Day 58.
I was away for about a week, the first time I've had a grow running on autopilot since before the start of the pandemic. Before I left I set up a script that encrypted and uploaded my hourly camera images, so I could still keep tabs on how things were going. Unfortunately, I botched the part that was supposed to periodically run it and didn't realize it until I was already away, so that didn't do me any good. If I had, I would have seen the GCxA1 doing this trust fall onto the WAxBM:
There was a pretty serious winter storm here, but the power didn't go out, and my hacky automated irrigation didn't flood, leak, or fail to water at all, so given the circumstances things still turned out okay.
Here's what the tent looks like now, after standing GCxA1 back up and removing the irrigation lines.
(scrolling, scrolling...) The 24 Carat clone has stretched quite a bit! It's about 27" / 70 cm tall, now the tallest in the tent by a ways. It's flowering, but several weeks behind the others, so I don't know if it will finish by the time I need to harvest everything else.
Meanwhile, the 24 Carat it was cut from is well into flower, filling out and smelling sweet and fruity.
Close-up of the 24C tops.
The Fantasmo Express is also getting quite a bit of resin.
As is the Wizard's Apprentice, though its growth is a bit more sparse.
The Wizard's Apprentice x Blue Microverse cross is further along than the others and may be ready to harvest soon, though I'm planning on harvesting everything at the same time. It's got more tip burn than everything else.
Close-up of the WAxBM tops.
Meanwhile, the Grape Crinkle x Anvil cross #1 is also getting quite frosty and smelling sweet (distinctly like Grape Crinkle), but it's getting pale on one side. It was leaning over pretty sharply for several days, with several of the leaves in front there not getting much light. It has a lot of root growth underneath the bottom of the cup, which probably didn't air-prune because of the automatic irrigation watering <more and a bit more consistently than I do by hand. Eventually there was a wedge-shaped ramen brick of roots leaning it progressively further, until it fell over, held up by the side of the windowbox and by part of the WAxBM.
Here's a picture of GCxA1's roots in the tray, with GCxA3 behind it.
Grape Crinkle x Anvil #3 also had a lot of extra root growth, but unlike GCxA1 it mostly stayed in the cup, so the coco has been lifted up out of the cup by almost two inches. The same thing happened with the WA, to a lesser extent, and to some of my other plants in a previous grow. I think my automated watering was just right for the right windowbox, but the plants in the left tray (WA, GCxA3, GCxA1) weren't drinking quite as much, so the tray didn't dry out enough for the roots to air-prune. Not necessarily a problem, as long as the roots aren't causing them to tip over.
Unlike GCxA1, GCxA3 is also purpling. There are lots of purple bracts, and it's extending into the sugar leaves.
