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 coda
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 AK-47 x Diesel AutoFlower FINAL HARVEST PICS (COMPLETE 1-23-10) 
#316727 - 11/16/09 05:19 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Thanks to a kind donation I'm finally able to grow an auto-flower strain. Ak-47 x Diesel, the plants in the first two pics are about 4 days old, the plant on the right in the third pic is about two days old, and the one on the left just popped through the surface last night. The smallest one is pretty vigorous, when I checked this morning a tap root was already poking through its side.
I was hoping to have more, but poor germination rates plagued me. Out of 15 beans those were the only survivors. I'm just hoping the luck will swing my way and I'll end up with all girls  .
The medium is 1.5 cups of perlite mixed in with .5 cups of verm in 18 oz solo cups (Hempy grow). Once sexed the plan is to move to 1 gallon containers for flowering. This is also my first time growing hempy, these plants are a test run for when I grow my other strains sitting in my veg cab. It'll also give me a little bit of supply to hold me over while the other plants finish.
So, we'll see how things go. I'll get to fine tune my flowering cab and get it tweaked out and practice growing hempy style. Can't wait to see what the buzz is like from the auto-flowers 
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coda
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Re: AK-47 x Diesel AutoFlower [Re: coda]
#323896 - 11/30/09 06:10 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Pic 1: This is a sprout I like to call "Mirac", somehow a seed fell out of one the peat pellets I thought was dead. A few days later I opened the veg cab to see the seed leaves poking out from underneath the plastic holder that contained the peat pellets. So I hydrated a peat pellet, stuck the sprout into it, and let it sit. Somehow it made it through so now I have one more to add to the collection.
Pic 2: All the girls in a row, two on the far left are the younger ones
Pic 3: Older plants
Pic 4: Older plant on right, other two are the younger ones.
This marks about day 20 for the older ones, day 15-16 for the younger ones, mirac is probably on day 5-6 although I'm not certain of her time line. So, I'm not sure if the problems I was having before came from underwatering, a PH imbalance, or both. I've started watering them every day now pretty much (skipped last night because they looked fine). They also get food with every watering, still sticking with .5 tsp per gal. One more week and I'll bump it up to a full tsp and see how they handle it. Once I started feeding/watering every day growth has picked up, the leaf curl has been pretty much eliminated, and some green has come back to the lower leaves which had started to yellow (although some of the single blade leaves are beyond repair).
I'm hoping to see sex within two weeks, and I'm pretty sure soon after the flowering process begins. Just will have to wait and see I suppose.
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coda
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Re: AK-47 x Diesel AutoFlower [Re: coda]
#328392 - 12/07/09 09:07 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ok, so I lied, there's some pics because I ended up having to move stuff around anyways. I'll get some of the plants out from underneath the HPS sometime soon, they all look fantastic (if not just a tiny bit droopy from transplant/water).
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coda
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Re: AK-47 x Diesel AutoFlower [Re: coda]
#330538 - 12/12/09 10:33 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Day 30
Just thought I'd give a small update with some of my faster producers. Bud production is going very well, these three above are definitely outpacing their sisters. The lower leaves on most of the plants are getting a nice coating of frost. I was having a small problem with a too alkaline solution. I was only feeding .5 tsp per gal so I'm guessing my Ph was around 6.5 or so. So the plants had a day or two of problems absorbing nutes, all of the plants new growth on the tips had curled under. However, I just let them sit, and eventually it worked itself out after a night. I just Ph tested solution containing 1 tsp per gal and it came out at around 6 or so which should be just fine. If they still want a lower Ph I now have a bottle of Ph down. Finally there's my new can filter which I had to buy because the gf complained about the smell. My first time using one, I plan on buying some L brackets and mounting the fant on the wall. I'll make a little shelf and secure the filter to the wall with a piece of chain. Hopefully that will reduce the smell enough so she's happy. It was only fifty bucks so it wasn't too much of a hit on the wallet.
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coda
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Re: AK-47 x Diesel AutoFlower [Re: coda]
#334657 - 12/21/09 06:57 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Here's the pics I snapped last night. Sorry for the crappy quality, I'll get this POS Digi to work right one of these days.
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maggotz
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Re: AK-47 x Diesel AutoFlower [Re: coda]
#335451 - 12/23/09 07:21 AM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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haha that looks so awesome. i have to try one of these af strains sometime.
one time i did a little experimenting and i got this little plant to flower and i am not joking it can't have been more than 20cm high, and this was outdoors. haha i barely got enough out of it to make like 2 or three joints but it looked so funny. i wish i still had all my growing pics. 
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coda
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Re: AK-47 x Diesel AutoFlower [Re: coda]
#336195 - 12/25/09 12:14 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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I don't know if any of you remember the seed which germinated on its on in my tray? Well as luck would have it I ended up with another girl lol. So that's 7/7 for my af's. This is the last one I have and will be put into a two gallon pot tomorrow when home depot opens again. She's around 25 days old right now so about 2.5 weeks behind the others.
