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Re: Teetee's back on the Autos again!

PostPosted: Sun Aug 18, 2019 11:46 pm
by teetee
Ah ha ha.... not so fast.... skin up another fat one and here's the latest news about my grow....

It's day 91 here, and the Toofless Alien came down on day 87 and 88. Here she is now...
day 91 TA.JPG

.... with Night Queen just behind. You can see how many branches the Alien had... there was a lot to crop on her :cool:

Anyway, the Alien is now drying.

All that's left now in the main tent is the Glueberry OG Auto.... she is absolutely massive, and now pretty much takes up the whole tent by herself.

Here she is from the front door....
day 91 GB front.JPG

I stood on tip-toes and held the camera up high over to get a view of the canopy. I could only manage about 45°.........
day 91 GB front close.JPG

To get an idea of the width of this Dame, here's a view of her left side and the back of her, taken from the side window, with the front door there on the right......
day 91 GB side.JPG

Here's a closer look at the sheer volume of bud.....
day 91 GB side close.JPG

... and finally, her main cola...
day 91 GB cola.JPG

Those of you who have been following this grow from the start will remember the Glueberry is a Siamese twin.
One seed produced 2 seedlings.

I trained them out and let them both have a chance. One, without any doubt, became dominant (GB1), and completely overshadowed her little Sister (GB2).

This shot shows the 2 plants in the same pot, with GB2 on the right....
day 91 GB2 1.JPG

In fact GB2 just grew a single main stem with very little branching. You can see the stem just disappear in to the mass of colas from her big Sister, and pop out to the side.....
day 91 GB2 2.jpg

I pulled out GB2 to give you a look at what she gave me.....
day 91 GB2 3.JPG

..... and a close up of that cola.....
day 91 GB2 4.JPG

Once I finish this post, I'm gonna start taking her down. She's been flushed for 4 days, then had one day to dry out, and has been in the dark for 12 hours.

There's one more plant left in this grow, the Blue Amnesia XXL. She's doing well on 12/12, responding well to the aggressive supercropping, and is now concentrating on making buds....
day 91 BA 1.JPG

Here's a closer look at the back right....
day 91 BA 2.JPG

There's just masses of tops, all filling up with flowers, and it's no different on the left either.....
day 91 BA 3.JPG

She's on an EC 0.8 mix just like the others were on......House and Garden Cocos A&B, Roots Excellurator, Cal Mag, Bud XL, Drip Clean and Bud Candy, at pH 5.8.

It's been 15 days since I flipped her to 12/12, so there's still a long way to go.... 6 weeks, at least.

Thanks for dropping in, now I must skin up and get my axe out for that Glueberry!
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Re: Teetee's back on the Autos again!

PostPosted: Fri Aug 23, 2019 11:44 pm
by teetee
Well the Glueberry took me 4 days to take down. :roll:
I have her hanging up in her tent..... and my back is KILLING me.

I wish I had something that deals with pain, rather than having to take pills and stuff.... oh hang on.....
GB crop 2.JPG

There's a good few ounces in this lot.... I hate harvesting but this Glueberry was a pleasure to work on.... minimal fan leaves, and the sugar leaves stuck out nicely for a clean trim.
GB crop 3.JPG

So here she is... finally done.
GB crop 1.JPG

I will have a dig around tomorrow to see what's happening below the surface, and find out where that Siamese Twin came from!

Meanwhile for the other tent, I got my new Skyline 800 yesterday (thank you Muddy!) so I ripped out the old Helios and Photon LEDs, and put in the new kit, plus a couple of Skyline 400's....
day 97 BA 1.JPG

Look at the legs on that filthy Bitch!

There's no more than a foot of space between the lights and the canopy...
day 97 BA 2.JPG

.... but the canopy is choc full of bud!
day 97 BA 3.JPG

That's day 96!!!! about 3½ weeks into flower!!!

Have a smokin' weekend!
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Re: Teetee's back on the Autos again!

PostPosted: Mon Aug 26, 2019 11:23 am
by ledbud
WOW you going get some fat buds with all that skyline.
SEA OFF GREEN tops looking very nice .
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Re: Teetee's back on the Autos again!

PostPosted: Mon Sep 02, 2019 5:02 am
by teetee
Time for another update, it's day 104, just the Blue Amnesia left, and she's 32 days into 12/12.

Now that the Autos are done and dusted, jarred and curing away, I've moved the Blue Amnesia from the 1.2m x 1.2m tent into the old 1.4m x 1.4m tent... just a tiny bit more room around the sides now, plus better 6 inch intake and extraction.

