NL auto week 8 & RQS Diesel week 7 --- need opinions!

[rydin4life]

I just wanted to get some opinions on my plants. I'm growing 3 NL autos from Nirvana and two Diesel autos from Royal Queen seeds. For some reason, two of the NL plants are much smaller, but look to be putting on more weight while the other NL and the two Diesel are spreading out more and putting on more veg growth. All plants received some level of LST and defoliation, although I varied how much and how often just for testing purposes as this is only my second grow and I wanted to experiment. All plants are in smart pots with Fox Farms Happy Frog soil, perlite, and have been getting Botanicare Grow, Bloom, and Cal-Mag. Plants are in a 2x4 grow tent under three MarsHydro 300 lights.

You can see the NL tags in two of the plants and I know one of the remaining three has been tagged as a Diesel. I'm not sure which of the remaining two plants is an NL and which is a Diesel. I thought I had a dead NL seed so I planted another Diesel in the pot since I already had it ready to go. Two days later, both sprouted so I'm not sure which is which at this point. Either way, the two marked NLs and one of the other plants started week 8 today while the others are in early week 7.

General thoughts on the overall look of these guys? The taller plants just started to grow buds about a week ago so hopefully they pack on a lot of weight. Also, sorry for not getting pics without the LEDs...thought of that now that I'm posting.

[GRAND]

Hey, they look nice!! what size pots u using? what temps inside tent with the 3 led lights??

[Dagmar]

The buds are really small... they're in week 7&8 of flower?

[oldjarhead100]

I find the buds stay small until the last two weeks of a grow then they fatten up, Im curious about the diesel I have some auto seeds of them

[rydin4life]

GRAND I'm using 3 gallon pots for four of the plants and a 5 gallon for one of them. Temp are at 78-81 but I've turned up the ac unit in the room to keep them a bit cooler.

Dagmar They're in weeks 7 and 8 TOTAL, not of flower. That's from the time they break ground as day 1.

oldjarhead100 I have a few weeks to go..figure 4 or 5 at least. Of course the sites all say 8-9 weeks, but it's going to be at least 12 I'd say.

[rydin4life]

Amazing how differently the plants grow even when the same strain is planted at the same time..hopefully these start to fatten up soon!