[Bluntpower]

Originally Posted by Phaeton

Ah, to be young again. As a retirement hobby it is finally to the point I had to get help. A five plant perpetual is now more than I can handle alone. A total of ten plants with planting and transplanting every two weeks runs over an hour a day, about a half hour more than my heart allows.

So your 'twenty tents' guess is right on the money...for a young person.

I'm 40 m8, not sure i still qualify as "young" either

Autoflowers don't need much attention, you can't transplant them and training is not recommended either so except for watering there is not much to do

[aridbud]

Originally Posted by Bluntpower

I'm 40 m8, not sure i still qualify as "young" either

Autoflowers don't need much attention, you can't transplant them and training is not recommended either so except for watering there is not much to do

Definitely you can LST.
However, autos run on their own. Don't baby them too much...you'll reap a good product when finished.

[Bluntpower]

Originally Posted by aridbud

Definitely you can LST.
However, autos run on their own. Don't baby them too much...you'll reap a good product when finished.

Yeah i just let them be, checking 5ish times / day if no troubles but that's about it.

LST wasn't worth mentioning when talking about keeping me busy
I'm just gonna bend them a bit soon so the light gets to the lower stuff too.

[Bluntpower]

Seems to be a little problem again, what a surprise
All 4 seem affected now, so that's a good point, leave tops slightly curling up, little yellowing in the make too i think..




Found this in this forum somewhere, it's a pic that represents Magnesium deficiency.


I think it's safe to say that's the problem, right..?
They got fed about 1/2 hour before the pics, gave them the full half strength nuts this time, as i was still slightly under that, hopefully it's the little thing they were missing.
If not i'm gonna have to find a way to add it myself i guess.

[Bluntpower]

Week 5

Day 31

This will be the last pic before some major LST
The tops really start to outgrow the lower budsites, depriving them from nice light too..
Almost 2 weeks later than what i saw recommended (3 weeks old)
Wish me luck i guess

[Bluntpower]

Week 5

Day 39

So i did the LST, took me about the whole day to get them to where i wanted, every hour or so a bit more bending.
It was very difficult tbh, the lower part of the stem is already woody and didn't participate in the bending what so ever, the risk of the branch snapping was real!
But with a bit of patience it turned out just like i wanted, the 4 top buds are now all in the center

Also had a chat again with plagron and was advised to stop using straight RO water, the plan is to use plain TAPwater for 10 days, and after that 50/50 TAP/RO.
They look a bit droopy on the pictures because they were just fed i think, also they got fed a bit late this time, every 3 days is too long from now on it seems, will have to water every 2 days from now on.
They also had their very last VEG nuts, next time will be with the bloom nutes, they are still stretching tho so i might wait a bit longer, not sure yet

[BigPete]

update?

[Bluntpower]

Yeah kind of forgot a bit about this thread sorry..
Here's a quick little update for week 6 to 11

Week 6


Week 7-8


Week 9


Week 10-11

[Bluntpower]

In the end i think i succeeded in getting & keeping them happy.
This sure was not the easiest thing i've done in my life, as someone who never even had a plant in the house, i've had my hands full, or should i say head lol..
After overdosing on youtube stuff i thought i'd knew it all, boy was i wrong, but with some patience, testing and the much appreciated help from some of you guys here i think i can call it a mostly succesfull first try, or at least i'm happy with it.
The big change happened when i decided to start watering way more often but less at once:
From once every 3 days >> 2 Liter/plant to twice a day >> 0.5 Liter/plant.
I would've upped that even more to 4/5 times a day but that simply wasn't possible with my 15 Liter pots.

This weekend will be 12 weeks, for 10 week advertised seeds.
Having introduced the bloom nutes only on day 43 i suppose this is give or take "normal"
3 of them are flushed for the first time now, from 8 days ago to one this morning, the 4th one is still no where near done so i still feed her for now.

Here are some fresh pics

[Bluntpower]