By the way, I know this sounds stupid but Iām obsessed with bright light green weed. When I was in my teens there was nothing but dirt pot readily available.
Once a year if you were lucky, someone in your click would come out with something they found in a different neighborhood for an older person and it was always Bright light green and two hits got you stoned.
So every time I see bright light green weed I reminisce.
Second cutting bright lime greenā¦1st cutting way darkerā¦I ended up cutting buds til 630amā¦gettin warm clothes on and get to the river for some walleye fishinā¦sleep when Iām deadā¦Happy Growing
100% agree with this
So the Jolly Green Giant need some food today. Iāll be unstrapping her and pulling her from the tent.
I switched the lights to 75% rather than 100% Iāll be attempting to take some photos with my $7 Android phone of the buds I was referring to earlier that most of you have called foxtails
Today is her 130th day of birth a new record for me previously set by Big Girl reaching 117 days last year.
The light fixture is fully extended to the top of the tent it can go no further. Ironically enough with her colas stretched out and tied to the poles this leaves her canopy/colas approximately 16 to 17 in from the light ends up being the manufacturers recommended height.
Iāve got a very late start feeding her today and sheās show it by her leaves drooping (thatās a first) sheās hungry.
My ETA on her finishing could be way off. She might have a lot more than 30 days left to finish as her buds are extremely larfy and in the early stages of fattening. She hasnāt even begun to ripen yet.
Be lower the picture that I took of some of her buds that were called foxtailsā¦ (I grew 9 ILGM GSCE in a 4x4 trust me I know what fox town is)
Nevertheless, Iām definitely not perfect and could be wrong. Foxtailing generally happens at the end in my experience this girl is nowhere near the end. And some of these so-called foxtails are two inches long and fat. Your opinion is well appreciated
Thereās absolutely nothing you can do about Fox telling anyway on an autoflower. Letās hear what you think 
I just spent a little time pulling back these so-called foxtails itās in my personal opinion these things lead straight to a stem. Theyāre not foxtails theyāre buds and this girl hasnāt even startedā¦ someone contact Guinness sheās going to have colas the size of elephant legs when sheās done
When I had my auto go for 222 days, I tried to get her to finish any way I could. Thought she would be done before we left the country for 4 weeks early September (which is why I planted autos!). Nope, she wasnāt going to finish by then. Lollipopped the hell out of her. Put her outside cuz I didnāt want to spend hydro money on her alone in the tent if she didnāt bud. Had to get the new neighbours to water her. She got rain on, not fed (I mixed up 5 gallons of cheap fertilizer for her but neighbours only gave her water!). She got put under the hottub gazebo when the atmospheric rivers came thru. When we got home in October, put her back in the tent as she was actually budding! I dimmed the lights. I cranked the lights. Oops, burnt her a bit! Dropped the lights down again. And she still didnāt finish until November!
I tried everything to stress her out and incentivize her to finish. But she didnāt hermie. I donāt think anything you do will force her any faster than she wants to go. Ride her out, at least sheās budding beautifully!
@Spudgunner
Thatās amazing over 200 days. I believe you nailed it. Nothing I do is going to change the outcome of her. I will continue at 75% and leave it at that.
She wants 2 things.
1.) To be left alone
2.) To grow as she sees fit
At the end of the day sheās the plant not me. Sheās getting the care that I believe is the best I can give her. All she wants to do is show me her gratitude by being all she can be.
They can foxtail early. This pic, September 9, 2022. Got new lights a few weeks earlier and cranked them for a couple of weeks. Oops! Dialed it back down after that.
Chopped her October 11th. She didnāt foxtail any more, and those actually fattened up. Each little tail was perfect amount for a fattie!
Thatās some nasty foxtailing. I saw those images before. After growing 9 ILGM GSCE each one fully foxtailing I donāt even care about foxtailing anymore. The weed still smelled, tasted, got you stoned.
And it filled many jars!
I just did a conference call with the world renowned cultivating expert from India Dr. Macalaca Hineyhole and this is what he had to say
My sentiments exactly I couldnāt have put it any better thank you doctor
Relax!!!
I have the solution!!
As for the dopeā¦havenāt a clue.
