longer but breeder times are just averages based on how they grow them.

 

[Dudeski]

Let me get a rise outta trailanimal!

Hey @trailanimal check out these colas

@Rebel , would you mind dropping a badge or two here? Please.

These colas are worthy.

 

[Dudeski]

Will you be entering any of the grow battles starting soon? You should