A new beginning... mostly autos!

Lovely zen space. Fully with you on growing autos, they are an absolute blast to grow and of course they are every bit as strong as a photoperiod, auto are full of never ending surprises, I gotta say though I'm surprised you used a tent, I like making full use of the space, quite a few autos can become monsters, and it's nice to have plenty of elbow room and headroom too, and you can only do that with autos due to their not bothering about light periods. The plants looks very pretty in their pots, but a space like that is crying out for a good hydro set up, still in individual pots. It feels a bit like you're using a Ferrari to do the shopping atm. Don't mind me I'm ripped.

Just so everything is all on the same page .. here is a Saturday update. I put out a few more sticky traps for fungus gnats. I have more than I'd like but they still aren't horrible. I may top dress a couple of tablespoons of cavern culture 1-12-0 later this week... I don't want the plants to run out of nutrients completely and have yield suffer. I also cleaned up around the bottom of the plants today with a little defoliation. Mostly leaves that were looking pretty rough around the base of the plants anyway.

yummy fur said:

Lovely zen space. Fully with you on growing autos, they are an absolute blast to grow and of course they are every bit as strong as a photoperiod, auto are full of never ending surprises, I gotta say though I'm surprised you used a tent, I like making full use of the space, quite a few autos can become monsters, and it's nice to have plenty of elbow room and headroom too, and you can only do that with autos due to their not bothering about light periods. The plants looks very pretty in their pots, but a space like that is crying out for a good hydro set up, still in individual pots. It feels a bit like you're using a Ferrari to do the shopping atm. Don't mind me I'm ripped.

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I like organic growing. This is probably my last grow in regular pots. I am switching to earthboxes which are sub irrigated planters. I'm also hoping to do a little lst on the next grow. Hoping to fill up the space a little more. We will see how things go. My goal for each grow is to do better than the previous grow. So far this grow is better than my last attempt. I feel confident that my next grow will be better than this one. The earthboxes have me feeling cocky. Lol. But seriously build a soil made growing with them look easy in the 10x10 series and there is another guy using them on autoflower network that seems to be getting really good results with them too. He had 2 earthbox juniors in a 2x2 and it was almost too much. So I'm hoping 6 in a 4x4 will be just right.

At first I was impressed with the Strawberry Nuggets as it was the biggest plant from the get go... But during the stretch, the sour stompers and 4 assed monkey caught up to it. Then it impressed me because it started packing on bud the fastest... And it might still end up the heavy yielder. It's hard to tell because the foliage is so thick on it... But this little 4 assed monkey is impressing me. It's really stacking up buds everywhere right now.

Weekly update. Wednesday I came home from work and checked on the girls. Everyone looked happy. I thought about watering but then decided it could wait for another day. I was in the middle of a 90+ hour work week and was feeling a little lazy. Well 24 hours later 2 of the 6 plants were droopy from needing water. So I am still struggling with proper watering practices. I'm really hoping the earthboxes resolve this problem. Anyhow... Thursday when I saw droopy plants I hurried up and watered, and by morning everyone looked happy again and this is what I have so far at the start of week 7.

Ok I am running late with the update pics. I've been busy with work and barely have time to take care of the plants... So anyhow. Monday I will be chopping the Northern Cheese Haze and possibly the green strawberry nuggets. The other 4 plants look to need another week or so.

The Northern Cheese Haze runt got the chop on Monday. It is now in the Herbs Now dryer.