Why do you newbs always grow auto's?

Yodaweed

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Grew great and was dripping in frost by the end. I gave her a basic lollipop and heavy defol. The pot is about 4 actual gallons, 8" square, to pack more pots in my tent. She had a lovely structure and yielded 52.4g of frost dipped bud. A big lady, 28" tall iirc.


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I don't know about rosin, just regular butter and tinctures made here. And those 2 plants were 58g and 32g of bud currently at 65% And a quart jar and a pint of frosty trim and lower buds. Together they were 5+ oz of total plant material(3+ oz bud) in a square foot of grow space. Personally I smoke the lower buds and trim myself. Gets me just as high just doesn't look as pretty as a tight top nug.

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58+32 = 90 which is about 3 ounces :( for a 2 plant haul that's not very good, I just harvested a 16oz(it was nearly 500 grams) dried bud plant (6 oz of dried trim) that was a photoperiod plant with 4 weeks veg time grown in hydroponics.
 

Atulip

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58+32 = 90 which is about 3 ounces :( for a 2 plant haul that's not very good, I just harvested a 16oz(it was nearly 500 grams) dried bud plant (6 oz of dried trim) that was a photoperiod plant with 4 weeks veg time grown in hydroponics.
How much space did you have? 4'x4'? 330g/m2. A 3'x3' is 600g/m2 for a 500g haul, that's pretty good. I've got 12.5 sq ft, 540w, and 23+ in that space, a tiny 1.5 oz per plant is 750g/m2.
 

Cannacat

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Grew great and was dripping in frost by the end. I gave her a basic lollipop and heavy defol. The pot is about 4 actual gallons, 8" square, to pack more pots in my tent. She had a lovely structure and yielded 52.4g of frost dipped bud. A big lady, 28" tall iirc.


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I don't know about rosin, just regular butter and tinctures made here. And those 2 plants were 58g and 32g of bud currently at 65% And a quart jar and a pint of frosty trim and lower buds. Together they were 5+ oz of total plant material(3+ oz bud) in a square foot of grow space. Personally I smoke the lower buds and trim myself. Gets me just as high just doesn't look as pretty as a tight top nug.

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I don't know how I missed this, I knew going back to work would mess with my RIU!
That looks good man. I'm doing the Vault comparative grow so there's loads of us with them on the go around here right now, I'm just trying to steal tips off everyone. I'm still not sure what you can actually get away with on an auto, like everyone says they can't be topped or cut cos their lifespan is too short to recover, but then people come in with massive autos that have been topped... Think I might just let mine go natural with a bit of lst for my first go, and I've got 2 seeds left to play with later :bigjoint:
 

Choo2

Active Member
Yes the canopy is the top of the plant/plants. By having it as even as possible you increase your yields.

So this is the first flower room of my 4. Each flower room will have three 1000w bulbs. Which allows for a three week weaving stage for the trellis/scrog and 9 weeks of flower. We are hoping for 6 pounds ever three weeks.. At 2k a pound that's around 208,000 a year ;)

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Man we need to talk... 4 reals!!!
 
I don't know, yeah definitely bored. I'm a breeder getting ready to launch a seed company. My motto is no fems or autos. I don't care if they sell better. But from a breeders stand point I can only see one reason to sell them and that's for buyers to return to buy more seeds. Great business idea, but I believe in quality.

I'm not saying they are completely trash. But I just think they are a waste of time.
You have a lot to learn. The newbie section is perfect for you.
 

Raw003

Active Member
i choose auto so i can have different types of strains in my growbox without any effects. always a 18/6 hours cycle, and doesnt matter if one is in veg and the others are in flowering mode.

train your plants, let them grow, live your life. harvesting time just improves your life when its finished.
 

