Indoor Barney's Farm - Purple Punch Auto (First grow)

[Cannaficionado]

Hello everyone.

The buds look to be starting to grow. How do they look?
I started giving her 2.5L every 2-3 days with 20ml/L of natural NPK 5.5-5-7.5 and 24h light (this light cycle began the last time I posted here but I forgot to mention it

Looking at @Cannaficionado 's grow, I reckon she has 2-3 weeks left since you started this time earlier than me and you are harvesting now, right?

Have a good day guys

What is the breeder recommended harvest window? By the looks that plants got 2+ months to go. If the buds just started growing, id say what about 2-3 weeks ago, depending on strain, most strains go at least 65-70 days in flower. Mine are photoperiod plants. I usually only grow photos unless I see an interesting auto I wanna try out. I just harvested my plants today. I think it would be 73 days since the flip to flower. My breeder reccomended is 60-75 days of flowering.

These are just reccomendations, though some strains will go longer, sometimes a month over what the breeder reccomends. That was the average window they were harvesting at when breeding. Always go by trichome maturity. They begin clear, then over the course of flowering they will get cloudy then eventually turn amber. About 5-10% amber is what I shoot for. This gives you a balanced high in my opinion, a little bit of couchlock effect but you still have the energy to do stuff. The more amber the more of that sedated couchlock effect you will get. Peak thc content is right before they go amber. When very few are still clear and most trichome heads are cloudy. That 90-95% cloudy, basically 0 amber and just a few stragglers that are clear.

When checking trichome maturity you will notice that the sugar leaves will mature faster than the bracts/calyx trichomes. Since the bracts/calyxs have the highest density of trichomes always go by the bracts. Your gonna end up trimming most of the sugar leaf off during trim if you like nice tidy buds. If you dont mind untrimmed bud leave most of the sugar leaves on. I myself keep as much trichomes on the buds as possible so I just trim off where the trichomes stopped being so dense on the leaf.

 

[whiterose55]

Vendor says 8-9 weeks. I am at week 9 now. What am I missing?

 

[Cannaficionado]

Vendor says 8-9 weeks. I am at week 9 now. What am I missing?

8-9 weeks after flowering starts on a plant. That does not include veg period. In autos full flowering period starts about a week to 2 weeks after your preflowers start showing up, or when the plants starts showing it's sex. If you look at my grow thread my plants are 5 months old 1.5 months of veg, and 73 days in flower

 

[whiterose55]

OK I get it now, thanks. So basically she's halfway there now.

 

[Cannaficionado]

OK I get it now, thanks. So basically she's halfway there now.

Ok glad I could help out. Just remember dont always go by what the breeder reccomended. That's just the average harvest window. You could end up with very weak flowers if you just harvest within that window and dont get a good look at trichome heads.

Amazon sells very cheap handheld microscopes that either Bluetooth or connect to your phone through wireless internet that the microscope itself puts out. Its not actually connected to anything it just throws out a wifi signal for your phone to connect through. They come with a lens guard on them which usually is the start of a good focal point when trying to get it in focus with the dial.

This is what I have though mine is blue. It comes with a stand but I just put on gloves and rest it against the sides of the buds and rest my phone on my light. Some people use microphone stands with articulating arms. Amazon has those for pretty cheap as well

https://a.co/d/gV82Ixe

 

[whiterose55]

Hey I need a quick advice guys.
Soon I will be away from home for about a week, so I will not be able to water the plant unfortunately.
What do you suggest me doing? I am thinking about 3 alternatives:
1) ask a friend to water the plant (unlikely they will agree)
2) use drip bags
3) build a automatic watering system with arduino

For the latter, I am so afraid to build it wrong that it will overwater the plant or even severely underwater her.
What are your recommendations?

I found online the auto pots which will water the plant automatically, but they look expensive. Should I try that for the next grow?

 

[Cannaficionado]

Hey I need a quick advice guys.
Soon I will be away from home for about a week, so I will not be able to water the plant unfortunately.
What do you suggest me doing? I am thinking about 3 alternatives:
1) ask a friend to water the plant (unlikely they will agree)
2) use drip bags
3) build a automatic watering system with arduino

For the latter, I am so afraid to build it wrong that it will overwater the plant or even severely underwater her.
What are your recommendations?

I found online the auto pots which will water the plant automatically, but they look expensive. Should I try that for the next grow?

