I'm only growing outside so they veg for as long as they veg. I've never grown indoors. My plants are usually started in April or May. Outside by late May and then start to flower around the first or second week of August. Then depending on the strain, they will finish mid October to mid November. The mid November plants are a bitch because they need to be brought in and out for those few weeks it starts to get cold.
I'm always bad about not weighing my yield but maybe on average 4 to 5 quart mason jars of bud per plant. My plants get to be about 4 ft tall. I tried one plant in the ground last year but I planted it late, in mid July (it was an experiment) but it got up to 6 ft. tall
5 quarts of weed. Yeh, that'll work!
Not autos. Photos. These 3 autos I have now are the first autos i've ever grown.
Ah, got it. And not much progress on diagnosing what's going on with your grow.
Yeah, you have to let the soil dry out and then water to saturation. The Wet/Dry cycle. Emilya (a member here) has an excellent post called "How to water a potted plant" where she explains the whole process, and I have been following her watering style since I started growing. I've been checking for bugs and so far I can't see any. I'm wondering if it's the soil. If it's too hot. One of the plants has clawing leaves.
I was going to recommend Emilya - seems like she's the expert on that!
I've used Sohum soil for 2 other photo period clone grows and it worked really well but maybe it's not that good for Autos. I tried to follow the protocol for Autos with Sohum because it's supposed to be too strong for small seedlings and direct seed planting.
@jokerlola , your talking about topping 3 times for photo's and not necessary auto's. Am I correct?.
Correct. I wish I hadn’t topped these autos. There’s a guy that has a YouTube channel that specializes in Autos and he said he used to always top his autos but then did some side by sides and decided that it doesn’t really increase yield, so he stopped. I have to see if I can find him and I will post a link.
@jokerlola , assuming you a have sufficient amount of plants growing at your disposal, I am a proponent for experimenting (even if it's off the cuff) and keeping tabs on the result. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Fair enough and I've read that in a number of other places.
Beautiful plants!autos topped once.
topped at node 5. nodes 2 / 3 / 4 kept. 1 and 5 are lopped off.
So that number of days listed on the package is an estimate of ow many days after they stop vegging and start flowering? (How many days of flowering?)
