auto vs feminized

I was going to do an auto flower grow because of the simplicity. However i want to know more about feminized. Are the yields larger with feminized? Is feminized more potent?

MadDog607 said:

I was going to do an auto flower grow because of the simplicity. However i want to know more about feminized. Are the yields larger with feminized? Is feminized more potent?

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Dude, really??? I think you should hold off on growing ANYTHING, and do alot more research.

amgprb said:

Dude, really??? I think you should hold off on growing ANYTHING, and do alot more research.

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WTF do you think i'm doing right now? You suck. And don't call me dude.

here is info

male plants only make pollen sacks and have no real value in the market other then breeding
female plants ......are what all us growers want .........Femizied seeds just mean it was chemical treated to make a female plant
u want seeds that are feminized it means u get a female plant 95% or better

when u grow u look at the plant and if u see 2 little hairs on the stalk when u are growing means it is female and u keep it in that tent/area.....................if u ever look and do not see this remove the plant (can kill it off or grow in anouther area with a good air barrier so no pollen get to the females)

when pollen gets to the females the flowers......buds they get seeds ...............no pollen on the flowers no seeds


auto plants ...............they can go hermi (female and male on one plant) make sure u pick a good stable seed .................personally i like the taste of berry ryder from auto seed.........if u want a big plant look at biodiesel mass (think it is advanced seeds)

a soil grow ..............every gallon of soil equals a month of growth time (good soils like fox farm ocean forest) small autos u can use 3 gallon size......larger yelid ones u want to use a 5 to 7 gallon one (needs to hold and use alot of water to make alot of buds )

finally ............feed to help make it bigger and badder plant u want to pick a product line .................this is a all in one kit with what u need to do a few plants
here are 2
1 soil.........has a plan to fallow on the side
2 hydro.......ditto

order yourself a set of 1ml pipettes and 3 ml pipettes.............if plan to do alot of growing get the 500 count they are used to measure out the feed for the water

justugh said:

when u grow u look at the plant and if u see 2 little hairs on the stalk when u are growing means it is female and u keep it in that tent/area.....................if u ever look and do not see this remove the plant.
a soil grow ..............every gallon of soil equals a month of growth time (good soils like fox farm ocean forest)
order yourself a set of 1ml pipettes and 3 ml pipettes.............if plan to do alot of growing get the 500 count they are used to measure out the feed for the water

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i wanted to make a couple comments on your post. i hope i don't come across as a richard, lol. a lot of folks (see above, lol!) don't take commentary very well.
you said "if you ever look and do not see this (hairs) remove the plant. well, until the plant is mature enough to show sex, you won't see the pistils coming from the calyx.
i know about the "one gallon of medium per foot of vertical growth, but never a gallon for each month of growth time. don't waste your money on pipettes, use straws...

MadDog607 said:

I was going to do an auto flower grow because of the simplicity. However i want to know more about feminized. Are the yields larger with feminized? Is feminized more potent?

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feminized seeds will not produce larger yields nor more potent MJ than a regular female......the feminized seed just increases the odds the plant being female (~98%)...normal seeds are about 50/50 chance male/female.

As for autoflowers...they come in both feminized as well as normal (male/female) seeds.....typically you pay a bit more for feminized but can be well worth the few extra dollars (others may not agree).

I would agree that autoflowers are more simplistic so not such a bad choice for your first grow, but personally I was not impressed with the quality of my autoflowers....but yield was good.

the key is to buy from a well established breeder, as you can't make a silk purse out of a pig's ear....do your research before buying

That whole changing the timer routine sure is complicated.

auto plants have a short life span at most 90 days ......most are 65 to 75 days

u will beable to sex the plant by the 17 to 21 day

as for the pipettes.............this is where they come in using a strawl would work .......but if u want to alter it and run feed tests with different sweeterns or enchancers u can see the actual effect of them since u controlled everything so well

and when u move to hydro even more so .............soil is forgivening hydro is not so learn on soil and then apply lessons to hydro

as for time just a simple 20 hours on 4 hours off
i done 24/0 i done 18/6 ...........20/4 gives u the most weight with alot of resin

I am a firm believer that hempy (drain to waste) is easier than soil...because the most common error that rookies make is over watering and too many nutes.