Now I have the slightly bigger tent, I have all my Skylines available to use........ I have my shiny new 800 (thanks again @muddy-ledhydroponic), my original four 400's and two 100's all up....
Day 104 BA 2.JPG

I dunno if the tent can take anymore strain.... it's leaning to one side a little and even the reinforced mesh roof is bending. :lol:

I've had to put this much lighting in because of the lack of height space... reduced spread of light coverage etc. Any excuse, really!

Here's a shot of the amount of space I have, and you'll see what I mean....
Day 104 BA 1.JPG

The canopy is sort of sloping down as you go into the tent... the stuff at the front is taller, so I have to crawl under the plant, and pop up at the back of the tent to get a better view....

Here's looking from the back at the left side...
Day 104 BA 3.JPG

....and the right side....
Day 104 BA 4.JPG

ledbud wrote:WOW you going get some fat buds with all that skyline.
SEA OFF GREEN tops looking very nice .
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You're not wrong Bro..... check this lot out.....
Day 104 BA 6.JPG

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Day 104 BA 7.JPG

I've just started giving PK13/14, and hope she's got about 4-5 weeks left to go.

Glueberry is all jarred up now, along with the rest of the Auto crop. It's so nice to see so many full jars of herb!

Here's some dry weights for you.... all solid buds, no fluff.

Night Queen 6.10oz (173g)

Toofless Alien 8.56oz (243g)

.... and....

Glueberry OG.....the Conjoined twins..... 2 plants from one seed, one much more dominant than the other.

The runt gave 1.02oz (29g)

The Big Sis gave a stonking 14.52oz (412g)

15+ ounces from one seed! :grin:

Harvesting this lot was not as much of a pain as expected, the nugs were all beautifully shaped, instead of the usual knobbly jobbies I get when using Top Shooter etc.... no foxtailing at all, just nice, evenly matured, really sticky bud.... and loads of it.

I saved all the sugarleaf and any lower fluff to make some more Canna Coconut oil.

The Toofless Alien and Glueberry really delivered, and I'm well pleased because I kept this grow as simple as possible with regard to all the nutrients and additives I gave.

The Alien in particular gave me no trouble at all during the grow. She literally grew herself. I have one last seed, and it's a limited edition mephisto strain, so it's no longer available :cry:

The Glueberry needed considerable effort to get her to perform.... but what a show she gave us!
To knock up 15 ounces from one plant, especially an Auto, not just once, but consistently.... (this is my 4th Glueberry over 13 ounces), it's every grower's dream!

The Night Queen was perhaps a little lightweight, but that's probably because she had a lockout around week 4.... a crucial time, and she's an early finisher, so she didn't have all the time she needed to really pack it on. Nevertheless, the bud she gave is the usual super strong heavy hitter.
Very strong mango smell, and I remember a previous mango Night Queen also giving similar issues in veg and comparable final amounts. The strawberry milkshake pheno is a bigger producer, and can take a stronger feed.

Quality wise, this is probably the best crop I have produced.

So after 5 years of insisting on using expensive late bloom boosters, I am never going to use them again.

I also didn't use the (pricey) H&G product 'Amino Treatment'. It contains silicon as well as the essential Amino Acids that the plants needs..... I found this made no difference, if anything, not using it allowed me to keep constant levels of A&B during veg instead of having to reduce A&B as I increased the added Amino Treatment in order to maintain the same EC.

On the subject of EC... apart from being at EC 0.7 for the first 2 weeks, they remained on EC 0.8 for the entire grow. There was no need to go round pushing up the EC... they just took what they could get from the (mostly once a day) feeds.

That will do for today, thanks for looking in!
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Re: Teetee's back on the Autos again!

PostPosted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 1:14 pm
by ledbud
WOW another epic grow teetee bro.
Maybe make small holes on top off tent and hang the big skyline to the celling bro.
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Re: Teetee's back on the Autos again!

PostPosted: Wed Oct 16, 2019 2:49 pm
by ledbud
How you house move teetee.
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Re: Teetee's back on the Autos again!

PostPosted: Fri Nov 01, 2019 6:30 am
by teetee
Wow, It's been a while, but a lot has happened.

First a bit of catching up..... this post is from mid September.... day 116.

116??? WTF you might ask

Basically back in May, I planted a bunch of Autos, with the intention of getting a quick harvest before we move home.

3 out of 4 flowered as normal, under a 20/4 lighting regime.... one wouldn't.... the Blue Amnesia.

It wasn't until day 73 when the penny dropped and I realised it turned out to be a Photoperiod. I moved her to a new tent and flipped her to 12, and lo and behold, she bloomed.

So back on day 116, she's 44 days into flowering.

