New Grower First Grow - July 2021 Run

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Good morning everyone!
The tent girls seem to have mostly turned back up after yesterday's manipulation session. Have a pair of branches that snapped that may need to come off but I'm giving them tomorrow. Ended up taking some more fans after I took this pic, with as many heads as I've got on these girls there is a fair bit of overlap going on. No 1970s bush over here. Depending on how much more they stretch I'll probably ease off and let them fill in some before they get to flower.

Outdoor girls got through last night's thunderstorms with no issues. Big storms like that give me a headache when they're coming on so I ended up falling asleep. Hubby woke me up a few hours later and was shocked I slept through all the booming and hail. I asked him if he brought in the plants and he gave me a "what plants?" Glad to say upon brief inspection this morning I didn't find any sort of damage to them. Didn't get a very good look though since its still raining. Guess I don't need to worry about watering them today.

Purple Cookies Photo (Greenpoint)
Popped 7/4/21
Day 67

Rum Runner Photo (Greenpoint)
Popped 7/4/21
Day 67

Motor Punch Photo (Greenpoint)
Popped 7/4/21
Day 67

Purple Canyon Photo (Greenpoint)
Popped 7/4/21
Day 67

Critical Auto (Nirvana)
Popped 7/16/21
Day 55

Somango XXL (Nirvana)
Popped 7/16/21
Day 55

WWxBB Auto (Female Seeds)
Popped 7/21/21
Day 50

I ended up sampling the two tester buds I took from her 2 day ago this morning. Definitely very heady, and kind of a creeper. Smelt very nice but had an unsurprisingly grassy taste. I'm starting to see a tiny bit of amber on her here and there I think, so I feel like she's getting closer every day. Seems to be just a waiting game at this point. I'm more of a night time smoker in general, since I need something to help me sleep, so I tend to lean towards the indicas, but now that I will have options on what to toke on I wouldn't mind something on the heady side for daytime use. Hoping she'll bulk up a little bit more before she's ready but we will see. She's pretty dense as it is now and with how wet it is here I do worry about the possibility of rot.

Auto Kush (Female Seeds)
Popped 7/21/21
Day 50

 

[Suki]

Update time!
All the indoor girls are heads up again, woot! Only one of the droopers had to come off today, the others ended up perking back up so happy for that!

I was sure the outdoor girls were going to be mad at me for letting them get dumped on the last two days, so I was pretty surprised to see that they seem to have exploded in growth today. I'm sure it helps that its 75* (which, is kinda shocking I would have guessed high 80s at least) amd sunny as hell today. Thinking I may go ahead and feed everyone today. Especially the outdoor girls considering the rain flushing they've gotten the last few days.

Anyhow, here's some pics

Purple Cookies Photo (Greenpoint)
Popped 7/4/21
Day 68

Rum Runner Photo (Greenpoint)
Popped 7/4/21
Day 68

Motor Punch Photo (Greenpoint)
Popped 7/4/21
Day 68

Purple Canyon Photo (Greenpoint)
Popped 7/4/21
Day 68

Critical Auto (Nirvana)
Popped 7/16/21
Day 56

I tried getting some macros on my hubby's new phone but I think my 8x zoom is still better lol

Somango XXL Auto (Nirvana)
Popped 7/16/21
Day 56

 

[Suki]

Somango XXL cont.

WWxBB Auto (Female Seeds)
Popped 7/21/21
Day 51

Auto Kush (Female Seeds)
Popped 7/21/21
Day 51

I think the WWxBB is getting close, but tbh I'm not totally sure. @420Forever what do you think? I'm not in any rush to harvest but I don't really want her to get over ripe either. I was hoping she would bulk up a bit more, but I don't know that I'm seeing any more new growth and I feel like I'm seeing a good bit of amber?

 

[420Forever]

I think the WWxBB is getting close, but tbh I'm not totally sure. @420Forever what do you think? I'm not in any rush to harvest but I don't really want her to get over ripe either. I was hoping she would bulk up a bit more, but I don't know that I'm seeing any more new growth and I feel like I'm seeing a good bit of amber?

if she'z only 51d old, then there'z no way she'z ready not even the fastest autoz grow that fast, lol and then of course there'z the ol' grower'z mantra of -> when u think they're ready, wait another week ppp

 

[mohawk warrior]

Somango XXL cont.
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WWxBB Auto (Female Seeds)
Popped 7/21/21
Day 51
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Auto Kush (Female Seeds)
Popped 7/21/21
Day 51
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I think the WWxBB is getting close, but tbh I'm not totally sure. @420Forever what do you think? I'm not in any rush to harvest but I don't really want her to get over ripe either. I was hoping she would bulk up a bit more, but I don't know that I'm seeing any more new growth and I feel like I'm seeing a good bit of amber?

