Arteekay's 1st Grow - Sunshine #4 - Spider x 4 - Crop King Autoflowering Mix Strains

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arteekay said:
Here's a series of pics I've been collecting since last Friday, one pic a day.

Our Revolver has two separate double tops. Not sure I've seen pictures of it elsewhere yet. Common?











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arteekay said:
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The triangle nug below the twins:





Sideways full branch. New camera coming in a few days, will hopefully prevent this in the future:
 
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millertm said:
Very nice, there is nothing like smoking your own fruit. Your about a month from trying your product out.
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We were thinking a couple of weeks until we'd be able to take an early, fast-dried or vaped and uncured popcorn nug or maybe even scissor hash. Does your estimate exclude or include proper drying and curing?

I'm incredibly curious! hehehe

CAN

NOT

WAIT.

(but will).
 
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slayer44 said:
What day did your NL begin to flower?
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I'm not 100% sure i know how exactly to determine that. Is it when she first showed sex at all? If so it'd be about 5 weeks ago. The two Candy Canes and 2 Northern Lights are eight weeks from sprouting as of tomorrow. I'll be doing a better job of documenting things for the next grow.


millertm said:
Wait. Cut at 60 days, leaves should be shot. No fert past day 37. It's well worth it.
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We are definitely waiting, not one of them are ready.

I have to say though, if there's one thing I've learned during this grow it's that a human setting an exact schedule for a plant family is going to produce less than optimal results. Each plant is an individual, each grow unique even within the same setup. These numbers seem designed by a commercial grower with a well dialed in setup and well known strain, and they are only optimal for that exact grow. The majority will be ready, but there will be some percentage that went too long and some that weren't ready, but on average they are good as a whole.


oldergrower said:
Gota say Trudy is one fine looking gal, though they all look fantastic, Trudy just makes my knees melt
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Thanks OG. She's my favorite for sure. Wish she'd grown a bit taller, but with all we put them through early in their life, I think we made it out fairly decently. We will end with a harvest, so we're going to call that a huge success. :)
 
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Quick update tonight, we got busy with the holidays and finishing the setup on our veg tent.

Candi, Rev and the Tall NL got full strength DNF Bloom A+B and we forgot the Calmag+, probably been overdoing it a bit anyway.

Britney got one more full strength DNF Gro A+B and Calmag+.

Both were around 900ppm and 5.8 PH.


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I grew 4 seedlings and flipped then all at same time. Last one is turning yellow now. First one turned 2 weeks ago. The'll ripen when their ready. All Looks Good IN Your Garden. I can't believe you are still moving your plants. I stopped moving them in flowering because they got too big. Something I won't do again.

800w HPS 1st grow. Millertm's - Girl Scout/Cinex - Grow Journal - 4'x4'x6.8' Tent - 2015
 
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I have to move them, how else am I going to put each of them up on a pedestal and check her out completely? They are all still immensely fascinating, and each has their own features. I sit in awe. I'm a couple more grows away from a scrog I think so I'll take advantage of it while I can. There is brand new stuff each and every day.

They're autoflowers permanently on 18/6, so we can't count from a flip day.
 
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arteekay said:
I have to move them, how else am I going to put each of them up on a pedestal and check her out completely? They are all still immensely fascinating, and each has their own features. I sit in awe. I'm a couple more grows away from a scrog I think so I'll take advantage of it while I can. There is brand new stuff each and every day.

They're autoflowers permanently on 18/6, so we can't count from a flip day.
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I have a 42 inch CheeseCandy that I move for every feeding and inspection, it's a must for me too :thumb:
 
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millertm said:
I still flipped my Auto's. I hear you though, they are fun to watch.
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You can only flip a photo lady, so you changed your light schedule. I have to ask why? You lost up to 50% of the possible growth, no? My research indicates an autoflower flips when it's ready, not a thing you can do to change that other than purposefully setting them back like I did to poor Britney. She was ahead of Rev by a good 5 to 7 days, and is now behind by the same amount but still stretching.

