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Automaria II LED/CFL
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Day 65
Day 65
The plants are still loosing fan leaves, but bud development is also nice. I will decide in the next days whether to chop the left one this or next week - right now I feel she can go one more week.
Again in this post the overview and close ups of tops of the left, which I use to check the trichomes.
Day 65
The plants are still loosing fan leaves, but bud development is also nice. I will decide in the next days whether to chop the left one this or next week - right now I feel she can go one more week.
Again in this post the overview and close ups of tops of the left, which I use to check the trichomes.
Day 67
Day 67
@ Kosmo: The CFLs are "buried somewhere in there" ^^
@ Kaya-Man: I heared from several sources that 20/4 is the best light cycle for autos - especially a guy DrAutoflower on youtube, who seems knowledgable.
Just took some close ups of the tops of the left one to check the trichomes. Looks like almost all are cloudy and a few amber ones in between. So I will harvest the left one tomorrow, the right one will continue a few weeks - I hope.
Anyway, I can't help, but share a few of those close ups with you:
Day 67
@ Kosmo: The CFLs are "buried somewhere in there" ^^
@ Kaya-Man: I heared from several sources that 20/4 is the best light cycle for autos - especially a guy DrAutoflower on youtube, who seems knowledgable.
Just took some close ups of the tops of the left one to check the trichomes. Looks like almost all are cloudy and a few amber ones in between. So I will harvest the left one tomorrow, the right one will continue a few weeks - I hope.
Anyway, I can't help, but share a few of those close ups with you:
Kaya-man
Member
You know, I never hear it and I am growing for 20 years. Logically its not healthy for any plant with photosynthesis. Even for any living organism. Lot of primar chemical reactions in plants happening during night fase and its undiscutable.
They are growing up offcourse, but they are tired and exhausted. What abouth you, how will you profit without sleep?
Trichomes are nice, but its quite normal. Trichomes are protection of flowers. But that flowers with normal photoperiod can be tripple with strong leaves and healthy colours.
Meaby its allso abouth genetics. Let me clear one more thing, why growing autoflowers indoor?? Autoflowers (mixed with ruderalis) are not too potent and its made for early outdooring. Personaly i dont understand why anyone want to grow ruderalis... its the lowest class of cannabis. But earliest maturing, so for indoor with controled period (not talking abouth waste electricity) for me its useless.
You had one of nicest grow phase what I catch here, but with getting older it was clear from pictures that they are exhausted. So I started with questioning abouth it. But if its for you OK, good luck and dont mind abouth my opinion
They are growing up offcourse, but they are tired and exhausted. What abouth you, how will you profit without sleep?
Trichomes are nice, but its quite normal. Trichomes are protection of flowers. But that flowers with normal photoperiod can be tripple with strong leaves and healthy colours.
Meaby its allso abouth genetics. Let me clear one more thing, why growing autoflowers indoor?? Autoflowers (mixed with ruderalis) are not too potent and its made for early outdooring. Personaly i dont understand why anyone want to grow ruderalis... its the lowest class of cannabis. But earliest maturing, so for indoor with controled period (not talking abouth waste electricity) for me its useless.
You had one of nicest grow phase what I catch here, but with getting older it was clear from pictures that they are exhausted. So I started with questioning abouth it. But if its for you OK, good luck and dont mind abouth my opinion
This is my fifth grow, I'm still a newbie at growing, and I'm learning with every grow. You are right, that veg was much better than flowering, but right now I attribute that to me overfeeding them.
My first grow was a normal Cream Caramel, and to be honest she was still the best in terms of bud and trichome production and easy to handle. I was interested in autos, because I liked that they finish fast and don't need an undisrupted night phase.
But I was also thinking about going back to normal sativa/indica genetics. How early could I switch to 12/12 to keep the plants small for my little tent?
My first grow was a normal Cream Caramel, and to be honest she was still the best in terms of bud and trichome production and easy to handle. I was interested in autos, because I liked that they finish fast and don't need an undisrupted night phase.
But I was also thinking about going back to normal sativa/indica genetics. How early could I switch to 12/12 to keep the plants small for my little tent?
limegreenlimey
Active member
Mate, this is very impressive stuff for only your fifth grow.
My punt is that some combination of lamp power, the genetics and perhaps overfeeding affected your yields but it's still very good work. Lots of people brag about their grows being mega weight frost fests but often don't have shots of their legendary grows to show off, if you know what I mean? Credit due, you've done a great job here.
I have grown indoors and out but particularly in small indoor spaces for years and it's completely fine to do some normal sativa/indica grows in a smaller space. Either just grow straight from seed and set into flowering at about the same size as when these autos went into flower (you will have to pick a short strain, likely indica dominant and both resin and yield will suffer a bit if you flower before about 8 weeks but still perfectly sensible approach) or grow some seeds sativa-indica mix seeds out to 1 week after an early (2 weeks?) switch to 12/12, clone the best ladies and junk the parent plants, restarting your grow with clones, grow them out to 15cm and switch. Maybe try a durban? - they perform well outdoors in places with bad sun so there's some logic to thinking they might do well indoors under your lamps. Astur Jaya have a very good Durban style plant called Tempo Norte and you can reliably order directly from their seedbank.
My punt is that some combination of lamp power, the genetics and perhaps overfeeding affected your yields but it's still very good work. Lots of people brag about their grows being mega weight frost fests but often don't have shots of their legendary grows to show off, if you know what I mean? Credit due, you've done a great job here.
I have grown indoors and out but particularly in small indoor spaces for years and it's completely fine to do some normal sativa/indica grows in a smaller space. Either just grow straight from seed and set into flowering at about the same size as when these autos went into flower (you will have to pick a short strain, likely indica dominant and both resin and yield will suffer a bit if you flower before about 8 weeks but still perfectly sensible approach) or grow some seeds sativa-indica mix seeds out to 1 week after an early (2 weeks?) switch to 12/12, clone the best ladies and junk the parent plants, restarting your grow with clones, grow them out to 15cm and switch. Maybe try a durban? - they perform well outdoors in places with bad sun so there's some logic to thinking they might do well indoors under your lamps. Astur Jaya have a very good Durban style plant called Tempo Norte and you can reliably order directly from their seedbank.
