Thinking of chopping now. Almost 10 weeks in flower

[wallywonks]

Forget your Skunk dreams. It ain't happening. Choose something else. Try some of the Northern Lights from AK Bean Brains.

I want to try Northern Lights but didnt buy them the last 2 purchases. The one seed company in the UK took 45 days to send my order.
Supposedly got caught by customs 2 times.
They gave me freebies. I got Skunk #1, Blueberry Cheesecake, OG Kush Auto, Blueberry Feminized, Aurora Indica, Alaska Purple Auto, White Widow feminized, Dream Berry from them.
I have White Widow Autos, Super Skunk Feminized and Purple Kush Feminized from ILGM

 

[wallywonks]

Forget your Skunk dreams. It ain't happening. Choose something else. Try some of the Northern Lights from AK Bean Brains.

I really need a list of the best seed companies that are in the US and the best breeders. Its hard or takes too long to order from seed banks outside the US. Thats why I ordered from ILGM 3 times. I got them in 4-5 days since they are based in CA.
Is Greybeard legit? They seem to sell seeds from a whole bunch of breeders at a decent price.

I just found this on REDDIT

 

[hotrodharley]

I really need a list of the best seed companies that are in the US and the best breeders. Its hard or takes too long to order from seed banks outside the US. Thats why I ordered from ILGM 3 times. I got them in 4-5 days since they are based in CA.
Is Greybeard legit? They seem to sell seeds from a whole bunch of breeders at a decent price.

I just found this on REDDITView attachment 5052478

Absolutely NOT on Greybeard. Check JBC Seeds on RIU. In Washington. Fast and cheap shipping. Same with Baked Beans Seeds. California. That's 2 I deal with regularly. There's more.

I know for a fact Greybeard buys bulk seed from Seedsman and bags it as their private reserve. I know this because Mike and Robin at Greybeard both told me trying to weasel out of sending crap. That's pretty lame telling an unhappy customer that as their excuse.

 

[Dank Bongula]

I really need a list of the best seed companies that are in the US and the best breeders. Its hard or takes too long to order from seed banks outside the US. Thats why I ordered from ILGM 3 times. I got them in 4-5 days since they are based in CA.
Is Greybeard legit? They seem to sell seeds from a whole bunch of breeders at a decent price.

JBC!

 

[wallywonks]

Shots of the skunk buds day before Christmas. No snow outside. But snowing inside.

Didnt use Terpinator either.

 

[Herb & Suds]

Shots of the skunk buds day before Christmas. No snow outside. But snowing inside.

Didnt use Terpinator either.

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Very nice
two more weeks

 

[Dank Bongula]

 

[wallywonks]

I'm chopping the White Widow autos today. They aren't drinking anymore and they are looking like they dying. The smoke I cut from it 3 weeks ago was smooth and gave a nice head high. So I'm content to chop now.

The leaves are seeping resin too. I've never seen liquid resin drops on any pics online.

 

[wallywonks]

This from the bigger White Widow auto. Spent 4 hrs trimming her.

 

[wallywonks]

White Widow Auto #2
This was the runt I thought would never make it. It also was in a 3 gallon airpot instead of 5 gal like the other. Is a ruderalis phenotype only 21" tall the other was 40". The buds are softer then the other. Smell is a little different too. Has a minty diesel kind of smell to it.

 

[wallywonks]

The color of this super skunk plant and its buds is awesome. Still going to give them 2 weeks if I can. Watching trichromes but the one she's still trying to find pollen

 

[ZuuTeD614]

So I'm fairly new to Autos and I see you eliminate alot of lower branches. When do you start doing that on autos while in flower stage a little at a time ?

 

[wallywonks]

So I'm fairly new to Autos and I see you eliminate alot of lower branches. When do you start doing that on autos while in flower stage a little at a time ?

I thinned out some leaves on the top that would cover the lower buds from the light.
I didnt thin out my white widow autos a lot. The one was a stick and didnt need to trim that one. The xmas tree shaped one I did remove some leaves not getting light in the bottom half late veg/early flower. I also heat stressed it with the lights and low humidity which messed up alot of the leaves so I took them as they died.

The 2 super skunks are photoperiod plants. I heavily pruned them in vegetative and I pruned it in flower only the upper ones that were covering the middle to let light shine down. I left fan leaves on each branch on the outer parts of the bush. I tried to prune everything under halfway down the plant which I think they call lollipopping so energy goes to the buds and not larf or shaded leaves below.

I pruned it a bit then waited 2-3 days then pruned a bit more. You shouldnt take more than 50% of the plants leaves and try to keep as many big fan leaves as you can as they are the main energy makers or you wont get fat nugs with hardly any fan leaves.
Im a beginner this is just stuff I read about when I researching last Aug before I started my first grow.

 

[wallywonks]

So I'm fairly new to Autos and I see you eliminate alot of lower branches. When do you start doing that on autos while in flower stage a little at a time ?

