New Grower Start up (11/6/22)

[Cannaficionado]

Day 58 on the grainte runtz. This is gonna be a fairly large post.

Hoping theres not much more than 20-40 days left on this auto, but holy hell is she liking being closer to the light. Ive been so afraid of causing light stress that Ive been trying to stay on the low end of the intensity at 670ppfd max. Dead center on the plant at the highest part is 655, but I havent really been taking dli into account.

Thinking about putting the ratchet hangers back in and leaving them topped out. I know the watermelon will keep growing but for the sake of the auto I might just raise the ppfd to 800. That would give her about 40dli. Which is still on the low end of the dli for an auto so I think I will be safe. Will be doing this right after the post to see how she takes it over my 4 days off. Hoping she likes it.

Gave her a gallon of plain water today as well, she has transpired her pot completely over the last day and a half. Thinking watering the photos yesterday put everything in the right range for optimum vpd. Humidity was at 51% when I checked in this morning and temps were hanging around 71-72. She had been putting on some bud weight daily for sure though. Pics will be at the end of the post as there will be a lot.

Photos are all doing phenomenally well. The watermelon has slowed down the stretch substantially, where as the 2 peyotes are still creeping up. The tall one is just about neck amd neck with 70% of the watermelons canopy so and the shorter is at the bottom of the watermelon canopy, well the main cola that reformed after the horrible topping job I did. The rest of the plant is definitely still way below everything else.

Thinking about getting a 10" step stool to bring her up a bit and get light to all the tops. Some of the lowest branches are becoming pale and even yellowing a bit. Thinking the plant isnt getting enough light so its pulling nutrients and sugars from the lower branches and sending it to the main top that reformed, because it is just on beast mode. So much taller than the rest of the plant.

Granite Runtz Auto

Didnt do any real lollipopping or shwazzing to this plant as I wanted to see what it was like letting one grow pretty much natural except for the top and some defoliation to open up access to the pot to water. Will not be doing this again, lots of larf underneath all of this which is fine for this run. Will add some total yield but some of it is pretty yellow and its probably not gonna have much potency.

Watermelon Zkittles

These are various tops. They are all spitting out pistils and I can even see small calyx formations in between sugar leaves. So she will definitely start putting on buds soon.

Broke a branch on her the other day, chose not to upload the pic as I just found out I can only have 15 attachments per post.

the last photo is the top on the tallest branch. Seems like this one is getting all the go juice from the stretch period.

Peyote Critical 1+2 (taller first)

This girl was my fave of the 2 in the beginning and as veg went on the shorter was turning into my favorite. Now its this one again. I can already tell these 2 main tops are going to be 2 gigantic colas. Fingers crossed the potency comes with it.

It was more about total yield with this whole grow rather than potency. Yes, of course I want to get high, but right now I don't mind having to smoke a bunch to get to the level I need, as long as I have enough to last me through my next grow, but this girl, if she produces as much as I think, and is as strong as she possibly could be I will be elated.

This is the shorter girl. Shes chugging a long but developmentally a little further behind than her taller sister, but thats expected, shes too far away from the light. But putting her 6" closer seem to help a lot just in one day.

Not much to say about her. The main top is looking phenomenal. Super thick sturdy stalks and stems on both of these 2 girls. Pretty much mirror images of eachother as far as structure. Both have thrown mutated leaves, where one of the longest fingers of a leaf will be a fraction of the size its suppose to be. Its an oddity and I feel like its definitely something anyone will see growing this strain, but with that said the watermelon zkittles threw a leaf that was exactly the same, but only one. There are dozens on between the 2 peyotes.

couldnt add a photo of the whole tent. Maxed attachments lol. Thanks for stopping by.

 

[Cannaficionado]

Not much to say.

Yesterday I fed the watermelon. Checked the other 2 photos and they still had some water weight to the pots.

Today they were pretty light though so I fed both of them as well. Full feeds

Was scrolling through fox farms website and realized my feed schedule is out of date. Not much difference but reduced tiger bloom for flowering from week 5-7 1tsp/gal instead of 2 and adds calmag thru most of the grow attaching both. Used the newer but didnt add cal mag, no issue in that department right now.

Older schedule

Newer schedule

Anyway photos are starting to bud out so thats cool.

Added a 5" riser to the taller peyote, put the granite runtz on a 6" riser and left the shorter peyote on the same 6" riser. The granite is really liking being closer to the light but moving her up created more shade around her so I lifted everything but the watermelon, canopy is really even now

Took some lights off shots of the granite

Thats all for today.

 

[Cannaficionado]

Bored today so I took some close up shots of the plants today

Starting with the granite then the last couple are the peyotes. Didnt realize my resolution was set too high when I was taking pics of the watermelon.

First couple pics may look hazy but I found out I had a smudge on my lens cover

 

[Cannaficionado]

The photos are going off with a bang at 3 weeks in

Both peyotes are just stacking up and the trichomes are just pouring out on these 2. The watermelon is stacking up nice as well but its moving a little slower than the other 2. Strange as its got the shortest flowering time according to the breeder.

