Indoor Think Big® automatic

[The Iconoclast]

Right now I have one auto under my belt I'm looking forward to putting what I've learned into practice. The plan was to grow two of three beans, Trippy Gorilla, Think Big or Auto Glueberry. TB took off out of the blocks and has powered on so that was a no brainer, Auto Glueberry looked best contender for the second one, but then she looked a bit worryingly spindly and the strange TG looked a bit better so I made the decision to put the AG in the garden.

However the TG looks to have a genetic deformity and I may have to terminate her at some stage, but there's no rush. So at the moment this is basically just Think Big and so far she is certainly living up to the name.

I've bought a couple of QB Elite 96 quantum boards with their heatsink and they are on the way to me from America because they don't have them where I am yet. I'm going to put a 185W driver on each one and use them like a cob so it can be run at 50W more precisely or at 180W I was mainly swayed by the extra red, I'm not that fussed now about UV and there's certainly enough blue in those white LEDs.

I found that magic combination that worked for me of a bunch of suggestion and all seeds popped in three days. I used the paper towel and chocolate muffin overcoat technique. With the paper towel I found that the secret is to use the cheap ones not the expensive ones.

Then once they popped it was very interesting because one came straight down one root bent back and one root came out sideways. Using the chocolate muffin overcoat technique I was able to open up the chocolate muffin and gently place each seed so that it lay in a natural crevice with the seed right at the surface then close up the muffin sarcophagus and you cannot go wrong.

 

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Greetings fellow travellers in spacetime.

End of Week three and ThinkBig, is. Thinking big that is. A lot more relaxed about what I might do this time. I topped her at the 4th node at 16 days, last one was topped at 5th at 21 days, with lowest node removed. Just been watching her do her thing and powering on. Did a bit of shoving, prodding, twisting, pushing and poking her around but today I hunted down a few items that morphed into a pre scrog, to prepare for the proper scrog to come. I'm going to try and fill a 2 x 4 space.

The Trippy Gorilla, almost got yanked yesterday seeing as she'd had this genetic deformity since birth. I've pruned a few branches off to make life easier for her and even if she produces a single cola if possible I would find space, however I've no idea yet if she is going to do anything normal. Like ThinkBig, Trippy Gorilla is living up to her name. It looks like her first pair of normal looking leaves emerged so I'm happy for her to stay miniature.

 

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Very exciting week for me. Just got my drivers from Hong Kong and my new Elite 96 engines are all nicely set up in my newly expanded 2 x 4. I will use the Viparspectra to continue to experiment with spectrum. So far all my plants have been stocky with tight node spacing and that may or may not be due to the heavy blue that the Vipar can deliver. But these QB Elite boards are a delight to work with. I wired them straight through the top of the area to reduce clutter.

After my makeshift scrog, I have revisited this and bought some 8mm dowelling and created a tightly sprung support set of sticks that are sufficient by themselves to keep my new fine light mesh suspended just by the tension they can exert. Although I have drilled tiny 1mm holes in the end in case I need to wire the mesh on. The point of this is that it moves with the plant. The mesh spacing is also perfect and the mesh is rigid enough but also flexible enough to finagle plants a bit better without damaging them.

I planted a replacement Trippy Gorilla but the seed died so I've just ignored her after I did some severe pruning. She's seemed to have completely recovered although there are still signs of genetic deformity. She is very stocky, and she looks like she's already flipping to flower. She has not been topped although other branches have been removed and she's been LST'd.


Auto GlueBerry, has survived in the garden. She did nothing for a long while but suddenly seems to have begun to grow, so that will be interesting to see what happens. The gf just harvested her photo period Blueberry, it was in semi shade but it took off. Ended up with 5 oz of absolutely classic resiny sticky buds, I've left some leaves on because it gives an attractive appearance and protects the trichomes.



