Chefbjy
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Thank you Cannabliss. My first time with autoflowers and I was scared to train after a mishap. And I think I got my training done too late. Live and learn but it's back to photoperiods for me for awhile 😉.
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Cannabliss
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As much as I like the idea and the short grow span of autos (among other pros), I'm still not completely sold on them lol. If you had trained them on time, would you have stayed with autos or were you planning on going back to photos anyway?
Chefbjy
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I was already thinking about going back anyway. I like the idea of a quick harvest and the fact lighting makes no difference. But I like to veg for a little longer and accommodate my plant space and needs.
Having photos mixed in there threw my whole plan out of whack and 3 seeds never germinated. I would have had 3 different strains 6autos and a staggered harvest if it went as planned. So I have a lot of excess energy and time invested in this then I wanted now. And would have been done completely by now with a lot of flavors to choose from. It will be sog if I do autos from now on 😆.
Having photos mixed in there threw my whole plan out of whack and 3 seeds never germinated. I would have had 3 different strains 6autos and a staggered harvest if it went as planned. So I have a lot of excess energy and time invested in this then I wanted now. And would have been done completely by now with a lot of flavors to choose from. It will be sog if I do autos from now on 😆.
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Chefbjy
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Gg#4s have begun to show many more pistils. 3rd day of 12/12 and they'll be getting a liquid bone meal solution today. Going to top dress fish bone meal, kelp meal, langbeinite, and de when top soil dries a bit. Switching out the mh in 11 days with hps and yellow pics 😆. Jk I have some fluorescents in the shop I can use for pic lighting and they seem to like the added lights 😉. Let's see if I can do better then the Skywalkers did as far as keeping nutrition available. Now that I know what mistake I made I'm going to try and avoid deficiency and hope that my soil mix has what it takes to get these girls to harvest.
Chefbjy
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Did a heavy pruning/ lollipopping to most growth tips that would never make it to the canopy but left fan leaves on. Considering this day to start the beginning of flowering which puts me at 8 weeks from now roughly. So they'll be finishing up at the end of October beginning of November.
Going to have to get some 6ft bamboo stakes the 4 footers I have aren't going to cut it. And I know they're going to need some support. So far with the mh in the stretch has been minimal. And night temps are getting in the 50s in my shop but they seem to be hardened enough to take it. If it starts getting any colder I'm going to run into problems with keeping them warm. Guess I'll get some straw and see about some form of heating though it will be hard since I really wasn't prepared for a photo grow in my shop this late in the year.
My patience is wearing thin with autos in a photo room and photos in an auto room. All because seeds were mixed up and that's my freaking luck. I wish I could run 2 lights in my room just to finish without worrying about environment. Or seperate the seemingly autos that are growing in the dark harvest grow challenge. Fml I've got my work cut out for me 😆. Here's some pistil pics 😉.
Going to have to get some 6ft bamboo stakes the 4 footers I have aren't going to cut it. And I know they're going to need some support. So far with the mh in the stretch has been minimal. And night temps are getting in the 50s in my shop but they seem to be hardened enough to take it. If it starts getting any colder I'm going to run into problems with keeping them warm. Guess I'll get some straw and see about some form of heating though it will be hard since I really wasn't prepared for a photo grow in my shop this late in the year.
My patience is wearing thin with autos in a photo room and photos in an auto room. All because seeds were mixed up and that's my freaking luck. I wish I could run 2 lights in my room just to finish without worrying about environment. Or seperate the seemingly autos that are growing in the dark harvest grow challenge. Fml I've got my work cut out for me 😆. Here's some pistil pics 😉.
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Chefbjy
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Curing still and waiting another week to weigh out. But from jars looks to be a good 6oz. Maybe 5 and 1/2 but not bad for my first auto run. I know you can't see in the amber jars but they are the fullest ones. Will take pics in the bud bowl when I weigh out. Here's some of a bottom branch. I usually clip big buds down to smaller buds so it dries evenly and faster. The big buds will keep the rh up in the jar I've noticed and I have to take them out too often.
Things I'd do differently with auto flowers would be to run them in a sog style grow, making sure they were all autos. Start in final pots no transplanting, probably 5s or 7s fabric pots. Top and train earlier depending on growth, avoid supercropping till later in flower. Lst more delicately and prune fans covering growth tips or tie them down. Run hps or dual mh/hps spectrum lights before 3rd node maybe 10 days from seed. More mycorrhizae,root enhancer, and inoculate earlier Daily foliar feedings and water with more teas. Write down time lines for when to top dress or provide bloom boosters. And I'm sure there will be other areas not covered here.
Will have better bud pics at weigh in 😉 ✌ 💘.
Things I'd do differently with auto flowers would be to run them in a sog style grow, making sure they were all autos. Start in final pots no transplanting, probably 5s or 7s fabric pots. Top and train earlier depending on growth, avoid supercropping till later in flower. Lst more delicately and prune fans covering growth tips or tie them down. Run hps or dual mh/hps spectrum lights before 3rd node maybe 10 days from seed. More mycorrhizae,root enhancer, and inoculate earlier Daily foliar feedings and water with more teas. Write down time lines for when to top dress or provide bloom boosters. And I'm sure there will be other areas not covered here.
Will have better bud pics at weigh in 😉 ✌ 💘.
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Chefbjy
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We have budlets 😉. Worm casting tea with mycorrhizae today. This mistake has turned out to be my favorite grow by far and hope the mj gods Wii be on my side. So far they've been torturing me with seed mistakes, I hope they've had their fun. Going to top dress with some p and k and they had a fresh soil mix topped off about 2 weeks ago so I think I'm going to finish strong with this grow. Only thing I'm dreading is weather. Dipping down in the 40s low 50s and they seem to be doing okay. Wouldn't mind another 2 months of fair weather to finish out these bushy beasts. 3' tall from soil and around 3' wide with budlets forming halfway up the stalk to the very top. 😋
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oldjarhead100
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our heat wave just broke so its fantastic here ,could be snow in a couple of weeks though never can tell lol