To all, please correct anything I got wrong here.

BpoBrad said:
I have a 42 inch CheeseCandy that I move for every feeding and inspection, it's a must for me too :thumb:
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Yikes! Hoping for something close to that out of our next grow. 5 gallon fabric pots for the autos, solo cups for the photos for now. Jaybiz picked up some massive (to us) airpots today, now we're debating if the two photos will end in them or not.

Our current girls have moved around one position clockwise initially, and later front/back every single day, watering or not. I'm sure I'll get tired of that eventually.

Thanks all. Happy New Years Eve morning.
 
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Auto's flip when rootbound. I had #10 pots and plants were way too big when I flipped them. I will use #5 pots from now due to my yields from 6X6 sq planters. In less you are vegging for a few months it takes long time to rootbound a #10.

800w HPS 1st grow. Millertm's - Girl Scout/Cinex - Grow Journal - 4'x4'x6.8' Tent - 2015
 
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I'm sorry to question you millertm, but I can't find anything to support that. My research indicates the plant will suffer, vegetative growth will slow and the plant will stay small, but it'll still flip to flowering at about 3 or 4 weeks.

I am very open to being proven wrong here, I just spent 10 minutes searching and reading and everything seems to say that it's age, not anything else that controls the flip to flowering.

Please assist if possible.
 
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Well the guys at my local grow store have been growing auto for ever here in OR. If you let them go rootbound they will flower like ruduralis the wild plant that auto flowers. If you start 12/12 cycle on any cannibas plant it will flower. Look how they crossed plants to auto flower it should explain how it works and why. I just harvested 2 autos and I saw them preflower in my #3 pots when rootbound. Moved them into #10 and back to veg till I flipped thrm.

800w HPS 1st grow. Millertm's - Girl Scout/Cinex - Grow Journal - 4'x4'x6.8' Tent - 2015
 
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millertm said:
Auto's flip when rootbound. I had #10 pots and plants were way too big when I flipped them. I will use #5 pots from now due to my yields from 6X6 sq planters. In less you are vegging for a few months it takes long time to rootbound a #10.

800w HPS 1st grow. Millertm's - Girl Scout/Cinex - Grow Journal - 4'x4'x6.8' Tent - 2015
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If that were the case my autos would never bloom as they do not get root bound in my hydro buckets until 10 or 11 weeks.
 
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arteekay said:
I'm sorry to question you millertm, but I can't find anything to support that. My research indicates the plant will suffer, vegetative growth will slow and the plant will stay small, but it'll still flip to flowering at about 3 or 4 weeks.

I am very open to being proven wrong here, I just spent 10 minutes searching and reading and everything seems to say that it's age, not anything else that controls the flip to flowering.

Please assist if possible.
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Winner winner chicken dinner.
 
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Ok, well my Auto's bloomed when rootbound, and veg'ed when not. They also flowered when switched to 12/12, just like my grow team said. Now these were clone's not seeds.

800w HPS 1st grow. Millertm's - Girl Scout/Cinex - Grow Journal - 4'x4'x6.8' Tent - 2015
 
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Rifleman said:
Winner winner chicken dinner.
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Good Morning Gentlemen

If you don't mind I'll throw in my 2 cents here. while I wake and bake. :volcano-smiley:

I grew a freebie that Attitude seed bank sent me, Critical+auto. I grew it in the same garden with an Indica dominant (Northern Lights +Skunk) and Sativa dominant White Widow. My lighting schedule was typical 18/6 veg and 12/12 flower based on the two non autos rate of growth to fill my ScrOG screen inferior surface. When they filled the screen I switched them to 12/12. I fed them all the same, veg nutes during 18/6 and flower nutes during 12/12. The auto (ruderalis ) had a mind of its own and started flowering early during 18/6 and matured super fast. She was ready for harvest (based on looks, trichs and of course sampling) at about 6 weeks of 12/12. By the way, that Critical was serious! I still have some that is reserved for bedtime use only! This is my only auto experience so don't hang your hat on this one.
 
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