Smurfberry Grow

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Lilmoez

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So my friend and I were looking up autoflower seeds to grow and came across this name. I know I probably should have picked the White Russian Seeds, but we went with Smurfberry because of the name.

Here are some pictures of the grow so far. The plants are 4 weeks old tomorrow from them popping from the ground. I am using African Violet Soil, and Firefox Nutes. They have had one dose of Big Grow so far last week.

From what I have read it is 8 to 9 weeks from seed to harvest. I am not sure on that since they have not shown any signs of flowering yet.

The last two pictures are my mother plant that had some serious problems. I got the soil from my neighbor who is a gardener and I swear it was the soil that screwed it up. Once I changed the soil to African Violet soil it started coming back nicely. The last picture is the plant sick and the second to last picture is it coming back. Could it hermie on me since it was so sick before?
 

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cdaly69

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Lilmoez said:
So my friend and I were looking up autoflower seeds to grow and came across this name. I know I probably should have picked the White Russian Seeds, but we went with Smurfberry because of the name.

Here are some pictures of the grow so far. The plants are 4 weeks old tomorrow from them popping from the ground. I am using African Violet Soil, and Firefox Nutes. They have had one dose of Big Grow so far last week.

From what I have read it is 8 to 9 weeks from seed to harvest. I am not sure on that since they have not shown any signs of flowering yet.

The last two pictures are my mother plant that had some serious problems. I got the soil from my neighbor who is a gardener and I swear it was the soil that screwed it up. Once I changed the soil to African Violet soil it started coming back nicely. The last picture is the plant sick and the second to last picture is it coming back. Could it hermie on me since it was so sick before?
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I have decent autoflower experience, but not smurfberry.

I don't know what your lights are like, but these plants usually start to grow right around where you are and after they have their first dose of nutes.

But in my auto lemon skunk grows, the 'runts' chime in around 7 inches, so your seed might just be a runt (no offense.) My lemon skunks don't do well in soil, and I would not rule out that bad soil started your issues. The last time I grew in soil was a bad trip, I found that Scotts just didn't want to work for me.
Oh well.
 
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Lilmoez

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For the last 2 pictures I have already grown that strain and got a decent harvest using the African Violet soil. I don't know if it was the soil or not but when I changed the soil it started to perk back up. I grew 1 autoflower before and it was the Roadrunner free seed that I got from Attitude and it was some good smoke. The plant in the last 2 pictures is my mother plant for Slyder strain.

The Smurfberry plants so far seem good so hopefully will start flowering soon. I have 8 40 watt lights in there. 4 6500k and 4 2700k. I am about to switch the lights to all 2700k in the next day or two. Or should I do that now since they are autoflowering plants.
 
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caseyg2007

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Most autos show sex around 2 to 3 weeks. I have heard of some that take a little longer, but is rare. I have no experience with smurfberry though i have always wanted to try it, but was skeptical about the breeders. I have heard many different things about Sagarmatha. If your girls dont flower in the next week, then it looks to me like you got some non autos by accident. This has happend to me before with my afghan kush ryders (unfortunately they were males also). I would wait another 2 weeks and if they dont show switch to 12/12. If they show while in 12/12 then chances are they are not autos. You can switch spectrums whenever you choose.
 
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Lilmoez

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Wanted to update the grow so far. It has been since February 3rd since the seeds popped so almost 5 weeks. It looks like they are finally starting to flower without changing the light schedule. I took some pictures up close hoping someone would verify that.

I gave them their first dose of Big Bloom and then the next feeding will be Tiger Bloom.

Please any advice would be very helpful as this is my 2nd grow and still learning.
 

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littleflavio

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my smurfberry is 10days from germinating on the soil, growing outdoors your plants are def doing better than mine
 
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joshrose54

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Maybe I miss read, but did you say you have a Mother plant? Do you mean a mother plant of a non-autflowering strain, or of the same strain as the rest of the seeds (Smurfberry). If so, you can't have an auto-flowering mother plant as you can't stop it flowering, therefore it will flower at the same time as all the others, meaning there is nothing motherly about it.
 
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Smurfberries are falsely advertised as autos. You still have to switch the lights to 12/12. I have some now that are very bushy and tall after 2.5 months in veg.
 
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ilya

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joshrose54 said:
Maybe I miss read, but did you say you have a Mother plant? Do you mean a mother plant of a non-autflowering strain, or of the same strain as the rest of the seeds (Smurfberry). If so, you can't have an auto-flowering mother plant as you can't stop it flowering, therefore it will flower at the same time as all the others, meaning there is nothing motherly about it.
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Right on man
 
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