New Grower My first grow - 5 Autoflower plants started ~3/28/2013

Dinafem White Widow Auto (Week 3 Day 6): This little guy was the worst of the bunch, still is pretty small all considering how old she is. I'm hoping I get 1/2 oz :( I noticed the other day when the soil was really dry, right at the base of the stem the root/stem seemed to curl up almost making a "U" shape and then back into the soil. Something about that doesn't seem right? I covered it up with soil. I probably should of taken a picture.

I know im a bit late chiming in, but that "U" shape in the stem is from the seed being placed in the soil upside-down. it usually does not stunt it as much as it slows down the growth. I'd hit it with some FF kangaroots, and a little superthrive.

Nice looking baby girls so far!!!
 
Good luck on your 5 plant run. I just completed a 5 plant run, got a tad bit over 11oz in mason jars yesterday. Just burped them for a hour. And it has the place smelling. Going to be burping inside the tent with the extraction fan running. Just shorten my burping time. But a bit of advise remember to shuffle the plants everyday. Rotate that stock. Subbed.

Wow 11 oz!! I'm going to have to check out your grow journal. I'm assuming that's dry? I'd be so happy with half of that :D Ahhh I haven't been rotating them everyday, I do it with every watering generally.

I know im a bit late chiming in, but that "U" shape in the stem is from the seed being placed in the soil upside-down. it usually does not stunt it as much as it slows down the growth. I'd hit it with some FF kangaroots, and a little superthrive.

Nice looking baby girls so far!!!

Thanks, that's what I figured. I have 2 plants like that, the White Widow and 1 of the Kush Ryders. They were the slowest of the 2 and have picked up in the past week and a half. All of my plants are starting to look great, I've been foliar feeding them.

I just watered them today, will try to post pics either tomorrow or sometime this weekend. It's been awhile :)
 
Update: Week 6 Day 2 for most plants and ~week 3.5 for Photo. Both the Kush Ryders caught up and are now flowering, bud sites everywhere. The Blimburn is no longer one of the bigger plants, however, it is the most far along, biggest buds of the gang so far.

The G13 Diesel and Dinafem White Widow are still vegging it seems, I'm not sure how, but they only have small preflowering pistils, but no buds. I'm wondering if i'll have to 12/12 them. The G13 diesel is also the tallest at probably 19-22 inches.

My photo is doing great, topped it. Here are some shitty iPhone pics, was too hung over to do any real shots.

114.jpg115.jpg117.jpg120.jpg122.jpgWW.jpg

Oh and I also completely decided to stop PHing my organic grow. Tap water with chlorine removed, all organic nutes, no ph up or down. 1 watering 1 feeding so far, no ill-effects. I'm gonna make those little microorganism bastards earn their keep.
 
It's been awhile since my last update, things have been rolling along. So since going completely organic (no ph up or down), the plants have been well for the most part. I got signs of deficiency, at some point, then increased the nutes... then there was slight nute burn. I've been trying all sorts of stuff on top of the Roots Organic nute line, I've added VermT for a few feedings, there's also a free tea at my local ponics shop. All in all i'm pretty satisfied with where my girls are. On top of it, my 6th plant, the photo is doing great. We took a few clones off of her about 1.5-2 weeks ago and all of them are doing well. I setup my closet as a mother/clone room and am using my pll-tek4 lamp (20k lumens) for that.

The LEDs are really doing well for me, the plants are out growing the tent, especially sideways. They're so bushy now. For awhile I had the G13 Diesel Auto and Blimburk AK auto mixed up in the pictures. The pictures below should reflect that.


Blimburn Ak Auto - This is by far the biggest of the 5 autoflower plants that i'm growing, it has so many nodes and is the tallest. I'd say it's probably almost 3.75 feet tall and very bushy, as you can see. This guy has been through it all, nute deficiency due to the ph up and down killing all the microorganisms, then nute burn when I loaded them up. Never had to flush, just cut down on the nutes and watered as normally would. She's always been the biggest, but was the last to flower of the 5, really late. She's really tall and sativa like. I'm hoping the buds will really fatten up.

