Carpcatcher Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 Diary of 2 Roadrunner#2 autos grown outdoors in garden 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carpcatcher Posted July 22, 2018 Author Share Posted July 22, 2018 I’m actually most of the way through this grow but I have taken pics along the way so will add them. I picked the roadrunners for stealth as I didn’t want anything too big in the garden. I have a tropical plant border in the garden and the plan was to plant them in there amongst the other plants to try and hide them a bit. I dug two holes about 18 inch deep and 18 inch wide and filled them with a compost mix I’d made (1/3 coir, 1/3 Multi-purpose compost and 1/3 green waste compost) I sowed the seeds in 2.5L pots using the slotted pot inside another pot method so I could plant the pot about 7 days after germination and not disturb the roots. I used the same compost mix in the pots and covered the tops with clingfilm and put them on a sunny windowsill. The first one sprouted after 5 days and the second after 12 days, they were put outside as soon as they sprouted and planted in final position at day 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carpcatcher Posted July 22, 2018 Author Share Posted July 22, 2018 (edited) Here they are in final positions at day 28, they were slow to get going but now starting to grow well Edited July 22, 2018 by Carpcatcher Wrong info 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carpcatcher Posted July 22, 2018 Author Share Posted July 22, 2018 A week later at day 35 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carpcatcher Posted July 22, 2018 Author Share Posted July 22, 2018 Day 48 and growing well but this is when I started to notice browning on new growth which became lots of little holes as the leaves grew, it took a while for me to figure out that it was damage by mirid bugs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carpcatcher Posted July 22, 2018 Author Share Posted July 22, 2018 Close ups of the mirid bug damage and the bugs, they prey on aphids but if they run out of prey they suck sap from leaves which causes the holes 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vortex Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 never heard of then bugs mate ... will they damage the buds too ? lets hope not ahh and that you get a good harvest ... is there anything you could spray on them safely to prevent them doing any more damage ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carpcatcher Posted July 23, 2018 Author Share Posted July 23, 2018 20 hours ago, vortex said: never heard of then bugs mate ... will they damage the buds too ? lets hope not ahh and that you get a good harvest ... is there anything you could spray on them safely to prevent them doing any more damage ? Luckily they havent damaged any buds, I managed to get them under control by killing them by hand each day until numbers dropped. Those pics were from a few weeks ago, I’m just about to post some up to date pics that I took yesterday. Plenty of buds developing now 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carpcatcher Posted July 23, 2018 Author Share Posted July 23, 2018 Right this post will get me up to date with some pics I took yesterday on day 63 Both plants have got a lot bigger than I expected, both are 1.25m high but are totally different, one is a Christmas tree shape with one main cola, the other is a bush 1.2m wide with multiple colas, The Christmas tree shaped one is on the left 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vortex Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 and what a lovely addition to the flower border they make too mate 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moobman Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 Love these plants first autos i grew 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carpcatcher Posted July 27, 2018 Author Share Posted July 27, 2018 Pistils have started changing from white to yellow, trichomes are cloudy and smell is a lot stronger so hopefully they’ll start to put some weight on over the next week or so although if the smell gets much stronger I might have to chop early before I get a knock at the door! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinafem-Mark Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 (edited) Well I've not seen our Roadrunner make an appearance for a long time and I don't know what as she's a solid little auto Roadrunner2 was our 2nd auto and a better representation of what autoflowering genetics can do, since then our autoflowering line has grown immensely so it's great to see one of our 1st autos still being grown out Both plants are looking great and thank you for documenting your Dinafem adventure on UK420. I'll keep checking in as the finish line approaches All the best Mark.. Edited August 1, 2018 by Dinafem-Mark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carpcatcher Posted August 1, 2018 Author Share Posted August 1, 2018 Update on the roadrunnners, both are doing well and escaped with no damage in those gales over the wknd and are starting to put some weight on, the smaller younger one looks like it will finish first although both still have a while to go. Heres the smaller one at day 68 and here’s the bigger one at day 75 and a pic of them together 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carpcatcher Posted August 1, 2018 Author Share Posted August 1, 2018 6 hours ago, Dinafem-Mark said: Well I've not seen our Roadrunner make an appearance for a long time and I don't know what as she's a solid little auto Roadrunner2 was our 2nd auto and a better representation of what autoflowering genetics can do, since then our autoflowering line has grown immensely so it's great to see one of our 1st autos still being grown out Both plants are looking great and thank you for documenting your Dinafem adventure on UK420. I'll keep checking in as the finish line approaches All the best Mark.. Thanks Mark, I also got 3 blue amnesia xxl and planned on putting them and the last roadrunner on a gorilla plot but I ended up to busy to do it so that will be next year now. This is my first grow and I’ve enjoyed watching these roadrunners develop, they seem to be happy even though they’re a bit crowded in the flower border, I wasn’t expecting them to get so big Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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