Indoor Female Seeds (testers) in 2x2x4 with coco-coir under BudgetLED QB or single Autocob

[elcoloan]

UPDATE

Today this plant turns 69 days old, 75 from seed. Smells of sweet green mangoes. I’m in love with this plant.

Light still dimmed to 60 Watts has been kept now at 20/4 with the darkness period during the day to avoid the low temps at night. Plant is 8.6 inches / 22 cm from the light, but it doesn’t seem to be too close so I’ll let her there for now.

It was a long week, trying to fight the root rot and subsequent problems, but I think it has been successful. I had to take her of the Autopot system but will reconnect by the end of today.

After daily low EC, 6.0 pH flushes and some beneficial microbes, she’s been having her watering last two days with 590 ppm / 1.18 (68 tap + 342 MC1 + 87 Epsom + 93 Bud Explosion). New reservoir tank to be activated later today has nutes already prepared at 610 PPM / 1.22 EC (69 tap +383 MC1 + 92 Epsom + 66 BE).


Pics from today

 

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The flowers look great and your issues seem to have stopped.

 

[elcoloan]

UPDATE

Today this plant turned 76 days old, 82 from seed. I lost my microscope so haven’t been able to see trichomes well, but it seems she still has at least a week or two before chop.

I put her back on the bottom fed auto pot system and she didn’t like it… no more mango aromas, a lot of yellowing, and once I did a top watering yesterday it became obvious she was accumulating salts again and the rot was not eradicated because runoff smelled bad again. My guess is the bottom roots were so rotten they can’t uptake as many nutes as it should (if any) and the wicking action is not working well thus not providing nutes to the top roots.

Any how, I once again did several low EC flushes and one bennies drench. She’s back with top watering since yesterday and I can see she looks better today than yesterday… the lovely aromas are also back.

Nute info… she is being top fed 565 ppm / 1.202 EC (60 tap, 400 MegaCrop1, 53 Epsom, 52 BudExplosion), at 6.0-6.2 pH.

Some pics from yesterday:

From today:

 

[elcoloan]

Pics from yesterday...

 

[elcoloan]

Played with an iPhone yesterday... much better pics than my phone.

 

[elcoloan]

UPDATE

This plant turns 83 days old today (89 from seed). Have been hand watering to avoid falling again into the root problem. Light is still at 60 Watts (from the max 120) and 20/4. Temps and RH in check.

The mangoes aromas are turning sweeter by the day, but once you graze the buds, they turn into smells of green mangoes… just delicious. The purple tones it has I believe is a genetic trait of one of the phenotypes found with this variety.
The structure also has me very happy. I never topped it nor did I do LST… I have one branch that I tied during flowering to get top bud away from another which was touching it… but no other ties. It did lose part of the tap root and few other roots as a seedling during transplant, not sure if that can lead this structure.

Nutes have been pretty much the same… last week she was being given about 1.3 EC / 664 ppm (52 tap, 455 MegaCropV1, 100 Epsom, 55 BudExplosion ), pH 6.0-6.2… this week she’ll stay at same total EC but I’ll switch Epsom’s EC with BE’s EC.

With all that said, here are some pics from today…

Top:

Front:

Back:

Let’s get closer:

Main cola:

Main cola another angle:

Sub-cola:

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@gennaro-fs @Mr B. from Female Seeds thanks again for the testers! I'm extremely happy. Despite all her problems (my fault... all of them), i think she is performing very well and showing what great genetics she has! I totally love the Auto WWxBB and specially this pheno I got... how many phenos are there, if I may ask?

 

[elcoloan]

UPDATE

The plant turns 96 days old today since I put here seed to germinate, 90 since coty's opened up. I did a first harvest of 17 mature tops yesterday, left rest of plant for harvesting next weekend. Got her close to the light (which still dimmed to 60 Watts) to make sure she takes in all the light she can this additional week.

Some pics from yesterday

Before the chop:


After the chop:


Tallest top, but not the fattest:

 

[elcoloan]

UPDATE

The Auto WWxBB’s life ended this past Saturday, at 115 days since the seed was put to germinate. I harvested it 4 total times, and the first 3 harvests summed up to a bit over 90 g dried (first harvest was a bit over 40 g dried)... still have to wait for the 4th one done this Saturday to dry, and also I left a bunch of little immature buds of the bottom part without harvesting and just gave that whole part of the plant to a friend for him to dry.

Not a bad strain for growing under just 60 Watts, and having had several issues (caused, and not well treated, by me), such as as having her roots cut as a seedling, then getting root rot in several occasions, and accumulated salts… really must try this one again sometime to see how much better she does under better conditions. She hermied a bit after first harvest, but only found 3 male flowers that showed during the last week after the 3rd harvest.

Nice tropical flavor with bits of citrus, and smells like mangoes just as my country’s landrace “Mango Biche” (Green Mango) does and I LOVE; also a nice cerebral high that hits fast and lasts quite long. Not stoney at all. Checked all my boxes, would have liked more resin but i’m sure it was my fault.

With this said, some pics…

Just before final chop:




One of the buds with nanners, caught at the end of last week:


The lower part which I gave a friend for him to dry and see if it’s worth anything… only clear tricomes:



What was left:



A bud from the first harvest, after 1 week in curing jar at 60% RH.


Again, thanks @gennaro-fs @Mr B. from Female Seeds for this amazing tester. I have a couple of friends growing some of the other testers you sent... one started an Auto NL under a 65 Watt QB this weekend, and another has an Auto AK in his balcony (12/12) and is already flowering.. will share some pics here soon.