Here is a quick pic of the girls at dawn, dew-kissed and smokin' hot.
Left to right, 3 gallon containers, pic 1:
1. Paradise Pandora 61 days, 26"; This one just keeps swelling and swelling; six secondary colas have formed, all 14"-20"+ tall; LST'd her.
2. Paradise Pandora 61 days 18"; Failure to launch on this one; might be the pheno, could have been stress, but was always slower.
3. Short Stuff Blue Himalaya 57 days 12"; She has had large calyxes since week two of flowering, short side colas. This is going to be a resin monster.
4. Buddha Seeds Syrup 57 days 16"; This one smells dreamy, like overripe fruit. This is going to be candy.
5. Buddha Seeds Red Dwarf 57 days 18"; Skunk genes strike again with a nice short, wide-as-it-is-tall shrub; great thick side colas. She has impressed me.
Pic 2 Pandora #1. I thought she was stretching too much due to the Sativa genes and heat, but man o man is she filling out with no gaps on the stems whatsoever; sexy curves.
Given the first 7 weeks of their life the temps were in the 90's to 100's, these autos are doing well. They are very sensitive to stress and they do want nutes. A lot of people say not to use too many nutes due to the fast growth and short veg time of autos (plus easy to nute burn), so I used very little. Once the girls started to turn pale green and stopped growing at week 4, I gave them 1/2 dose of bloom and three days later all darkened and had a growth spurt, no nute burn. So I kept up the nute regimen for the last 4 weeks and it has paid off.
Last, note the bird netting that I put over the girls. It keeps deer from being able to bite the plants (deer used to be my worst enemy; I have witnessed them on several occasions shy away from the netting like it is a spiders web). Grasshoppers land on it and go crazy like it is a spider web, and will not go through it (usually). Also keeps birds off of the plants (danger here is the care package they leave on your bud - "you mean I'm smokin' bird shit?"). Even better, it breaks up the outline of the plants from a distance, great for stealth.
Peace out and happy growing!