Outdoor Finishing up 1st Outdoor Grow: Dinafem Critical+2.0 Automatic

[Paco's Monkey]

G'day Peeps!

Here are a couple of shots of the 'hero' buds I've got going on a pair of Dinafem's Critical+2.0 plants. These two were the only survivors from a 5 pack I got from Attitude - four germinated in mid-December, two of the seedling/sprouts were taken by a bloody Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo (Lesson learned).

The girls are not all that tall - with the largest topping out at 380mm and the smaller of the pair just reaching 280mm high. I believe my height was restrained due to the peat-moss starter pellets I used to germinate the seeds. It looks as though the roots spent too much time and energy to bust out of the peat and into the soil mix. However in spite of the vertically challenged nature of the girls I hope to get close to an ozzie between the two.

One thing I noticed during the flowering stage is that they LOVED the blackstrap molasses and the Bio:Juice Bloom feeds I've been giving them. The nodes are all plumping right up and there's a super sticky sweetness to the plants that became pronounced once they started taking in the sweet feed.



I'm looking to finish up an Automatic Seeds Auto Jack Herer along with a Flash Seeds Annapurna (super auto) sometime in March. However I'm most excited about a pair of Auto Seed's Pineapple Punch that I just germinated in rockwool.

If any of you fine growers have any experience with any of the aforementioned strains I'd love to hear any comments.

Cheers!

 

[nomis]

Sorry, no experience with those strains, but gratz on your outdoor skills, those buds are looking tasty. :smoke:

 

[Paco's Monkey]

Here we are with images of the tops of each of the girs at Day66 of the grow - My plan is to pull them on the weekend (day 70) - go for the brown bag dry for a few days then into the Mason Jar for a couple weeks of cure. I'll post a few images of the finished product over the weekend. I hope to get close to 20 grams(dry) out of these two plants.

 

[pablodiego]

how many hours of sunshine girls take??

 

[pablodiego]

how many hours of sunshine girls take

 

[Paco's Monkey]

Hola Pablodiego: the girls are outside now, getting about 9-10 hrs of Aussie summer sun each day. I started them in the window of my flat where they'd get 6 hrs or so of good sunlight - once they got big enough as not to be easy pickings for the birds I moved them outside for more direct sunlight.

 

[greenzilla]

Yo monkey whats the seed situation in oz do u have to import or are there legal seed banks?

 

[Budson420]

They look tasty as mate :Sharing One: i thinking of putting one of my autos outside, did they like the 10 hours of light per day? im in nsw as well, really wanna compare an outdoor auto to my ones under the CFL, hope you get your 20 grams she'll be good smoke brother :thumbs:

And Green there is no legal banks in aus mate :/ i order from bonza and have mates that use herbies as well, i dont know of any other companys that ship to Australia.

 

[greenzilla]

shame man, still looks like monkeys managed to get himself some dinafem seeds. bonus!!

 

[Paco's Monkey]

Thanks for your comments!
Since there are no legal sources of seeds within Oz, I must look to sources overseas. Herbies & Attitude can get the beans down here.
I pulled the smaller of the girls this week and have her trimmed down in a brown paper bag, drying for a week with a 5g sachet of activated white charcoal for both odour control and humidification. I'll post some images of the harvest and approximate yields on the weekend.
I have to say I'm heaps impressed with DINAFEM and their autoflowering strains. They're very good at what they do.