Aurora Indica, Purple Urkel, and then some.

So, I'm pretty sure this batch of AI clones is shot. I'm just going to pop some bag seeds for the ebb and flow if they continue to look worse, and in about a month start a new mom in soil, most likely Blackberry Kush or Citrus Haze. Saturday is Judgement Day for them.

Although the centers of the current batch of clones looks green, and like they want to grow, there are no visible roots coming from the rock wool cubes, so they are now trash. I took a few half assed cuttings that weren't showing flowers from Aurora's lowest branches, which I'm attempting to root now. Keeping them in a much warmer environment this time, and misting less often, as I believe the death of the last batch can be blamed on a combo of temps that were too low and damping off. I'm hoping to have 3-4 clones root and thrive. Aurora is now roughly 2 weeks flowering, pics coming sometime tonight.

A few pics taken with my phone, I will follow up with some camera shots later at some point. Please excuse the light ripples.

Aurora - 2 weeks flowering:

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watchxyouxburn, your AI looks like a monster she's so large and looks so healthy. How tall was she when you turned to 12/12? I just put my 4 surviving seedlings into their hydro tube they were turning yellow from lack of nutrients. I didn't like how stretchy they were getting even with the T5 sitting on top of them so I turned on the 250 watt metal halide. I started with 1/4 strength General Hydro nutrients and I am hoping I don't burn them up.

curious2garden said:

watchxyouxburn, your AI looks like a monster she's so large and looks so healthy. How tall was she when you turned to 12/12? I just put my 4 surviving seedlings into their hydro tube they were turning yellow from lack of nutrients. I didn't like how stretchy they were getting even with the T5 sitting on top of them so I turned on the 250 watt metal halide. I started with 1/4 strength General Hydro nutrients and I am hoping I don't burn them up.

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Thanks! I had her growing as a mom, and she was doing well under a bunch of CLF's to start with, but I had some cloning and lighting issues, which resulted in a lot of upward growth. I decided to just flower her when she was 7 weeks old, about 18 inches tall, because I was running out of space in my mom cab. My mistake was trying to grow a mom in a hydro DWC set-up, she just grew too fast, my next mom will be in soil with a 100w MH. She filled out to almost 4 feet tall after switching to 12/12, and the canopy completely fills a 2 ft x 2 ft grow space under a 150w HPS. I'm just into the 4th week of flower now, and if all goes well I will be harvesting Christmas weekend, possibly a little sooner. The tops on most branches are about 6-8 inches tall right now, I expect another inch or two before they start to bulk up. With any luck I will pull somewhere around 4 oz after dry/cure from this plant, which would make me pretty proud of my first hydro grow.

My method of growing, I like to use 100w equiv. CFL's for seedling and early veg, then switch over to MH at 2-3 weeks from breaking ground, they will have at least a few sets of true leaves before switching. Turn the bulb sideways as CFL emit more intense light from the sides, and keep them about 2 inches from the plants. I like to give them pH adjusted tap water for the first week, then start GH Flora nutes at 1/4 strength. I'm still working on getting my overall rythm down, but in the long run I will have a mom, and a small perpetual harvest of two plants at a time, harvesting every 3-4 weeks.

Aurora - 5th week of flower, and a couple of her clones. I'm not sure how well the clones are going to do at this point, but I guess we'll see. I will have some pictures to post of my flowering clones later, which are about a week behind Aurora. If this batch of clones does alright, a few of them are going to a buddy of mine, and we will be doing a side by side Aurora Indica Ebb & Flow 150w HPS grow, with very simlar set-ups, just two different styles of gardening.

On another brief note, I can now say for sure that the flowering clones are in fact NOT Purple Urkel, but something more Sativa dominant, judging by their leaves, and overall growth is def taller and thinner than your classic Indica dominant strains. After doing some backtracking in thought as to strains I had smoked around the same time, I'm going to take a total guess and say they are either Trainwreck or Chemdawg (or at least what I was told were those strains, who knows nowadays, there are way too many copycats and fibbers, lol.) The plants are definitely giving off a hint of a citrus/fuel scent that is only getting stronger as time goes by.

Wow your AI had made such INCREDIBLE progress! I'd like to just come and hang out in the box with them for a bit LOL! They look so big and healthy and the flowers are so exciting! I can't believe the size of those stems. Oh I can't wait to hear a smoke report and how you setup your perpetual system with them. Do you think it's going to be pre-christmas or maybe sooner/later?

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She's at about 5 weeks flowering now, the breeder states 7-9 weeks until buds are ripe, so I'm guessing it's going to be either a Christmas or New Year weekend harvest. We've been affectionately calling her a christmas tree, lol. The buds are still flowering heavily, with a few hairs beginning to turn on the older flowers, trikes still have quite a bit of maturing to do, they are mostly glassy, some cloudy right now. I discovered Saturday morning that my lights have been coming on for 1-2 hours every "night" for at least a few days due to a alfuntioning timer. She is showing signs of abnormal bud growth due to the light stress, I'm just praying this doesn't cause her to herm this late in the game, or have an affect on potency. Only time will tell. I did a big round of trimming and pruning, with the intention of allowing as much light and air to circulate as possible these last few weeks, I basically just removed about 90% of the larger fan leaves.

Aurora, pics from 12/10, once again, please excuse the cell phone camera quality.