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Re: AK-47 x Diesel AutoFlower [Re: coda]
#336433 - 12/26/09 12:26 AM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Love that set up!
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coda
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Re: AK-47 x Diesel AutoFlower [Re: coda]
#337609 - 12/28/09 07:06 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Fed the two largest ones tonight @ 3 tsp FN Bloom/Gal. The rest of the plants will get fed tomorrow. Snapped a few quick pics while I was in there. Oh yah, I wear a size 11 if anyone was wondering
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coda
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Re: AK-47 x Diesel AutoFlower [Re: coda]
#341114 - 01/05/10 07:17 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Day 55
Here's a quick picture update, group shot and then some close ups of the plants on the far left in the group shot. Wish I could get some better closeups but my lighting is really poor and it blurs too much. Trichome production is going a lot better then the pictures let on. Most plants are swelling right now and packing on weight, some of the buds are a bit smaller then I would have liked but otherwise look pretty tasty. Left my exhaust fan off today and came home to a room that was overpowering. Definitely a nice smell from these ladies, I rubbed a few of the lower leaves and got a nice citrus scent with a little bit of pine. Definitely can't wait until they've cured.
First day to chop is the 20th, I think some of the plants will be read by then but the taller ones I'm thinking will need at least an extra week. I don't think I'll hit my 14 grams per plant, but I do think I'll have a pretty decent yield at the end. My low goal is 1.5 ozs, my high goal is 3, but I think I'll end up with right around 2 give or take. Anyways, very pleased with these girls. Wish I was able to clone a few of them as I really love their bud structure. One of my new goals is to get all my plants to grow colas like the one on the far right
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Re: AK-47 x Diesel AutoFlower [Re: coda]
#341143 - 01/05/10 07:42 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
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That's what I need my babies to look like. If I could do that I could grow 24 and not 12. 
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coda
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Re: AK-47 x Diesel AutoFlower [Re: coda]
#344826 - 01/10/10 01:29 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Well I spent some time with my ladies tonight so I might as well post a few pictures of them. So I'll show case the largest cola I have growing. It's about a foot long and coke can size in diameter. Definitely really happy with this girl, The next are pics taken through my 10x jeweler's loupe. The first two microscrope pics are the big cola and the next two are from the frostiest plant I have. Finally, some plants have been purpling (most likely due to really low daytime temps lately), so they're looking prettier and prettier any day.
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Re: AK-47 x Diesel AutoFlower [Re: coda]
#345126 - 01/10/10 04:53 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
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Fuck man, I hope I can get mine to look like that!
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coda
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Re: Haze and Skunk! [Re: Inverted]
#347125 - 01/13/10 04:37 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Coda are you going to snap us picks of those sexy ladies before you give them the chop?
Yah, I'm taking one of them down tonight. Was planning on doing a mini pictorial on how I harvest and trim. So you'll get a before and after shot of one plant tonight. When I harvest the rest I'll do the same. I'll be labeling the plants too so when I do my smoke tests I can compare them.
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I really believe after watching my grow that you just can't really get large buds from small plants.
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Re: Haze and Skunk! [Re: Inverted]
#347145 - 01/13/10 05:49 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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ehh, I still kinda disagree. this plant was only about a foot tall but that center nug weighed 33 grams...
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coda
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Re: Haze and Skunk! [Re: Inverted]
#347277 - 01/13/10 08:38 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Ok, here's the harvest pics. We'll call this plant #1. Here's a very quick overview of how I trim, I would have taken more pics but my cam was running out of batteries. Luckily they lasted long enough to get to the wet weigh in
Picture before trimming
First I start by removing all major fan leaves which have stems that are easily accessible all the way to the main stalk of the plant. I like to get rid of all these garbage leaves while the plant is still in the container. It's easier to get to the main stalk and remove the whole leaf this way.
Next comes the chop, I cut at the base of the main stalk making sure to give me a few inches to grab onto while doing the more delicate trimming.
Now there's a million ways to trim your bud. I use two methods, one I call lollipop trimming because I hold the bud by the stalk (like a lollipop, duh ) and snip off the sugary small leaves and small fan leaf tips near the calyxes. The other is the palm method (my own name too lol), this is where I lay the bud in my palm and trim. I like this method more because the bud is more stable, and my fingers don't hurt from pinching the stalk.
I like to keep the bud horizontal, this way I can pay attention to where the tips of my scissors are. Keep the blades parallel with your calyxes, I like to get them as close as possible to the bud without actually touching it to avoid really mashing trichs and trimming off calyxes by mistake. Remember, measure twice cut ONCE. Once you snip, there's no going back. If you don't pay attention a beautiful A grade bud can be turned into lowly C grade nugs with one slip. Plus it makes it a son of a bitch to dry if you have chunks of bud cut from the stalk. Take your time, like I said you can't undo mistakes so it pays off to take it slow and easy and measure each snip carefully. Once you get the hang of it you can speed up, but even still slow and steady wins the bud waver race.
