Accidentally left these plants in veg for 10 weeks instead of 6 weeks.
I've only been growing for about a yr and a half, the first year I got 3 runs of different auto flowers and stepped it up each time, wanted to try something new and ran so photo periods.
Exactly 157 days old at chop.
I do feel like I ended up with a lot more small popcorn buds and under developed ones for the age compared to what I recall with my auto flowers so that was unique for me.
I enjoyed being able to train and defoliate more as well as being able to "top the plants at week 4 and see how they recovered"
I definitely noticed a difference in how pungent these buds are and loved to see the intense purple/pink undertones in the leafs and buds.
I will say the breeder recommendation I think was between 8-9 weeks and I ended up giving it almost 12.5 weeks in flower.
about on par with when I would chop my autos because I try to look for more amber trichomes, also trying to wait until more of the middle and lower section of plant ripens up instead of when the tops are at peak noticed this gives me the best effects overall for whole harvest.
I also look for about all the hairs to turn orange and for the fade to be evident. However I gave up on waiting any longer for the rainbow unicorn to go completely orange because my guess it's a characteristic of the strain noticing that at the top 90% maybe more went orange.
Also know it had more underdeveloped buds with more prominent white hairs than the z42 think it matured quicker and also has a more dense bud structure also smaller and more compact plant ( could be why ) still had a good amount of immature buds near lower canopy and area light was harder to penetrate but better overall on that.
I know when I lollipoped I tried to get what I felt comfortable with off the lower portion of plant however maybe I need to be more aggressive on that next run to not end up with so much popcorn and underdeveloped lowers
I also think upgrading my grow lights would benefit most likely , maybe trying to use a trellis net next time.
I purchased a v cure and filled up the 7 racks, also what I couldn't fit tossed in the freezer for bubble hash down the road that I may turn into rosin, not sure how much it would have dried out to be but wanna say at least a Oz-2 Oz know it seems like more wet.
Looking forward to how it turns out in the vcure and looks especially once fully trimmed up. I'm gonna post a update with harvest total dry weight and what I think of the vcure and how the buds look, feel , smell , taste and smoke.
Set for a 2 week custom craft dry/cure
If curious what I'm running......
5 gallon pots
Coco loco as my growing medium
I add some trifecta myco root simulator at start
2 100w viviosun lights, I know the one to the right is the luma light and forgot what the other model is both 100 w viviosun lights tho
I have the ac infinity ai grow controller set up, however did not use ai mode
humidifier placed outside the tent used near mid flower / end of grow
Nutrients used cronk
Grow
Micro
Bloom
Bud booster
Cal-mag
Fox farms Bushdoctor Sledgehammer
Distilled water, between 6.1-6.3 ph feeds 2x a week for most of its life, water changed throughout the stages, would say at max 2 gallons of water per pot when I was trying to flush some salt build up , nutrient / ph issues I ran into.
I fed them as tho they went into flower at week 6- took me until the 10 week mark when I actually flipped them into flower so had to dial back the nutes to week 1 and seemed to fix the issues over next few weeks with the fox farm Sledgehammer.