Auto pots would be my go to. If you wanna build a drip irrigation system thats fine but if it dont work or malfunctions when your gone then theres nothing you can do but auto pots work with gravity and capillary action so your pots will always stay the right moisture, autopots also make a tray to grow system that works well with regular fabric grow bags

 

[whiterose55]

Auto pots would be my go to. If you wanna build a drip irrigation system thats fine but if it dont work or malfunctions when your gone then theres nothing you can do but auto pots work with gravity and capillary action so your pots will always stay the right moisture

Is it possible to move this plant to an autopot? I see online the AutoPot XXL with the fabric bag (35L). Maybe I can cut my current fabric bag (bought cheap on amazon) and move the whole plant to the new official bag?

 

[Cannaficionado]

Is it possible to move this plant to an autopot? I see online the AutoPot XXL with the fabric bag (35L). Maybe I can cut my current fabric bag (bought cheap on amazon) and move the whole plant to the new official bag?

You could try but I wouldn't. You just started flowering and you risk stunting if you do that. You could always just build a wicking bas for your pot and just make sure it has a large reservoir to feed from. Id say 3 gallons would be more than enough for a week. I built one a while back but I hardly use the system, I like hand watering too much.

I just use a regular plastic grate style plant riser stand and got some wicking rope and ran it through 4-6 holes on the riser and put the riser on top of a gallon sized container. You could even go for a saucer for 10 gallon pots. You just might need to make the feet of the riser tall enough to sit above the water when full. But my saucers for 10 gallon pots are like 4 inches deep and 20 inches across, they hold 2 gallons of water easily. Its just like the ac infinity or vivosun wicking plant bases, just not as pretty

These are the saucers I used it just got ones big enough to hold the amount of water I want, I just put the dimensions in Google minus like an inch of height to get the volume in gallons

https://a.co/d/9HeOQXN

And these risers are tall but you still might need to add some height

Amazon.com : Gro Pro 725677 NX Level Pot Elevator, 16" : Patio, Lawn & Garden

Amazon.com : Gro Pro 725677 NX Level Pot Elevator, 16" : Patio, Lawn & Garden

a.co

And the wicking rope

Amazon.com : ORIMERC 100ft 1/5" Self Watering Synthetic Rope, Hydroponic Capillary Wicking Cord for Indoor Outdoor Garden, Automatic Planter Pot Waterer,Keep Tomato Orchid Plants Moist, Auto Watering System Device : Tools & Home Improvement

Amazon.com : ORIMERC 100ft 1/5" Self Watering Synthetic Rope, Hydroponic Capillary Wicking Cord for Indoor Outdoor Garden, Automatic Planter Pot Waterer,Keep Tomato Orchid Plants Moist, Auto Watering System Device : Tools & Home Improvement

a.co

 

[whiterose55]

You could try but I wouldn't. You just started flowering and you risk stunting if you do that. You could always just build a wicking bas for your pot and just make sure it has a large reservoir to feed from. Id say 3 gallons would be more than enough for a week. I built one a while back but I hardly use the system, I like hand watering too much.

I just use a regular plastic grate style plant riser stand and got some wicking rope and ran it through 4-6 holes on the riser and put the riser on top of a gallon sized container. You could even go for a saucer for 10 gallon pots. You just might need to make the feet of the riser tall enough to sit above the water when full. But my saucers for 10 gallon pots are like 4 inches deep and 20 inches across, they hold 2 gallons of water easily. Its just like the ac infinity or vivosun wicking plant bases, just not as pretty

These are the saucers I used it just got ones big enough to hold the amount of water I want, I just put the dimensions in Google minus like an inch of height to get the volume in gallons

https://a.co/d/9HeOQXN

And these risers are tall but you still might need to add some height

Amazon.com : Gro Pro 725677 NX Level Pot Elevator, 16" : Patio, Lawn & Garden

Amazon.com : Gro Pro 725677 NX Level Pot Elevator, 16" : Patio, Lawn & Garden

a.co

And the wicking rope

Amazon.com : ORIMERC 100ft 1/5" Self Watering Synthetic Rope, Hydroponic Capillary Wicking Cord for Indoor Outdoor Garden, Automatic Planter Pot Waterer,Keep Tomato Orchid Plants Moist, Auto Watering System Device : Tools & Home Improvement

Amazon.com : ORIMERC 100ft 1/5" Self Watering Synthetic Rope, Hydroponic Capillary Wicking Cord for Indoor Outdoor Garden, Automatic Planter Pot Waterer,Keep Tomato Orchid Plants Moist, Auto Watering System Device : Tools & Home Improvement

a.co

I found lots of DIY self watering wick tutorials, can I follow any of those? Do I just need to place the fabric pot on this thing and it waters her automatically?

I would like to grow 2 plants at a time with a 2 months delay between each other (so I would have a harvest every 2 months, right?).
I should plant the second seed in about 1-2 weeks.
Should I buy a 2 pot autopot kit with a big tank for the next seed and the one that will replace my current plant?