how long for autos mines 10 weeks only 3rd week of flower

[madmucka]

I'm growing barney farm critical kush auto. it's 10 weeks old and only in 3rd week of flower? I've read it can take 10-11 weeks but mine seems to be exceeding that by a mile is this normal. plant seems healthy I use nutes everyday feed 1.5-2 litres a day it's on a 12/12 cycle as I have a photo plant with it. I just worry that it might die as it's taking ages. i will put up some pics shes big shes 108cm tall only just stopped growing.

 

[D.A.A.S.69]

Nice plant, if she has stopped growing tall, she is about to start filling in those buds from now to harvest.
Autoflowers need all the light you can give them, is my experience, I run my lights 24-7 on autos.
Running your light 12-12, makes for super slow autos, if you ask me, it's gonna be a while yet.
When do you first see pistils on your plant ? On what day ?

 

[madmucka]

i first saw pistols on 5th of September on her she smells good I'm getting impatient. I've never grown before.

 

[D.A.A.S.69]

Most autos show pistils, at 18-24days, or a little longer.
It's hard to grow autos an photos, in the same tent, one or the other is gonna suffer.
GoodLuck

 

[Chefbjy]

D.A.A.S.69 have you been by the dark harvest grow challenge recently? https://forum.growweedeasy.com/forum/growing-community/192778-dark-harvest-grow-challenge/page20

I had a seed mix up and got autos that showed pistils at 3weeks. Campesino also got autos that didn't show signs of flowering for 5-6 weeks. He had his lights on 18/6 and have just started to flower where as mine are right on schedule. Wierd huh? I don't know what happened.

He said his seemed to be in limbo at 3weeks. I'm thinking because the form of training slowed it from flowering? Maybe a little shock from transplanting? Not sure if they are different strains either though since it was a seed mix up from Seedsman. Campesino now has to run them on 12/12 not sure what else he can do. Just wondering about your thoughts on the pistils not showing sooner. I think I someone else on here tried mainlining and didn't show pistils until week5.

Guess I got lucky when mine started showing. But I topped 2 of them too late. Then broke a branch but that one is doing the best of all. Transplanted and everything I would do with a photoperiod but only one got slowed and the one I topped right at 3 weeks isn't stacking buds as well as the others but definitely wasn't slowed by much. Guess I'm just trying to figure the ins and outs of autos and how they react to shock, stress, transplanting,and training. 😉

 

[D.A.A.S.69]

Chefbjy, I've had several different seed banks tell me, that if they don't have pistils by day 40, they most probably ain't autoflowers,
And you will hear people say mainlining,topping, hst, transplanting, don't slow them down any, but you know damn well it does ,some, maybe not much, some alot.
I bet that branch you broke, will be the strongest smelling ,most potent bud on your plant, back when we used to sell it, we would always wound the nicest colas, and save them for ourselves, lol
I don't understand the flipping part, though.
Them seed banks don't get it right all the time, either, dude from SweetSeeds told me they were still trying to figure out autoflowers, lol, probably a hellava lot to figure,
I know I sure love autos, but if I don't see pistils by day 25, I start wondering.
And they don't live long enough, and you sure don't want to slow them down, when you got them growing good. A 75day plant, will end up being 100days.
Have a nice weekend Chefbjy

 

[Chefbjy]

Yeah idk guess they just got slowed down for some reason. It was well past 40 days before they were noticed as autos. Just wierd don't know about those seeds I'm not sure if seedsman screwed up the inventory or this is just a random occurrence in these specific seeds.

 

[Chefbjy]

Hmm i guess that isn't that far off from a 40 day mark. And since the one is flowering now it just went unnoticed after 38 days or so 😆. I still would like to know what seeds we really got 😉.