4x4 Auto Apple Fritter grow

[JIMKSI64]

4 day drying tent trace
I guess if it's gunna fuck up going down is preferable to up.

 

[JIMKSI64]

Cleaned up. water later If my back allows.

 

[JIMKSI64]

Ferted both plants 1.8 liters foop at week 4 Adjusted to 6.36 .
Balanced side lights. 35k on sides 41k at tops. 2 runs on a backside at 14k will rotate this plant daily.

 

[JIMKSI64]

Update
Wow sidelighting. Ensure you rotate the plants every day. I missed a day or 2 OK 3 and now I got a plant with unbalanced growth. Looks like a weight lifter did only one arm. It's like 2 inches LOL.

 

[aggiefarmer]

They soaked up that side lighting!

 

[JIMKSI64]

Update
1 week drying tent trace
Guess I better look in.

 

[JIMKSI64]

Update
Well let's jar some pot.
New sensor after 10 minutes in jar.

 

[JIMKSI64]

Update.
Well 96 grams dried and in cure jars with the exception of this 3 inch stem with some flowers. Threw that in the smoking jar with the Florida Oranges.

 

[JIMKSI64]

Farted all jars both with sensors just about even at 64.5 and 64.7%
As per last run I put progressively larger amounts of pot as I only have 2 sensors. The smaller amounts hit 65 faster than fuller jars so as they hit 62 and get packs I rotate the sensor to another jar.
Plants doing fine. Backed lights off both side and top due to some damage on tops of crown plant. The flower hight back to even in plant I have to rotate.

 

[JIMKSI64]

Update
Moved floor down due to light within 11 inches of tops. New hight 18 inches.
Lights at 36k tops 33k sides
Ferted both plants week 6 nutes 6.33 pH 1.7 liters both.

Cleared some dead stuff from fade.
Strange to see new sugar leaves pop as other ones fade.

 

[Newbgrower1]

What is your average yield on an average auto. I am not basing my expectations on my first 2 auto grows which is just one really long grow weeks apart. 440grams wet for 2 plants is not worth running. I know I am doing better with the 2nd set of 2 but it is also an experiment with lights and such to prep for a big 2 tent 6 auto run. After that based on numbers I will go back to photos and prolly look at some better genetics.
Once I find 2 that I like I will do the clone thing as everybody tells me it's not that hard. I just have not turned on the research mode for cloning still working on top dress timing and extending nitrogen much farther into the grow. I also think my soil mix needs more perlite as I did not get even close to 2 liters per feed this last run and still had a 4 day refert cycle based on pot weight.

Sry this must’ve gotten buried in my notifications I just saw it. I just started growing autos last year. My outdoor autos got 5-8 oz per plant my indoor usually around 3-5 oz per plant. My first two indoor only produced about 2 oz each but I was using 3ga. Pots. And just learning. I think I started in cup then transplanted.
I’ve cloned a bunch since I started growing in 2020. I would say I get about 80% to show roots. All you really need is a rooting agent, a razor blade and some rubbing alcohol. I use rockwool cubes and a dome. But a red solo and a clear solo cup would be the same. Like I said I use rockwool cubes so I add a little of my rooting powder to a bowl of water then drop the cubes in for a day. When I’m about ready to start cloning, I empty the water out of the bowl and pick up a cube and kinda fling it to get the excess water out. Once they’re all set Get a cup of rm temp water. When your plant is in veg and healthy, take some cuttings and place directly into the water. Clean your table or cutting board and razor blade with alcohol. Remove a cutting from the water and place on table/cutting board. Figure out what size clone you want and remove the fan leaves at that node. Use razor to cut just below that node 1/8-1/4” below the node at a 45 degree angle. Hold the stem and run the blade backwards down the stem at your cut. Your trying to shave the bark a little. Dip cut end in a rooting agent then place in rockwool cubes.place Cube with the cutting in a cup of soil leaving the top of the cube exposed. Place the clear solo over top and put in a low light area. Maybe use the shade of your mother plant if you don’t have another place. Keep it humid by spraying the clear cup daily. Once you start getting new growth you can remove the dome. Take more cuttings than you want you can always gift or throw out extras.
There’s all different ways to do it but that seemed to work for me so I stick with it.
I have an apple fritter auto that’s about 1 wk into flower now and it’s getting pretty big. I had to bend the top down to keep it even with my bb cheese. But it’s still growing.

