Extended Grow Time: DWC and Auto-flowering Strains

[Latavius Janikowski]

This is my first auto grow, I'm doing the Fast Buds Gorilla Glue Auto in DWC.

I read on Mephisto's auto grow guided that DWC is an outstanding method, perhaps the best, but it can also extend the grow time by a few weeks.

I'm on Day 50 and they look great, but they're still little, despite having HUGE tap roots. Most of that problem likely came because I had the lights too close and they didn't stretch out.

Regardless, they look pretty healthy.

Anyone else find their auto times have been significantly longer with DWC than with conventional soil? My guess is that they have another 6 weeks of flowering and blooming, which would put the cycle at about 90 days. Longer than the 60 the seed breeders say, but certainly not out of the realm of possibility.

Thoughts?

 

[rkymtnman]

This is my first auto grow, I'm doing the Fast Buds Gorilla Glue Auto in DWC.

I read on Mephisto's auto grow guided that DWC is an outstanding method, perhaps the best, but it can also extend the grow time by a few weeks.

I'm on Day 50 and they look great, but they're still little, despite having HUGE tap roots. Most of that problem likely came because I had the lights too close and they didn't stretch out.

Regardless, they look pretty healthy.

Anyone else find their auto times have been significantly longer with DWC than with conventional soil? My guess is that they have another 6 weeks of flowering and blooming, which would put the cycle at about 90 days. Longer than the 60 the seed breeders say, but certainly not out of the realm of possibility.

Thoughts?

no offense, but do fem seeds instead. you're doing an auto in the same amount of time as a photo (fem) and a auto has less THC in it.

 

[Latavius Janikowski]

no offense, but do fem seeds instead. you're doing an auto in the same amount of time as a photo (fem) and a auto has less THC in it.

If I do fem seeds, it takes 6 months, my friend

 

[Latavius Janikowski]

If I do fem seeds, it takes 6 months, my friend

Also, gotta do autos for my setup and situation.

 

[rkymtnman]

If I do fem seeds, it takes 6 months, my friend

how so? i do 30 day veg from seed and 60 day bloom. and get way more yield

 

[Airwalker16]

I don't support autos

 

[rkymtnman]

I don't support autos

especially in sports cars. manual tranny only. shift it like you stole it.

 

[Airwalker16]

They will destroy the photo period market and make it so every plant you grow has to come from a seed. DOWN WITH AUTOFLOWERS

 

[fragileassassin]

You can finish most photo plants faster than an auto if you flip them early.
I just finished a 4 month photo grow and the plants were as tall as me..
Your 60 day breeder time is way more likely to be flowering time than total cycle time. Which would make your estimates sound about right.

especially in sports cars. manual tranny only. shift it like you stole it.

I dont have the hip or knee for a clutch anymore and these new autos are faster anyway. I was ehh about not being able to get the 6 speed at first but ive really enjoyed the a8

 

[Latavius Janikowski]

how so? i do 30 day veg from seed and 60 day bloom. and get way more yield

So just keep a mother in one space of the tent and then run clones in the rest of it?

Here's a pic of my setup right now

 

[Latavius Janikowski]

They will destroy the photo period market and make it so every plant you grow has to come from a seed. DOWN WITH AUTOFLOWERS

I'm sure there will be a market for photo period they won't go away

 

[rkymtnman]

I dont have the hip or knee for a clutch anymore and these new autos are faster anyway. I was ehh about not being able to get the 6 speed at first but ive really enjoyed the a8

the new autos are impressive but shifting as you are driving up and down some passes around here, you gotta take the manual.

 

[rkymtnman]

So just keep a mother in one space of the tent and then run clones in the rest of it?

Here's a pic of my setup right now

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if you don't mind doing one strain off a mother plant for a bit, have your clones about 12 to 16" tall when you put them in the bloom tent. get a perpetual grow going.

 

[Latavius Janikowski]

the new autos are impressive but shifting as you are driving up and down some passes around here, you gotta take the manual.

I like your analogy and I had a stick shift until my last car purchase.

 

[Latavius Janikowski]

if you don't mind doing one strain off a mother plant for a bit, have your clones about 12 to 16" tall when you put them in the bloom tent. get a perpetual grow going.

I guess that might be better yield wise

 

[rkymtnman]

I like your analogy and I had a stick shift until my last car purchase.

i like the manual when you are passing somebody and as you get right up to their side window, drop it down and punch it. lol.

 

[fragileassassin]

the new autos are impressive but shifting as you are driving up and down some passes around here, you gotta take the manual.

I got paddles and the thing where I can slap the gear selector to the left from D and shift myself. I thought id miss a manual but i dont lol.
and a thing where if i tap the gas real quick itll downsift for me.

So just keep a mother in one space of the tent and then run clones in the rest of it?

Here's a pic of my setup right now

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Are you under the impression that you have to keep mothers and use clones for photos?
Or are you getting some dirt cheap auto seeds and the price of fem seeds makes you want to?

 

[Latavius Janikowski]

I got paddles and the thing where I can slap the gear selector to the left from D and shift myself. I thought id miss a manual but i dont lol.
and a thing where if i tap the gas real quick itll downsift for me.

Are you under the impression that you have to keep mothers and use clones for photos?
Or are you getting some dirt cheap auto seeds and the price of fem seeds makes you want to?

No it has to do with my setup and creating a separate space that's properly ventilated for the mother but won't leak light. My tent is actually made from PVC and mylar emergency blankets, so you can actually see in through the outside of the tent, but it's opaque on the inside.

 

[rkymtnman]

I got paddles and the thing where I can slap the gear selector to the left from D and shift myself. I thought id miss a manual but i dont lol.

you got new school stuff. lol. and my poor Cobra is about 400 HP shy of your beast. the thing i dont' like about the new stuff (and not to knock you) but it makes crappy drivers look better than they should.

 

[Latavius Janikowski]

you got new school stuff. lol. and my poor Cobra is about 400 HP shy of your beast. the thing i dont' like about the new stuff (and not to knock you) but it makes crappy drivers look better than they should.

Well, I have room to get a mother going, so I'm going to grow that sucker out for sure, by the time the two sets of autos are done, I can prob do a SOG?