Aurora Outdoor, 6 plants

[leafminer]

Summary of the last grow journal (22 Oct 08 - 27 Feb 09)

Day 1: Start 8 Aurora clones & 1 hybrid from seed.
Day 47: Flowering commenced. (7 weeks veg.)
Day 93: Harvest commenced (Aurora) (6 weeks, 4 days in flower)
Day 121: Harvested the hybrid (50-50 indica/sativa) (10 wks 4 days, flower)

Medium: Coco. 5 gallon buckets.
Ferts: MG 15-30-15 throughout.
Water: tap
Lights: 2 x 150W HPS + 105W of CFLs.
Yield: Approx. 2 oz. dry per Aurora. About 3 oz. from the hybrid.
Quality: Potency was good but I probably harvested a little early.
Notes: Aurora is very low odour. No carbon filter needed.

 

[leafminer]

6 Aurora clones taken from the only remaining mom, on April 8.

April 14: clones all appear to be OK. Need another week to be sure.

This is an outdoor grow. Too hot in summer to use the grow room.
SINGLE COLA GROW.

Experiment to be performed: Test MP's coco buckets idea against normally-drained coco bucket. All the clones are similar and come from the same mom. Buckets will all be 3 gallon rectangular (because this is indica, not sativa!)

 

[BuddyLuv]

looking foward man

 

[puffmadizm]

ahh outdoor i'll be watchin

 

[UKgirl420]

goodluck ill be :watchplant:

Buckets will all be 3 gallon rectangular (because this is indica, not sativa!)

whats the revelance ,,:confused2:

 

[pcduck]

Will be sitting on my nest for this.:watchplant::bolt::bong2:

 

[BuddyLuv]

goodluck ill be :watchplant:

Buckets will all be 3 gallon rectangular (because this is indica, not sativa!)

whats the revelance ,,:confused2:

they are short plants

 

[UKgirl420]

:rofl: hahah oh i thought he meant he was using rectangular cause they were indica not the size :stoned:

 

[BuddyLuv]

Lol

 

[leafminer]

goodluck ill be :watchplant:

Buckets will all be 3 gallon rectangular (because this is indica, not sativa!)

whats the revelance ,,:confused2:

I examined the root balls from the last grow (5 gallon buckets) and none of the root balls were anything like the volume of the container. That's why I am downsizing the container. This strain isn't like the big sativas I grow, they could do with a ten gallon bucket actually.

 

[leafminer]

OK. First update.
Three of the six Aurora clones failed and the other three showed signs of wanting to flower instead of vegging. Must have been the change from indoor to outdoor.:fid:

Another MP member suggested I try some seed. I don't have any Aurora seed so I decided to plant some of my 70-30 (sativa dom) that I got from the last grow. These are an F1 between the Aurora and some local sativa, back-bred to the sativa. It will be interesting to see what they are like.

Meanwhile the tomatoes are fruiting as are the peas and beans...

 

[smokeup420]

prettyu cool, u got pix of last harvest?

 

[leafminer]

D'oh! When I compressed that thread into basic info I forgot that the only pics of it were the ones here... I don't keep my plant pics on my laptop, too paranoid! It was a good grow though. I got around 10 oz dry, under my pair of 150HPS lamps, so I guess that's around the usual 1 gm/watt level.

 

[leafminer]

Update:
The three remaining Aurora clones seem to be doing ok now, I think they are rooted. There is still a fourth one but it is sickly.
Two of the 70% sativa doms have popped out of the coco fibre this morning. This must be good seed! Only two days from being put into the coco to the pair of seed leaves.
It's going to be very interesting to see what happens with this 70-30. It is a serious experiment: I am trying to see if I can "reform" a hermie genetics sativa by adding indica genetics.

** The original sativa - basically some Acapulco Gold bag seed - was completely feral and produced only hermie plants. (Male flowers followed by purple cat tails.)

** First outcross: with my Aurora strain (NL x Afghan) pure indica.
Result: 50-50 hybrids. I've grown some of this strain now and it is a good smoke, nearly as potent as the Aurora, with a little of the 'up' sativa high and a rather dank sweet 'n sour smell compared to the spicy/fruity smell of Aurora. Plants grow to around 5 feet in 5 gallon pots compared to the three feet of my Auroras. Bushy, whereas the Aurora does not bush out.

**Second cross: The 50-50 backbred to the sativa pollen producing a 70-30 sativa dom. I am aiming to recreate the high of the original sativa but without the hermie character.

This grow the intent is to grow the 3 Aurora clones so as to replenish supplies of my favourite smoke, and at the same time investigate the properties of the new 70-30 strain:
* Will it hermie like the sativa parent? How tall will it grow? What yield can I get? What kind of high does it give?

This is the fun part of growing, for me. The genetics.

 

[leafminer]

Some big changes.
First of all, I lost 4 of the clones because they went into suspend due to the short outside daylight hours.
I have two left that are flowering as microgrow. Useless.
So I am going to put the mom and the remaining two under the CFLs and reveg, then take some more clones, and just use the CFLs in the grow room to veg them to about three feet, then I will put them outside to flower.
I'm going to make a new thread for the sat doms.

 

[leafminer]

OK, I got out this morning early while it was still not too hot and cautiously entered the grow room. (I was worried that animals might be in residence by now!)
No problem ... I tucked the two 150's out the way and reworked my CFL lamp board so it now has 150W of CFLs.
Brought the two clones and the mom, all in flower, inside and put them on 16/8 cycle. Hmm... maybe use a fert high in N because I want veg, after all.
All that's left to do now is wait and be patient. I will see if I can get 4 more clones when the mom revegges again.
Oh well, I learnt something important, which is that indicas MUST be taken through the veg cycle indoors in these latitudes.