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Wow your AI had made such INCREDIBLE progress! I'd like to just come and hang out in the box with them for a bit LOL! They look so big and healthy and the flowers are so exciting! I can't believe the size of those stems. Oh I can't wait to hear a smoke report and how you setup your perpetual system with them. Do you think it's going to be pre-christmas or maybe sooner/later?

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Thanks! She is a great girl to spend time with, and she's a great listener, lol. Next time I grow a single plant I don't think I'll let her get as big though, she's too big to really utilize all the light and space to its fullest, and her tallest branches/buds are closer to the light than I would like. I have some clones trying to root right now, which I will be sharing with a friend as soon as they are growing strong. I think we'll end up with 2 for me and 4 for him. during/after those clones flower I'm going to start a mother plant for some Blackberry in some Fox Farms Happy Frog soil, at which time I'll attempt the perptual grow again. Hopefully next time I will hit fewer speed bumps as I have a lot more wrinkles ironed out of my grow now. I'm really happy with my results so far for being my first venture into hydroponics.

Enjoy the rest of the show, I'll be sure to post as detailed harvest and smoke reports as I can. I think I may clip a smaller sample bud this week or coming weekend so that its dry enough to try before I do a full harvest. Right now she smells sweet with kind of a hash/spice undertone.

Toying with a perpetual harvest schedule as follows. I'm not sure if I'm going to try it now, I have 7 clones, 4 going to a friend, and keeping 3. I may keep 1 in soil as a mother, and take the other 2 to flower when they hit about 8-10 inches tall. The other way would be just to flower them all and start a new mom of a new strain and come back to AI down the road a bit.

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Starting with a healthy mom, I will prune and take cuttings every 2 weeks, along with LST to keep her short and bushy. They take roughly 2 weeks to root, at which point I will pick 2 to go into a DWC. They will grow in DWC for roughly 2-3 weeks, at which point they should be 6-8 inches tall and have substantial roots. I'll pick 1 to go to flower, they will flower for 7-8 weeks each before harvesting. If my plan is right, I'll be harvesting a plant every 2 weeks, somewhere around 1-2 oz dry of each plant, if I'm lucky.

I snipped a small, fluffy bud from a lower point on Aurora a few days ago, and let it air dry on a shelf. It dried and broke up to about 1/3 of a bowl. Even without curing it tasted pretty good and gave me a light, relaxed buzz. The next week or two of maturing and then a month of curing should end up with some nice results. I've very happy with my first hydro grow, and have learned so much. Thanks to all those following along, I will have some more pics up this weekend, which will mark 6 weeks flowering. Things should finishing up nicely over the next couple weeks. She's still blooming heavily, and starting to put on weight a lot quicker. There are already a couple that I estimate will be bigger than my fist, I can't wait to see the buds when they're ready for harvest!

Love the AI pics, they look sweet. Mine came out very potent, good luck !

Jessy2287 said:

Love the AI pics, they look sweet. Mine came out very potent, good luck !

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Thanks for stopping by Jessy. Congrats on hopefully the first of many harvests to come!

Aurora - 6 weeks flowering aka going into 7th week, clones are about a week younger, give or take. I can't believe I almost threw them out, look at them now! Not bad for a truly half assed CFL grow, lol, I honestly haven't done much at all as far as taking care of these little ladies, just light, and a plastic shoebox full of nute solution.

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My cloned plants are going to be harvested this weekend, active flowering has slowed to a crawl, most of the hairs have turned, the buds have plumped up nicely, and trikes are about 20% amber. She has been getting pH adjusted tap water for about a week now. Aurora, on the other hand, is maturing a little slower than I expected, in part, I believe, due to low "overnight" temps. She is still actively flowering, some hairs have turned "blonde", but little to no amber trikes, I would say about 85%-90% cloudy and the rest clear. I'm guessing she's going to be another 1-2 weeks to harvest. I will take some plant pics before and after harvest, as well as give a wet weight, of which I expect the dry weight to be about 25-35%. Purely guessing, I would venture to say I'll get an ounce or so total from the small plants, maybe another 2-3 from Aurora when she's done. I've definitely learned a lot during this grow, as well as have managed to build a more professional set up. I'm looking to 2012 to be a good year for gardening. I have an Aurora clone in training to be a mom, and was recently given a few sour diesel seeds that I plan on germinating soon. I'm hoping to get a perpetual harvest of AI and SD going over the next couple months, after doing yet another redesign of my space. I want to have a nice finished product so I don't have to make any mid-grow adjustments next time.

have a couple aurora indicas that just went hermie on me

jordan293 said:

have a couple aurora indicas that just went hermie on me

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Sorry to hear that. The plants I'm about to harvest just started going hermie, but they were never really my main focus, and its late enough for the plants to not get pollinated or seed up since they are getting cut down this weekend. Def try to be very careful concerning light leaks, feminized seeds have a higher probability of being herm if there is ANY inconsitency in the light cycle, which i personally learned the hard way, lol. Worst case scenerio, you will still get some decent potency, and some free AI seeds, or some AIxAK crossbreed seeds. If there are only a few male flowers, and you don't want to risk it, just snip off the male flowers carefully and get rid of them, but if it is widespread, your choices are limited to keep it or kill it. Good luck!