Autoflower Thread & Resource Guide

[upthearsenal]

Personally, I don't know about scroging autos, not too effective I feel.

Yet, I've had brilliant results when I've tied down an auto. It's all in the timing man, if you do it early in life, let's say before you sex it, you've fucked up. The plant will seize upwards growth and you'll and a bent runt. Although, if you train her when she has maybe 20-30% of upwards growth left, the growth left in her will go to the branches.

I hope that's what you were looking for, let me know if you need more info.

This is one I tied down in early bloom (in the photos most of the ties had been released a few weeks before):

 

[Rtoke]

Hi all !!

has any one ever grown an auto strain outdoors from seed ??? or does any one know a good 100% auto strain that would grow nicely outdoors or in a small greenhouse??

And also could you grow and auto strain outdoors but put it under a solar spotlight at night to give it more light ??

Cheers
Peace

 

[abervaldez]

HEY GUYS, sorry for the late intro but grows are all looking outstanding, glad to be a new part of this great community.

Ok so I have a medical grow going for New Mexico, I am a caregiver. I have a 10x10 growroom with 4 1000 watt hps lamps also have t5s around the entire perimiter to add addtl blue spectrum, i chose to grow autoflowers initially but also added some others to the batch. I am using the advanced nutrient line with iguana juice grow and bloom, voodoo juice, pirhana, and tarantula, currently am feeding iguana grow, cal mag grow, b52, voodoo juice, pirhana and tarantula. My autoflowers are (iranian, iranian X g13, iranian X chemdog all from DR.GREENTHUMB.) now in their appx 7th week of FULL veg no flowering yet, and tallest is curretnly 26 1/2" tall, smallest about 21". I also have grandaddy purple, chemdog, LA woman, and Herijuana all from clones except the GDP which is from seed, id love to get some input, ill be putting pics on here shortly, i do have tons of videos constantly updated



PLEASE CHECK OUT MY VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE, SEARCH FOR NEW MEXICO MEDICAL MARIJUANA GROW, my screen name is STUDABER. I LOOK forward to any input and knowledge that can be passed my way! good day and good growing!!!!!!

 

[stacatto99]

Hello all, I am going to be starting my first grow here in a few days as I recently got my medical card. I am using CFL lighting but in 4.1 square feet of space I was able to get 36000 Lumens as well as keep the temp at 78-80 1 inch down from the lights. I know many people are swear off the use of CFL but its a good stepping stone for me at this point.

My cabinet is 4 feet high and as I said has 4.1 square feet. (30 inches by 20 inches)

I was hoping to do a SCROG and I also was hoping to get some suggestions on what strain would be best for my to use in such a area to maximize my yield.

On a side note I am not looking for a couchlock stone by any means, rather not smoke anything than have a 30 min debate with myself about getting up off my ass

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Surchange. I would personally not suggest a scrog given the light you are using. the cfls wont form tight dense buds like their hid cousins. Id say youd be fine with the area you have doing a SOG method. that way you can keep the lights reaaalll close and have a decent batch every two weeks or so.or normal grow with some side lighting. You could also add a fan to reduce your temp to low 70's ( unless youre using c02 of course)
For that cerebral, uplifting, energetic, and inspiring high you are after, youd want a sativa dominant strain. (Ive always wanted to try a malawi strain myself.) they dont tend to yield as much and flower longer, but if you go with an autoflower then all the aforementioned factors would be dependent on the treatment the plants recieve and genetics. check attitude seeds. HUGE stock to choose from. ive had good safe fast shipping from them.

 

[Skoad]

Hey Skoad, here's one that i topped as an experiment along with some lst, worked out pretty good but i got way more bud off the one that was not topped like 1 oz more..

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Awesome. I didnt plan on topping, but still glad you mentioned it, just in case the idea gets to my head, I know not to do it.

Personally, I don't know about scroging autos, not too effective I feel.

Yet, I've had brilliant results when I've tied down an auto. It's all in the timing man, if you do it early in life, let's say before you sex it, you've fucked up. The plant will seize upwards growth and you'll and a bent runt. Although, if you train her when she has maybe 20-30% of upwards growth left, the growth left in her will go to the branches.

I hope that's what you were looking for, let me know if you need more info.

This is one I tied down in early bloom (in the photos most of the ties had been released a few weeks before):
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Im a pretty big nub when it comes to LST. I havnt ever really needed to look into it and havnt bothered starting yet (except for looking into lst for autos) bc I wasnt sure if it was worth doing with autos or not. Guess its time for me to figure out how to do it properly. Thanks.

 

[KolorBlind]

@Skoad

Of the few strains I have grown, I have never seen an increase in yield from using LST. Because of this I only use LST when absolutely necessary. And with autos not being able to be cloned, you just never know what different varieties of the same strain you may get.

If you are growing to get 1 or 2 ounces off a plant, auto is not the way to go. Not to say its not possible, because I know it is, its just not consistent. Sometimes you will get the fat auto that ends up 2 feet tall and pulls 1.5oz of bud, and sometimes her little sister right next to her is a measly 7 inches tall with maybe 9g of dried bud.