Peyote

Watermelon

Had to water the watermelon today. Surprisingly I think on the next watering Im going to add some sledgehammer to get some yucca in there. Pot started running off at about 3/4 of a gallon so I think I have some hydrophoc pockets developing. Gave her a whole gallon and letting the wicks take the runoff back up. Hopefully as it percolates down and soaks in it will wet those areas a bit.

 

[Cannaficionado]

So it looks like the trichs on the granite runtz are starting to mature, sugar leaves have pretty much all cloudy and about 5-10% amber and still some straggly clear ones. But the buds are still about 90% clear.

Not great pics, bottom is a sugar leaf and the top 2 are different buds. Its REALLY hard to take a clear shot by hand, but I think the granite runtz will be coming down within the next 10-14 days. Which means I need a bypass shears relatively soon or Im gonna be sawing it down.

Good thing too will open up the tent for the 3 photos and I can really get to work reorganizing and slowly prying open all 3 photos.

Super excited to hang my first harvest for drying though, been almost 1 year on afn and Im finally getting to my first harvest and I dont like tooting my own horn but goddamn I dont think I could have done any better on this one. She will definitely be getting final defoliation photo shoot because in my opinion shes gorgeous.

Also has some purple coming in on some of the main colas. Not much though. Hopefully as the last week or 2 roll on, it will turn more, be nice to see some purple on the buds, but in no way am I complaining.

 

[Cannaficionado]

Not much of an entry, just wanna jot a couple things down I did today so I dont forget.

Looks like depending on the maturation time of autos in the future I will need to add cal/mag after about day 50 to prevent deficiency. Im pretty sure its partially do to lock out from a bit too much nitrogen over the course of the grow, so for the future I will be feeding half doses of the fox farm line and tapering off the high N ferts as flowering progresses past the start of flower/bud production.

As my last post shows, there are fan leaves and sugar leaves that have brown spots. Started very slow and over night yesterday the more affected sugar leaves are completely brown between the veins about 1/3 out from the base of the leaf but the last 2/3s is a healthy green. Im thinking my auto is gonna need more than 2 weeks to reach maturity so to alleviate some of the symptoms I watered with a half dose feed including cal/mag at a half dose. Figured it would be ok as the last 4 waterings have been plain trying to drain the excess N. Thinking I starved her a bit.

Also fed the watermelon zkittles and the shorter peyote both full feeds with cal mag to help curb possible future problems. Have the feeling that any available magnesium or calcium is basically eaten up. Also some of the lower branches are yellowing a bit on the shorter peyote and watermelon. I think this is a mixture of not enough light penetration and low N in the soil.

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Figured I should at least include a couple pics as a reminder and an update to the tent for anyone watching

Last 2 here are a small shake size snip off one of the sugar leaves barely sticking out past the buds around the center of the bud. Wanted to get a clearer picture of the trichomes and just as I thought they have JUST started to cloud while a majority remain clear so there is a WAYS to go, Im gonna say at least 2 more weeks if not 4. This is a weird plant started flowering out super fast then its hit this slow spot. Im guessing its just because the buds just swelling now.

 

[Cannaficionado]

Figured out a way to get nice crystal clear trich pics without much trouble at all.

Solution 12x printing loupe over my 108 mega pixel camera on my phone. Not big enough at normal magnification, but you can zoom in after the pic is taken for crisp pics of a large area of bud surface.

Not too difficult to hold, case puts it at a perfect relief for pics.

Also at a lower resolution it takes some pretty cool artsy shots too

 

[Cannaficionado]

Haven't made a post in a few days because not much has been happening.

Leaves on the granite have stopped browning any more since the cal/mag feed , took about 4-5 days but the symptoms have basically all but stopped. Now the leaves most effected are yellowing except sugar leaves. Not really concerned as I think this trichomes are going to mature quickly. From 4 days ago the trichomes lower on the main colas have all started to cloud, about 50-60%.

From what I can tell right now After trichomes on a bud start to opaque its about 8-10 days before trichs start ambering but that process is a little slower.

Photos chugging along nice

Granite photos

Here she is as a full plant from all 4 sides

 

[Cannaficionado]

Probably should have taken pics.

I think during the bit of defoliation I did on the watermelon shocked the hell out of an entire branch. It was one of the first ones and frankly I took 2 fan leaves off that branch and that was it.

3 hours after the branch was in DIRE straights. From the top all the way down to the last node drooping straight down, leaf tips so dry they looked like they had physically burned to almost ash. Idk what happened but to be safe I cleaned my shears and chopped the whole branch. Disappointed. I probably only took 9 large fan leaves off and a couple auxiliary branch shoots that just didnt stretch enough to get adequate light. None of those were on this branch.

The loss of this branch was not a big deal as it didnt make it to the top of the canopy and was starting to fade already, which is probably why it was so quickly effected by whatever it was today.

 

[Cannaficionado]

Harvested my to most mature tops on my auto. Gonna progressive harvest this plant so I have bud to smoke on while the rest finishes ans my photos mature.

Did a wet trim, really I just took off any fan leaves sticking out past the buds. Will be doing a dry trim later. Wanted to keep sugar leaves to slow down the dry a bit.