The third week of the flowering stage (autoflower)

[Rookiegrower710]

Strain info and flowering time; the two strains are indica dominant autoflowers and bred by Royal Queen Seeds.

1.) Northern Lights Auto (Northern Lights x Ruderalis) indica

Sativa 0%, indica 80%, ruderalis 20%

Plant life cycle: 12 weeks after sprouting.

Flowerint time: 6-8 weeks

Plant age: 40 days old / week 5 to 6

2.) Purple Punch Auto (Purple Punch x Old Skunk Auto) indica

Sativa 20%, Indica 75%, Ruderalis 5%

Plant life cycle: 10 weeks after sprouting

Flowering time: 7-8 weeks

Plant age: 39 days old / week 5 to 6

Temp: 77.5*C / 25.3*C my old temp was at 86*F but now its at 77.5*C

humidity: 57%

Vpd: 1.39

Lights: 24/0 (my led lights cannot be dimmed, and lights are hanging at the top of the tent at the moment.)

Watering: every two days the medium is complety dried up… (I’m watering about half a gallon of pH regulated water (pH 6.5)

Feeding: I’ve only fed the plant about three times and im scared of feeding her again due to their leaves started turning from dark green to a ligther green.

Soil: Ocean Forest by Fox Farm

For feeding im using the following and Im following the bottles instructions which made me think I should of been giving them less than the reccomended dose from the bottle.

They havent been fed this week. Been using just water until I figure out the feeding part for autoflowers.

The following nutes are by general hydroponics and the dose I’ve been using is for the blooming and rippenint stage… the following are, calmag 5 ml, silica armor 5 ml, floramicro 10 ml, florabloom 15 ml, and floragro 5ml.

Please let me know how much nutes I should use. Should I just use half or a quarter of the reccomended dose thats labeled in the bottle?

Thanks in advance.

[Bluey]

Your environment looks good. Do you have good airflow in the tent?

It looks like it's going pretty well but your buds look tired. Can you try an 18/6 schedule and measure the DLI?

Some of the leaves look a tad overwatered perhaps or high in N. I know nothing about that soil unfortunately and I think that may help.

[Rookiegrower710]

I did 18/6 this morning. Havent gotten a chance to reply to you.
It worked. The leaves look way better. I’ll update later with pics
Thanks for the suggestion cause I was clueless about the light stress being a thing.

[SoOrbudgal]

Looking very stressed

[Rookiegrower710]

Any tips on how to solve the stress?

[Bluey]

Try 18/6 on the lights is my first suggestion.

[9fingerleafs]

To me it looks like the top of the buds are light stressed. Have you tried bending them/ tying them up so they're not reaching to the light? Maybe even just leaning them to the sides of the tent so they don't stick out hat much. It's only affecting the tops. The rest of the plant looks fine

[DeepPurpleHaze]

"Please let me know how much nutes I should use."

This is the 2Fast4Buds auto flowering nute/watering routine. Best Feeding Schedule for Autoflowering Plants | Fast Buds (2fast4buds.com)

[SoOrbudgal]

If newbies would read from this educational website there would be no need for going anywhere's else to learn feeding plants. I know there's alot of different ideas and grow websites but it's here.

[DeepPurpleHaze]

SoOrbudgal - "If newbies would read from this educational website there would be no need for going anywhere's else to learn feeding plants. I know there's alot of different ideas and grow websites but it's here."

RE: In absolutely no way was my post intended to even remotely infer that this website is somehow less or inferior. Quite the contrary, it is largely my go-to website and have learned a ton from it. The work that Nebula has done here is nothing short of remarkable. I just happen to have that auto feed schedule from that other site readily available and shared it with the OP. My purpose in doing so was simply to help them, nothing more.

[SoOrbudgal]

OK just reminding all that if they search they can find it on the site. I too read many sites articles.

[Bluey]

If you can't measure PPFD or DLI but own a smart phone with a decent camera you can use an app like PPFD Meter or Photone and measure it. Calibrate it to a known source as it will likely be out by quite a bit.

Read up on DLI and understand whats going on with your plants and why they are looking tired. It could be to much light over the day, DLI, which means just give it a dark period, or it could be too intense light, PPFD, which means raise or dim the light, or it could be both.

You won't know for sure until you can take some reasonably accurate measurements.

[Rookiegrower710]

After the 18/6 they look less tired tbh. And I’ve raised the led lights to almost the roof of the tent. 16 inches above cannopy

[9fingerleafs]

They already look better. It's very clear that only the top of the plant was suffering. Try to manage height or at least move the tallest branches away from the center