there’s some “cheese” budshot… everything turned out better than expected… Yield, potency, and the power i got from the butter i made out of the trim… very potent butter didn’t use anything quality. This stuff is straight top shelf…Bubblegum grew in straight purple a little purple in the cheese buds as you can see (researching now what actually causes that). Awesome experience… now im flowering out the three clones i ended up with via experimentation … Then I’ll start round-2.
Thanks again for all the help everyone. Total success…$50 setup.
Random question (dont want ot start a thread) Does “autoflower” mean growing from seed right into a 12/12 cycle?
Thanks man- yeah im super stoked on how potent it turned out. Sunshine #4 soil mix with some “around-the-house” cal-mag solutions and a VERY light amount of miracle grow liquid.feed… general plant food type during veg and general flower type during flower. .i would have gone with some kelp-based stuff since i live in Alaska and it’s everywhere but i literally had this stuff laying around the house and just did some research and gave it a go trying to minimize cost at every corner (since i assumed i’d be making mistakes on my first grow anyway).
Turns out i have a bit of a knack for this and just went off pure interest, soaking in as much info as i could regarding super-crop technique, when to flower, ideal temps/humidity… all that stuff.
Basically bare bones basic gardening soil (with perlite and other additives… but im pretty sure nute free…sunshine #4 is the brand/type) with liquid nutes almost daily. I messed around with watering schedules and landed on basically daily , rotating between a light water and a heavier water day after day. always with a light amount of nutrient.
Had some gnats starting to show so i backed off the water a little bit and took care of them pretty fast (next time I will be treating all my soil first so any eggs in the soil will be either dried out or dead before i use it).
But yeah nothing special really… just a lot of bulb adjustment, leaf tucking, and general TLC.
Update:
I found there was a fine line in balancing how close to get the CFL bulbs (because of course you want them as close as possible without causing heat stress/damage) and got the bulbs a little bit close one day on the cheese … ended up scorching a few good sugar tips but didn’t damage the buds … and really focused a lot on keeping bulbs at different heights (using a hanging technique with bulb adapters from Home Depot) so they were always in optimal position/proximity for maximum efficiency… i will probably alwways use CFL bulbs at least a couple to supplement a future LED setup because I like the way you can tuck them into fairly tight spots to get light where you otherwise could not (or I’ll get my supercrop techniques up to snuff so i have a flat canvas and dont even have to worry about that).
I guess I’ll chalk it up to (luckily) having a lot of time on my hands away from work to make daily adjustments- bulbs… a branch holding a branch holding a leaf bent 90 degrees toward the light with a whole other stock balancing off the counterweight of that to open up direct light on a lower node that was otherwise in pure shade… crazy branch gymnastics
In case you didn’t find the answer yet…
Nope, “autoflower” is a genetic trait wherein a plant starts flowering once it reaches maturity – it doesn’t start flowering based on a light cycle. There’s a debate thread about the pros and cons over here, and I think we have a few grows tagged with autoflowering where you can see how they grow.
When I found out you can’t clone them, I immediately hated them Nothing worse than not being able to grow an amazing plant again.
never consiously done autoflower before my current run either, thou i had some appearantly without ever realizing it XD
its a genetic trait from the ruderalis strains that require it to have a chance to mature in frigging cold n frozen Siberia. So should feel just at home in Alaska
Maybe you can even find some local landraces…
they seem def useful in a whole lot of situations:
-cold weather, short summers, cus thats theyr natural habitat
-artificial lighting, cus you can run em 24h straight (more commonly 18/6 or 20/4, but 24/0 is totally fine too appearantly) and they also stay darn tiny.
-risky situations, cus they only take about 3 month to finish from seed, offering less time for shit to happen. nothing worse than getting spider mites after 8 month of tending to photos.
downsides are:
-taking cuts is difficult and not really as effective as with photo dependant plants. They just flower too soon to have many cuttable branches. (some strains might have traits that help here thou, like only flowering if pot is full, only flowering after 7th node, or somin like that to keep em in veg, but i need more research on that)
-lower yield per grow, due to smaller size when finished, but you can do 3 grows in the time of one photo run.
-diff terpenes compared to photo plant crossed in, but breeding selection does overcome that
-higher costs due to more seed, electricity, etc needs
-cant effectively run em in one tent together with photos
Nothing worse than not being able to grow an amazing plant again.