I’d keep pushing along.... weeks still.(4ish)
Maybe just some water for a bit.
Have you tried not snipping so many of the fans off?
Oh and some of the nicest plant manipulation I’ve seen in awhile btw... I can see you making some sort of crazy twisting contraption one day... turn it into a light fixture thing lol

 

[Suki]

if she'z only 51d old, then there'z no way she'z ready not even the fastest autoz grow that fast, lol and then of course there'z the ol' grower'z mantra of -> when u think they're ready, wait another week ppp

I’d keep pushing along.... weeks still.(4ish)
Maybe just some water for a bit.
Have you tried not snipping so many of the fans off?
Oh and some of the nicest plant manipulation I’ve seen in awhile btw... I can see you making some sort of crazy twisting contraption one day... turn it into a light fixture thing lol

Yeah, hubby said at least another week, lol. Like I said, I'm in no rush, we should have plenty to last us through chop and cure I think. I will say the two testers I tried yesterday that were from a few days back definitely packed a punch.
@mohawk warrior thank you for the compliment! I have a tendency to go a bit balls to the walls on things at times. I have been restraining myself, haven't taken anything off the outdoor since I stripped them down. Definitely thinking about playing with form some when I do my big outdoor photo next summer. I want to go 5 months or so vegging in the tent before I put her in the ground so I think I can pull something pretty cool off in that regard. I want to see how many splits I can do before I put her out. Maybe I'll get to play along in next summers outdoor g&s I've got some ideas I want to play around with for sure. I'm also really interested in applying some manifolding on the autos, I was looking at some old threads on here where someone, can't remember who, was going to 6 heads on their plants. Want to try that on some of the longer vegging autos I have beans for. I bought intothe whole "you can't use anything but LST on autos" thing at first. Ended up just letting them do their thing up till hubs told me I should strip them. Didn't really appear to slow them down any but I really don't have a baseline to compare to either. The two that weren't as far along, the critical and the auto kush, both seem to have put a decent amount of veg back on since then. Definitely no big ass bushes like what I've seen on some of yall's grows though.

 

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I gotta say, I'm loving how flat and even my canopy is now! Still making some minor tweaks here and there to placement but overall I think they're looking pretty good. I think that's the biggest beauty in doing it with wire wrapping vs tieing down, I can make tiny adjustments without having to completely move things or spend a bunch of time repositioning. Tent is going to be packed before too long!

I'm going to include some side shots of the ladies today cause they're just pretty to look at. Didn't get a chance to feed anyone yesterday so I'm going to be watering the tent girls and feeding everyone today. The girls on the balcony are still pretty moist from the rain, moving them around left some moisture behind on the deck but not nearly as much as yesterday, so no more water for them just yet.
Got my order of beans yesterday from @Jean-O Genetics so I'm stoked to pop some of them once I make some space in the tent. As much as I want to get some more autos rolling, there is really no space in the tent at the moment and I don't want to stunt them by starting at 12/12. As the Gerald and Piggie book says, "Waiting is NOT easy." Moral of that story is it's worth it though, so I will try my best to be good.

Anyhow, on to the fun part.

Purple Cookies Photo (Greenpoint)
Popped 7/4/21
Day 69

Rum Runner Photo (Greenpoint)
Popped 7/4/21
Day 69

Motor Punch Photo (Greenpoint)
Popped 7/4/21
Day 69

Purple Canyon Photo (Greenpoint)
Popped 7/4/21
Day 69

Outdoor girls are loving life on the balcony! After those two really wet days this week I was happy to see them looking so good yesterday, and today it seems they have gotten even bushier. The Critical specifically seems to have gotten quite lush over the last two days, I have a feeling she's going to give me the biggest yield of everyone out there as long as she stacks up nice and dense. Definitely the biggest in stature of the four. The Somango seems to be bulking up again as well, and is still putting out a bunch of new bud growth. WWxBB doesn't seem to be really putting out much new growth now, maybe a little bit, but her buds still have a ways to go before they're mature. The journals I've read on her seem to have her being ready right at 70 days so I'm going to bank on another 2 weeks or so on her. The Auto Kush is out there looking like the Charlie Brown Christmas tree but given how much the Critical has filled back out I think she should do just fine bushing back up some. My guess right now is that the WWxBB is going to be coming down first, followed by the Somango probably a few weeks later. Thinking the Critical will be third in line, with the Auto Kush finishing last.

Critical Auto (Nirvana)
Popped 7/16/21
Day 57

 

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Somango XXL Auto (Nirvana)
Popped 7/16/21
Day 57

WWxBB Auto (Female Seeds)
Popped 7/21/21
Day 52

Auto Kush (Female Seeds)
Popped 7/21/21
Day 52

 

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Thanks for the rep @Mara Cachafa