My Apollo11 grow...

First things first I guess...these were Apollo11 seeds by Joey Weed. I bought them because I wanted a "STRONG clear up high" and had heard good things about both Joey Weed and Apollo11.

I soaked 2 seeds in water overnight with a piece of paper towel floating on top to keep the seeds submerged. In the morning all seeds were at the bottom of the glass. I then planted them directly into deep starter trays filled with 1/3 mushroom compost, 1/3 peat-moss, and 1/3 perlite. I also add "about" a tablespoon of dolomite lime and "Bio-tone Starter plus with mycorrhizae" per 3 gal pot. They were germinated/started under a horizontal 400W MH conversion bulb.

Everyone is fed the same strength (weak) of A/N Sensi Grow mixed at 1/4 strength after about 3 weeks of growth and then they're transplanted into a 1 gal pot when needed. I continue to feed lightly, no more than 1/2 strength along with some blackstrap molasses.

I planted another seed a month later.

Anyway...I vegged them for 2 months until they were about 15-18" tall and showing sex. I transplanted only the positive girls into 3 gal pots and flipped the lights. The males and unknowns stay in the 1 gal pots until I'm sure. Being sativa based, I expected them to stretch quite a bit. They didn't...ending at about 3ft.

One A11 showed sex very early and was well into real flowering before I had flipped the lights. It ended up throwing female flowers later, after the male flowers. I wanted to use it to make fem seeds, but that autoflowering tendency had me worried. I culled it. The other was a female.

I don't have early pictures, you've seen one seedling or a vegging plant, you've seen a million...

Early flowering was as expected...nothing eventful. I feed 1/2 strength Sensi Bloom with molassas...until the flush.

At 50 days from flip, I sampled a small bud...nothing...nothing to speak of...I waited. At 60 days, I sampled a bud...nothing to speak of...I waited. At 70 days, I began the flush knowing that they HAD to be ready soon. At 90 days, I checked the trichomes again with my 40X scope...FINALLY, an amber! I chopped it...it won't EVER get any better than this.

The thing about this girl...she was subjected to a LOT of cold temps. There were many a night below freezing...in the teens...and these babies were outside in one of those cheap metal sheds. This was the coldest winter in a long long time here. My plants were...to put it mildly...stunted and delayed.

The tops were cut at 90 days, hung for 7, and jarred for curing.

I smoked the uncured A11 this morning just before writing this...I hope you can follow it. It's an OK smoke. There isn't much smell, there was 1/2 way through flowering, a slightly lemon smell, but it's gone now. There isn't any taste either. It's a bland smoke. The high creeps up slowly and reaches a plateau and sits there. One hit or one hundred...your head stays pretty much the same, so, it's got a low ceiling. No paranoia, very functional (well you tell me), and gives a good buzz for about 2 hours. The same buzz I get from all my weed. I don't really see any difference between the different varieties I've grown. Except some make you really tired...this doesn't. I'd call it a mellow day time smoke.

Here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure.

The plant at 90 days...minus a few "test" branches. I couldn't believe that it was really taking 90 days to mature. I smoked a branch at 60 days and the high was gone in 20 minutes! The trichomes were all clear. At 75 days I smoked another and it was gone in an hour. The trichomes were mostly clear. When I finally took it at 90 days, it was about 1-2% amber and mostly cloudy.



This is a closer view of the cola


Here is the cola in my hand for reference.



Closeup of the main bud.



And closer...



Actually, that image is deceiving...when it dried it wasn't nearly as chunky as it looked in that picture.

Cola resting on an 11" plate for reference.



And finally, the dried bud...the one I smoked this morning. It met a noble end...don't cry for it.



Well...I hope you enjoyed my first journal and I hoped you learned something about Apollo11...at least the one I grew.

Oh...the other seed I planted a month later...it was a male. I wanted to make some fem seeds and sprayed some branches with GA3 at about 125 PPM strength. It made the branches stretch like a madman, but alas...no male flowers. So, I ended up using that male to pollinate the others. A CindyHaze, Satori, Barny's LSD, and an Afghan. I've got plenty of seeds from the branches I "dipped" with pollen. I'll be doing a journal on each of them too...as soon as I get the pictures uploaded.

Have a great day!