Budzbuddha

Well-Known Member
Autos do ... ( i just harvested this today ) Blue Dream
Humboldt Blue Dream

I prefer autos over Photos ( even though this for my own consumption )
I get the quality meds i want without drama -

10.30 oz. ( 3 gallon smart pot )
FFOF SOIL with Light Warrior Top soil 2" depth
WATER ONLY UP TO WEEK 6
Dynagro Bloom ( week 6-8 ) 1 tsp per gallon

Next one will be 5 gallon hempy bucket run .

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DickTracy

New Member
Autos do ... ( i just harvested this today ) Blue Dream
Humboldt Blue Dream

I prefer autos over Photos ( even though this for my own consumption )
I get the quality meds i want without drama -

10.30 oz. ( 3 gallon smart pot )
FFOF SOIL with Light Warrior Top soil 2" depth
WATER ONLY UP TO WEEK 6
Dynagro Bloom ( week 6-8 ) 1 tsp per gallon

Next one will be 5 gallon hempy bucket run .

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My paper weighs over 7 grams.

But only because it's a limited edition.

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DickTracy

New Member
Autos do ... ( i just harvested this today ) Blue Dream
Humboldt Blue Dream

I prefer autos over Photos ( even though this for my own consumption )
I get the quality meds i want without drama -

10.30 oz. ( 3 gallon smart pot )
FFOF SOIL with Light Warrior Top soil 2" depth
WATER ONLY UP TO WEEK 6
Dynagro Bloom ( week 6-8 ) 1 tsp per gallon

Next one will be 5 gallon hempy bucket run .

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10 grams wet is like 3 dry:clap:
 

whitebb2727

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Its not about hipster coolness of autoflowers its a logical conclusion of photoperiod strains for experienced growers.

Harder to duplicate C. ruderalis. This makes you a slave to the seebank or you'll be tossing pollen to make seeds. In real life I can give a person 1 clone and they NEVER have to go back to a seedbank again. I was gifted 1 clone of Girl Scout Cookies a few years ago I still take cuttings from her to this day. So I have a stable gene to work with.

If you ran a perpetual harvest you can rotate in a plant into bloom every 2 weeks, So you will be constantly harvesting. This applies to photoperiod plants or autoflowers.

Clever marketing has you brainwashed.
No doubt part of it is to keep you slave to a seed bank.

My opinion has changed on autos a couple times. The reason I'm saying the breeding has improved is because I've seen it with my own eyes. With reputable breeders I am getting consistent good smoke on par with photo plants I have been getting.

I am in the process of trying to make fem seeds with auto. I have been setting a plant by itself and putting a trash bag to isolate a branch with cs. No nanners yet. When I get some I will see how the seeds to turn out. If it is good then I will buy a few different kinds and self and cross them and I'm sure that will give me all the auto seeds I want to play with.


I'm not all auto either, nor fem beans. I collect and grow all them. Hell before I ordered seeds I would get them lime everyone used to. From seeded pot. I still have seeds saved and labeled from those days.

I have seeds saved from fire brick weed when I came across it.

Got to love those 16+ week flowering sativas.
 

Budzbuddha

Well-Known Member
No doubt part of it is to keep you slave to a seed bank.

My opinion has changed on autos a couple times. The reason I'm saying the breeding has improved is because I've seen it with my own eyes. With reputable breeders I am getting consistent good smoke on par with photo plants I have been getting.

I am in the process of trying to make fem seeds with auto. I have been setting a plant by itself and putting a trash bag to isolate a branch with cs. No nanners yet. When I get some I will see how the seeds to turn out. If it is good then I will buy a few different kinds and self and cross them and I'm sure that will give me all the auto seeds I want to play with.


I'm not all auto either, nor fem beans. I collect and grow all them. Hell before I ordered seeds I would get them lime everyone used to. From seeded pot. I still have seeds saved and labeled from those days.

I have seeds saved from fire brick weed when I came across it.

Got to love those 16+ week flowering sativas.
Yeah , i saved a shitload of the dreaded street swag sativa ( mexican red )
Be nice to cross with a Low Ryder or Dwarf for a large single cola grow.
Or crossed with Mephisto Blueberry. (I like the sound if this one )
 
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