My old OG was a very refined smoke, with subtle aromas, like a single malt whisky. The Blueberry though is something entirely different. Dark and stinky indica, diesel, sweet and spicy. Intoxicating. And the Firefly 2 vape brings out all the wonderful aromas.

 

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It's quite an interesting feeling going in and doing my first major defoliation at 4 weeks, compared to my first defoliation where I didn't really know what I was doing. I'm feeling more in tune with these autos every day. Like take the Trippy Gorilla, I'd given it up for dead, so if it lived I thought it would definitely not want to be topped, but instead I just took off about 6 lower secondary branches and then she seems to have responded well to this. Although TG seems to be growing more like the indica that is isn't.

This autoflower lark is frikken awesome so cute and easy to care for, they are the 'apartment dogs' of cannabis. Here's the girls after their first haircut.

 

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I promised myself that I would put up my FireFly2 101 'everything you every wanted to know' thread, before updating this. So not much has been happening because I've been very lazy. So in spite of my promise to myself, here's an update, on the three sisters, separated at birth... So what has happened in the last month...

Well the Auto Glueberry after two weeks of stagnation in the garden suddenly budded up and it's already finished, with chunky buds but it's only about a foot high maybe a half ounce if I'm lucky.

Trippy Gorilla is still a bit of a mystery as to whether this plant is still going to produce flowers to type or if it's intrinsically damaged. I'll know in a couple of weeks I guess. Here's a wacky branch I had to cull

But the star of this grow is Think Big. She's growing similarly to my previous OG but I'm more savvy now and started the net earlier, which is good because this is a much stronger plant than the OG Kush. She's just starting now to get some trichomes and I'm a little worried because I've changed to the new QB lights and both the trippy gorilla and the think big are looking a little dry.

Heavy continuous defoliation has been applied here and I'll need to wait till this grow is over before I can declare it a success. However due to not having any extraction as I'm in an open room and it's also over 80% humidity here atm, defoliation is necessary if only to keep the air flow through the plant.

I sold my viparspectra and bought a Chilled Logic 100W Royal Blue board which I'll use for vegging. I was a bit sad to get rid of the Vipar but I don't really have time to do all the colour light testing I wanted to do anyway. However during my slackness I've been testing the 2 relentlessly and I've discovered lots of tips and tricks which I'll put into the 2 thread.

There is a decent root ball developing separate to the roots that would be in the clay. Different to my previous grow but similar in that there is a lot of healthy root mass, and I am beginning to form a hypothesis that it is this very large root mass that is causing my plants to develop slower. How else can I explain every all three different strains of indoor plants are barely showing flowers while the garden plant is done?
In the following shot the main pot is filled with clay pellets not a net pot.

 

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Here's some shots of d52 with two separate lots of heavy defoliation. This is one of my favourite parts of the grow where the final form of the plant is first revealed. Plus I get to go in and get very handsy with her. All this close attention pays off. It's not until about this stage that I get a feel for what I want to remove, I'm still not very certain of what I'm doing yet, but I'm getting there.

 

[Marshydro]

looks so great!

 

[davisgirl]

She’s a monster! Congratulations!

 

[The Iconoclast]

looks so great!

Thanks Tina, I am having fun now I'm getting the hang of it.

She’s a monster! Congratulations!

Ha, she sure is DG, this is supposed to be a big budder and it's got everything set to produce to type, so it's fingers crossed.

I chopped the GlueBerry as it looks like rain for a week and she seems done, looks like there might be 3/4 oz there. So finished in 62 days! Some decent looking trichomes too for an outdoor plant.

 

[davisgirl]

Thanks Tina, I am having fun now I'm getting the hang of it.



Ha, she sure is DG, this is supposed to be a big budder and it's got everything set to produce to type, so it's fingers crossed.

I chopped the GlueBerry as it looks like rain for a week and she seems done, looks like there might be 3/4 oz there. So finished in 62 days! Some decent looking trichomes too for an outdoor plant.

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Nice!