Auto Euforia indoor grow report by Canney: a skunky high of emotions

Auto Euforia seedlings under SANlight LED

My seeds had germinated properly. I put on latex gloves to protect the seedlings from germs and planted them tail first in the pre-prepared soil. Not too deep, because they should start getting exposed to the LED light soon. Finally I sprayed everything with water. Initially, the light was on for 24 hours daily until all seedlings had poked through the surface of the earth. This happened after about 48 hours. From that moment my lights were on 18 hours a day. Since the need for powerful light is not that critical initially, I hung my relatively small LED module S2W from Sanlight in my tent.

In the first few days I didn’t have to water at all, because the first watering was plentiful and sufficient. Nevertheless, I sprayed a good amount of water on the plants every day and even turned on my fan. The fan was set to the lowest level, so the heat could build up a bit, which was good for the seedlings.

Not much happened initially and the first leaves developed slowly. Since my nutrient supplies were running out, I got myself grow and bloom fertilizer from my trusted grow shop. In addition, two thermometers were used to get a better overview of the climate in my tent.

After about ten days, growth began to accelerate significantly, which was clearly visible on the foliage. The existing plants grew, more and more leaves developed. I had already started watering small amounts of grow fertilizer and Alfa Boost daily. I also replaced the Sanlight S2W LED module with a Q4W module from the same manufacturer. So it got warmer in the tent and I turned the fan up.

Steady vegetative growth for Auto Euforia

By day 14, I noticed the stems of the plants slowly starting to become woody. The plants also began to stretch and spread more clearly. Their thirst grew and I increased the amount of fluid I was providing to them.

I usually try not to water more than necessary. For one thing, it’s always a huge mess when too much of the water comes out at the bottom. With ten plants in the tent, this quickly results in a small ocean. It is also not good to drown the roots in the ground with water. And since I also enjoy dealing with my plants more intensively, I like to put in a little more effort.

At the beginning of the third week I hung another Q4W LED module in my tent. I placed the pots further apart and thus had to illuminate a larger area. At first I forgot to turn the fan up again and suddenly wondered why it was getting so stuffy and humid. Fortunately, this problem was easily solved.

Signs of bloom begin around day 23

On day 23, I noticed pre-flowering on pretty much all the plants and spaced the pots out again. Now it was time to hang the third Q4W LED module in my tent. Since I had about three square meters of grow space available, I was very flexible.

In addition to the Grow fertilizer and Alfa Boost, I now also started adding a Bloom fertilizer. The plants began to stretch and all the shoots shot up. The previously subtle smell of cannabis now became much more intense and my fan ran at 80 percent capacity.

In particular, the tips of the shoots began to become hairy and the plants, which had been very bushy up to then, became much more translucent/open. This was also because I removed larger fan leaves. I was now watering about a litre every two to three days and also regulated the pH, which was sinking due to the increasing proportion of nutrients.

Auto Euforia plants in full bloom after 6 weeks of growth

By day 43 I had lush but delicate buds on all plants. Far from compact at this point, but I had a clear vision of what was to come. The bulking phase started slowly and I gradually increased the bloom nutrients. What struck me was that this strain would happily take a little more fertilizer without having any problems. The buds got bigger and bigger and eventually the plants started to release more resin.

In the lower third of the plants I removed weak shoots and foliage, which hardly got any light. Not all at once, but a little bit every day. By the eighth week the plants were so big and wide that I had to move the pots around to get at everything. Nevertheless, my arms kept coming at flowers and I had to take a shower regularly afterwards, because otherwise the smell would have stayed with me for a while. In those moments I smelled typical Skunk aromas quite clearly and was already looking forward to the harvest.

From day 60, the flowers increased in size again. The buds got bigger and bigger – pouring out a lot of resin. I now had a carpet of flowers on the surface and kept the LED modules at a distance of 30 to 40cm. The plants tolerated it very differently, but with three individual modules you are relatively flexible.

In the last few days I have noticed subtle smells in my house even when the tent is closed, which is a clear sign that the activated carbon filter should be replaced. I often have one in reserve and can then act quickly. Only once did it happen to me that I was away on business for several days and smells became a problem. A good friend agreed to water my plants and called me to say that there was a strong smell of weed everywhere. It turned out then that the fan had failed. So I had to guide a non-grow grower from 500 miles away to go to a grow shop, buy a fan and charcoal filter, and then install it – lots of fun. Everything worked out in the end, but since then I’ve planned my grows so that I’m never away for more than a day or two if possible.

Auto Euforia harvest approaches 10-11 weeks after autoflower seed germination

On day 68 I looked at the trichomes on the buds with a small magnifying glass. I saw a sea of ​​milky trichomes, about a quarter of which were brownish. A good time for me to start harvesting. The plants themselves now seemed exhausted and had given everything.

I had already used pure water for the previous watering and repeated it this time. After that there was nothing and on day 74 the lights went out. 36 hours later the time had come to chop and on a Friday evening I began to gather my harvesting equipment.

I covered the floor of the tent with foil, arranged my chair and got gloves and scissors ready. Since I usually disappeared into the tent for five hours, I packed provisions and a pot of tea. Of course, music couldn’t be missing either.

Here’s how I did it: First, I disassemble a plant into its individual parts and then work my way through the shoots. The leaves on the buds were full of resin so I trimmed carefully here. Almost all plants had very powerful main blooms and evenly spaced side shoots. Most of them were tall. I had to change my gloves several times because they were always completely stuck together.

The trimmed flowers were placed on nets, several of which I hung one below the other. I emptied the soil contents of the pots into garbage bags and disposed of everything that same night, together with the green waste at a secret place of my choice, in the middle of a forest. Of course, I took the plastic garbage bags back with me. Far away from me of course. If you walk through nature like this and keep your eyes open, you sometimes see that other growers do the same.

After my fan had removed the aroma from harvest, I turned the fan well below 50% to keep the buds from drying too quickly. No matter how well the grow went, removing moisture too quickly can ruin everything. Juicy and aromatic buds then quickly turn into hay-smelling herbs that are scratchy when smoked.