In the first six days, I lost two seedlings – one of each varietal – not sure what went wrong.
The two sisters are doing okay – this is about day 5 from seed. I’m not sure if they feel a little slow to me yet. We shall see!
They’ve been spending a few hours outside every day, since it’s been mostly cloudy and 60s-ish. I keep a little clear dome over the the seeds much of the day, but not all. At sundown, they come into the tent and get some LED and high-humidity love.
On a related note, I did some shopping yesterday. I don’t think I’ll be using a ton of these products on these two plants, because I’ve repeatedly heard that overfeeding autos is a bad thing and that I should probably keep it simple. Any truth to that?
Anyway, I’ve been wanting to up my feeding and watering game this cycle, so there we go!
Tip always welcome, my brothers and sisters. Peace out.
There’s a lot of truth to it. One of the best autos I ever grew (a Mephisto Toofless Alien), was a plant I planted for my daughter who was supposed to visit from out of state and didn’t. It was in a three gallon just parked at the back of my veg area. The only attention it ever got was water whenever it wilted.
The best I’ve done with autos is if they seem healthy I don’t give them anything. But I don’t follow that rule as often as I should.
You’ve seen the first two, in the two black 3 gallon bags. One HBSS, one DG for daughter.
This is another DG that popped. She looked bad – stunted, tiny, weak, kinda brown. I put her in this 5 gallon container outside. I will care for her well, but based on her position, she’s likely to have a rougher ride than the others.
That’s partly by design.
In honor of you and Til (who are both making the same point, I think), this girl is named Tilraster.
For now, everyone’s getting phD water and that is about it. I mixed in a few tablespoons of blood meal and worm castings, leaving alone the area near the stem itself. The two small black containers will go in and out with me every night, for extra light during veg. At least until I decide differently.
Tilraster is gonna stay put in her huge, breezy, side-of-the-farmyard positon. I won’t deliberately set out to abuse her, of course – but I’m not spoiling her.
yeah man… have fun with it. experiment with the autos and their feeding. stick some outside and let them have their “this is sparta!” moment. some of these strains are pretty tough and can handle a variety of conditions. i honestly think the best ganj is grown outside under the sun and elements. they don’t always finish up looking like the indoors gucci grown, but smoke some sun grown after smoking some gucci grown and tell me if you can’t tell the difference.
i have one OG made auto going outside - scarlet grapes F2. so far, so good. just stuck it in the pot, put the pot outside in my veg garden and walked away. it did it’s dirtburst last week, and is working on it’s 3rd set of leaves. so far so good.
Exactly the opposite. I made a bunch of fem seeds from a pack of Mephisto Double Grape, crossed them with a hybrid of two polyhybrid autos, and backcrossed to Double Grape a few times. I was originally going to ‘create’ a Double Grape Regular IBL, but I decided instead to grow out and dust a bunch of females and do some selection. - see what’s actually there before deciding how to proceed.
It’s awesome that you can just let it go and let it do its thing.
Your nighttime temperatures are a little low. Tilraster might stunt but it seems like when they do that they also deliver really potent smoke. Or she might just be a compact Christmas tree with enough density to make up for it.
My best Double Grape grow was under HPS. So I can say you’ll be happy at least with the other two.
@navy66 in addition to the three autos do you have other plants growing indoors currently? If so consider the possibility of carrying pests inside with you on the indoor/outdoor autos.
I have never seen any scientific data to indicate autos start flowering as soon as their taproot reaches the bottom of the pot but I would ask what triggers an auto planted in the ground to start flowering if there is no pot bottom to trigger it? I believe it has more to do with genetics. I think if you were to plant one seed each of 10 different strains into 3 gallon fabric pots and treated them all exactly the same way there would be a range of different flower starting times. And I think an auto taproot would hit the bottom of a 3 gallon fabric pot in 10 days or less.
I noted that in post 22 the seedling is looking somewhat yellow could this be a sign it needs more nitrogen?
The dome over the plant outside scares me a little. I’m thinking the cup might work sort of like a magnifying glass and the sun and overheat the air under the dome.
I don’t think it’s triggered by hitting the bottom of the pot. I think it’s more of a root binding response. However, I am very familiar with what happens to autos when they’re progressively up-potted like photos. They usually stunt.
I have grown autos in solo cups with autos grown in larger containers. They showed sex and started flowering at the same time, but were different sizes.
Well sure, cannabis plants know how much medium they have to work with and grow accordingly although with autos I think 10-15 gallons is as big as they’ll need, more then that it’s just wasted medium.
Yeah I don’t expect huge auto plants and for the most part I get just nice decent sized plants. But once in awhile I get lucky and grow a really good one.
