White Widow Auto Indoor Grow

My set up is 4'x4'x80" tent / 6" carbon filter / 6" ac infinity exhaust fan / 2-6" clip on fans /2-HLG 320W XL QB V2 R spec fixtures. Set up is in a spare bedroom, tent is vented outdoors. Seeds are Nirvana White Widow Auto's, Started seeds in rapid rooters / heat mat, seeds all up on 2/26, transplanted into 18 oz solo cup at 7 days. Using FFHF & FFOF at 50-50 mix with added perlite. First 7 days in solo cups lighting was a couple of CFL bulbs, next 7 days lighting was the HGL fixtures dimmed down to 100 watts each. Then transplanted into the 2.5 gallon pots with the same soil mix mentioned above, turned the fixtures up to 200 watts each. Last night turned the fixtures up to 300 watts each & moved them up to 25" over the plants. Temp in the tent is 82-84 degrees / humidity at 40-45%, running the lights & fans 24/7. Photos from today, So far I think they are looking okay ?

How old are they? Looks like they are starting to flower. I am not an auto expert, never grown them, but they look pretty small to be flowering. Perhaps someone with experience running autos will chime in.

30 days today, same thing I thought (flowering already). first grow / first auto grow, rookie here

30 days they look small

Renfro said:

How old are they? Looks like they are starting to flower. I am not an auto expert, never grown them, but they look pretty small to be flowering. Perhaps someone with experience running autos will chime in.

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Yeah, you're right. Sickly autos can flower after a week, should produce about 2-3 smokes a plant at that size.
I've had several failures, there doesn't appear much margin for error in autos, you can't give it a few extra weeks in veg if it's slow.
My current WW auto was planted on 5th of this month and is also a bit small (disappointed).
And this Amnesia auto is 7-8 weeks old 1m high (satisfied).

TokenTex said:

30 days today, same thing I thought (flowering already). first grow / first auto grow, rookie here

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Well don't take it too hard man. Everyone has to start somewhere. Learn as much as you can for the next run. Where do you think you went wrong with these?

Really dont know where or if I did wrong here, planted the seeds in a rapid rooter, at 7 days transfered to the solo cup (roots coming out of the bottom of the rapid rooter) until the leaves reached the edge of the cup (14 days in the cup)( the solo cup was filled with roots), then transplanted into the 2.5 gallon container (2 weeks ago)(no signs of flowering until I transplanted them into the 2.5 gallon pots). Nothing but RO water at 6.5 PH other than being planted in FFOF & FFHP mix of soil. One note, the seeds were very small, dont know if that has anything to do with it or not, kinda at a loss here for what happened thats why I'm asking ?

TokenTex said:

Really dont know where or if I did wrong here, planted the seeds in a rapid rooter, at 7 days transfered to the solo cup (roots coming out of the bottom of the rapid rooter) until the leaves reached the edge of the cup (14 days in the cup)( the solo cup was filled with roots), then transplanted into the 2.5 gallon container (2 weeks ago)(no signs of flowering until I transplanted them into the 2.5 gallon pots). Nothing but RO water at 6.5 PH other than being planted in FFOF & FFHP mix of soil. One note, the seeds were very small, dont know if that has anything to do with it or not, kinda at a loss here for what happened thats why I'm asking ?

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Would suggest you're too slow on the re-potting.
I replant my Jiffy pellet (same as rapid rooter) within 1 day of the heads coming up .... usually within 3 days of seed in ground.
Not sure why you'r go from rapid rooter to solo cup either, next pot at least 6", if not straight into it's final container (auto).
Also they look a bit droopy, maybe over-watered, they're supposed to be reaching for the sky.

I've never noticed small seeds having any effect on the resulting plant size.

I heard that you plant germinated Auto Flower seeds into the pot you will grow it in (DO Not Re-pot), I could have heard wrong.

Renfro said:

Well don't take it too hard man. Everyone has to start somewhere. Learn as much as you can for the next run. Where do you think you went wrong with these?

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Appears that I didn't transplant into the final pot soon enough, roots bottomed out before transplanting sending the strain "auto" into flowering mode because the root system had no more room to grow, will grow these out & hope I get a few joints out of the grow but will be taking a different approach with the next batch, lesson learned & thats why I'm here is to learn ! Thanks for all the input folks !

TokenTex said:

Appears that I didn't transplant into the final pot soon enough, roots bottomed out before transplanting sending the strain "auto" into flowering mode because the root system had no more room to grow, will grow these out & hope I get a few joints out of the grow but will be taking a different approach with the next batch, lesson learned & thats why I'm here is to learn ! Thanks for all the input folks !

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Well I just learned something about autos lol. I never run them.

Sickly Auto grow update, I'm at day 72 now & am thinking these girls are done. I'll get some photos of them posted tonight after I get home so I can get some opinions as to if they are ready to harvest, this was my first try & with autos & it was a screw up for sure. I still believe that my mistake was not transplanting them soon enough, roots bottomed out & sent them into flower at 30 days old. They have grown slightly & put on some buds but they just didn't do well at all going into flower so early. Ready to move on to the next grow & try again.

My white widow auto hasn't done that well either.

Here are tonight's photos of my sickly auto grow plants at 72 days, I know i screwed up at the very beginning of this grow but tying to get what I can & move on to the next grow, so what do you guys think, ready to harvest or wait a bit ?

A couple more photos, like I said I know I screwed the pooch at the beginning of this (my first grow), lesson learned, hoping to do better next grow.

Why are all the fan leaves dead and yellow?
Mine is greener but still not healthy...... my worst plant in this grow.

Next time just seed into final sized container ....
No stupid transplant issues. Autos are hard wired to start setting up a root mass quickly without interruption. If plant gets stressors like feed overkill , unnecessary manhandling , transplants can make plant go into survival mode and go to stage 2 regardless of its now severely shortened veg.

I'm still around folks, took these sickly girls to 90+ days & harvested. Dried & cured I got 6.5 oz of bud off them. I got some photos of the Jared product I'll post when I have a chance. Getting ready to start another batch & gonna try & not make the same mistake this time.

Your mistake is using Autos.

TokenTex said:

I'm still around folks, took these sickly girls to 90+ days & harvested. Dried & cured I got 6.5 oz of bud off them. I got some photos of the Jared product I'll post when I have a chance. Getting ready to start another batch & gonna try & not make the same mistake this time.

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Man that is quite a lot of weed, really nice man. Imagine next grow with what you know now! Dear god those buds look delicious!