Visited all the plants yesterday, so here's an update.
The Auto Ducks are definitely stretching a bit. Buds are chunking up nicely. I gave them some flower power to help the process.
In the polytunnel, the last of the first wave of autos are all flowering: Purple Moon Rocks, Super Kush and double headed Skywalker (Zaphod). So I took them away to be planted out at a GG plot.
Sadly the smallest and youngest Santa Marta auto seems to be on her way to death. The other four are all fine. The Supa Freak Show regs really need to go in the ground, but their plot isn't ready yet. The Freakshow autos are still small, but slowly getting bigger. I brought four more Sawney's Beans autos from the second wave to nestle among the peppers and marigolds.
Later on I went to the Bramble plot, to plant out the three flowering autos from the polytunnel.
The importance of airflow and late afternoon sunshine became clear when I discovered rot on three autos, which were in late flower or close to finishing when the heavy rain hit last week. Both the small Finnish Auto Blueberry were badly affected. The shorter of the two had black mould all over the buds, nothing could be salvaged. The taller girl lost her main cola, but the lowers were unaffected. I chopped both, most ended up in the compost but the lowers came back to HQ. The shorter of the two Auto Bubblelicious was also badly affected by rot, the classic brown variety. I cut her main cola and threw it away, the lowers have been left to hopefully ripen.
I can imagine that all the autos got a good soaking, but the very small ones were overshadowed by neighbours, such as the absolutely huge Auto Mazar. Similarly the shorter Auto Bubbleicious was overshadowed by the Auto Mazar, and a six foot plus White Widow Duck photoperiod to the west. So presumably these three plants did not get enough breeze and direct sun to dry their buds after getting wet. The taller Auto Bubblelicious, Super Kush Auto are unaffected for now, the rest of the autos are still in early flower so less susceptible to rot.
In hindsight, I should have chopped the Finnish Blueberry last visit, and perhaps I should have left more space between these earlier plant outs. Once the two Auto Bubblelicious have been harvested (possibly next visit) I'll leave their planting holes fallow, as the tall plants to the west are only going to get bigger, blocking out more light in the afternoon and early evening. They also block most of the prevailing wind.
Here's a photo round up of the other autos, all doing fine just now. Apologies if some are a bit out of focus, I had. a lot to do and it was getting late...
Auto Mazar
Super Kush Auto
Auto Bubblelicious
Skywalker
LSD
Small Lecter
Crystal Meth with dark purple buds
I expanded the mega-cage and planted the three new autos. They all got some flower power, and I gave a small drink to every plant on the plot too. By this point the sun had set and it was getting dark, so I headed off.
The Auto Ducks are definitely stretching a bit. Buds are chunking up nicely. I gave them some flower power to help the process.
In the polytunnel, the last of the first wave of autos are all flowering: Purple Moon Rocks, Super Kush and double headed Skywalker (Zaphod). So I took them away to be planted out at a GG plot.
Sadly the smallest and youngest Santa Marta auto seems to be on her way to death. The other four are all fine. The Supa Freak Show regs really need to go in the ground, but their plot isn't ready yet. The Freakshow autos are still small, but slowly getting bigger. I brought four more Sawney's Beans autos from the second wave to nestle among the peppers and marigolds.
Later on I went to the Bramble plot, to plant out the three flowering autos from the polytunnel.
The importance of airflow and late afternoon sunshine became clear when I discovered rot on three autos, which were in late flower or close to finishing when the heavy rain hit last week. Both the small Finnish Auto Blueberry were badly affected. The shorter of the two had black mould all over the buds, nothing could be salvaged. The taller girl lost her main cola, but the lowers were unaffected. I chopped both, most ended up in the compost but the lowers came back to HQ. The shorter of the two Auto Bubblelicious was also badly affected by rot, the classic brown variety. I cut her main cola and threw it away, the lowers have been left to hopefully ripen.
I can imagine that all the autos got a good soaking, but the very small ones were overshadowed by neighbours, such as the absolutely huge Auto Mazar. Similarly the shorter Auto Bubbleicious was overshadowed by the Auto Mazar, and a six foot plus White Widow Duck photoperiod to the west. So presumably these three plants did not get enough breeze and direct sun to dry their buds after getting wet. The taller Auto Bubblelicious, Super Kush Auto are unaffected for now, the rest of the autos are still in early flower so less susceptible to rot.
In hindsight, I should have chopped the Finnish Blueberry last visit, and perhaps I should have left more space between these earlier plant outs. Once the two Auto Bubblelicious have been harvested (possibly next visit) I'll leave their planting holes fallow, as the tall plants to the west are only going to get bigger, blocking out more light in the afternoon and early evening. They also block most of the prevailing wind.
Here's a photo round up of the other autos, all doing fine just now. Apologies if some are a bit out of focus, I had. a lot to do and it was getting late...
Auto Mazar
Super Kush Auto
Auto Bubblelicious
Skywalker
LSD
Small Lecter
Crystal Meth with dark purple buds
I expanded the mega-cage and planted the three new autos. They all got some flower power, and I gave a small drink to every plant on the plot too. By this point the sun had set and it was getting dark, so I headed off.