The problem with a 73 day veg period, it that you get MONSTERS, so I had to do two phases of major supercropping, and got a mesh screen over her to maximise what little overhead space that I had.

A shit load of defoliation under the mesh, and I'm greeted with this as I open the tent....
day 116 BA 4.JPG

The mesh screen is 120cm above ground and about a metre above the top of the coco.

I really don't have much space.... about 20-30cm between the canopy and the lights, which are at maximum height.....
day 116 BA 5.JPG

The supercropping has allowed me to create a massive canopy 1.2m squared. I had to be brutal, but as you can see, she responded well....
day 116 BA 6.JPG

It was after the first round of supercropping was done to all the main upright stems when I put the mesh screen over, so what you're seeing under the screen is that.

The second round of supercropping was done to all the shoots coming off the (1st round of supercropped) stems that grew above the net, and you might see a few green cable ties holding down some of that lot.

Are you with me so far???

Anyway, getting a decent pic of the canopy is pretty tricky, I have to crawl under to the back, and pop up between the two lights at the rear.

She won't fit in one frame, so this is the area on the left....
day 116 BA 2.JPG

.... then the centre region....
day 116 BA 1.JPG

...and the right part.....
day 116 BA 3.JPG

Then I came up with the idea of using the 'panoramic' function on my phone, and got this......
day 116 BA pano.JPG

.... and even then I can't quite fit her all in one frame!

The buds are fattening up nicely, and are loading up with a good coating of trichomes..... pistils are beginning to brown off, so she won't be long now.....

.... but she won't be done before we move, so I'm faced with an early chop or to somehow hide this beast from 2 open house inspections AND a move interstate.

I have a complicated plan all worked out in my hazy mind, and I'll let you how it goes in the next post!
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Re: Teetee's back on the Autos again!

PostPosted: Fri Nov 01, 2019 6:45 am
by teetee
ledbud wrote:How you house move teetee.
:cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:


Mate it was a total headfuck with Military precision and timing!

Skin up, spark up and enjoy the read!

Day 129..... 57 days into bloom, and there's an open house later in the day.... we're moving out and the Landlord wants the place viewable for future tenants.

I've been planning for this, and I was ready to go as soon as I finished my wake and bake. Joint out, made another fat one (you know how it goes) and got to work.

Here she is then.... ready to start her new adventure.....
Day 129 BA inspection 1.JPG

Lights out is usually 8am, so on the dot, I unhooked all the yoyos and dragged her out of the tent. I had fed her the night before, and so after 12 hours of light, she wasn't excessively heavy.

I got one of those plastic dust sheets you can get from DIY shops and wrapped that around her to gather everything up towards the middle. The plant was 1.2m by 1.2m wide so getting her through doorways would be a problem unless I could get her width down to 80cm.
Day 129 BA inspection 3.jpg

I stuck a load of black bin liners together, 6 by 3, with some parcel tape to make a kind of tarpaulin.... over that went, followed by another load of black bags.... all held together with more parcel tape......
Day 129 BA inspection 4.JPG

What a kinky bitch!!!

Anyway, I eased her through the door, lugged her downstairs, staggered outside, and dumped her in the carport.

I never throw shit out, so finally I had found a use for the cardboard box for a fridge we bought a couple of years back.....
Day 129 BA inspection 5.JPG

I doused it in orange oil spray, parked the cars around it and got back to getting the tent down for the impending open house later in the afternoon.

I'm not gonna lie.... she stank!

But all went well, and the rabble came and went without a hitch.
I got the plant back inside, and skinned up again, the relief of not getting rumbled was incredible.

We got more and more caned, I couldn't be arsed to get the tent, fans and lighting up again for 'lights on' and the next day, we continued getting caned..... it wasn't until 5pm when I decided it was time to free her from her bondage...... when I ripped open the plastic, it was drenched inside! She'd been sweating like a Nun in a cucumber patch.

I had planned to use the same method again 3 days later when we had to move out... wrap her up in plastic, get her on a van and back in her tent in the new gaff by lights on...... but after the stress of the open house, I didn't fancy going through all that again, and seeing all that humidity build up in her gimp suit made me think the whole lot would be lost to rot if I continued, so I took drastic action......
day 130 BA chop 1.JPG

Officially day 130 chop.... 58 days after flip.

Have a look at that blanket of bud!
day 130 BA chop 2.JPG

It was nice and juicy, the trichomes all milky, so why not just finish this grow once and for all.....
day 130 BA chop 3.JPG

I had shitloads to do, what with moving house and packing, cleaning etc, so cropping had to be done late at night.

