What's up, fellow Weed Lovers and Canna-Fam!? It's #WeedWednesday which means it's time for another update to my 2025 Grow Log!
Honestly, It's been a trying and disheartening week this week with the autoflower plants. After reading the week 5 update of @felixxx grow log, I realized that something was wrong with my autos. Personally, I think that I left them inside for too long underneath my little grow light and it didn't give them any chance to stretch.
By the time I did put them outside, they had already passed that stretching window so I'm pretty sure these plants are just gonna be done for. I didn't really think about it at the time, but I did notice pistils forming, signifying that the vegetative state was now finished and that they wouldn't be growing much more from here on out. You can even see a small top bud starting to form on the Novakane!
I do have a few more seeds for these strains. So I will be able to germinate one more each and then I'll probably try to push them to the end of their life to be able to get some more seeds just to see if I can, because technically it's just a theory. I'm not sure if it is actually true or not. But the breeder that created these auto flowering strains had told me that it is possible and that all cannabis plants will drop seeds when they're pushed to the end of their life cycle in an attempt to carry on their genetics. So that would be pretty cool, if that's the case.
Again, these are like 95 days from seed to harvest. So I have to start the countdown all over again but it's ok, because we're only a month in. We have plenty more time left until winter. I'm just trying not to stay too down about it. Whenever I quit 2 years ago this was kind of the reasoning behind it. I was really discouraged, I didn't feel like I knew what I was doing and I just decided to give up because I just wasn't in the right headspace but that's that's an awesome part about growth. Personal, spiritual, whatever you want to label it as I feel a lot stronger mentally now than I was before.
And I feel like even though these plants failed, it's a good learning experience for me. I can germinate them inside again like I did, but this time just immediately start them out in their big pots. I think the only reason why I didn't was because of how wet and cold it was outside. I didn't know if they would get lost or whatever. I can't even honestly remember why I started them inside other than the fact that I thought it wasn't optimal conditions outside.
So hopefully the next 2 seeds that I start will do a little bit better. These ones looked like they were doing fine other than the burnt leaves they had early on. But they started out strong, so I'm hoping that I can just learn from this mistake and get these two grown!
The photoperiod plants are doing pretty good in my opinion but I guess only time will tell for sure. I started adding used coffee grounds to the soil and they're looking very vibrantly green which I think is really good!
As of now these plants are a little over 6 weeks old, and I'm not exactly sure how long they should take, but I don't have any more of these specific photoperiod seeds so I will be attempting to get some end-of-life seeds out of these babies. I believe these will be like any other photoperiod strain and shouldn't be done until around October, maybe November, depending on how long I have to push them to get those end-of-life seeds.
Other than that, I think the soil is working well. There's new growth on both the Lemon Kush and the Northern Lights x Perfect Circle strains, bright new vibrant green growth so that seems like a good sign that everything is going well with the roots!
The Lemon Kush is still steadily growing 3 leaves at a time, so it definitely is a 3 leaf mutation, which is cool in my opinion, but we'll see if that has any negative side effects on the plant moving forward! And unfortunately, I don't think I'll be trying to clone this specific plant thanks to that mutation so hopefully I get some seeds from her to try again!
I think that's gonna do it for this one, thank you all for checking out my blog, and I hope you enjoyed this update! Next week I hope to have a little bit better news on the autoflower front, so be on the lookout for that! Anyways, I hope you guys have a wonderful rest of your week and I'll see you in the next one!
- All photos featured were taken using my phone