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    HELP! Sunroom flowering stage

    Hello,

    I currently have a grow going in my sunroom, which is
    south-facing so it gets decent sunshine. I have been working from home so I have been able to move the plants in the sunroom throughout the day to get them as much natural light as possible. I planted the germinated seeds in late April-early May, so they have been growing for 1.5ish-2 months. The plants include two Pineapple Express and two cereal milk, but I got both as bag seeds. They are starting to get a little too big for my space (I have also used a bit of LST and topped a couple of them) so I decided to build a frame out of scrap wood (about 3x3x3) and just started using it to induce flowering by covering it with a black tarp and putting my plants in it from about 7:30pm-7:30Am. It is in the basement of my home. The sunroom is about 70-80 degrees throughout the day on average and about 40-50% relative humidity. The basement is about 60-65ish degrees or so and similar humidity.

    I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions to increase the quality of my buds or just my sort of hybrid grow setup I am trying? Any advice is greatly appreciated! I am a new grower (completed my first grow last summer and it was exclusively outdoors) and I am just hoping for some input on my setup from more experienced growers.

    Edit: one more question.....besides the four plants I mentioned above, which I assume are not autoflowering, I also have an ILGM white widow auto that is about 3 weeks old. It is in the sunroom as well but I also supplement it with three basic LED bulbs I found in my house when the sunroom doesn’t get direct light early in the morning and later in the evening. I have two 2700k and one 5000k, both 60w equivalent or 9w (I’m super new to grow lights so sorry if this isn’t the relevant info i should include). I am wondering if I should try any LST with the auto, or if it is worth it to just let it grow since it has a shorter life and so I get an idea of how it will grow and how big it will get, etc? I have 9 more WW auto seeds so I’m leaning toward just letting this first one grow on it’s own.
    Last edited by FortyNation; 06-16-2020, 09:06 AM.

    #2
    I would let the first autoflower grow on it's own - just to see how it grows. Then you can plan on what you want to do to the others.
    Not sure how to increase the quality of your buds as I think the genetic makeup of the seeds is set even before they are germinated. One can increase the size - with proper nutes and lots of light.
    Can't comment on your setup as I can't see it.
    Good luck growing.
    ​​​​​​3 X 3 gorilla. Promix soil . Green Planet Nutes
    Mars Hydro
    Vortex in-line 6" fan

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      #3
      Thank you for the advice. So putting the plants in the light blocking tent for 12 hours a day WILL make them flower, correct? I’ve only seen one post about bringing in or covering outdoor plants, or ones that receive outdoor light like my sunroom, so they receive 12/12 lighting, and I think it was one of the sites founders that responded. I believe they said they have never known anyone that has covered or moved outdoor plants in order to give them 12/12 so they can’t comment on the effectiveness, but they have heard of people doing this.

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        #4
        Blocking the light off of the plants (to create 12/12s) will make a photo plant flower, but will not make an auto flower, only time will do that.

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