Flowering autos during regular veg, mothers and clones.

Hi,

First time poster and grower.

Before I got my plan and room together I was gifted two autos, Purple Bud and Speed Bud and then later on I was gifted White Widdow And Jack Herrer, both non auto.

First I just wanted to grow the autos, but then I built badass growroom and can now house two mothers for clones, I started WW and JH seeds a couple weeks after autos, now this SB is just going too fast.
30days in it started flowering and I have them all in the same room because I was not ready for it, PB is just a slow little lady and not expecting her to flower anytime soon.
My setup is 600w hps and 250w cfl.
I was going to put the 250 cfl in the vegging room with mothers and future clones and using hps for flowering in other room.

Now I only have blue spectrum cfl, red and blue for hps, can I use 250 cfl blue and 600hps red the next 30days just so that autos gets the right light spectrum?
Seems like it needs way more stretch, it's like a 30cm bush.

And then, for my mothers.
Can i grow mothers from clones taken during grow?
So that I can do a full harvest when they done and have previous clones that will be growing in different room with 18/6 light schedule all year round for cloning purposes?

It is really hard to come by good seeds where I live so getting the mothers up an running is the most important thing here.

You can't clone autos, they have a death clock in them like in 'Logans Run'

Speedbud has always been super weak genetics for me, I won't touch it anymore.
Also, you say there should be more of a stretch.... Is she not stretching much but has nodes close together? Or is she not growing much and she hates you?

If the WW and the JH are regs and not fems be cool to cross em and get a dope hybrid. Jacky white.
I grew that strain in the summer and it was really good smell like dankish grapefruits.

Autos SB and PB are going to flower no matter what light schedule u run. You can flower an auto under 20/4.
You can take clones from the WW and the JH to make as a mother plant for the separate room or pull the clones and veg them til able to flower and keep the Photoperiod seeds WW and JH as the mothers
Nothing wrong with mixing the spectrums for veg or flower

Lite said:

You can't clone autos, they have a death clock in them like in 'Logans Run'

Speedbud has always been super weak genetics for me, I won't touch it anymore.
Also, you say there should be more of a stretch.... Is she not stretching much but has nodes close together? Or is she not growing much and she hates you?

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Autos are not to be cloned, WW and JH are going to be my mothers, autos was main project gone side project as I focus on WW an JH now.

Speedbud internodes are bit spacey but looks fine she just seems weak, very thin and small leafs but good growth.
Purple bud is slow but growing strong no complaints, WW and JH planted week after speedbud are starting to grow much larger and they are looking very happy.
Compared to the others speedbud just seems like a joke, you would need ten of these to make up for one normal plant.

And they all fems.

The safe route here seems to be keeping the plants in veg and just pull clones, any input?
250 cfl enough for tiny room with two mothers?

Rolla J said:

Nothing wrong with mixing the spectrums for veg or flower

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Thanks, this was really bugging me.
Was wondering because as far as my knowledge goes plant prefers the red spectrum when starting to produce buds and using only blue spectrum will significantly affect my yield?

You can straight up have a huge veg room at the moment with all your different spectrum source of lights.
Yea man the autos good choice on sticking to the side.. they'll do their thing

I'd let the WW and JH get to around 18 days and top em. Then top the tops again about 10 days later. Let veg for about 2 weeks and you are ready to take 4 good clones off each
Then you'll have 8 tops growing for the mothers.
There r many different techniques and styles of growing and such but when it comes to making decisions and choices you the man.

Rolla J said:

You can straight up have a huge veg room at the moment with all your different spectrum source of lights.

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Yes but lights are going into two different rooms so for flowering i'll only be using hps 600 and for mother/veg 250cfl.
Btw I don't have two hps light sources, I have two lightbulbs and one ballast.
Yeahman thanks, I'm going as slow as I can, getting to know the plants and finding what suits me best.

When do you start counting flower days with autos? With regular, we just start counting when we flip.

ANC said:

When do you start counting flower days with autos? With regular, we just start counting when we flip.

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I dno, when it starts flowering? mine started showing pistils after 30 day and that tells me it has started to flower and you can start counting flower days, but I have not counted any days. Correct me if i'm wrong.

I don't have autos on my regular grow schedule for a number of reasons. I have found that they can be grown with usual veg lighting without never having to move them or change their lighting. They grow well at 24/0 (my choice) or 20/4 or 18/6. So the only time I grow autos is when I have room in my regular veg room that I can dedicate to autos.

Good luck, BigSteve.