Autopot with Air Dome Grow! 2 Layer Cake x Runtz 2 Apple Fritter.

[420BigBud]

Day 58 of Flower
I'm harvesting one of the Layer Cake x Runtz she's ready to go. I've removed alot of her fan leaves.

The buds aren't massive but they're dense and covered in resin.
Just hung her up there now you can see my environment is dialled in at 16 degrees celsius and 57% humidity.
7 to ten days I'm aiming for with the dry.

 

[TerpBeans]

Very nice looking buds

 

[420BigBud]

Very nice looking buds

Thank you
They're supposed to be 28% THC so should hit hard

 

[420BigBud]

First time using this system and canna coco nutrients so there is definitely room for improvement but I'm happy with my results so far. The roots surrounded the air dome.

 

[TerpBeans]

Thats an awesome amount of roots bro!!

 

[420BigBud]

Thats an awesome amount of roots bro!!

It's the most roots I've had. These 8.5 litre pots mean I can fill 4 with one bag of coco coir with some leftover. Next run I'm gonna try not using any perlit so I can just keep using the same coco coir over and over.

 

[420BigBud]

First Layer Cake x Runtz dry trimmed and weighted. It weighted in at 62 grams, I'm a bit disappointed with the weight thought it would be 90 grams but hopefully the other 3 ladies can do better on the scales. I smoked a j of it and it's nice smoke good high but it still needs a couple weeks cure.

 

[420BigBud]

It's day 70 of flower the end of the grow. The remaining Layer Cake x Runtz and 2 Apple Fritter have been chopped down and hung up to dry.

The plants are too tall for my dry space so pulled the branches together and bent the plants tieing garden wire around them which worked a treat.

I must make sure my humidity stays below 60% to avoid any powdery mildew because pulling the branches together like this is going to make air flow through the plants harder and it's more likely for leaves to over lap and buds to touch but we must work with what we have. I'm going saving up to buy the Vivosun vcure I need it.
Here are some pictures of the buds now.

 

[TerpBeans]

Looks like a great harvest!!

 

[420BigBud]

I've cleaned up the Autopot system pretty easy with a hose and water only. Only took about 30 minutes and I'm ready to use them again. Lots of roots with this system
Here's the Layer Cake x Runtz

And here's one of the Apple Fritter

Looking at how strong the roots are and the large amount of them I'm thinking there's lots of room for improvement on the quality and quantity of bud I can harvest here.
I'll have to try a few things differently on the next run.
I've cleaned all my equipment and I even painted the grow space today too

 

[greengrower73]

I've cleaned up the Autopot system pretty easy with a hose and water only. Only took about 30 minutes and I'm ready to use them again. Lots of roots with this system
Here's the Layer Cake x Runtz
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And here's one of the Apple Fritter
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Looking at how strong the roots are and the large amount of them I'm thinking there's lots of room for improvement on the quality and quantity of bud I can harvest here.
I'll have to try a few things differently on the next run.
I've cleaned all my equipment and I even painted the grow space today too
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Hey, nice job with your girls. I hate those air dome bases, you'd be better off with Hydroton / clay balls up to and over the domes. I have been using the Autopots the past 5 years and I bought the bases but I have a much better root mass without the bases. I think in this pic I'd used a 6" net pot for the air dome with air stones.

 

[420BigBud]

Hey, nice job with your girls. I hate those air dome bases, you'd be better off with Hydroton / clay balls up to and over the domes. I have been using the Autopots the past 5 years and I bought the bases but I have a much better root mass without the bases. I think in this pic I'd used a 6" net pot for the air dome with air stones.View attachment 2633498

Well I've seen your flowers that you've posted here and they are very impressive looking. That looks like 4 inches of roots around those clay balls holy fucking shit
If you're starting a run and posted it on THCFarmer I'll be following along taking notes
What nutrients and genetics are you running?

 

[greengrower73]

Well I've seen your flowers that you've posted here and they are very impressive looking. That looks like 4 inches of roots around those clay balls holy fucking shit
If you're starting a run and posted it on THCFarmer I'll be following along taking notes
What nutrients and genetics are you running?

Hi, thanks for that, I use General Hydroponics 3 part plus a bunch of their other additives. I get my Genetics through friends or online from some of the breeders. I've been running Captain Redbeards stuff this year or so with Bubba Mac n Cheese, Blue Dream, 4 Lemon Lava Lime going now as seedlings. Also from Dragon Flames Genetics, Blackberry Moonshine, Zamelda Dreams, Garlic Stash,

 

[420BigBud]

Hi, thanks for that, I use General Hydroponics 3 part plus a bunch of their other additives. I get my Genetics through friends or online from some of the breeders. I've been running Captain Redbeards stuff this year or so with Bubba Mac n Cheese, Blue Dream, 4 Lemon Lava Lime going now as seedlings. Also from Dragon Flames Genetics, Blackberry Moonshine, Zamelda Dreams, Garlic Stash,

Nice one for the information all sounds like great stuff fire as the kids say. General hydroponics I'll have to give them a try after I finish using all my canna nutrients.
That Lemon Lava Lime sounds interesting.
I hope you start your grow thread now with those seedlings here lots of people would enjoy following their grow stages

 

[420BigBud]

I just finished trimming and weighing everything up
Here are the results.

LCXR 1=62g
LCXR 2=192g
AF 1=110g
AF 2= 99.5g

Adding everything together for a total weight of 463.5 grams or 16.55 ounces or 1.02 pounds.

I'm absolutely blown away by these results. I was setting myself a goal of pulling a pound out of this 3x2 foot at some stage well mission accomplished

As you can tell from the picture it's all frosty goodness. I'll take some bud pictures tomorrow if people want to see them.

 

[420BigBud]

Here's a couple of buds from the Apple Fritter No 1

 

[420BigBud]

I got some new genetics in the post today which I'll be using for my next run.

I've grown some Mephisto genetics a couple of times before Mango smile and Fourm Stomper. They were both excellent plant's to grow and smoke very good terpenes better than any photo period I've grown.

I think I'm going to try one of each strain. This should be a fun and crazy grow 4 autoflower plants in a autopot in a 3x2 room sure what could go wrong it will be fine.

Any thoughts or ideas welcome and if you see me doing something wrong temperature too high EC too high or anything at all please say it don't worry about my feelings just think of the plants.

I'll be starting this run tonight everything is set and good to go.

 

[420BigBud]

Got my room set now I'm aiming for 24 degrees and 78% relative humidity. I'm going for coco coir and put the seed straight in about half an inch deep.

it will be a few days at least before I see seedlings. I plan on keeping my ec lower in this run start them off at 0.6 ec at one week old rising to 1.4 at start of stretch and topping out at 2.0 max in flower. I'll be low stress training them and even selective picking amount of tops to have if things get out of hand.

 

[420BigBud]

I'm having a go at making some hash out of the trim from my last harvest.
I have bubble bags and a bucket of ice cold water. There's not a lot of trim but I need to learn how to do this rather than throwing away my trim.

Some hash for me yippee

I need a bigger bucket for these bags and a grater for these tomorrow.

Making hash is pretty fun bet I won't be saying that tomorrow when I'm gratin my fingers to the bone.

 

[420BigBud]

I see life today in the grow room and one little lady still has her helmet on.

Whats the best way to remove it?
I just put the dome back on and will check again in a few hours and hope it's off.