First time with an auto, and boy is it flowering early

phildo

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Hi all, first post here and first time growing in general, and I started with some bag seed which turned out to be 3 photos and 1 auto. The auto was started a little bit after the others, and once it got about 5in tall I transplanted it to a larger pot, at which point it started flowering (this was about 3 weeks ago and it's probably 6-7 weeks old in total now). That's how I found out it was an auto since I had no idea beforehand, these are just seeds I've been tossing into an altoid can for years.

Now, I've been reading a bunch and that in and of itself doesn't concern me, but I'm now curious because it seems to have gotten a little bigger and the few buds it does have look delicious and covered in crystals, but the pistils look like they're starting to turn from white to amber/orange/brownish and I'm worried that it's almost done growing and I'll end up only getting like half a joints worth out of it. I'll try to post a pic later on today when I can so you can see what I mean.

For some background, I've got it in a 1-gal pot with about 50-50 happy frog and cocoloco, and it's outdoor getting full sunlight (I'm at 37.95 deg N latitude so we're getting like 14-15 hours a day rn). Should I just have a good laugh about this one and hope for better luck next time? Had I known ahead of time that it was an auto I'd have started it in a larger pot from the get-go, is it possible it just didn't like being transplanted and so decided to stop getting bigger?
 

twentyeight.threefive

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Autoflowers will just start flowering based on genetics. From what I've seen on here stressing them can trigger them to flower early. You'll see plenty of people on here asking why is my auto so small, etc.

I've never had an autoflower start flowering before 30 days. And I transplant all my plants. It's very important to keep the plant healthy during it's early stages.
 

phildo

Member
Autoflowers will just start flowering based on genetics. From what I've seen on here stressing them can trigger them to flower early. You'll see plenty of people on here asking why is my auto so small, etc.

I've never had an autoflower start flowering before 30 days. And I transplant all my plants. It's very important to keep the plant healthy during it's early stages.
Thanks for the reply, I do like the idea of growing autos so I'm eager to try again, I think in the future I'll maybe have better luck now that I know how critical that short veg period is
 

Roy O'Bannon

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Auto's are neat, but I think regular plants would be a better choice because you can recover a mistake in veg and choose to flower only when healthy.
My 2cents after growing 2 auto's. Still have some seeds though.
 

phildo

Member
Meant to follow up...look how wee this thing is! I'm getting a kick out of it tbh, will let it go another few weeks and then probably will be time for another seedling to take its place in that gallon pot
 

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GrowingAbroad

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Tried autoflowers once and will never do so again.

1, it's impossible to control growth and flower period meaning a lot of the times you'll have plants off all different heights making optimal lighting a lot more difficult.
2, small mistake can have huge side effects.
3, impossible to clone so you can't reproduce a plant one you really like it.

Every now and then i use a few new strains from seed and use clones only after that, much easier to handle.
 

Here2Learn

Member
Tried autoflowers once and will never do so again.

1, it's impossible to control growth and flower period meaning a lot of the times you'll have plants off all different heights making optimal lighting a lot more difficult.
2, small mistake can have huge side effects.
3, impossible to clone so you can't reproduce a plant one you really like it.

Every now and then i use a few new strains from seed and use clones only after that, much easier to handle.
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