hi folks, just started my first grow using dark devils under a budmaster xg 9 led light. canna pro coco, 20l air pots. and I seem to be behind schedule with growth. does anyone on here have any experience with budmaster led? I was told to keep the light at the top of the tent but due to growth i'm wondering if I need them lower? anyone have any advice on this? i heard that they start to flower around three weeks so i'm worried now because mine still look like seedlings at over 2 weeks since popping up. pics were taken around day 14 since first seed pooped up
Another grower enticed by the beauty and promise of the DDA. 
to one of the happiest community of growers out there marshall. They look perfectly fine. They're growing roots beneath them, and it drives every one of us nuts at how long they can take to explode, but I assure you, explode they will. 
Here's just a little background on my DD which took forever to get started. She finished well. I have one nug left. It's not nearly as good as it was when it was fresh and had some moisture but so worth growing her.
The problem starts with burying them just a little more shallow than they needed, which meant they didn't have to fight their way up out of the dirt. It's this fight to get to the surface that rubs that casing off. 
Dark Devil#1 breaking ground
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Hi Folks,
This is an awesome thread! Pardon me if I am restating a question already posed earlier in the thread, I could not wade through it all. . .
I have plans ( and am super-stoked, SUE!) to grow the DDA outdooors(!) this summer with a harvest date of July 1. I have the ability and room to put them all in the ground under full sun. I can also put them in large pots. My idea is to grow them as big (ginormous) as possible under the sun.
I have read the Automatic plants can react and potentially grow better with fewer transplants (maybe only one from the original seedling pot transplanted to the ground) or from being grown in their final resting place (a large pot or the earth). Topping is also something I wonder about. I also wonder about pots vs. the ground.
I think that timing will be a huge piece of the process. I plan of sprouting them on April 15.
Yes, autos grow best if you avoid transplanting. What flashed through my mind was the idea of starting them in one gallon fabric pots and then dropping those right into the final hole in the ground, pot and all, letting the roots grow through. You might have better luck with timing like that, since you could more easily hold them back if weather turned on you suddenly. They won't get root bound in the fabric pots the way they will in plastic. - topping should increase your yeild. arteekay and Jay topped all of their autos at around day 12-14 and typically pulled six ounces per.
Froctor D. Did you catch your breath? Lol! They can be a little ........ I'll go with stressful, until you go through a grow or two. Suddenly they burst into bloom and start taking off. I have at least one moment every grow when I think "no way will she have enough time" to find myself stunned at harvest. If there's anything we can do to help you settle into our little slice of virtual paradise you have only to ask. Post some pictures. We love pictures. 