hempy is so easy, as you can't really over water it ....and you can recover from over nutes much quicker than soil

first timer

soil air bags.............u can not over water it since it drains /if do mess up it can be flushed fast and easy

hydro and all those others require more outward exps to start up ..........soil in a air bag u can get it up and going for 200 bucks or less with a t5 set up (if likes it and can do it well then invest in the hydro and all those good things with profit money )

i started up 7 months ago with 600 bucks i only grow autos since they are a fast turn around ................right now i have the best shit in the area few several other ppl telling me so anything i make is gone with in 24 hours of jaring it up

i grew 4 autos,fast bud, auto afghan kush,pakistan ryder and lowryder and i can tell that the afghan kush was by far the best.Autos are great if you are out of weed and you want something fast. i have done side by side grows of autos (63 days from seed to harvest) and normal photoperiod plants with no veg (also 63 days from seed to harvest).My autos did better than the regular both in potency and yield,however they were not,in any way, as good as a photoperiod plant given the full time to mature both in veg and flower.

tip top toker said:

That whole changing the timer routine sure is complicated.

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i hear you, but there other things about auto's that make them more of a "plug and play" and/or "idiot proof"

* Auto's are best to start in the final pot (no transplanting mishaps)
* Auto's should not be topped or FIM (less effort, no need to research FIM)
* Auto are not to be cloned (no need to learn those cloning skills)
* Hours of light/dark.....pick and choose whatever works for you 24/0, 20/4 18/6, 12/12 or a day of each.....it just doesn't matter much

so that's what i meant by more simplistic

Indoor Sun King said:

i hear you, but there other things about auto's that make them more of a "plug and play" and/or "idiot proof"

* Auto's are best to start in the final pot (no transplanting mishaps)
* Auto's should not be topped or FIM (less effort, no need to research FIM)
* Auto are not to be cloned (no need to learn those cloning skills)
* Hours of light/dark.....pick and choose whatever works for you 24/0, 20/4 18/6, 12/12 or a day of each.....it just doesn't matter much

so that's what i meant by more simplistic

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I consider every single one of those irrelevant to the ease if growing a plant. The first 2 are just additional steps take making it more ciomplicated, but are not requirements to growing, cloning has nothing to do with growing a plant, and i actually see more questions about autolighting than insee questions asking how many hours for flowering a photo.

Sorry, but I cannot agree with your post. Its just yet another myth to sell autos. I see no use for autos other than for outdoor or as an extra flowering plant kept in your veg room.

I'm def gonna go with feminized. I read that the autos do not have as much of a yield. How long should i keep it in veg?

tip top toker said:

I consider every single one of those irrelevant to the ease if growing a plant. The first 2 are just additional steps take making it more ciomplicated, but are not requirements to growing, cloning has nothing to do with growing a plant, and i actually see more questions about autolighting than insee questions asking how many hours for flowering a photo.

Sorry, but I cannot agree with your post. Its just yet another myth to sell autos. I see no use for autos other than for outdoor or as an extra flowering plant kept in your veg room.

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First of all I am not advocating auto, in fact quite the opposite and I agree I would never use them indoors (outdoors yes)....I'm just saying they are more simplistic for a brand new rookie

yeild

hahahahaha............i got half a lb off my last auto
just pick the right strain and u get huge yeilds

no controlling a auto ............it will grow as much as it can in a time period then automaticaly flip into flowering .....why they are called autos

that does seem to be the key...the right strain

biodiesel mass........6 oz the first 7 oz the 2nd ...........3rd one is 25 days away

candy kush.............8 oz the first pot 3 gallon feeding experiment(just know 8 oz off a 3 gallon pot is damn good)


doing a berry diesel now looking good as the biodiesel and i have some jack herer

Indoor Sun King said:

First of all I am not advocating auto, in fact quite the opposite and I agree I would never use them indoors (outdoors yes)....I'm just saying they are more simplistic for a brand new rookie

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And yet i'm not seeing a single piece of valid reasoning as to why.

justugh said:

biodiesel mass........6 oz the first 7 oz the 2nd ...........3rd one is 25 days away

candy kush.............8 oz the first pot 3 gallon feeding experiment(just know 8 oz off a 3 gallon pot is damn good)


doing a berry diesel now looking good as the biodiesel and i have some jack herer

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I for one would like to see some pix.of a half pound auto..

and.to the op, I veg my photo plants till I see one of.two things, if not both.. first.if alternating nodes, the second is preflowrers.. both are signs of sexual maturation, and tells me the plant is ready to be flowered..