I like everything about smart pots and in some ways I am going to miss using them, but now I am in a mass production situation and my priorities have changed. I am willing to give up the benefits gained with air pruning and the rest for the ease of cleaning and the longevity of these pro quality containers
The 1 gallon containers that I am using are as follows:
this is the 5g... I will have to measure the 1 gal for you
It took mine almost 40 days to go into bloom mind you I didn’t have optimal conditions and that could be whyIt is day 29 for our Auto, and she is still vegging away in her new container, and seems to like life under the Nextlight 420h for 19 hour days. I see no signs of stunting or anything else out of the ordinary, although I have just uppotted her, I am training her heavily, and I have indeed looked at her wrong at least a few times. I am finding it hard to actually convince this Auto to automatically switch to bloom.
The longer she stays in veg the better!!! That plant looks spectacular. You’re getting me quite excited about mine and it’s also great to see what a good auto scrog candidate she is. Excellent work. Just like you’ve grown 100 autos!It is day 29 for our Auto, and she is still vegging away in her new container, and seems to like life under the Nextlight 420h for 19 hour days. I see no signs of stunting or anything else out of the ordinary, although I have just uppotted her, I am training her heavily, and I have indeed looked at her wrong at least a few times. I am finding it hard to actually convince this Auto to automatically switch to bloom.
I hate to admit it but I am impressed.There are still no clear indications that she is flowering or even transitioning. She is acting like any other vegging plant, even though I can spot pistils all over the place. I am convinced now that all the people who claim that their Auto is blooming at the first sight of pistils, are wrong. I keep giving her looks, that if she were sensitive, would surely send her into bloom, but still she resists my evil intents. No dice. At day 30 above ground and day 5 since spotting the first pistil, she still ain't doing it.
So today, she has gone 4 days since watering last, and 9 days since the last feeding. She did not need water, so we went to work with the hoops and trimming scissors. Because of the training, several leaves are now on the ground, or so far below the canopy that they are going to be worthless to the grow and actually a bother since they block other bud sites that very well could produce. About 6 leaves were cut off today for the good of the plant.
Hoops were moved outward toward the edges when necessary, and the 4 dominant branches now springing up from the middle were given their first hoops and told to lay down. It looks very possible that we are going to get 16 nodes out of this girl, in extreme record time. I hate to admit it, but I am impressed.
Thank you. The red lights are in the bloom room, and even at 13.5 hours of light, it is not enough for an Auto. Our girl is in Veg Room #2 under the Nextlight 420h, running at 19 hours, just to be difficult.I hate to admit it but I am impressed.
Note: your observations on flowering are spot on. I see the same thing constantly. Autos shoot more pre pistils than photos I’ve found. I got thrown more than once but no more. The best sign is a budlet, lol. Also be aware that often times you may see the first day or two of visible overnight stretch before you see budlets. That happened with Titan a little bit.
Are you putting the auto through the red light paces in flower?
Edit: I don’t think any old auto gives you this level of growth. You’re growing a killer genetic. The XXLs I feel are dependable that way though, least it seems so far.
Oh yeah, duh, sorry
Wow. She’s firing on all cylinders. You gonna go with your 16 tops? That’d be sweet. What might be sweeter if you’re adventurous is to both YES, up pot, and while you’re at it, top a few more tops! Heh. Don’t mind me I’m evil. When you grow a lot of autos you realize how spoiled these XXLs make you in terms of useful/trainable veg time. You can literally do whatever you want to them in 35 days or more. I can’t help but try to make them all yield kings. They cry to produce. Yes, I’m basing this on only one, but not really. I see how yours is going and even BubbaKush909’s outgrew his usual. For a soil auto that plant you have there is incredible.Day 32... still vegging hard! 10 days since first spotting pistils.
I can’t wait to see what kind of stretch this BS has in her.