 

[JIMKSI64]

Update.
I will not have enough foop for 6 plants, even autos.
I am going to try Dr earth Organics for the 2 in my smaller tent. Gold and flower girl.
Cheap and I have several feed schedules for known strains. None for autos but no worries it's organic.
Just wondering how these 2 are going to land. One stacking and one still mostly at fur building stage.

 

[JIMKSI64]

Update.
So amazing watching the plants grow and change. The day count is now 79 just 6 days from last auto harvest. The topped plant looks very close and has already condensed the stems and has been stacking for weeks. Fade going on even with amendments.
The natural untopped plant is way behind. Just now starting to change pistle color and no calyxes visible. The fur pistles are much longer than the topped plant.

No service today other than light check and rotation of plants to even up the side light effects .
After the reduction in the tent hight last feeding I have noticed that per the settings for fans and lights the configuration change resulted in a temp drop of 1.1 degrees at canopy hight. I dropped the hight by 7 inches and this increases the volume of the tent allowing the warmest air to be 7 inches higher. I placed some temp cubes around and found the whole tent is mixing well from floor level to the tent top. With a cube shoved up into the extractor hose leading out of the tent reporting 81 degrees air moving out of the tent and 75 degrees 31 inches down at canopy top.
I had been worried as with modest lights I am at 75 but I am also at 75 with heat support. I plan on running just the 400 watt unit for 4 plants and I am not worrying about heat load now as I have another 6 inches of drop if I need it.
I find it amazing after a year and a half of growing and 2 tents I still learn different data points relating to physical properties of heat and humidity movement.

Got out some electric bills from the last 2 years. Kinda easy as the bill has a link to history. I can say with some numbers to back it up that the largest increase in electricity is due to my wife's medications for diabetes that make her hot all the time. We went from house at 74 AC on to 70 AC on and I even closed off unused rooms and the only room in the basement that has a vent open is the grow room.
I need a door at the top of the stairs to the basement to make any meaningful reduction in HVAC costs. My wife is vetoing this as honestly it is costing 50 bucks a month during the summer more for the increase in energy and the install of a door would mean boxing in a door frame as the stairway goes to the ceiling and I am unable to do stuff like this anymore.
But there is this.

Amazon.com

Hmmm
tape measure!

 

[JIMKSI64]

Update
5 days in a jar was enough to get some smaller buds dried up and ground down. Made a couple double wides out of tops 1.o and the Apple Fritter is much more potent than the widow. Burned down to a shorty the joint got me nice and toasted for almost 3 hours. No taste yet but not an offensive draw just a pot smell and taste.
It's night now and this stuff in a pipe is clogging up the screen with oil. Can feel it on palate like olive oil.

 

[JIMKSI64]

Update
Cure trace showing burping. The white widow stabilized at 65% and took 12 days of burping to go down to 62. This is 2 points higher and not dropping after 5 days. I am going to accelerate burping by brown bagging the pot and leaving it out for a 1/2 hour a day until it gets down to 64%

 

[JIMKSI64]

Update
Put my update in the train wreck because pot.
Foop 6.34 1.8 liters defolled and am happy. Topped plant in the landing pattern and untopped finally seeing color changes on pistles and retracting.

 

[JIMKSI64]

Weekly and monthly numbers ACi and Vivosun.

 

[JIMKSI64]

Pic dump
I am so happy I got to improve my knowledge this last run with the nitrogen issue. I can see now how both my yield and my potency were effected by failure to feed the plants.
The topped plant is close and this last burst of growth really is stacking. I have not been able to get the bulging wheat berries that signifies a good grow. Well look.

The untopped plant has a spectacular top missile forming up. This plant will prolly be alone soon and all of the sidelight will be on her. The sugar leaves are pretty and I do not think another

top dress of EWC will be needed.

Kool hobby.

No service other than rotation. Light check 38k at tops 30 on most side light buds. Lowest at edges at 22k

 

[JIMKSI64]

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Going to get a 10 pack. Sprout 5 and look for best mother and put in 31x31tent
Flower out other 4 or whoever makes it.
Relaunch next grow with clones.

 

[JIMKSI64]

Update

Not yet. One more feed for the topped plant soon. Has slowed drinking.