So tell meā¦what do you think of these buds ā¦
That second picture almost looks like the buds I had on the 420 fast buds gorilla cookies. Fat and Frosty.
Looks like youāre about ready to have a hell of a lot of weed here soon
Apparently they share the gorilla glue heritage. I donāt think that buds going to harden up , but time will tell. Point is the way it grows comes from its genetic makeup. The plants are growing in the exact same conditions with their roots entwined and from the same seeds , yet donāt look alike. The same as we are different from our brothers and sisters. Unfortunately both good and bad traits are passed down through the generations. That plant is going to be what it is. So we the growers blame ourselves and our lighting, nutes, environment etc. etc. for producing a plant that is exactly as it was imprinted to be. Did I mention how 1 hit of this Fat Bastard sends your mind on a journey???
Made some final adjustments for the Jolly Green Giant as she goes into Week 12 of flower
I lowered the relative humidity to 42% I have the night time temperature at 65Ā° and the daytime temperature at 70Ā° and the light style back to 75%
This is truly pushing her as sheāll almost completely stop eating at 62Ā° Iām not trying to push her to finish just make it as tight as a parameter as I can then let her do her thing. Actually opening up her buds and seeing how unmature they are mean sheās got a good long way to go.
The upside of that is sheās going to produce a serious yield. With the commercial dehumidifier having to work a lot longer to maintain 42% humidity Iāll have to be vigilant of her water fill cut off.
Iām hoping to get at least 2 weeks of feeds off the little bit of nutrients I have left. Ordering $100 worth of nutrients for two or three feeds and to sit on the shelf for a year doesnāt sit well with me. With a proper enzyme concoction at the end should carry her 3 weeks without having to give her any nutrients.
Spent some time getting the tent perfect, the conditions on point, the lung room on point, so basically all I have to do for the next 30 days is leave her the āFā alone and feed her three times a week and hope that she retires by then.
Dang it, @RightAway , you keep teasing me to switch my girls to 12/12.
Nice looking buds, but I think they are just starting to foxtail on you. New white pistils growing out of the tips. The funny new green growth, single leaves. Early stage tho, wouldnāt be too alarmed unless it continues. What is your DLI? I now turn mine down near the end, simulates fall moreā¦less light, sun lower in the sky (horizon) means light goes thru more of the atmosphere and loses intensity.
Nothing wrong with foxtails, you get more weed. But you donāt get the nice dense buds with them, and they tend to be less ripe than the main bud (or if you let them ripen, your main buds are all amber!).
@Spudgunner Your way to kind Grobroā¦these buds are a phenotype of Future1 that I am relatively sure are crapā¦unless they fool me completely they will never really make a hard budā¦I have seen a few plants like this on the journey. This was my first run with Future1. Started 9 seeds. Got 4 different phenotypes. 2 of them appear to be very nice weed. 2 of them are this other big fluffy budded crap. All under Exact Same conditions. Unfortunately they all look exactly the same until mid bud when they all go their own wayā¦so cloning will have to be delayed to that point ā¦ in order to ever ensure a consistent solid product on any scale. Very good chance 1/2 of this crop may end up getting oiled. Not exactly what I had in mind. Not unhappy just not JAZzEDā¦lolā¦its pharminā I donāt make the rules. 2 runs ago I had a single Blackwidow do the same thing. Sitting right between a pair of plants that were Stellar. I give IT to the less deservingā¦lolā¦Happy Growing
Yeah, thatās where cloning can help. Take a couple off each plant and label them as P1 (from plant1) and P2, P3, etc. Then when the mothers flower, if you have one with stellar buds (say P4), THOSE are the clones you keep and keep cloning from!
I tried doing that this run with my 2 Sleepy Joe OGās. One is a polyploid, so I kept those cuttings in a separate area of the clone machine, away from the other SJ cuttings I took. The sole Mighty Quin Iām growing got red plugs in the machine, the SJās blue. And then I found an area under that wasnāt spraying due to plugged nozzles. So now I donāt know which is which between the SJās, since they are all in blue plugs! A dumbass moment, one of many Iāve committed! No biggie tho, doesnāt bother me in the slightest.