As far as the branches on the skunks above I topped one and fimmed the other. So one is like 26" tall and the other is 43" tall. I let the main branches opposite each other alone. Eventually you can cut the single blade leaf and 3 blade leaf off. It will die anyways. Only have the branches that are opposite each other. Then part way up those main branches I cut off the side branching. Not a lot just a couple every 2-4 days or it can get shock.
You generally dont want anything below 50% but Autos only veg 3-4 weeks and grow some leaves a little in early flower so chopping branches and leaves if you do it then only sparingly and strategically.

 

[ZuuTeD614]

As far as the branches on the skunks above I topped one and fimmed the other. So one is like 26" tall and the other is 43" tall. I let the main branches opposite each other alone. Eventually you can cut the single blade leaf and 3 blade leaf off. It will die anyways. Only have the branches that are opposite each other. Then part way up those main branches I cut off the side branching. Not a lot just a couple every 2-4 days or it can get shock.
You generally dont want anything below 50% but Autos only veg 3-4 weeks and grow some leaves a little in early flower so chopping branches and leaves if you do it then only sparingly and strategically.

Ok thought I was having a watering issue by my auto started to bud and I removed alot of lower branches at once and the next day my leaves were all droopy. But it's been a few days since and my leaves are standing back up. Thabks for thr info man your plants look great! These are my autos ones on day 32 and thr shorter one is 5 days behind the one on thr right.

 

[wallywonks]

Ok thought I was having a watering issue by my auto started to bud and I removed alot of lower branches at once and the next day my leaves were all droopy. But it's been a few days since and my leaves are standing back up. Thabks for thr info man your plants look great! These are my autos ones on day 32 and thr shorter one is 5 days behind the one on thr right. View attachment 5056214View attachment 5056215

Nice plants. You're doing what I was thinking of doing. I was going to add my Giixer leds and put those on bloom for extra red wavelength during flower. I'm using them to veg my purple kushes that are going in the tent when the skunk girls are done. I just topped them this morning node 5 on all 4.

The purple kush is my 2nd grow. Still don't know what I'm going to grow after purple kush. I have blueberry cheesecake feminized, blueberry feminized, aurora indica feminized, skunk #1 feminized.

I'll probably grow 4 aurora indicas or 4 blueberry cheesecake. I'll prob flip a coin

I wanted to grow red hot cookies but they sold out. I want to grow a pink orange or red phenotype though. Barney's Farm has some but Pacific seed bank has some nice strains. I was looking at Alien Dawg and Alien Rock Candy earlier online

 

[wallywonks]

Ok thought I was having a watering issue by my auto started to bud and I removed alot of lower branches at once and the next day my leaves were all droopy. But it's been a few days since and my leaves are standing back up. Thabks for thr info man your plants look great! These are my autos ones on day 32 and thr shorter one is 5 days behind the one on thr right. View attachment 5056214View attachment 5056215

Also I noticed 1 hr before the lights are set to go off my kushes leaves droop a bit. Then when I check when lights come on their really perky again. Has something to do with blue light wavelength and circadian rhythm. The plants are in tune with when it's almost bedtime and when it's almost time to wake up. So that's not a watering issue in that sense

 

[wallywonks]

Ok thought I was having a watering issue by my auto started to bud and I removed alot of lower branches at once and the next day my leaves were all droopy. But it's been a few days since and my leaves are standing back up. Thabks for thr info man your plants look great! These are my autos ones on day 32 and thr shorter one is 5 days behind the one on thr right. View attachment 5056214View attachment 5056215

1 oz from the small auto and 2.85 oz from my larger white widow auto.
I'm happy so far with what I grew. The skunk ladies are heavier nugs though. Hoping the one pulls a quarter pound.

 

[ZuuTeD614]

Nice man yah autos a tricky I grew a photo my first indoor and it was awesome. Wanted to get it done sooner so I'm on my sec9nd run of autos now. The first batch got fried with some dry amendments I used for outdoors(indoors I didn't like at all), so now I got these and bought the Fox Farm Trio nutes. I'm on day 33 now and tried transplanting autos, one took it well while the other is growing but very tight nodes and a bush. I haven't used nutes yet because my soul FFOF and Happy Frog 50/50. But was thinking about giving the one budding a low dose to help her get through the flowering stage.

 

[wallywonks]

Updated pics of the 2 super skunks.
They just finished week 17. They are progressively changing to their fall colors.
The one is just beautiful. Redish purple with a little yellow. I hope that's resin she's pumping in the leaves on her last ditch effort to get pregnant. She's still swelling and pushing out white pistils. I checked for bananas today didn't see any. There's a lot more amber trichromes now. Maybe 1 week left. I fed her today more PK incredible bulk and some calmag.

I'm interested in doing a few things I've read about how to get her to increase resin production to ripen more. Lowered humidity to 35% yesterday. I raised my LED light 3 inches and raised the dimmer to 100%. Adjusted the fans to blow across above the canopy. Temps are 75 to 77F.