My 1st Autos

[JDU]

I gotta wonder if I'm doin somethin wrong here- the larger of these 2 popped on the 17th & the 2nd on the 26th. 12 days old & if they start flowerin around day 20..... I wonder if I'm lookin at any more than 1/8 oz harvest.....

Any words of comfort or encouragement or if I messed up- advice for nxt time?

[UndergroundFarmer]

On the positive side, you're not shorting them on perlite. You might have gotten unlucky and got two runts.
Also on the positive side, there's little danger of them growing into the lights.

[JDU]

Hahahaha Yep always find the good! Thanks for the reminder

[bboyfromwayback]

I’m finishing up my first auto grow and that’s about how all of mine looked 2wks in. They start to take off around week 3 and as soon as they started growing they immediately started flowering. The ones that I bent over will probably yield close to a oz each but the ones I let grow natural are looking closer to a 1/2 if that. I’m growing C4, Fastberry and Glueberry. The C4 and Fastberry are about done, today was week 8. The Glueberry probably has another 3-4wks so I wish I’d topped them but next time I’ll know.

[JDU]

Nice! Good to know thanks

[JDU]

They should be old enough to handle some light so I put em in the veg tent today.

[JDU]

Well I'll be!! I most definitely left em under the bulbs too long. They exploded in veg!! What's it been? 8hrs?? They've pert near doubled!

[SoOrbudgal]

Morning JDU I got my autos under 24hr light on 3 right now 24" from canopy. There 4wks no flower yet but lush and full I've had to remove extra lg. fan leaf. I LST them but did not top these got them in tall folgers empty coffee containers LOL and they love it. Any how I just took down the OG Kush leaving the GSC to go abit longer. Yep hollow stems on some parts but green on others. I gave this kush and extra 10days past flowering date and she wasn't doing nothin more so gave her a wacko LOL

[SoOrbudgal]

They love the light I just have not gotten another timer for my second tent so leaving them in 24hrs. Still too cool during days on the porch to just manually turn it off so that's what autos are good for nothing less than 18hrs on. I also did the outdoor transplants into permanent lg. pots.

[SoOrbudgal]

JDU here's a few autos I have on 24hr light they are 5wks old from seed just LST main cola nothing else.

[JDU]

Nice! Are those the ones FunkyButtLovin sent us?

[quietlybinary]

Looks great! Cool Folgers containers too! Will that be their final home?

[SoOrbudgal]

Yes to both JDU and quietlybinary just alittle experiment seeing how fast and how well I could do in small container. I had lots going on in the solo cup could not participate in that. And since no more recycling of our plastic ( man that just kills me putting in the dump/landfills ) decided to use them as 1 gal but they are a tad bigger than 1 gal. I was out of those anyway my photo clones were all in them.

[quietlybinary]

Wow great size I did not realize those containers are that small. Great job keeping plastic in use and out of the dump!

[JohnEmad]

You know that small containers can have good yields. Fresh brewed cannabis. I'll have a big mug too. lol.

[swegrow]

Mine where very slow started aswell, looked real sad for the first weeks but once transplanted to 3gals (I waited until they got 3 nodes) and under a proper light they grew fast and exploded into 2-3 feet in a month, and started to flower and got even bigger. Got some dated pics in my log I think

[JDU]

Does everyone keep them under 24hr? They started under a Walmart LED "grow light" bulb on 24. Now in the veg tent under real lighting. the tent has been on 6hrs sleep- tonight they git 4. They're supposed to go outside after Mother's Day but idk if they're gonna be ready.

I kinda feel like I bought the hogs but ain't got a pen....

[SoOrbudgal]

Yes JDU only reason I didn't do 18/6 on the 3 autos is cause they are outdoors on a porch and the lights help heat the tent alittle above 70 during night and heats to 80 during day and I just open flaps for a breeze. I can't do less light time without using a heater and I won't do that.

[swegrow]

20/4 has worked really well for me.

[JohnEmad]

I do 20/4 with good results.

[bboyfromwayback]

This was the runt of my bunch and turned out to be the coolest looking. It was so small I was afraid to do much to it so I just kind of bent it over a little but that was it. It turned out to be a 9” bud on the main with 4 4” buds around it and they’re all purple. The plants only 10” total lol I guess for a 10wk grow (most likely) that’s not too bad

[CaptainWiese91]

I been growing lots of autos. Never transplant an auto bro. Always start in the final pot/container. The clock is ticking as soon you sprout the seeds.

[Mountainhigh]

@CaptainWiese91 I've got a couple of flowering Amnesia AF's in 1-gallon fabric pots; one is about 8" wide by 7" tall, the other 8"wide by 13" tall, started at the same time, around March 30. Transplanting isn't good, but neither is a root-bound plant... Would you finish them where they are or transplant to a 3-gallon?

[CaptainWiese91]

Mountainhigh I’m from Europe, so after my math. 1 gallon is 3,7 liter. 3 gallon must then be 11,1. 1 gallon is too little. It’s not much. How old are they ? I have some northern lights in 9 liters pots, they are doing fine, because of the small life span autos have. But 1 gallon =3,7 liter is to little my friend.
This scenario I think you need to transplant. But how old are they ? Starter flower yet ?

[Mountainhigh]

They're flowering. Germ'd about April 1.

[CaptainWiese91]

Shit man.. it’s totally up to you. Maybe transplant one, and see how it goes with yield. And keep one in the small pot for comparison?? I honestly think this one is a hard question. But I know 1 gallon I too small bro 👍🏻