Lighting The Bucket Strikes Back! (3 autos with LEDs)

[sielm]

Sorry I did not upload the final pic and I can't attach it by editting the previous post.

Here it is:

 

[brokencage]

wow bro you sure make use of that space!!looks great.

 

[sielm]

Thanks mate! I am currently sampling some Fast Bud and Green Poison Auto. They are AWESOME! The GPA is actually the most stoney smoke, relaxing and hunger inducing The Fast Bud is more of a heady high, and a long lasting one Both are great, I love them! I took some pics today. First the Assorted Auto #1, it is getting quite red now, I guess it's because of nutes being depleted. Anyhow I love that color! Looks really appealing to me. There are brown trichs but not as many as I want yet. I will probably do a final flush tomorrow or the day after:


Now the ugly duck the Assorted #2. New growth is doing fine, although it will most likely be a real dwarf plant, she's about a month old by now:


The pretty Sweet Skunk Auto still looks good, but some stains have appeared in several leaves. They are of a lighter color. Any clues anyone??


Finally the newest additions to the bucket: a new Fast Bud (to the left) and a new Sweet Skunk Auto (to the right). Both in soil, the Fast Bud honored her name by being the first one to sprout and rise without troubles. The little Sweet Skunk Auto however had the seed case still attached, so I helped her release it. I wish she does good anyway. The Sweet Skunk #1 (the one above this text) also had this problem but she's doing fine now.


That's it for now friends! Hope you enjoy the reading! Best regards

 

[sielm]

Well, yesterday the beautiful Assorted#1 got flushed with water and molasses. I harvested her tonight and took some pics before and after the process:




She's got a great red color on some leaves, although the flowers are green (no purple buds). There is a fair amount of resin on leaves and buds, and it's sticky! Great pine-like smell, probably less strong than the Fast Bud. I think this is the biggest yielder of the original 3 big plants, and was harvested 6 days afterwards. She was 71 days old.

My previous run with only 1 plant (the Pandora) yielded about 27 grams. I would not be suprised if this plant alone got near that! Probably less, but I'm sure that between all 3 they will be more! Can't wait to find out.

I had no time to check the other ladies though. They looked alright, but no pics for now. I'll be back later.

Thanks for reading!

 

[sielm]

Hello, today I bring some new pics. From oldest plant to youngest: first the Assorted Auto #2, which looks better each day. She's quite old by now to really be worth much, because she's 34 days old already. Anyway, looks like she'll recover and probably yield some mini buds. I did not spot female hairs yet, but I did not inspect her too much TBH. Couple of pics:


Now the Sweet Skunk Auto #1. She's doing mostly fine, but there are some stains on the first pair of 3-bladed leaves that worry me. I have already posted these pics on the infirmary to try to find out what's happening to her. I did not feed her anything but pHed water for now, because the compo sana soil mix has enough nutrients for the veg phase. I applied some micro-lst so that the lower parts get some light too; I'm not sure about the viability of LSTing on such a small container but we'll see. Today is her 21st day. Here she is:


The little Fast Bud#1 (my second Fast Bud, I hope she gets as good as my first one!) is doing fine for now. She lies on a corner of her 3 liter pot, awaiting to fill it up in a couple of months


The same is true for the little Sweet Skunk Auto#2 (not a different strain, but my second SSA )


Finally an overall view:


My latest addition lies to the lower right: a Sweet Cheese Auto. Today she showed the radicle so she went to the soil. This time the soil mix has about 50% compo sana soil mix, 30% worm castings and 20% more perlite. I did not have enough compo sana so I added worm castings, I hope this does not make the soil "hotter" than it already is.

Well, that's it for now. Hope you enjoy the reading! Thanks for passing by, later!

 

[sielm]

Today I watered the Sweet Skunk Auto#1 with water (ph 6.7, ec 0.17 mS/cm), and got some runoff with ph 6.5 and ec 0.42 mS/cm. The stains on the first pair of 3-bladed leaves are getting bigger, although it does not affect more leaves yet.


After this, I used a very mild liquid guano dilution to spray over that same plant, and also a couple of sprayings over the Assorted Auto #2, which looks better each day.


