The Church Outdoor

Part of my first ever grow, this plant has been a pleasure to grow. With a big surprise on week 10 showing how amateur I am :)

Following are pictures of her from seedling up to last Sunday which was the end of week 21.

I germinated in the soil directly, I didn't know about the thing where you should start autos in their final pot until later, so the church with other plants including autoflowers were started in this biobizz light-mix

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Yes, over-watered at the start, I have a gift for that :) I am going to start using an injector or mister next grow.

She was doing ok on week 3 and I repotted into 18L pot with biobizz light mix, 16cms tall

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all going well for a few weeks, still no nutrients given, I was trying to wait and see if I even need to give nutrients or if it is just an addition which I can do without. Here she is on week 6 70cms tall, she grow so tall and leaves were so big that stem couldn't carry her any more, I had to add support:
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At this point, most other plants I had started flowering except for the Peach Puree CBD which is a photoperiod, but the site I checked the Church strain info on said it was an autoflower, thought it strange that is hasn't flowered yet and carried on. Started feeding her week 9 as some other plants needed nutrients which told me that nutrients are actually needed :D

When we got to week 10 and there was no sign of flowering, I decided to check the details of the strain, and lo ad behold it is not an autoflower, I could have trained and done stuff to her which I avoided because I was told I shouldn't train autoflower (myth, now I know). Ok, so, week 11, tall photoperiod standing at 145cms, I decided I can't have her grow to 3metres so I topped her so now she is at 110cms and did some lst to spread all those branches:
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She grew some more and on week 17 started flowering:
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Beautiful tall bushy girl.
Here she is on week 19:
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There are too many leaves all over, so I thought I'd remove a few fan leaves here and there to get some more lights in. I shouldn't have had that edible before starting, I got too much into it and ended up removing way more than I intended:
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But she took it really well and is growing beutiful buds even with this rubbish weather. Barely getting any sun at all... On cold nights I take inside to save her as I've already had bud rot on another plant I had outdoor.

The bottom branches are forming really nice buds:

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But the top branches seem to think they are still vegging or very early flower:

I put this down to the fact that she is standing infront of a window and the top branches are getting some light when we turn on lights inside, so I moved her to not be infront of the window, hopefully she'll be able to produce something with those branches. Running out of time and getting really cold but I have a plan B, move her into garage under some LED pucks I have if needs be... for now, she spends the nights inside in the only covered area with a door wide enough to fit her standing at 210cms :D

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Not sure what I can do to speed it up, someone suggested I build a tent out of cardboard and make sure she only gets 8 hours of light a day. That is not really an option is the cardboard won't last a week in this rain. So I'll just keep her as long as I can, the light pucks I have are currently being used so she'll have to wait until the other plant is ready before she can go indoors (or the parts of her that survive going through the door), maybe I'll harvest the bottom branches first. We will see, I will keep you posted.

Thanks for reading! I'll update this post in time.
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So, this happened:

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Some sort of mold or fungus? no idea, but I'm pretty sure the cold and rain are not helping. I've chopped that branch off and removed the moldy bit, the rest id drying, I'll smoke something out of it :D

I needed to get her inside as soon as possible, so this made me harvest the Peach Puree CBD faster as she was using the lights, I brought the church in and put her next the peach for her final night, you can see both of them in this picture picture:

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She was too tall and I couldn't fit the above her, so some super cropping ensued:


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Was still not happy with how the lower branches are getting barely any lights so I did some defoliation and tied the lower branches towards the center of the plant so they are higher. Had to some reflective material lying around, so I wrapped that around her and she is looking very comfortable in her new home now:

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I've put some hay which I had laying around on the soil with some leaves I cut to act as some mulch which could be why she is drinking very little water, haven't had to water her since I brought her in 3 days ago (mind you she was under a lot of rain before that).

Some of the lower branches look like they will be ready soon so I've reduced the nutrients I give her and will start flushing next week.

Hope she doesn't grow any more mold or whatever that stuff is!
 
Planning my first ever grow outdoors with autoflowers in the PNW and am wondering if that's where you are located?

I will likely have similar problems with lots of rain and cold. I'm on an island though and we do get more sun than the rest of the PNW but we also get more wind. Hope the rest turns out well for you!
 
hey, no idea what PNW is, so no I am not there :)

Don't think you'll have any problems with autoflower. They'll start and finish in 10weeks or so. This girl is a photoperiod, and she she had grown so tall that she was getting light from the window at night which prevented her from flowering on time. Paired with the cold weather in the UK it didn't go as well as I had hoped. Stillo managed to get 120g of bud off of her though.

You'll be ok. just pop those seeds in and you are golden. I've had a few outdoor grows this year with autoflower much easier than photo in the cold weather.
 

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