Autoflower Myth Busting Thread

Kushtie said:
During the dark the plants give off carbon dioxide. ...its during the day they take it in.

Apparently they used to remove the plants from hospital wards at night because of this. There's probably a name for it.

Mushrooms do the opposite and give out carbon dioxide during the day and oxygen at night so keeping those bags in when lights are off may not be ideal.
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Yeah, C02 enrichment only helps with lights on. I've tried a few methods to increase CO2, but, if you're space isn't sealed, temps dialed in for it,,, ya might be wasting CO2.

My bloom room is sealed and next summer I may get a CO2 room controller,,, but, from the guys I talk to, commercial types.... It's not the magic bullet most think. Gets expensive, have to deal with tanks,.increase fire and safely hazards....

I'd try the bags if I got them free,, otherwise I just hang in my room lights on and fart.... Haha
 
Day 15 and she is starting to climb after filling out
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sonicDlf said:
Afternoon Atrain , just after sum advice please , Ive got 2 cotc crop circle autos at 6 weeks that look in perfect health .
I'm using A/N , G/m/b at full strength , can i go higher on the strength , Iv'e ordered big bud coco and sensi calmag xtra that should be here wednesday .
The calmag is mainly for my 2 pineapple express that look a little pale .
I,m hopping to get a new nute every week , what would you add next .
Thanks for any help growers .
Be safe .
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Your running 4ml/L GMB and it's not burning your girls...... wow..... they are gonna be nice if they can eat like that...

OVERDRIVE...... that shit works man.... to me the Big Bud works well but is only a warmup for overdrive... that's when the swell get a crazy... then after that vodoo juice.... but don't get it till your next run.... it really does benifit the root system in turn growing bigger plants
 
Atrain said:
Your running 4ml/L GMB and it's not burning your girls...... wow..... they are gonna be nice if they can eat like that...

OVERDRIVE...... that shit works man.... to me the Big Bud works well but is only a warmup for overdrive... that's when the swell get a crazy... then after that vodoo juice.... but don't get it till your next run.... it really does benifit the root system in turn growing bigger plants
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Wow is right! My big girl is only getting 2ml/L and only on water change days. The tips have just the slightest burn, tiny actually.
 
Baxterwolfe said:
Day 15 and she is starting to climb after filling out
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What bean is this lol.she is a heavy feeder :);)also love how she is filling up her pot space she is seeing how much room she has got.this is good;) and plenty u did good going straight into that bucket she will thank u for that u will see.happy growing every1;)
 
MassMedMan said:
Yeah, C02 enrichment only helps with lights on. I've tried a few methods to increase CO2, but, if you're space isn't sealed, temps dialed in for it,,, ya might be wasting CO2.

My bloom room is sealed and next summer I may get a CO2 room controller,,, but, from the guys I talk to, commercial types.... It's not the magic bullet most think. Gets expensive, have to deal with tanks,.increase fire and safely hazards....

I'd try the bags if I got them free,, otherwise I just hang in my room lights on and fart.... Haha
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I think I like the idea of twin sealed rooms linked together best but the cost of buying and running aircon scares me....I guess aircon running costs are fairly significant? The price of the units certainly seems to be.

What's this got to do with autos? Well, if I'm running autos in one room with 20 hours of light I'm not a kick in the arse off running 2 lights for 11 or 12 hours and having twice the footprint. The yield question has still got me thinking ;)

My biggest problem just now is I'm running low on autos to smoke so I've got to make it through the next 9 weeks smoking mostly Violator Kush. I'm going to be outta ma tree! :) :) :)
 
Atrain said:
Your running 4ml/L GMB and it's not burning your girls...... wow..... they are gonna be nice if they can eat like that...

OVERDRIVE...... that shit works man.... to me the Big Bud works well but is only a warmup for overdrive... that's when the swell get a crazy... then after that vodoo juice.... but don't get it till your next run.... it really does benifit the root system in turn growing bigger plants
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The crop circle auto has been on 4ml/L for two weeks now so since week 4 , and she has no batted an eye .
I did give her a product called rocket fuel for the roots for the first five weeks , but this last week they have gone nuts .
well nuts for me as they are my first , one takes 1.4L a day the other 1.2L .
I will order overdrive when i pick up the big bud coco an calmag , shops great , they don't stock allot of A/N products but will order me anything ,
Thanks for the reply .
Be safe .
 
I really love autoflowers. So, Here's 1] the Thunder Bloody Mary (Samsara) and Sweet Skunk (Royal Queen) that I grew this last spring. 2] Me holding one of the Thunder Bloody Mary harvested colas. 3] My current baby girl in the tent right now, a Northern Light Blue Auto (Delicious). She was sleeping when I took that photo ....

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Kushtie said:
I think I like the idea of twin sealed rooms linked together best but the cost of buying and running aircon scares me....I guess aircon running costs are fairly significant? The price of the units certainly seems to be.

What's this got to do with autos? Well, if I'm running autos in one room with 20 hours of light I'm not a kick in the arse off running 2 lights for 11 or 12 hours and having twice the footprint. The yield question has still got me thinking ;)

My biggest problem just now is I'm running low on autos to smoke so I've got to make it through the next 9 weeks smoking mostly Violator Kush. I'm going to be outta ma tree! :) :) :)
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Nice, I have a violator kush seedling going now, first run with that strain for me.

It's not cheap, and honestly, this is an area I wouldn't cut corners. Mess up a CO2 room and the neighbors might know. You need a good well known system with plenty of redundancy.

A friend of mine had a close call this summer when the temps outside peaked, a controller failed, and the next thing he knew he almost blew tanks cause the room was so hot. That concerns me, shit fails. I know Murphy.

Beside, I hear you get 25% increased yield. To me, the risk, costs, and headaches are not worth it.

I was close at one point thinking it was the one thing I didn't have yet. But, after thinking long and hard I decided to pass for now. I'm hitting QP per plant, why bother if anything I'll add more light ;)

I'm not totally against it, buy if I do it, it'll be a propane burner unit which I can connect directly to my house. I don't want to mess with tanks. To old for that ;)
 
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