Blimburn AK Auto_1.jpgBlimburn AK Auto_2.jpg

G13 Diesel Auto - This one was the biggest of the 5 for awhile, fastest developer... it is now the smallest of the 5 but the most progressed. Like the advertisement on attitude, it's a christmas tree like plant. The main cola is fattening up very nicely. This one hasn't had much problems for me, was the easiest to grow. There were barely any issues with it besides some eagle clawing early on, since then it's been great. 2 feet to 1.75 feet tall maybe?

G13 Diesel Auto.jpgG13 Diesel Auto_2.jpg



Dinafem White Widow Auto - This guy was the runt of the 5 for the longest, now it's almost as big as the Blimburn, albeit more lanky. I have now determined the early stunting due to the mistplacement of the seed, it did the wraparound up and around back into the soil. Whenever I water in the area you can see it. It was the 2nd to last to flower, it flowered maybe 1 day earliar than the Blimburn, which was very late. The pistils are really white on this plant, same with the 2 above. This guy is around 3.5 feet tall

Dinafem White Widow Auto.jpg


WoS Kush Ryder 1 - Both Kush ryders pretty much started flowering at the same time. One might be a day or two ahead. I'm not sure if this is a phenotype difference but this kush ryder is very thick, stocky, and the plant seems slightly darker green and the pistils are extremely white. It sorta looks like the G13 Diesel, forresty dark green. Both the Kush Ryders were fed quite a bit more nutrients as I heard Indicas love the nutes. They have been very easy on me, no problems at all beside the early slow growth.

Wos Kush Ryder 1.jpgWoS Kush Ryder 1_2.jpgWoS Kush Ryder 1_3.jpg

WoS Kush Ryder 2 - This one is somewhat different than the first KR1, it's taller, slightly lankier and the buds are not as close together. The pistils on this guy are also slightly more orange and from what I can tell more resemble the pictures of the WoSKR I see on this site. I fed this guy extra nutes and he has been loving it.

WoS Kush Ryder 2.jpgWoS Kush Ryder 2_2.jpgWoS Kush Ryder 2_3 Orangey Hairs.jpgWoS Kush Ryder 2_4.jpg

Blue Rhino (Photo) - this mother has been transplanted to a 2 gallon a few weeks ago and since has been thriving. Regular every other nute feeds have been paying off. I fimmed her at about week 5 or 6 and there are now 4 main colas. We took 4 clones off of her at about 2 weeks ago and those clones are fully rooted into small pots. I will be transplanting them to 2 gallon pots in a few weeks, when the autos are done. I have no pictures of the mother / clone room, but will get those up as soon as I get a chance.

The Gang.jpg

That's all folks, feel free to post any questions or comments!
 
All the pics above were taken with a crappy Nikon I got, wow does it suck. My buddy took this with his iPhone a few days ago, it was probably the best "artsy" photo. This is one of the lower colas on the WoS Kush Ryder 2

iPhone WoS Kush Ryder 2.jpg

I'll be hitting Week 9 (day 63) this Thursday for most of my plants. When do you guys think I'll be harvesting? What do you guys think I'll be yielding? Take a wild guess :)
 
The ladies are looking great, Dictate! :D

It's fun to see how your Auto AK and WOS AKRs are turning out! My auto AK turned out to be male, and so late to even show sex I thought it was a photo-sensitive plant. :shrug:

I'm growing outside, and my AKRs are pretty much ready at nearly 12 weeks. You're growing indoors so they will likely be done weeks earlier... I can really see the difference between indoor and outdoor in the same strain which is COOL, even though mine are the smaller ones. :check:

I'll be hitting Week 9 (day 63) this Thursday for most of my plants. When do you guys think I'll be harvesting? What do you guys think I'll be yielding? Take a wild guess :)

I have no estimate on *when* you will harvest with indoor being so different, but I do have a guess on the yield: MORE THAN MINE!! :rofl::crying:

I recon they will all be stoney, though!
 
The ladies are looking great, Dictate! :D

It's fun to see how your Auto AK and WOS AKRs are turning out! My auto AK turned out to be male, and so late to even show sex I thought it was a photo-sensitive plant. :shrug:

I'm growing outside, and my AKRs are pretty much ready at nearly 12 weeks. You're growing indoors so they will likely be done weeks earlier... I can really see the difference between indoor and outdoor in the same strain which is COOL, even though mine are the smaller ones. :check:



I have no estimate on *when* you will harvest with indoor being so different, but I do have a guess on the yield: MORE THAN MINE!! :rofl::crying:

I recon they will all be stoney, though!

