Tips: AUTOFLOWER & THAT BIG YIELD

Poontanger

Poontanger

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This is my 1st ever @ this light & tent stuff, but being a total novice , before starting , i read as mucm as possible & asked a lot of questions, the RIU community was very helpfull
Its a Autopounder by Auto Seeds, suppose to be a 80 day project
Plain plastic pots (didnt know about smart or air pots)
My garden soil full of broken down organic's, mixed with 25% potting mix, is there growing soil
@ day 18 from germ LST (i learnt that here)
600 HPS with 1 m x 750 m reflector

Now light hours, how confusing, 24-0 20-4 18-6
So @ about day 25 , i leaarned about 7-1, which i thought might return best of both worlds, its also very good for maintaining night temps, so i changed to 7-1 , with no ill effects

Nutes , again very confusing, because i was in soil, i went strait into it, day 7 on 1/2 for week & half, then full strenth Maxigro, every 2nd water (by hand) on advise from a member, she got that till flower stretch stopped (had to guess that) now on Maxibloom

This pic is day 60 from germ
No topping, but now & i dont know wether im right or wrong (havnt asked) but there was all these little 3-5 inch branches wanting to pop out, with tiny tiny flowers, some in middle , a lot from the base & others under main branches, could only see them being robbers , & returning nothing, so they got cut out, ive also tried to open up the middle a bit

But i reckon , shes got more than 20 days left...........& she didnt start to flower until day 35, which im told is very good for end result

So instead of answering , the lighting question, i thought id show what 7-1 has done for me & under what conditions, cheers

POON
 

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Ryante55

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Geezy101 said:
First off wanna say big ups to 70sdiver guys a stud. I learned alot from him.

I grew 3 Afghan Kush Ryder and yielded just under 6oz - 400 watt hps hung vertically.


Tip 1 : 5+gl pots. (smart pots if u can) DO NOT TRANSPLANT YOUR AUTOS

Tip 2: 24 Hour Lighting

Tip 3: LST - u can super crop. but i prefer to use some sort of line and tie down your branches to puff them out to recieve as much light to each branch.

Tip 4: Coco soil - cant say enough. the stuffs amazing

Tip:5: bare bulb hung vertically. some people are against it. cant argue with my results. (where protective eye gear near your light, tough on the eyes)

Tip 6: bubble your water with an air stone for at least 25 hours before watering. the roots love that extra co2 ( buy a 67 liter plastic storage bin to store your water - wal mart for like 6$

Tip 7: distill ur water for at least 3 days before watering. again in a plastic storage bin.

I had a rough start to my autos. ph levels were no good for about 3 weeks. my ph pen was a cheapy. bought a good one 3 weeks in dramatic turn around. i transplanted an auto. was in shock for 10 days. still yielded 34g off it. harvested my autos at 74 days bc of my rough start.



Plant 1 - transplanted (dont not do that).. plant stayed small in stature but still yeiled thick bubs curing me 34g dried

Plant 2 - no supercropping or lsting. barely touched it, trimmed a view fann leaves that were dying near the bottom. yielded 52gs dried

Plant 3 - suppercropped 1 branch and lstd the rest. plant grew very tall branches were very long. almost 3' in hight. it was a beast for an autoflower. 64gs yielded off it of great smoke def liked the taste the best off this plant. full flavour.



Check out this link for pics -

https://www.rollitup.org/vertical-growing/526186-harvest-vertical-grow-auto-flower.html


CHEERS
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Looks like great quality but that's a really low yeild for 400w if you take in the 24hr light schedule that 400w is equivalent to 800w of reg plants running at 12/12 so for the power you are using you should be getting close to a pound
 
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kushhealingpowerofnature

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How many autos was it? sorry I know thread is old...but just curious :)
Taviddude said:
Yeah.
Check the last grow in my sig if you all want to see what DP Think Different can do with a ScrOG setup in Hydro.

I don't see why people keep messing around with tiny, mediocre auto strains when there are proven strains out there. --->>Think Different<<---
The smoke is Top Notch.
Yields are INSANE.
It is a bulletproof plant, and EASY to grow.

1.07 GPW
5.25 lbs. Dry.
90 days from seed to harvest.
4x8 tent.

Yeah, auto's suck.
Totally not worth the time....
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bullSnot

bullSnot

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thank goodness they do, as this is how different varieties are developed. Patio Tomatoes, hanging petunias ...all developed by propagators and breeders. I suspect in a few years you will have an Auto that may be the highest THC and tastes grower - it may even smoke itself for ya.
 
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kushhealingpowerofnature

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Taviddude said:
Yeah.
Check the last grow in my sig if you all want to see what DP Think Different can do with a ScrOG setup in Hydro.

I don't see why people keep messing around with tiny, mediocre auto strains when there are proven strains out there. --->>Think Different<<---
The smoke is Top Notch.
Yields are INSANE.
It is a bulletproof plant, and EASY to grow.

1.07 GPW
5.25 lbs. Dry.
90 days from seed to harvest.
4x8 tent.

Yeah, auto's suck.
Totally not worth the time....
:roll::roll:
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How many seeds used?
 
Taviddude

Taviddude

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kushhealingpowerofnature said:
How many autos was it? sorry I know thread is old...but just curious :)
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It was 12 sites and if I remember correctly, I had a couple runts I threw in and gave a chance making a total of 14. Back then we could not get different phenotypes of Think Different. There was only one seed available. Further work done by Dutch Passion on the strain separated the mainly sativa strain and called it think big. The bigger sativa dominant regular typical think different is still available although you will still get some more Indica dominant phena types when running 12 plants at a crack. The other advantage to the two strings is that more uniform coverage can be had by using all 1 kind when growing in scrogs like I did. Before that, growing think different 12 plants at a time made for a real finicky thing to make look good and perform in real-world scrog situation. Plants can also now start and finish stretching uniformly as well as finishing off the life cycle uniformly in a scrog.
 
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