Indoor 4x Auto Cinderella Jack + (I think) 1x Auto Mimosa Punch + 1x Sweet Bourbon Kush

[AutoflowerChief]

Week #1

Starting out in my kitchen on the floor... yet too stingy for a tent xD

The "big" plant on the left is the last of my outdoor grow - a Glamour Automatic, rescued from my greenhouse because of bad weather period (with 100.0% budrot guarantee).

I planted 7x Auto Cinderella Jack directly into my probably too hot soil, what may be the reason only 4 of 7 germinated (3 given up after around 2 weeks).

 

[AutoflowerChief]

Week #2
4 of my Princesses did a good job so far... 3 of them no job at all.

 

[AutoflowerChief]

Week #3

Going into week #3 the non-performers still do not perform. (They went in the trash and were replaced by 1x Auto Mimosa Punch and 2x Auto Sweet Bourboun Kush seeds)

The 4 Auto Cinderella Jack's growth was compact. VERY compact. For some time I feared, if they grew any more compact, they might form a micro black hole in my kitchen.

Found some white boards left from an old wardrobe.... tadaa: reflective surfaces for free xD

Two of the 4 Princesses got decapitated above node #3 and lacking alternatives I attached some clothespins to pull leaves down, so the branches below would receive more light.

 

[AutoflowerChief]

Week #4

Day 23:

Day 25 afternoon, next experiment:
-remove the nasty green stuff coming out of those branches on 2
-LST on nodes 1+2 of one of the defoliated plants

First proof of the fight against the fungus gnats (improvised water trap):

 

[AutoflowerChief]

Week #5

Just one photo, the war against the f-gnats escalates slightly, now a bigger improvised water trap. ^^
On the right edge of the photo you can see the 2 of 3 seeds that germinated in between.

 

[AutoflowerChief]

Week #6

Un-f...ing-believable I stripped them naked, I cut them, I bent them, f-gnats gnagging on their roots... seems those Cinderella Jacks can take lots, looooots of pain.
Real resilient princesses.

 

[AutoflowerChief]

Week #7

Decided to get rid of a lot of that nasty green flappy thingies coming out of those plants. AGAIN.

Yes, Mommy. I know Mommy. Not too much stress on autoflowers. They have no time to recover. Yeah yeah... (blabla?) No, Mommy, 'course I would never even dare to stress autos in flowering.
PS: first preflowers appeared between weeks 3 and 4

 

[AutoflowerChief]

Week #8

Plants showing some diffuse symptoms. Light stress? Nutriant burn? F-Gnats terror? All combined?

Decided to end guesswork and to buy some good pH and EC soil sensors.

Model: Aqua Master Tools H600 Pro Substrate
Price: a shit load of Euro bucks compared to that cheap China shit... never trust cheap China shit!

Then: SHOCK! pH too high, ECs in runoff measured between 8 and 12. So time for some therapies...

The camera on my handy does some really shitty color balancing on fotos... diffuse symptoms: yellowing leaves, curling leaf tips, spots on leaves...

Under given circumstances there was no choice but to administer them all some rounds on the Cannabis Enema Stool:

Quiet effortsome work to correct pH and EC levels.

Positive this week:
They still seem to have plans, slightly above 20cm of height, yet they build an infrastructure capable of supporting the weight of an apple tree. xD

And my new friend for weeks to come:

 

[AutoflowerChief]

Week #9

Symptoms manifest themselves more, especially on the plant in the top left.

YET I am facing a god damn JUNGLE... AGAIN! We know what to do... xD

In the back: a 1kg (2 pounds) bag of sugar as measurement

At this point I have cut hundreds and hundreds of leaves... on one single plant ALONE.

As you can see in this picture war with Fungus-Gnatsistan escalates further, now I use those yellow sticky traps...

 

[AutoflowerChief]

Week #10

Seems those little princesses consider it particularly smart to grow compact. Compact as compact can be. In any direction.

So time for more of (what I actually deem the most effective training on these plants) some 80s style stretching aerobic:

Yeah baby, stretch baby, feel the pain... no pain, no gain! xD

Actually as I found out quite a while later I did stretch the poor little thing a little to rough and the stem did burst, there was a vertical crack between 2 nodes I discovered later on.

But hey, what doesn't kill us, makes us stronger.

Speaking of strong... did someone let my plants watch some bodybuilding shit on TV for too long?

Last, but not least:
CHEERS to my friend again!