Outdoor Outdoor Multi-Strain Grow (20+ auto strains)

[G.Leave]

Hey no prob..also I missed a question you had. I ran a 24/0 on indoor autos this winter and it worked great. The 4 autos I started a couple of days ago will be running 24/0 until june the 1st(all day in sun and all night under lights). June the 1st they will go in the ground(weather permitting). Planning to finish between July the 1st and August the 1st.

 

[TheBadKid]

Dope, I can only imagine they're gonna be monsters by the time you put them in the ground with a month of 24/7!

I can't go much longer than 21 days in the tent, they'd get rootbound in their small containers and they are so crammed in there their leaves overlap all over the place.

Oh, another thing I wanted to ask, anyone tried pinching autos? My Kush-n-Cheese is still stretching like crazy (it's chin-high now, I'm about 5'10) and if it keeps going at this rate in a few days I'll have to LST it at least a little to keep it stealthy, which I'd hate to have to do so late in the stretch as it's starting to wood up.
So I'm thinking of pinching it, I do it a lot with photos and I know they heal really quickly from it so no reason it should be different with autos, right?

 

[woody]

Is pinching the same as fimming- like topping but cutting less off? If so yea some growers do it with great results most notably @faded187 other growers top their autos too.
I tried topping once and it was a disaster so i just stick with lst and supercropping now

 

[TheBadKid]

Is pinching the same as fimming- like topping but cutting less off? If so yea some growers do it with great results most notably @faded187 other growers top their autos too.
I tried topping once and it was a disaster so i just stick with lst and supercropping now

By pinching I mean just squeezing and spinning the main stem at the top few internodes until you hear it cracking. Kinda like supercropping but on the main stem and without bending.
Usually within 24 to 48h they have knuckled-up and you need to pinch again but this allows you to control vertical growth and is said to reroute auxins to the branches for that little amount of time it takes the main stem to heal.
Here's an example on a photo:

I'm just gonna go ahead and try it on the Kush-n-Cheese, it has a bamboo for support so I'll be able to tell if it did actually stop the vertical growth and for how long.

 

[TheBadKid]

Some good news and some bad news.

Good news is I finally received my 420 seeds order, was starting to worry customs got a hold of it.
Pretty amazing promotions this year, bought 14 seeds got 25 freebies!

Auto strains:

• Sour Hound from Mephisto Genetics (x1)
• Fantasmo Express from Mephisto Genetics (x4)
• Northern Lights from Royal Queen Seeds (x2)
• Big Auto Speed Bud from Female Seeds (x1)
• Amnesia from World of Seeds (x1)
• White Widow from Seedsman (x10)
• Baby Boom from Kannabia (x1)

Photo strains:

• Chocolate Mint OG from HSO (x10)
• Lemon Kush Headband from HSO (x3)
• Amherst Sour Diesel from HSO (x2)
• Karribean Mango from Kannabia (x1)
• Russian Doll from Kannabia (x2)
• BCN Diesel CBD from Kannabia (x1)
• Mataro Blue CBD from Kannabia (x1)

Bad news is I came back to a chopped off plant (about 80cm tall) yesterday... The trunk seems to have been chewed off at the base, and the rest of the plant was just laying on the ground next to its pot.

I'm suspecting my dog but at the same time I don't think it's him. Sure he eats a few leaves here and there but he's never touched a stem before and when I showed him the cut off plant he didn't seem to act guilty at all. Plus I'm not even sure a Jack Russell could do that clean of a job at eating a stem like that.

The mystery remains but whatever, this definitely was not done by a human so I'm cool with it. Plus whatever did this chose wisely as it's from a homemade seed and the plant right next to the chopped off one is the closest from harvest, would have been a lot more mad if it came down instead.

Here's a pic of the trunk, sorry I lost the pics of the cut-off plant and already chopped it for mulching. Any idea what kind of predator could do this?

Update on the plants coming later today.

 

[woody]

Are you in the us? Any small deer in the area. Ive also heard of rabbits and hares eating plants- more so the leaves though

 

[hotrodnyc]

My condolences.


Follow the rabbit

 

[TheBadKid]

Are you in the us? Any small deer in the area. Ive also heard of rabbits and hares eating plants- more so the leaves though

Nope, all I can say is I'm in an undisclosed european country which isn't the UK.

I live in a pretty urban area believe it or not, there are no deers or wild animals around. There are a lot of cats wandering around though.
I'm close to a river so all I can think of would be nutrias or some kind of beaver but I highly doubt they're adventurous enough to cross the busy road that separates me from the river, climb 2 floors of stairs and go all the way to the back of my balcony to just eat a single plant's trunk and leave it there.
And even then, my dog would've been all over their shit.

It was very windy that day, could be the wind but I think I would have seen some damage on other plants...

My condolences.

Haha thanks man^^

 

[pathway]

Man, that's a downer. My guess would be the dog (tbh he looks pretty high in that pic lol) or a rodent of some kind. I know gnawing through stems like that is typical Coypu behaviour, or maybe a rat?

 

[TheBadKid]

Definitely could be a rat, or my stoner dog. Either way I just hope it doesn't strike again haha!