Indoor Tropical Outdoor: White Widow Max, AK47, Cheese, Great White Shark, Northern Lights

[Spanglish]

Hi @Spanglish, nice of you to drop by!

Your 1L micro grow is so, damn, cool. Single bud plant that fits in your hand!
At first I was reading it as 1 gal, then I was like, hey, that's 1 Liter!!!

Because I've been thinking about next spring getting them going indoors under lights,
maybe just in 1L pots at first, then putting into 8L to go outdoors.
So, I have a vague idea about how I may go about the start of that.

Will check out the whole micro grow sub-forum later...

Love and hugs,
Maria

My pleasure still need to catch up but you look to have the and things look great in your garden.

The 1L grows have been great fun and a real learning experience, miss something in a feed for a day or two and a deficiency will start to show that needs correcting.

Would not recommend transplanting autos from 1L to 8L, best just to start in the final pot, not that it cannot be done but reckon you got a window of just a couple of days, to pull off a perfect transplant without stunting, but if photos would say go for it as you got unlimited veg time to bounce back.

Best of luck fr the rest of the grow not that you gonna need it

 

[Exotic Flower]

Addendum to Smoke Report:

So, about 3 hrs after those first two hits, had another one somewhat bigger, later in the evening.
Led to some more heady buzzy high, a bit of euphoria, the smilies, and later a frenzy of house cleaning.
Hahahahahaha!!!!

Good stuff! Wonder what the original AK47 grown properly indoors and taken to maturity would be like? Hmmm...

Love and hugs,
Maria

 

[Exotic Flower]

Good to see you were able to salvage a bit for all of your efforts! I don't normally get the munchies, but all this talk of food has put me in a foo frenzy kind of a mood.

@Duckster -- Yes, I'm quite pleased that it wasn't all just a waste of time.
Not prone to the munchies myself, and only really noticed it by the donut -- hey, didn't I already eat a chocolate bar just 5 minutes ago?!

 

[Exotic Flower]

My pleasure still need to catch up but you look to have the and things look great in your garden.

¡Hola! @Spanglish,

My basil and mint garden is doing much better than my other herbs... ;-)
Because I can keep them on the balcony and really look after them well.

The Northern Lights is still hanging in there.
She got battered and lost some leaves, but she's budding up now.

The 1L grows have been great fun and a real learning experience, miss something in a feed for a day or two and a deficiency will start to show that needs correcting.

Would not recommend transplanting autos from 1L to 8L, best just to start in the final pot, not that it cannot be done but reckon you got a window of just a couple of days, to pull off a perfect transplant without stunting, but if photos would say go for it as you got unlimited veg time to bounce back.

Best of luck fr the rest of the grow not that you gonna need it

Yeah, small pots means high maintenance and micro detail care, for sure.

For this grow, I started in little seedling pots, about 300 mL in size each (about 9 x 9 x 10 cm in size),
then some went into 1 L pots and later 8 L, while others just straight into 8 L.
Personally, I seldom have problems transplanting. I think I've got good technique and steady hands.
But your point is well taken, thanks!

My plan for next spring is to start in 1L pots, and make an indoor micro garden
where I can fit in about 8-10 or maybe even 12 1L pots.
Then once they are about 20cm tall / 20 days old / starting to pre-flower,
then transplant to 8L pots and put them outside.
But in that season they won't go out to meet tropical storms like now (late summer / early fall)
but go outside to late spring early summer, with more daylight hours and less cloud cover, and a bit drier.
Then let nature take it's course for the outdoors.
Just use the indoor set up to get them off to a really good start.

That's my present plan, but I have to wait months... impatient, haha!

Love and hugs,
Maria

 

[Exotic Flower]

Day 52

The sun is out, so a nice photo and a not so nice photo.
Not so nice not because the photo is bad, but because it's the plant that almost got killed by the tropical storm.
Her top and a couple of laterals are still alive, but other than that...

Northern Lights 2
Still very much hanging in there and growing. About 28" = 71cm tall.
As you can see, lost most of her big fan leaves, except a couple near the top.
Also quite a few secondary fan leaves from the laterals.
But she's budding up not too bad.
I just hope she has enough leaves to turn the sunlight into good buds.
And that the weather isn't so nasty to her as it has been in the last couple of weeks.

Northern Lights 1
Yes, you can barely see anything except that stick of a stem.
The top of the plant is alive and the tips of a few laterals.
Everything else was stripped by the tropical storm.

There will be no bud here.
But... wondering if I should cut the top and branches to make clones.
Problem is, would take a week or two to root, then need some time to veg,
and then to flower would be in the middle of winter here.
Can't do it indoors, don't have the set up, and outdoors is very, very wet,
even though the temperature would not kill any rooted and veged clones outright.
Moreover, this wasn't the best plant on the whole,
the NL2 above was a much nicer specimen all round.

So, will leave her where she is for now, let her overcome the storm stress, poor girl.

Love and hugs,
Maria

 

[Exotic Flower]

Another day of beautiful sunny weather.
Tomorrow looks to be the same.
May pop up tonight for a watering,
and maybe a little nutrient feed.
Showers and rain for later in the week.

 

[trailanimal]

Bad news.

Very bad news.

Not only is the Great White Shark now definitely dead.
But the two big girls, the Auto AK47 and Auto White Widow Max, which were both doing so well, are also dead.
The stem bases are rotted out.
It's mainly from stupid stupid Maria using something in place of vaseline on the stem.
Good advice, but stupidly and badly followed by yours truly.
Can maybe salvage a bit from the AK47, a gram or two of buzz.

(Photos below, but NSFW, and not safe if you are a sensitive type.)

The two Cheeses are still alive, spindly and tiny as they are.
One is slightly bigger than the other, but they are almost finished.
They will just have a couple of grams of bud each.
There are still a couple of white pistils, but most are brown.

The only plants giving me much hope at all are the two Northern Lights regs.
The smaller is maybe 20" = 50cm tall, and just barely showing female sex.
The larger is still about 24" = 61cm tall, with a few pistils going along.
Both fairly strong, a bit of branching.
Their bases have had damage, but it looks like they have healed okay.

As I walked down the mountain, heavy hearted...
I almost stood on a snake. A viper, if I am not mistaken.

Not a happy girl.

what a roller coaster, I feel for you

 

[trailanimal]

courageous Maria rolling with the punches, don't know how you maintain your cool so well, raising my bowl high to the SE

 

[Exotic Flower]

what a roller coaster, I feel for you

Thanks. Yeah, it's been quite the up and down.

courageous Maria rolling with the punches, don't know how you maintain your cool so well, raising my bowl high to the SE

Gotta roll with 'em, otherwise you're dead on the floor.
Now I have medicine to placate myself, hahahahahaha!!!

 

[trailanimal]

Thanks. Yeah, it's been quite the up and down.



Gotta roll with 'em, otherwise you're dead on the floor.
Now I have medicine to placate myself, hahahahahaha!!!

even when they give just a small amount, our plants give us what we need! Our job?, grow more