First time grow: looking for experience growers opinion.

CrystalLite

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Hi, this is my first time growing and my first post on rollitup. I just want to see what everyone thoughts are of my plants. Criticism is welcome, I can handle it

I'm growing autoflower white widow and I'm on day 61. I have 3 plants growing in 3 gallon containers in soil in a 5x5 tent. I'm using a 600 watt HPS lamp and par 700 vipraspectra led light. I also have a humidifier, 12" oscillating fan and a booster fan Blowing air into the tent. The lights are on a timer for 18/6.(as I was told I didn't need to switch to 12 hours on and 12 hours off) My temp is around 75 - 80 degrees. Humidity is at 40%. I've been PHing the water at 6.3 and using general hydroponics nutrients.
I guess one of my questions is how long does it take a autoflower to grow? I was told about 2 months, but it looks like the plants are still budding. I would like the buds to be bigger to be honest as I think they're kind of small right now. The white hairs are standing up on one plant and when I looked at the trichomes on another plant under a microscope many were still clear and some were cloudy, yet I didn't see any that were amber. Do you think I should start flushing it now? Or should I wait a little longer? Also, one of the plants just now started budding. What's up with that? The other two been budding for a second.
Question 2: do you guys set your fans on timers or do you just run them 24/7?

Thanks for any feedback guys, very much appreciated
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a mongo frog

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Hi, this is my first time growing and my first post on rollitup. I just want to see what everyone thoughts are of my plants. Criticism is welcome, I can handle it

I'm growing autoflower white widow and I'm on day 61. I have 3 plants growing in 3 gallon containers in soil in a 5x5 tent. I'm using a 600 watt HPS lamp and par 700 vipraspectra led light. I also have a humidifier, 12" oscillating fan and a booster fan Blowing air into the tent. The lights are on a timer for 18/6.(as I was told I didn't need to switch to 12 hours on and 12 hours off) My temp is around 75 - 80 degrees. Humidity is at 40%. I've been PHing the water at 6.3 and using general hydroponics nutrients.
I guess one of my questions is how long does it take a autoflower to grow? I was told about 2 months, but it looks like the plants are still budding. I would like the buds to be bigger to be honest as I think they're kind of small right now. The white hairs are standing up on one plant and when I looked at the trichomes on another plant under a microscope many were still clear and some were cloudy, yet I didn't see any that were amber. Do you think I should start flushing it now? Or should I wait a little longer? Also, one of the plants just now started budding. What's up with that? The other two been budding for a second.
Question 2: do you guys set your fans on timers or do you just run them 24/7?

Thanks for any feedback guys, very much appreciated
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Looks great nice work!
 

farmerfischer

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They still have aways to go from the looks of them. The fuller one I'd guess two three more weeks the other two look like they need a month+.. I'm just shooting from the hip on the time.. I'm not a real fan of autos so I don't grow them that much..
Overall I'd say your off to a good start and everything looks good..
On the question about the fan.. I have mine on a timer running while the lights are on and off at night.. some times ill run a small single fan if I'm having issues with high humidity while the light are off..
 

stoned-monkey

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Autos usally take me 10-12 weeks, breeders time are usally off. At least my experince.
The plant decides when its ready
I dont flush, some do, your choice
I like to run a small exhaust fan 24/7 cause humidty can build up. All other fans timed with lights.
 

CrystalLite

Member
Thanks for the knowledge and advice. These autos I received for free when I purchased my Girl Scout cookies seeds. I figured I should grow them first as my first grow. If I mess up, at least I wouldn't be losing any my good seeds. I'm not sure I'm a big fan of them either. I would have liked to have veg a little longer. Thanks again. :wink:
 

Nizza

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yes instead of having your inline push air into the tent at the bottom, have an open hole at the bottom and have the fan at the top opposite corner of the tent, sucking out 24/7
 
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