I'm sorry to hear yours turned out male :(

None of my plants are really showing yellow leaves yet, like yours, so I guess I still have a while to go. 3 of the autos are currently at day 73, and 2 are at 71.

I saw in another thread (recently) a guy had a dinafem white widow auto at like 60 inches tall and went 110 days+. I'm hoping mine don't take that long. They will probably goto 90 days I bet.

If I can pull a combined 8 oz dry from all 5 of my autos, I'll be a real happy camper :D
 
Week 10 day 2 Update. These pictures were taken Saturday 6/8 and the plants are in the 71-73 day range.

Blimburn AK Auto -
This guys stocky as hell and his main cola is huge. Most of the leaves are still really green. Gave it a feeding 3 days ago and am now basically watering every 3 days. They are real thirsty. I feel this guy has maybe 1-2 weeks left? Will probably cut him on day 90-95.

Blimburn AK Auto_1.jpgBlimburn AK Auto_2.jpgBlimburn AK Auto_3.jpgBlimburn AK Auto_4.jpg

G13 Diesel Auto Day 72 - The tallest and has the most colas, albeit small. He was the latest to flower and his colas are just filling out. I don't expect them to get too big as it looks sativa heavy. It's really clogging up my tent, part of its pushed up against the wall and the leaves on that side were yellowing.

G13 Diesel Auto_1.jpgG13 Diesel Auto_2.jpgG13 Diesel Auto_3.jpg

Dinafem White Widow Auto Day 72 - Another one to late flower, it is also just starting to thicken up. This runt has come along way.

Dinafem White Widow_1.jpgDinafem White Widow_2.jpg

WoS Kush Ryder 1 - he isn't as tall as WoS Kush Ryder 2 but he's really stocky. The pistils are starting to orange. I think there's at least 3 weeks left on this guy. I want a nice 30 percent amber 70 percent milky.

WoS KR.jpgWoS Kush Ryder 1_1.jpgWoS Kush Ryder 1_2.jpgWoS Kush Ryder 1_3.jpgWoS Kush Ryder 1_4.jpgWoS Kush Ryder 1_5.jpgWoS Kush Ryder 1_6.jpg

WoS Kush Ryder 2 - The taller of the two Kush Ryders, the buds are really developed and it looks like the pistils are starting to recede. I still see plenty clear and no amber yet. Probably another 3 weeks as well.

WoS Kush Ryder 2_1.jpgWoS Kush Ryder 2_2.jpgWoS Kush Ryder 2_3.jpg

and last but not least, with this first grow of autos almost done, i'm looking ahead to grow 2. The autoflowers were planted in 3 gallon smart pots, I decided with my photos (Blue Rhino), I was going to do 6-7 2 gallon pots instead. I had a mother plant that's roughly 8-9 weeks old, have taken several clones off of her already and they're thriving. These guys are under my tek 4 lamp.

Blue Rhino Mother and her clone army.

Mother and her babies.jpg

My feeds have been consisting of 3/4 gallon of water with 1/4 gallon compost T free from my local hydro filled with 10-15 ml RO Buddha Bloom, 5 ml Buddha Grow, 5 ml GO Cal MAG, 5 ml bud candy (only non-organic material), 10 ml RO trinity. I might go get some molasses this weekend and introduce that as well. 1 feed, 1 water, 1 feed, 1 water every 3 days.

I'm really not sure when I should stop feeding, so I will continue to feed 2-3 more times over the next 1.5 weeks, then flush last 1.5 weeks.
 
Nice job bro looking good that auto ak is looking very tasty!
 
GEDC0722.jpgGEDC0721.jpg GEDC0621.jpgHey man though I would share the top from my AK-Auto with you. I grew mine under 3-1000watters and it got huge. Total plant was about 5 feet tall just this top i chopped off it looks like it could be its own plant... I am going to have to throw you some max rep for having some beautiful ladies though.... +6:slap:
 
Back
Top