New Grower Dinafem Blue Amnesia XXL & Barney's Farm Critical Rapido

[AlterEgo]

Hey AFN,

My last journal was really unorganized and had a bad format so I trashed it. I am growing in a 2x2x2 foot grow room with a 250 watt CMH and organic soil. I am not exactly a new grower and have a few years under my belt but their is always room for improvement. I mostly grow outdoors in the brush, Guerilla style way down south in Texas. Hopefully we can chit chat and learn from each other here.

I got 2x Dinafem Blue Amnesia XXL Autoflowers and 1x Barney's farm Critical Rapido.

Enough jibber jabber, let's get on with it.

Dinafem Blue Amnesia XXL #1 (3 days from seed):

Dinafem Blue Amnesia XXL #2 (8 days from seed):

Barney's Farm Critical Rapido (8 days from seed):

 

[AlterEgo]

Dinafem Blue Amnesia XXL Autoflower #1: Day 8

Dinafem Blue Amnesia XXL Autoflower #2: Day 13

Barneys Farm Critical Rapido Autoflower: Day 13

*little bit of heat stress*

 

[AlterEgo]

Dinafem Blue Amnesia XXL #1, Day 13:

I am very impressed with this strain from Dinafem so far. The plants are very stable, great growth structure and she isgrowing almost exactly like her older sister.

Dinafem Blue Amnesia XXL #2, Day 18:

Big sister showed sex a couple of days ago. Shes about to start her stretch I think. She has also developed a very skunky smell with a hint of sour grapes. Again, impeccable growth structure with this strain. I am very impressed so far.

Barney's Farm Critical Rapido, Day 18:

It seems this is my problem plant. She is growing and developing just fine, but she is extremely sensitive to heat. My grow room never gets over 83 degree F and she still cups. She has some really funky looking leaves. Some leaves are mutated with 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 fingered fan leaves?!?! She is also root bound and is starting to yellow from the bottom. I can't transplant her into anything bigger than the 1/2 gallon because I have no more room left in my grow room. I decided to break the organic regimen on this plant and I gave a somewhat heavy feeding of Fox Farms Microbe Brew to try and get some her back on track.

 

[jackmc]

Welcome back and good luck!

 

[AlterEgo]

Welcome back and good luck!

Thanks boss! Yeah, I just went through a nasty breakup with my finance, where we had to call the wedding off 5 weeks before the big day. She's gone now, she took my cars, my money and my pride. I was in a really deep depression and on the brink of suicide until I remembered how much joy and happiness growing brought me. Dug up some seeds and got to work. I am starting to feel like my old self again.

I can't tell you how good it feels to grow after so long.

 

[AlterEgo]

Disaster has struck.


I'v been super busy last few weeks. I needed to go out of town for 5 days and told my sister to water my plants. Of course she forgot.


When I came home, the Critical Rapido was dead. The 2 Dinafems lost over 50% of their big beautiful dark leaves.

The 3 remaining plants have been recovering for a few days and they have clearly suffered. Thinking about pulling the plug in this grow and starting over. Or maybe I should start some new plants.


Thoughts?


In the meantime, here is my sad little grow.

Dinafem Blue Amnesia XXL #1 Day 37: She is 18 inches tall and lost 50% of her leaves.

Dinafem Blue Amnesia XXL #2 Day 42: She is 12 inches tall and lost 50% of her leaves.

 

[Waximus]

Major bummer, AlterEgo These are in bad shape, but look like that could be recoverable. Its going to be hard on the yield, but if you can get them feeding again, they may well finish as best as can. If it were me, and I had the room, I'd start some new plants, and learn what I could from nursing these ladies to harvest. Feel your pain.

 

[AlterEgo]

Even after the problems I faced the last 2 remaining autoflowers are coming to an end of their life cycle. I tried to help them recover as best as possible. I will say that I did like the genetics, growth structure from Dinafems XXL line. I just couldn't do them justice this round.


Here's a small update.


[FONT=arial, tahoma, helvetica, sans-serif]Dinafem Blue Amnesia XXL #1 Day 52: This one is tall and more on the sativa side. Very resinous, more sticky than her older sister. There isn't as much bud as I wanted but what is there is very dense and smells like nasty musty socks. It is not a pleasant smell at all unless you rub your fingers on the buds. She is quite colorful and should be ready in 1-2 weeks. I think the high will be nice on this one.[/FONT]
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[FONT=arial, tahoma, helvetica, sans-serif]Dinafem Blue Amnesia XXL #2 Day 57: This is one looks straight indica and is really short. Produces great resin but not as much as the sativa pheno. This plant had sooooo much potential to yield and I couldn't seize the moment. But it did recover somewhat. Smells very pungent. Not like berries at all but rather skunky, not afghan skunky though. Hard to really put my finger on it. It's the kind of funk that you smell and automatically think, "Oh, that's weed."[/FONT]
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[AlterEgo]

Things are getting interesting so here's an update.



Dinafem Blue Amnesia XXL #1 Day 60 (Sativa pheno): This thing is loaded with dense, thick bud from top to bottom. About 18 inches tall. Covered in dense crystals! But it smells bad. Like nut sack, sweat and skunk all mixed in together. No joke. I hope it smokes/cures ok. With that said, I am still excited. As long the high is good, I'll be satisfied.


This one looks like it may need a couple of more weeks since I still see many white hairs and mostly clear/cloudy trichomes. No Amber yet. I cut all the sparse little popcorn buds off to let them focus on the main buds. I'm just seeing if they fatten up more. I have read that most autoflowers perform best if you let them go 12 weeks or so.

Dinafem Blue Amnesia XXL #2 Day 65 (Indica pheno): This thing is about 12 inches tall. It's very stocky but also covered in pretty dense bud. Much denser than the XXL #1. It smells AMAZING! Like blueberries and classic 80's Skunk weed.


My only gripe is that it is not as frosty as her younger sister. The trichomes are smaller in size but whenever I touch the buds, my fingers get super sticky, more so than than the other auto. Almost as if it is more greasy than crystaly. Also, this one has more red hairs than the other plant and may finish 1 week sooner. But I still might let her go for a while.

 

[AlterEgo]

So I have been sampling lower buds from both my autoflowers for over 2 weeks. I probably sampled 7-10ish grams from each plant. I stopped today and I went ahead and harvested both Autoflowers. It looked ready to me. Most of the leaves have yellowed and fallen off/died. Basically, buds on a stick.



I am very pleased with the density, aroma and display of colors. The main colas on both plants are as thick as a baseball from top to bottom. I honestly won't be surprised if they both yield 1.5-2 ounces dry together. Considering my problems with this round, I am very pleased with the end result from these 2 stunted runts.


Dinafem Blue Amnesia XXL #1 Day 73: I really like the high, very cerebral, very thought provoking. As you can see, I sampled way too much off this plant. She is pretty though and completely frosted. About 18 inches tall. Smells like wet gym socks but high is amazing. Can't wait to dry/cure this one. She is rock hard, with fox tailing towards the last week. No amber, almost all milky.

Dinafem Blue Amnesia XXL #2 Day 78: This is really stoney weed. Leaves me dazed and confused with a ferocious appetite. I sleep like a baby with this one. Smells like really strong skunk. Like 80's Afghani. Although only 12 inches tall, this one is even more dense than her sister. I sampled a lot from this plant too and the high is really different form the other plant. I am very pleased with this runt.

Going to hang these to dry in my closet for 3-5 days then into jars for curing/storage. I'll post dry weight when they are ready for the jars.

Anyway, round 2 will be better. I promise.


Thanks for looking.