Outdoor Autos

[bong face]

Does anyone have any experience with autoflowers outdoors?? I just did indoor with haze auto from dinafem and yielded 70g's in 80 days with cfls.
Now i wanna try doing an outdoor.
I just purchased 3 fruit auto from dinafem, anyone grow this strain? it came with second generation haze autos, haven't decided if im gonna try to grow these cuz i dont want a couple hermies ruining my whole crop.
Thanks any input would be great

 

[pabloesqobar]

Quite a few members, including myself, grow autos outdoors. I've never grown the fruit strain. I only buy feminized seeds, so no hermies, at least not yet. It appears that indoor autos do better than outdoors. But I'm relatively new to growing, others might have a different experience.

 

[Hopsnmalt]

They work fine outdoors. Germinate them now, perfect timing to be done in July if you hurry.
I did one mid Jan and put outside mid Feb, took the shitty weather great....just finished at 15 weeks - the indoor ones only took 11. Can't tell you the weight, still drying but I'm guessing just under 2oz. You got 2-1/2 from one under cfls??

Peace,

Hops

 

[Hopsnmalt]

P.S., my avatar is a macro pic of the outdoor auto, taken day before yesterday, right before I Killed her. lol.

Hops

 

[bosweed]

Quite a few members, including myself, grow autos outdoors. I've never grown the fruit strain. I only buy feminized seeds, so no hermies, at least not yet. It appears that indoor autos do better than outdoors. But I'm relatively new to growing, others might have a different experience.

for you guys who grow autos outdoors, how many hours of DIRECT sunlight are your plants getting?

 

[Mattemil]

16......Why

 

[Hopsnmalt]

Since mine was out in Feb., only about 4-1/2 to 5 in the beginning but about 8 in the end. I'm pretty sure that's why it took nearly 15 weeks to finish.

Hops

 

[Hopsnmalt]

16......Why

16 hours Direct?? Is that even possible? I think not.

 

[deprave]

Ive yet to grow a good auto out of 4 tries it has been pathetic, if you have the option I really suggest you do regular cannabis its 10x better easily - some people on here do okay with autos but really I dont think its worth it just my 2 cents. also yeah the haze autos are the worst of the worst lol my result with that one was like a 5gram plant the size of a basketball and this with a 400W light- just saying don't invest a lot into autos because its more of a hobbyist thing.

To be honest I can't tell a difference in buzz much but the main problem is yield with these things, ive yet to get over 15 grams or so, I will keep trying as I was given a lot of seeds for free- maybe Im just not getting the right phenos.

 

[Dr. Yo]

I've had some success growing Autos Outdoors this Spring.

Check out my signature if you're interested.

 

[bong face]

Quite a few members, including myself, grow autos outdoors. I've never grown the fruit strain. I only buy feminized seeds, so no hermies, at least not yet. It appears that indoor autos do better than outdoors. But I'm relatively new to growing, others might have a different experience.

yeah i the haze auto was feminized... still hermied. =bad genetics, but the 'naners popped out during the last week, i don't even think they opened cuz i haven't found a seed yet!

 

[bong face]

They work fine outdoors. Germinate them now, perfect timing to be done in July if you hurry.
I did one mid Jan and put outside mid Feb, took the shitty weather great....just finished at 15 weeks - the indoor ones only took 11. Can't tell you the weight, still drying but I'm guessing just under 2oz. You got 2-1/2 from one under cfls??

Peace,

Hops

haha jan and feb??!! i wish! im in new england, can't go outdoors til may (safely).

yeah man 2 and 1/2 with cfls. pleasantly surprised myself, first indoor attempt too. had one 125w 6500K with a hood, a 48w 2700K and a 50w 2700K. the top nug is 13.5g!!!

 

[bong face]

Ive yet to grow a good auto out of 4 tries it has been pathetic, if you have the option I really suggest you do regular cannabis its 10x better easily - some people on here do okay with autos but really I dont think its worth it just my 2 cents. also yeah the haze autos are the worst of the worst lol my result with that one was like a 5gram plant the size of a basketball and this with a 400W light- just saying don't invest a lot into autos because its more of a hobbyist thing.

To be honest I can't tell a difference in buzz much but the main problem is yield with these things, ive yet to get over 15 grams or so, I will keep trying as I was given a lot of seeds for free- maybe Im just not getting the right phenos.

damn thats some rough luck. this was my first indoor attempt, an the haze auto got me 70g's with only cfls. u must of just had shitty luck with genetics, or ur doing something else wrong. ive had a couple attempts outdoors with regular seeds but in my 4 attemps i got maybe 7 grams total.

the reason i wanna do autos outdoors is cuz im going back to school at the end of the summer and i wanna make sure i can harvest my crop before i leave, (left a couple plants going last year then came back to mold........) not a good surprise

 

[TheOrganic]

Don't start your autos in party cups learned that go with 1 to 2 gal smart pots. Then transplant outside. It's what I have to do to beat pollen.

 

[Dreamy]

Beat pollen? Please explain.

 

[bong face]

Don't start your autos in party cups learned that go with 1 to 2 gal smart pots. Then transplant outside. It's what I have to do to beat pollen.

good call, honestly i was thinking bout germinating the seed and sowing right where it will grow, or was thinking bout just growing them in green 5 gal buckets, just in case something bad happens and security is in jeopardy.

dreamy- what he means is less chance to shock the plants, causeing hermies/male bananas

 

[damnmites]

autos don't do bad outdoors, it's just they don't grow as big as they can indoors

growing outdoors is much more harder, especially if you are trying a guerilla remote grow =/

lots of thing that can ruin your grow/yield (slugs, deers, catterpillars, hunters, rippers etc.)

so if you have the chance growing autos indoors are easier than written

note: yes, don't start autos from seeds outdoors. start from pots, or face the consequences =/

 

[stoopy]

I had wierd results outside last year with the Snowryder feminized variety from Sensi, it's nor a dwarf nor a "full" regular plant, somewhere in the middle, anyway, it's classified as an autoflowering strain. I planted them last year outside in mid May, they got way bigger than they were supposed to and showed no signs of autoflowering, I ended up chopping them, I did have one that matured in late September and the bud was great but I guess they got accustomed to a regulare photoperiod and didn't autoflower, whatever.

This year the exact same seeds are giving me plants 3 weeks old that are already flowering, I used the same method and same timing, strange, I think that autos respond differently to different conditions, outdoors they may not perform the same way, I prefer big regular strains, the Snowryders are just for fun.

Check out my journal from last year and the new one all about outdoor autos.

https://www.rollitup.org/outdoor-growing/342809-outdoor-snowryder.html

https://www.rollitup.org/outdoor-growing/429144-windowsill-grow-good-start-strange.html

 

[bud nugbong]

i had a friend who randomly had an auto in his garden and i was very jelous seeing those nugs in the middle of summer,...IMO they are nice to have around so you dont have to wait untill the fall harvest.

 

[TheOrganic]

Beat pollen? Please explain.

I meant that where I live Marijuana(DITCH) grows everywhere so Im started my autos indoor so they are well along almost done before land race MJ is pollinating otherwise I will end up with seeds.

Also regarding to stoopy---sometimes the autoflower genetic isn't full on with these seeds. I haven't had that happen to me yet but seen it a quite a few times on here. Sorry to see you had to chop but owell.