Hello again Everyone!
I’m growing in the Mephisto challenge as well so please check out my other journal. I will be growing two Pineapple Express Autos by Fastbuds and giving the product to a friend of mine with MS. I have grown this strain once before in an effort to find a strain that helps my friend. He found this strain to work extremely well as it gets him up and going to spend time being normal for a little while.
I’ll be growing in 3 gallon fabric pots using coco coir and Greenleaf Nutrients; Megacrop 2.0, Calmag Pro, Sweet Candy, and Bud Explosion. Depending on temperatures, I’ll be using 2- 55W Autocobs and possibly a 600W MH depending on temps in my garage. I use the 600 MH/HPS to grow through the winter and dump the heat into the tent from the cool tube rather than heating the tent with my oil heater.
Thanks for stopping in, I look forward to seeing your progress as well!
Beans are dropped in water for a 24hr soak and my cups are placed on a seedling mat to keep them cozy. Game on!!
Seedlings are up and healthy now. I had yet another seed germ and fail on me hence the differences in age of the two. Both are Pineapple Express and moving right along.
Well, one is doing well and the other is not. I’m not sure quite what’s happening as both plants are in the same medium under the same conditions. I’ll keep the yellow one for a bit longer and see if she turns around. Also, the yellow seedling is about 5 days behind the other.
The PE are doing fine, at least one of them
is. The other not so much. Both plants started at the same time, same medium, same environment, and fertigation. One yellowed and stayed yellow, very stretchy. It’s almost like it doesn’t have enough chlorophyll. Anyway, she’s not turning around so she’s gone. The other is manifold trained and doing well going into her stretch. I supercropped the two mains this time so much easier to keep the canopy even.
I gave up on the vestigial Pineapple Express and put it out of its misery. The remaining PE is one of the better plants I’ve grown as I navigate my way through manifolding and using new defoliating methods.
I am now dealing with thrips for the first time. I thought the spotted leaves were a deficiency initially but most definitely not. Predator bugs and diatomaceous earth are what I’m using for this fight. As well, my PE auto did not autoflower so I’ve switched my lights to 12/12. She’s going to be a giant of a plant and I’m considering putting it in my greenhouse to finish. My only concerns are smell and theft.
Well it’s not my best grow!! This PE Auto is not an auto, it’s a photo. It took me two months to figure it out and I manifold trained it so now the plant is huge. It’s similar to a Cosmic Bomb Auto I grew as a test seed and produced 415g dried.
I could be in for a world record of longest cannabis grow with this one. I vowed in the past that I would grow out any plant I could if I could keep it alive. This plant has potential to be really nice. She’s been well eaten by thrips but I think they’re pretty much done thanks to the predator bugs. It’s tough to tell in the pics but she has some fairly long colas and they are more oily than sticky with a beautiful, sweet tropical aroma. Had I figured out sooner that she was a photoperiod I would have taken some cuttings.
If there was an award for the longest growing plant in the contest, I’m sure I would win. Clearly this was a pheno that wouldn’t normally have made the cut in my opinion. She is now getting her final flush and smells beautifully like sweet, artificial grape with a hint of pine.
This plant is now chopped and dried. A complete disappointment as it came out larfy and full of seeds. Lesson learned to cut my losses and start over when I know it’s getting messed up.