I have found the most effective way (at least with the strains I have grown) is to let them grow naturally and only transplant once. I can consistently get 20-25g off my diesel ryders by starting them in 16oz cups, then 2 weeks in or so I transplant to their final 1gal grow bags. I use a single 250HPS and i do occasionally get the runt or tall lanky gal. The runts are usually 10g or so, and the lanky ones look huge but never yield over 20g but close. The ones that grow like a christmas tree with one fat main cola and 4-8 branch tops at roughly 17-20" tall are the ones that way outperform any others I have grown. The only way I have achieved that size and yield is with NO training what so ever.

It just seems to me like any training requires some time for the plant to adjust, and time is not something you have a lot of with auto strains. When you have to wait a week for a topped or severely LST'ed plant to bounce back, thats another week she could have been putting on buds in the end. If you need to know how it will work just for peace of mind, try topping one, LST another, and do nothing with the rest and see how it works out for you. you may have a strain that reacts better to training, but I generally dont see many big time auto growers do anything bug SOG or vertical.

Best of luck whatever you decide!
KB

 

[MasterHemp]

I agree with KolorBlind, you will get more better results if you let the autos grow naturally, most of the lower branches will catch up to the top,
this was my other one that had no lst and wasn't topped, 56 grams dried and the seed bank said it will yield between 40-50grams

 

[Topo]

I also concur. Veg cycle on auto's is too short for toping, FIM'ing, or LSTing.

 

[Skoad]

Well thanks for the info fellas. Ill stick to natural growing then and just hope for the best. I got some free autos with my order so I may try one of those off to the side a bit and LST/top it.

 

[teflondummy]

I have read a lot of posts on the topic of autos and I have yet to find one where anybody claims to get the kind of boosts in yields from training, topping, pinching, or molesting your plants that you get from photo period plants. We all know how they work on regular plants but they do not seem to help autos at all. In fact most of the post are saying the exact opposite happens and yields suffer. Despite that info being out there people still think they might do it just right. Maybe we can all resist the urge to harass our autos and let them live the way they want to. Think about it, how would you feel if you only lived for a couple of months and you were stunted, clipped, or bound up. How healthy could you really be at the end of such a short life.Hmmm

 

[teflondummy]

Here are some pics of my girls and the rest of the gang.the oldest is 5 weeks old and her two sisters are 3 weeks old. There are three others that are about 11 days old and two that just popped out of the soilView attachment 1251978View attachment 1251980View attachment 1251981View attachment 1251982View attachment 1251983View attachment 1251984View attachment 1251986

 

[Skoad]

Looking good. My seeds should arrive tomorrow so getting grow area rearranged and ready to go! woot.

Really wish someone could make a new Auto information thread. 534 pages is like woah. You only find decent information about every 8 pages.

 

[`SoA || Asi]

tefflondummy nice bro +rep
sweet

 

[KolorBlind]

Really wish someone could make a new Auto information thread. 534 pages is like woah. You only find decent information about every 8 pages.

I have thought about browsing through and collecting some good information for a new thread, but a year or so down the road we will be right back where we started with another 500+ page thread. If RIU would just toss up an AF sub forum we could compile a bunch of info and make it a sticky, which I will be glad to do once that day arrives.

Oh, and if you live in CA and didnt vote on prop 19 Wednesday, go fuck yourself because we were sooooooo close!! just thought I would put that out there, haha!
KB

 

[KolorBlind]

I agree with KolorBlind, you will get more better results if you let the autos grow naturally, most of the lower branches will catch up to the top,
this was my other one that had no lst and wasn't topped, 56 grams dried and the seed bank said it will yield between 40-50grams

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Wow man that thing is a MONSTER!!! 5gal pot? Sure wish I could get mine that big!! That would rival most outdoor AFs for sure! Great job, +rep!

KB

 

[MasterHemp]

Thanks KB

It was in a 3gal pot which is why i think it got so big, 400w hps, i was very happy with the way that one turned out, rep+ for you aswell

 

[endofwed]

This leaf has been doing worse and worse. should I just pull it off or let it wilt and fall off by itself?

 

[Skoad]

Ive seen a lot of posts about starting in cups and transplanting. Is this the best thing to do with autos? Never done autos but I have always started my plants in a 3gal pot and kept them their throughout the grow. So much to learn about autos =/. This is a good thread but jesus. 535 pages. *was 534 yesterday. I imagine this thread gets about 2 pages a day lol*

 

[Topo]

Looking good. My seeds should arrive tomorrow so getting grow area rearranged and ready to go! woot.

Really wish someone could make a new Auto information thread. 534 pages is like woah. You only find decent information about every 8 pages.

Agree X 3894503457450459 times.

 

[MEANGREEN69]

This leaf has been doing worse and worse. should I just pull it off or let it wilt and fall off by itself?

i whould leave it..i dont pull them off untell there atlest 50% damage