Lowlife AK47 Automatic

Looking Good In The Neighborhood!!!!!!!,,,,,,,Great Job My Brother!!!!

Also, as an aside, I've got two more little ones coming up, also from Lowlife. These are from the auto mixed pack so I don't know exactly what they are, but the first one (first two pics) is definitely another AK or an auto AK47xblueberry or AK47xlemon skunk. I've found a few other grows and the massive branching is definitely a trait common to the AK auto crosses. This one smells much skunkier than the big one, which is more herbal and spicy. Lowlife notes that the straight AK has two different phenotypes with distinct aromas, mind you, so it could really be any of them, I'm not sure.

The smaller one (second two pics) I'm not sure either but it could either be auto cross lemon skunk, blueberry, hindu kush, or white russian. Any thoughts? Tough to say without knowing all of them well. It's really tiny, though - this is what I was expecting lowryder hybrids to be like, lol!

They're both at about day 28 or 29 now, so about two weeks into flower. They're both looking a bit short on nitrogen but, whereas with the first one I really pushed the nutes to the limit, this one I'm trying to see how backing off a bit works out for these two. Last feeding for them was half/half of bloom/grow and I was going to switch to pure bloom for the next feed but I think I may add a bit of grow just to up the nitrogen a bit.

Anyway - pics, at any rate

HATCH said:

Looking Good In The Neighborhood!!!!!!!,,,,,,,Great Job My Brother!!!!

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cheers cheers

Oh, another thing I noticed with this second batch is that they both took a little bit longer to take root and establish after sprouting. I think I didn't let them soak long enough before planting them - too small of a taproot before going into the ground. The first one had a nice big taproot coming out of the sprout before it went in and it shot out of the ground with a determination to grow fast. These other two took an extra couple of days to get going and it seems to have made a difference. The one strain is naturally smaller, of course, but the AK-like one seems otherwise identical to the first one in its growth pattern and it's not quite as big.

I think the key is the flowering with response to age thing in these guys - they all seemed to start flowering after about two weeks regardless of how much they managed to veg during that time, so it seems the key with the autoflowers is to be absolutely meticulous with your germination and seedling care. A proper strain you can always leave veg for an extra few days until it seems good to flower but these will just start flowering whether you think they're ready for it or not. If you can baby them when they're young and make sure they get an ideal seedling environment I think that can have a huge impact on the ultimate yield you can get from these automatics.

did you get you're seeds online?

yeah, I got them from DocChronic, mate

sweet nice one man!!! i b buyin some of them shits soon man i really like that bud you got but i duno if i want an auto....

Nice grow man.. hows the smell is it stankin

Nah, not too bad. If you cosy up to them they smell something nice, but it's not really filling the house. I keep my window open so there's lots of fresh air in the room.

hey really good advice in that post about being careful with them as seedlings. i have 10 little ak's right now and the ones that got their taproot messed up are growing at half the speed. my fault for letting them germ too long (a nightmare for rockwool)

Day 60


She's still in this newfound fit of wanting to throw out flowers in their masses. New growth is obvious day-to-day now, calyxes are swelling, and the trichs are growing like diamonds in Africa. Pics today :

lookin nice m8, is ur lamp both spectrums?

Damn that is a tight grow you got going! Thanks for answering my questions earlier in the thread it helped in trying to figure out a grow setup. BTW what lighting schedule do you have them on?

They were on 24h light for most of the grow but over the past couple of weeks I've been giving them 4-6h of dark most nights. The 24h was just to see how it would work out, but I'm sure that lowlife's recommended 20/4 is a decent schedule. I think 24h during veg, though, might not be a bad idea - you really want them to grow as fast as possible for the first two weeks, I think.

frisby888 said:

lookin nice m8, is ur lamp both spectrums?

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The lamp is a Sunmaster Super HPS Deluxe, 400W - it's in the class of "enhanced" HPS lamps which have about 30% extra blue light over a standard HPS. I thought this would be ideal as a one-bulb solution for the autos - used it for veg and flower with, as can be seen, pretty decent results.

jayzero said:

Day 60


She's still in this newfound fit of wanting to throw out flowers in their masses. New growth is obvious day-to-day now, calyxes are swelling, and the trichs are growing like diamonds in Africa. Pics today :

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lmao jay mate nice bud...

nice one jay lovely plant,, i doing lr2 at the mo and your right these ak yield bags more im only expecting 3/4 oz from each plant where as u def looking at afew there. big difference if u ask me. your aks branching out certainly puts my lr2 to shame i will be getting the ak x kush autos nxt after looking at ya journal nice 1
and enjoy u deserve some rep 4 that grow

Just read your whole grow with a few beers.
Awesome stuff for any grow let alone 1st!

Think you might get more than just an oz from that one plant. Will be checking your journal in the next few weeks to see how the harvest goes. Keep us all informed on your harvest and drying technique.

Have a look at my journal for my 1st time grow. A nice sativa outdoors in the UK

Good job and good luck!

Nevermind a few weeks - I'm probably chopping her this weekend, or at least half of it. Tested a bud picked yesterday and it mangled my brain - really energetic, almost psychedelic brain buzz! I'm never buying street bud again, man, lol! I think I'll chop a good amount this weekend and maybe leave the rest to mellow for another few days to a week or so - get some early buzz and late lock out of it all. I've got a few new pics but I'll probably do them all in one post this weekend.

That said, I've been following your journal all along, mate - it's looking well good. I'm a bit reticent when it comes to feedback, but I've been enjoying the updates! Hyped to see your bud come to fruition - I'm definitely a sativa man myself, haha

Ah, screw it - here's some pics from today, Day 63, and the bud I picked on tuesday.