I started my usual way, stem by stem, manicuring as I went, and hanging them in perforated cardboard boxes. 3 days went by in a blur, then it was move day.

The night before, I did as much manicuring as I could, but by 3am I was still left with a mountain of bud to deal with, so I just started chopping it all down, leaves and all.

I got a packing box. lined it with some packing paper, and laid out a load of stems on top. then some more packing paper, and then another layer of stems.... again and again like some kind of ganja lasagne.

I squeezed it down and then continued filling the box with the stems that I'd previously cut and hung, layer by layer until the box was stuffed. I taped it up and labelled it 'spices', doused it in orange spray, and put it with all the other boxes for the removal boys to load up in the van.

It took about 5 minutes for the whole house to stink of pungent blueberry.

'Oh I wish my house smelled like yours' said one bloke. 'Mmmmm' said another, 'that smells like strong stuff mate'. Then he went on about having to move 10 bin bags full of Peyote once, and how he's seen 'everything'.

These Guys were gonna be OK..... I could imagine some companies refusing to move drugs interstate, but this lot were fine about it!

Anyway, we made the move, and after everyone had gone, I sat down that night and thought about how I was gonna dry all this wet weed.

I was sitting in the large lock up space beside the house.... everything was packed in there... piles of boxes.... and slowly it all came together in my head.

I put up the new 1.2m² wide 2m high tent, hung up a filter and 6 inch extraction, and set to work unpacking the 'spice' box.

I hung the longer stems in some boxes, and clipped the shorter stems to a few sock hangers. I still had a load of smaller buds and stems to dry, and suddenly remembered I had this hanging net thingy I bought and never used a few years back.... all stashed in a box, somewhere in the piles of boxes in the lock up.... found it quite quickly, and hung it up in the tent, after scattering the last of the bud over it.

Being back in Suburbia, I have to be a bit more careful about prying eyes, so I came up with a solution to make the drying set up more stealthy.....
day 138 BA drying 1.JPG

Mrs Tee wan't happy about me using her precious screens, but you'd never guess, would you? Especially the bt of paper over the 'Grocell' label :lol:

Then you open the screens......
day 138 BA drying 2.JPG

..... and unzip the door......
day 138 BA drying 3a.jpg

Some manicured stems and a few with leaves still on.
day 138 BA drying 4.JPG

.... and another, all with leaves on. I figure this will slow down the drying process as they wrap around the buds and hold the moisture in a bit longer.....
day 138 BA drying 5.JPG

So 2 boxes full, and 3 sock hangers as well.

Some of it was manicured....
day 138 BA drying 6.JPG

.... but most of it was leafy AF....
day 138 BA drying 7.JPG

The sock hangers are great, easy to load up, and easy to hang....
day 138 BA drying 8.JPG

I was pleased I remembered I had the drying net. I couldn't be bothered to individually wet manicure all that and brown paper bag it all. I was well knackered from all the moving, so this was a nice lazy solution.
day 138 BA drying 9.JPG

I put the extraction on its lowest setting and let them rest for a good while.

On day 144, 14 days after the initial chop, I decided to do he final manicuring, weigh up and jar up. I'd probably left it a bit late, they were well dry.

It was pretty easy clipping off all the leaves, and eventually I made a couple of nice piles of nugs....
day 144 BA dry haul 3.JPG

The top pile of larger buds weighed 185g. The bottom pile weighed 246g. This was all the stuff from the boxes and the sock hangers.

The next day I went through the stuff on the drying net..... another 91g.

The bud has very nice bag appeal.... rock hard nuggets covered in sparkly trichomes......
day 144 BA dry haul 1.JPG

day 144 BA dry haul 2.JPG

If you tot up the numbers, you get 522g in total..... 18.4 ounces of bud from one plant.... a Blue Amnesia XXL Automatic that developed into a Photoperiod. Dinafem doesn't sell Blue Amnesia in a Photoperiod, so this is a rarity indeed. And so fucking much of it as well!!!!

I grew Blue Amnesia Auto 2 grows ago..... this smells the same... pungent Blueberry with a deep rich aroma. Guess how much the Auto gave me in comparison.....

521.6g..... 18.4 ounces...... what an incredible coincidence! :cool:

So there we have it, this was quite a grow..... I started with 4 Autos in a cardboard box. One became a Siamese twin, and another decided to be a photo.

1378 grams or 48.6 ounces all jarred up! I'm well happy with that!

Thank you for joining me and seeing all the bullshit I have to deal with to get some decent smoke, and I hope you have as much success with your grows!
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Re: Teetee's back on the Autos again!

PostPosted: Sun Sep 20, 2020 3:31 pm
by ledbud
Amazing teetee bro.
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