Here are the Fast Bud (left) and the Sweet Skunk Auto #2 (right):


Since the youngest, the Sweet Cheese Auto, has not sprouted yet I do not have any more relevant pics for the moment.

I have been researching about making Colloidal Silver, to use on a female plant to self pollinate itself (it would cause the female plant to grow male flowers which would produce pollen). From what I understood it should be possible to get decent seeds this way, and I think those seeds would retain the autoflowering and female condition if they are created from a previously feminized plant. All my plants are feminized strains, so I decided to try and make some colloidal silver, to experiment on my current plants. I think I would prefer to use this colloidal silver on the smallest plants (Sweet Skunk Auto #1 and Assorted #2, both are in 1 liter pots) so that I would get different kinds of seeds to experiment with, and the loss of weed would be minimized (the silver-treated buds should not be smoked because they contain large amounts of silver, and could be dangerous).

I found 2 silver coins (I think they are of 95% purity, I know that is not optimum, but I will try anyways) and have already attached them to a 5 volt DC power supply and submerged them into distilled water. The colloidal silver used for reversing sex should have a concentration of around 50ppm, which would translate into an ec of about 0.1. From what I have read maybe this voltage is too low, and thus it will take quite a bit of time to generate enough silver concentration. I will experiment and see if it works with what I have.

I don't know if what I am aiming for is possible: I want to get feminized seeds from a feminized plant. This way I would have backup seeds for free! I am decided to try this experiment with either plant, maybe with both. Both the SSA#1 and the AA#2 should be flowering soon, and applying the CS to them should not interfere with the 3 seedlings in the big pots, which are the ones I intend to produce smokeable bud.

OMG I have written so much already! I hope you find this interesting. This colloidal silver thing has really excited me! I really want to try my luck at creating seeds for storing purposes. That would save me a lot of time, and also allow for guerrilla chances if I got many seeds! I don't dare expending expensive seeds on an outdoor guerrilla grow, but I would if I got enough free seeds!

Thanks for reading, later!

 

[brokencage]

Sounds good bro.just remember if you spray the whole plant none of it will be smokeable.I was considering this as well.keep us updated!

 

[sielm]

Yes, I know about that brokencage. THat's why I choose to experiment with the small plants (the ones in 1 liter pots). This way I intend to waste minimal weed, and I don't need many many seeds. I would be happy if I got 10 or 20! The bad part for now is that I only found silver of quality 925. I'm not sure about this, but probably it's not very pure. I will google about this soon.

Thanks for passing by! Best regards

 

[sielm]

Alright, today I began spraying the Assorted#2 with CS. I tried to apply the spray only to the lower canopy, allowing the central upper part to grow without interacting directly with the CS. I hope this reverses sex at least on some lower budsites and allows for the main cola to go female, and hopefully produce selfed seeds in the future... I'm not so sure about my timing... will the plant live long enough to produce pollen, got pollinated, and produce seeds? I'm not so sure, but seeing as she is a late flower it could be possible... Here are some pics taken today before applying CS:


The Fast Bud (L) and the little Sweet Skunk Auto (R) are doing good too:


I forgot to take pics to the big Sweet Skunk Auto, the one with the stains on the older leaves. She's doing fine I think, these stains won't dissapear but it has not gone worse (yet). I bent her a bit more, so to make her a little more bushy when she begins flowering seriously. I still have to make my mind about how to proceed with the CS. Maybe I'll spray this plant too. Not sure yet lol. Well, I'll try to post fresher pics of all soon. Thanks for passing by!

 

[sielm]

I applied a 2nd spray of CS over the Assorted#2 a while ago. I will probably be spraying her once or twice daily, and on the meantime I have to think about doing the same to the Sweet Skunk #1. I might just apply it to the Assorted#2, get some pollen, and try to create both selfed seeds on the Assorted#2 and crossed seeds with the Sweet Skunk#1, which is showing her first hairs too. Here they are, the Assorted#2 to the left and the Sweet Skunk#1 to the right:


Now I want to introduce our latest addition to the bucket team, the new Sweet Cheese Auto, which decided to sprout today:


Still a way to go for her! Thanks for reading, and best regards!