Almost finished with this one. Note: I chopped this bud in two pieces as I do with almost all larger buds. The longer they are the more difficult it is to keep them steady. Big buds are awesome, but they all need to get reduced at some point to hit the jars. I personally like to leave them no longer then from the base of my palm to my finger tips.
voila, 1/2 the plant is now finished to my liking.
pile of sugar to be turned into hash from the bottom bud of my plant.
Here's the "palm" method. Lay the bud in your palm and work on the side until it's to your liking. Then just rotate the bud and start on the new side until it's all done.
1/2 the bud done, now to the other side.
Whew, 35 mins later and there you have it, two nice sized nugs trimmed to my liking. I don't mind having a little extra leaf in there. If it's too much I can always pick it off later and toss it in the hash pile. If you start going crazy you end up trimming too much, or make a mistake and cut in the wrong spot. Everyone has different preferences in this area, but seeing as these fans are just coated with white it's not difficult for me to leave them on the bud.
Pile of sugar from the whole plant. This gets toseed in a small paper lunch sack to dry. I'll open the sack once a day and lightly shake it to move the leaf matter around. I'd say in about 2-3 days it'll be good enough to go into a jar for storage. When I have a decent amount it's off to the hash races for me. I'll probably get one more 8 plant harvest in before I make a batch. The large fan leaves get saved too, well this round anyway. I normally trash them but I want to try my hand at making edibles after a few harvests.
Some close ups of the bud. I'm amazed these photos turned out alright. My cam has a small optical zoom and then kicks into digital zoom (which usually blows). I managed to snap two good pics of the trichs, my other pictures did no justice to how pretty these plants look.
Final wet weight was 44 grams. IIRC 2/3's water in a wet plant. which means, if it goes well, I should hit my 1/2 oz mark. Don't quote me on that though, believe it or not that's the first time I ever weighed out my buds after trimming. But it was small enough and since I was doing only one plant I figured what the hell and weighed them. Personally I think I'm going to end up with 7-8 grams, but there's always hope for the 14 I truly want
Anyways, there you have it. One plant down, 7 almost ready. Then I have one more AF plant with about a month to go and my run with this particular strain will come to an end. This plant had some nice purple hues to it (cold weather purps), but I couldn't get a picture that showed it off well. It's a beauty of a nugget and I'm already wishing it was dry heheh.
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Re: Haze and Skunk! [Re: coda]
#348862 - 01/16/10 09:03 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Sounds pretty much like my problem.
I'm on day 50 and the first hairs have started to turn. I'd say they have 60+ needed. That lockout at the beginning of flowering ended up biting me in the ass. The 2 indica dominant plants probably only grew to half of their potential. For a 24 day veg time, this plant should be quite a bit larger than an AF. I think not breaking up the rootball during transplant also reduced root branching and yield.
I just clipped a lower bud from one of the dense bud plants and it's a lot bigger than I thought, but the swelling just hasn't happened yet.
I'd say they are going to be rock solid by harvest, I just don't know how to guage weight. The other 2 are very low density.
Had I performed a smooth run, I think this plant would be twice as big and bushy... Instead it looks just like yours. (Only stretched 4 inches during 12/12 That plant will probably bring me 3/8 or maybe close to a 1/2. I should be getting a zip from a plant that age... 
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coda
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Re: Haze and Skunk! [Re: Inverted]
#349583 - 01/18/10 07:04 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Here's a couple of cabinet pics since I was snapping some of my other plants. They're all looking beautiful, I added in 2 ml's of gravity to their last feeding. The buds are now starting to harden. I'm not sure if I can attribute it to the gravity, or if they just needed more time. Either way 3 plants have some rock hard colas now, and the rest have slightly spongy colas. I also kept one plant off the gravity as a control. We'll see if it makes any difference come weigh in time.
I think I'll hack down the one plant with really yellowed leaves this week. She looks done, the scope sample produced almost all cloudy, a few clear, and a few amber. Sounds ready to me, but I'm pushing for just a few more days.
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coda
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Pics from beginning to scissor hash of plant #2. This was a noticeably better harvest. The buds were much more dense then the last plant. So I really think just some extra time was needed to thicken them up. The other plants will be coming down either this weekend, or the middle of next week. I'll know by Friday what I want to be doing most likely, just want to see what this plant looks like crisped up a little bit.
Anyways, enjoy the pics, the first few are before I did anything to the plant, then it goes in order. Strip the fan leaves, take off a branch, trim the bud, repeat The scissor hash I got was really nice, crazy baked right now hehe Come harvest I'll probably have 3x the amount in the picture, I can't wait I haven't had any hash in months 
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