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[MeEasy]

3 gallon is what these are. Reading around on here it seemed to be the most popular size for autos

 

[Catfish22]

I just started a new grow and am switching from 2 gal buckets to 3 gal buckets. I grew fairly strong plants my first grow but I'm sure they would have grown bigger and had a higher yield if the pot was larger.

 

[MeEasy]

Were they autos or photos? Catfish22

 

[Catfish22]

@MeEasy
Autos, I'm working on getting a perpetual grow going.

 

[SoOrbudgal]

Yes about the 3gal. Catfish22 to take it rather seriously to me that is the way to go. My hobby runs of autos in these folgers coffee containers are fun but do not give the strain full opportunity to show off. My summer grows outdoors with the autos are all in 3gal and do just great.

 

[Catfish22]

Yeah actually you were starting that grow with the coffee cans and Farmbuck was starting the Kali girls among others when I was trying to get my seeds to germinate.
I followed you both.

 

[Farmbuck]

Well thank you Catfish22 the Kali are almost done. Never grew the Kali-47 but the Kali China twice so I'm looking forward for the Kali-47 after a good cure to see how good she is lolll As for the Kali China well wife is impatience.

 

[MeEasy]

UPDATE = well I have made a move (wish to the other house but not yet) I couldn't find a reason to leave the autos in the 2x4 when there is literally a couple feet from that tent my 4x4 with 646w of light sitting empty. It was a no brainer move. I also moved flo a plant I'm re-veging in there with them to give me more space in the other 2x4 she's just starting to make new leaves

 

[Ckbrew]

Starting up autos next month. I will follow along.

 

[Canuck147]

they'll love that move.

 

[MeEasy]

I've never done a journal or grown autos so I'm not good at either one but everyone is welcome to follow, comment, criticize, or add anything along the way. Welcome and enjoy 😉

 

[SoOrbudgal]

Excellent idea MeEasy

 

[MeEasy]

UPDATE = Hello again everyboody, I just wanted to share my latest pics and my mistake of the week. Surprisingly the girls are growing pretty good but have been looking a bit sad. I did a little investigating to figure out why they were sad and I found what I was doing wrong. I was trying to cook them I guess, I set the light up like I had it over my photos but didn't figure in that I have them on an 18/6 schedule instead of 12s like the photos so they were probably getting a DLI around 50-60 moles/day instead of the 30-40 I had figured for the photos. Oops so I'll turn the light way down for a day or two to give them a little break to recover then I'll try to figure out where to set it. Without a par meter it's more of a guess than anything (playing with the dimmer) but at least I figured it out before I really hurt them. Flo was burned a little, I decided she would probably be better off by herself in the 2x4 so out she goes obviously she's the last pic poor little baby leaves smh.

Stupid mistakes 🤬 but that's how some of us have to learn

 

[SoOrbudgal]

Sorry i'm having a difficult time understanding? Were they to close to the light?

 

[MeEasy]

Sorry I babble sometimes making it difficult to understand lol (coffee coffee coffee)
I have the light at 25" above which is ok but I had it turned up to 600w which is ok for a 12 hour day but to much for 18 hours. They had that end of the day droop all day, except for about 4 hours in the middle of the day

 

[SoOrbudgal]

OHHH ya that's bad LOL :bawling:

 

[SoOrbudgal]

Sorry MeEasy i'm still playing around understanding my new P2500 vipar. It's got 250watt draw i can't or don't understand all the specs. So far it's the only one in my flower tent now, i could put another 200watts in there if needed but not sure yet. My photos are so friggin stretched now it's not funny LOL but i'm dealing with it, figuring it out. I feel like a " newbie " again and guess i am with this new light. I got it at 25" and will move my plants closer today again. But man it's so dang bright it's at 100% dialed.

 

[MeEasy]

I'm still working things out with this new light, SoOrbudgal I'm just starting to understand how to do the math for DLI so I won't even try to get that technical because I would probably unintentionally lie to you. I do have these pics with the needed light and light available you might already have all this if so ignore it, maybe it will help someone else

First is the ppfd map for your light i just stole from Amazon. it shows what your light does at those distances then the next pic shows how much is needed to grow at each stage of life. It's ok to go a little over the required ppfd in the middle to get enough out to the edges but if you get much over 1100 you have to add co2 and heavier feeding

 

[SoOrbudgal]

Thank you MeEasy sometime ( probley not ) i will study more LOL my hubby use to try and explain things like this to me shittttttttt it's no wonder i just am more comfortable in the outdoors i'm hopelessly relying on my senses works so far?

 

[MeEasy]

I couldn't take lookin at the tiny larf and a bush I ain't seen since the 90s on these autos another day. They got a good defoliation today, I tried not to get to crazy. The two on the far right are the cheese berry they got a lite trim they grew wider with longer space between nodes and didn't need it. Pics are before, after, and that WC that flowered at 13 days i think it was. Oh and I forgot to take a before pick so that's from a few days ago 🙃