When autos don’t auto

[MarkyJ]

I have two RQS diesel autos at 10 weeks now. First time I tried autos. According to RQS they are supposed to finish from seed in 8-9 weeks. One looks about done and the other has continued to keep growing higher all “pre-flowers” during the same time the other matured. I switched my lamp to 12/12 two weeks ago and still looks the same. How to trick the autos when they don’t want to flower?

[Toker1]

Don’t grow autos, but when I experience issues like this on my photos, I drop the lights on hours to about 10 and off to 14. Might even as low as 8 on and 16 off. Yields can suffer, but they will finish fast.

[MarkyJ]

They were freebies. If if does finally mature it should yield more than that other it’s so much bigger now. But I use kindsoil so I have a time limit before the soil is used up I reckon

[Toker1]

I don’t use kind soil, but know there is a time release factor with some hot soil brands.

[MarkyJ]

Hmm I never had a photo stubborn to flower yet. But I’ve only been growing for a few years. I’ve been lucky I guess. Not pests no hermies etc so far. 🤞🤞

[PRIMO]

My first thought was get rid of half of those fan leaves, and hit em with a more powerful light.

[MarkyJ]

I haven’t done any training or removed any fans except for some yellowing lower ones on either plant. This is the only light I got it’s done well on my photo grows.

[PRIMO]

Even still you gotta get light on those lower buds or they will not grow. Ditch the fan leaves.

[MarkyJ]

I’ll remove em on my photos. I guess I will on the big sister.

[fray]

I grow autos an I would say 8 weeks is flower time not from germination like some sites claim. I run my lights 20/4. Hsp 1000, an a led. In soil. Area 6x13x7.5 ft. I try to keep it simple as possible. Seems to be getting me buy.

[MarkyJ]

That’s cool. Very frosty. Mine started budding 4-5 weeks ago. I’m not in a hurry to cut the little one yet. The trics seem only about 50/50 right now.

[fray]

[MarkyJ]

Nice one!

[fray]

Same pic as above

[Rwise]

My first autos, well I slowed them down by feeding them coffee for N and to lower PH. I had no idea that coffee (caffeine) would do this, but 56-80 day plants took 120 days! The girls dont got coffee anymore,,,,

[Weed Pharma]

Auto's do NOT flower by a change in light schedule etc.- increasing the "lights off" time will only cut the yield of the other plants!
I have grown autos for years and this is the first time I have experienced a "No Go" flowering event (2 plants) in my current grow.

One is part of this thread: https://forum.growweedeasy.com/forum...lization/page3 and took 12 weeks to flower- but has stalled to the point I'm considering- taking it out of the tent.

I have a second one which began pre-flowers and stalled.

I will be taking some action to free up the tent space for a productive seed, as the time/effort beyond a few weeks it fruitless.

[MarkyJ]

Well I guess we have lots of salad greens then. I’m going to run this one out for awhile anyways since this is my last grow before summer vacation plans.

[Greenpassion]

Weed Pharma, I've gone through several Cycles of autos, and I just got rid of one Auto that Ended up being a hundred and seventy days old before I trashed it. It's sisters were harvested long ago. She looked fantastic in the beginning, very nice big colas, but the pre flowers or the little pistols never ripened. I never got actual bud 2 form. It too initially was in kind soil, and that ran out of gas so to speak so I started using regular notes on her. Very very strange event I'll tell you.