Ryax
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did you transplant them?
most autoflowers don't grow that big, without training plants are usually maxing out at a few feet. if you want 9 foot plants then keep with photoperiods imo
Outdoor Autos, Problems and Solutions
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They don’t grow big, but they are compact and Bud up nicely. I grew seven Afghan Skunk ( not all in yet) and three diesel. The diesel doesn’t like training it seems, the two I tried it on are laggards while the other one is much taller. But the shorter ones are covered in bud sights. So I’ll have to wait.
Ryax
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i read from a grow guide that everytime you transplant them you "lose about 10 days" on your grow process from when they get reacclimated . this happens more and only with autos due to their lifecycle
i feel that when i transplanted mine this year that it took way longer than a photoperiod plant to get used to its new pot.
light shock is also a thing and so is regular shock
i feel that when i transplanted mine this year that it took way longer than a photoperiod plant to get used to its new pot.
light shock is also a thing and so is regular shock
PioneerValleyOG
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Letting the autos go too long, was one of my problems, I will offer thus piece of advice up, let go long enough, she will reveg, and one of the ways to be certain, is the top leaves will begin to push out of the cola as smooth edged, not serated edged leaves.
Yeah I guess, I didn’t notice that personally, but you gotta do something I don’t like the big bag and little seed method. I went this way like I explained. Anyway I’m happy with my harvest and looking for word to finishing up at months end +- 2 wks.
Really? You got pictures of this phenomenon?
Ryax
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same here. people here kept telling me to wait.. and if i kept waiting with my 1st it'd be rotten (and i gotta double check it honestly after finding mold on my second auto.
My second auto which they "Told me to wait another 3 weeks" was completely done. The problem is, like you said, it kept growing, so to them it didnt looked done. To me it looked burnt. I decided to dig deeper inside of the plant and i found black mold, white mold and more.
sometimes only you the grower know whats best lol
So, I think I am seeing that with one of mine. The trichomes still look cloudy with no amber but it's forming round edge leaves out of the buds. I think I'm going to chop it tomorrow. Do you harvest an auto by trichromes or by the clock?
Billy the Mountain
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Chief_Broom
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You can definitely let a plant go too long. Especially outdoors with rain and weather you can lose a lot in just a day or two. And if the plant is an auto flower that isn’t very big if things go wrong you can easily lose the whole plant. Indoors you can take a plant a lot farther along.
Ryax
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disagree with the wait longer theory when in doubt as explained previously
Do you think this is ready? I feel like it was ready last week and now it's getting green and leafy
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Billy the Mountain
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It's your prerogative to chop when you want, but the overwhelming majority of harvest pictures show plants chopped prematurely
It's very easy to chop too soon, very difficult to chop too late
PioneerValleyOG
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I take into consideration several indicators. I check the trikes, I'm also looking for the plant to be near the end of its life cycle, yellowing leaves. Be sure you're checking the trichomes and judging only on the calyx, not a sugar leaf of anything else. Read the trichomes on the little ball on the cola with a (should be) Lil red hair sticking out of it. Or not