The Great Auto Showdown

[Retodd]

You came up with this competition with me bro. Won’t hurt. I’ve had buds before that I could knock someone out with, they were so dense....lol. Still, it would need to be the dry weight on them. I’ll figure out the list to do on my iPad to keep track.

 

[Retodd]

I can’t believe you went 18/6 on a auto grow. Before growing autos everything I read said 24/7. During veg I went 22/2, but the way I was training them I wanted them to stay in veg as long as I could. I’m totally new to indoor growing tho. This is only my second grow indoors.

 

[Retodd]

Welcome. Love the middle pic and the closet grow room. You’ll learn a lot on here. There’s a lot of super experienced growers on this thread alone. Hope you bookmarked this one. We’re at the end of the competition and will have final weigh ins next month. I’ll list the strain, weight, and largest bud at the end. We did this to help each other along and plus we can find out what strains can really produce. There’s different growing techniques too. We’re going to do another competition this summer Purpaterp Good Luck with your growing
🙏🏼✌🏻

 

[Purpaterp]

Thank you! Yeah the closet was an experience with the heat issues. I’m going to keep my closet going but I’ve got a text setup now and I just popped 4 white widow autos in it. Thanks for the reply!

 

[Doubledealing72]

Thanks Retodd! Would you believe me if I said one auto?

 

[Canuck147]

Usually grow 20/4 - New light has a timer, 18/6 then 24/0. I'm a believer in allowing certain amount of dark time. So lazy me likes the timer set for 18/6 - although wind storms and power outages tuck that up sometimes.

 

[LurkingInTheGrass]

...HAPPY SATURDAY TO ALL!!

I cheated this week - no phone pics - dug out the camera and tripod

my Things:

left: Thing 1
right: Thing 2


Royal Gorilla Automatic (Royal Queen Seeds)
50% Indica / 30% Sativa / 20% Ruderalis
56-70 days after germination


Thing 1
91 days from seed
48 days from pistils

starting to get some faint orange threads

Thing 2
85 days from seed
48 days from pistils

the tallest 3.

some orange threads starting here too

both are filling in nicely.
Thing 2 is going to give me 8 or 10 nice colas, (looking like 3-4 inchers, and the big one on top - maybe 5-6 inches)
Thing 1 is going to give me a bucket of hard golf balls

smells are starting to settle, I get pine, rubber/fuel and now the skunk is starting to come through

trichomes on the calyces are clear, with just a few starting to cloud up

Im thinking at least another week of nutes (res change on Tuesday) unless matters change drastically between now and Tuesday


green thoughts

 

[Retodd]

What strain, etc? PM me sometime

 

[Retodd]

White widow was my first auto indoor grow...lol

 

[Juicyj89]

Chop chop...

 

[Retodd]

Still a long way to go....ugh. I’m not going to set my box on fire ever again....lmao

 

[Cannabliss]

Nice haul, Juicyj89.

 

[Juicyj89]

Thanks man. Not really finished and haven’t even weighed it yet. Fixing to and then I’ll post it.

 

[OzBud]

Here we are almost at week 11 with more weeks to go yet, bud rot is forever on my mind due to high humidity in the greenhouse. Ranges between 25-100% every day, might add a couple more fans in there to get some more airflow. Daily checks for any signs of rot, at the first sign she'll be coming down even if it means losing lots of bulk and ripeness. I wont like the racing high much but hopefully with a good cure it wouldn't be too bad.
She's now getting week 8 mid bloom nutes @ 75% strength. Just the slightest tip burn, just where I want to be so I'll back off now to about 65% strength for the rest of the grow.
Threw in a photo of the chunk on her trunk too lol
The last of the photos in there have started to transition so they'll switch over from veg nutes to transition in two days once their tote of mixed nutes runs out & is refilled.

 

[Juicyj89]

Okay so I ended with 485 wet. This is only counting the main colas and any other decent size nugs down the branch. Still have some smaller buds that I might leave on there and see if they size up. Or I might just throw them in the trim. Either way, over 17 oz is pretty cool with me. So maybe 4 when it’s all said and done. Super sticky and fruity. Quick question, when the day grams per watt, is the wet/dry? Thanks again guys and congrats to everyone who’s finished! Fun growing with y’all! Can’t wait to see the rest finish! Happy growing and be watching for my next grow! 😉 👇👇👇

 

[Juicyj89]

B-e-a-utiful! Hope you keep the rot and mold down. That is going to be a flipping monster. And to think you’re already at w 11 and still looking clear as far as I can see. Jeez. Good job.

 

[OzBud]

dry grams per watt.

 

[OzBud]

I'd say its probably all clear at the moment. way too early to get the scope out for a look

 

[Doubledealing72]

It was gorilla glue auto by by fast Buds. I tried growing 2 at the same time. One turned out really funky and ended up getting pulled. I ended up with 1.5 lbs (24 oz) off the one that finished. It was probably just hitting the seed lottery lol. The first thread on my previous grows in my signature is the journal that it's in if you want to check it out.

You can pm me if you want anymore details!

 

[Juicyj89]

Awesome. Thanks.