Originally Posted by
magick777
@mrtank: been following your grow with interest, not commented so far but wanted to throw in my £0.02 in case it's of interest. .
SWIM started off 10 HBDs on 17th March (just under 6 weeks prior to yours), ended up with 4 decent girls, grown on in a plastic greenhouse and was expecting them to take 12 weeks from seed as the general wisdom is that outdoor autoflowers take a couple weeks longer. After 12 weeks of sunlight & Canna nutes they looked pretty, but the yield didn't. SWIM reports that the first pistils are just turning brown this morning and he's still a week or two from harvest, so is thinking a total of nearer 4 months than 3. Of course, your rooftop is going to get more sunlight than a plastic greenhouse, so I'd be interested to hear how long they actually do take in full sun. So... don't be alarmed if they take a week longer than you're expecting. If they don't, then I'd like to know about it because maybe SWIM's greenhouse isn't doing him any favours.
Now for the bit you want to hear. Yesterday SWIM couldn't wait any longer and clipped one tiny bud, the size of his little fingernail, from the top of one of the plants. He stuck it in an empty propagator, let it dry out in full sun, and was able to roll it an hour and a half later. SWIM rolled one average joint in a small paper, and blazed it.
Flavour wasn't all that, as you'd expect from a quick dry, but the effect? Wow. SWIM hasn't been hit that hard since he last blazed a fat joint of cheese and was *very* contented for about 4 hours off next to nothing. SWIM fears he is now going to struggle to let the rest mature because even now before it is totally ripe, it is ten or twenty times better than anything on the street at present. To put that in context, SWIM has been smoking 1/2oz of blueberry a week for a couple months, and it's ten or twenty times better than that.
With regard to pot size, SWIM starts them in 3.5L pots, 6" square by 8" deep, and repots into 11L square pots when plants are about a foot high. This is before they become truly potbound and the root ball is fragile at that time, but SWIM hasn't lost any to repotting yet. SWIM will experiment with sowing direct into 11L pots when he has the space and the seeds, but it most definitely is viable to repot provided you don't start in something so small the seed can't throw a decent taproot. Hope this is of some interest, look forward to hearing more about your grow. That plant is worth all the TLC you can throw at it... be warned that it may throw some THC back!
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