autoflowering help

hi every1 im a newbie so bare with me.. i have 20 autos they are 24 days old.. problem is they are still seedlings not growing real fast i have 8 60 watt cfls in rubbermaid tote also ive been on a 24/7 light schedule but as of yesterday i changed it to 20/4, no nutes either also i am using ff ocean forest soil.. any help plzzzz

What strain? I've been doing lowryder 2 microgrows and I always do 18/6. Never had any problems with slow growth.
Have any pics?

CocksonSwolehard said:

What strain? I've been doing lowryder 2 microgrows and I always do 18/6. Never had any problems with slow growth.
Have any pics?

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no pics sry strain is snowryder lowyryder mixed with snowhite and short stuff which is NL mixed with williams wonder

Iam growing 3 lowryder/chemdawg*kush, they were planted on the 26th April, so they are a few days older than your plants.

At the mo my plants are asleep, I started them on 24/0 for 2 weeks, then for a week they got 20/4, then for the last couple of days they have been on 18/6.

They will get woken up and given their breakfast in 2 hours, I'll take some pics for you then.

iight thanks man thanks u guys for helping me out really appreciate it

no probs mucker, 5 mins till its my babies time to wake up and have breakfast.

doktordoris said:

no probs mucker, 5 mins till its my babies time to wake up and have breakfast.

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all my autoflowers



my biggest autoflower



my medium autoflower



my smallest autoflower.

All of the above autos were germed and planted at the same time!

And these 3 plants have always had the same water/nutes at the same time, and have always had the same light and ventilation!

see mines are nothing like that how many days u at im at 23 and they are still seedlings some are starting only thier 3rd set of leaves there about 3 inches if that u think i need more lights?

i germed mine in a damp flannel, then I planted on the 26th April.

So mine are 4 weeks old today.

Iam using 400w HPS with a grolux bulb, because I read that grolux bulbs have enough blue to be used during the veg stage.

What ferts are you using mate?

And please for gods sake dont think Iam some kind of expert, as I said this is my first grow!

As I said before mate, my plant growth really started when I got my lights AND when I tested my water and nutes for pH levels.

So my advice mate is buy some lights AND some decent nutes (I like BioBizz) but test the pH of the water and nute mix and make sure it is 6.5 before you use it.

Oh, another thing. I keep a lot of tropical fish so I have stuff in my flat to remove chlorine, ammonia, and chloralamine from water. So I use that stuff to remove those nasties from my water, then I add the nutes, then I check the pH, then I fix the pH before I use the stuffon my plants, but ,again as I said, Iam a new boy and I wouldnt trust what I say.

yea i hear u im using 8 60 watt clfs for veggin since they dont veg that long then switching to 150 watt hps for flowering

If you are using autos don't bother with the vegging lights.

Autos flower from day 1 so just use your flowering lights.

good luck

doris

Well, with my auto's they stopped growing for about a week at one point. This was the week I expected my soil to be no longer viable as far as nutrients went. Unfortunately I was away and could do nothing about it. So it could be that, your soil may have just run out of juice.

doktordoris said:

If you are using autos don't bother with the vegging lights.

Autos flower from day 1 so just use your flowering lights.

good luck

doris

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they do have a veg stage of about 14 days from my exp it is important to maximise this small veg time with as much blue spec as possible as that is when u will get the most growth i usually take out half the blue spec cfls and introduce half red spec at around 14 days then after about 5 days of having both just use a red spec for the rest of the time

Flashman said:

they do have a veg stage of about 14 days from my exp it is important to maximise this small veg time with as much blue spec as possible as that is when u will get the most growth i usually take out half the blue spec cfls and introduce half red spec at around 14 days then after about 5 days of having both just use a red spec for the rest of the time

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See?

I told you I was new and that I knew bugger all.

How are you plants doing OP?

doris

Sounds interesting.

This is the rubbermaid tote grow right?
lol. I am freaking baked off my ass.

I smoked a joint, and like 4 bowl all in 15 minutes.