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#102

And here’s the end result :slight_smile:

Roughly 5 ounces dry … .VERY good stuff on all 3 plants.

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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?

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Calcium deficiency?
#103

congrats again! beautiful nuggage, especially for a first harvest, and with fluoros.

What did you use for the soil mix? Seems to work well.

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#104

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).

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#105

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 :slight_smile:

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#106

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 :grin: Nothing worse than not being able to grow an amazing plant again.

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#108

Thank you! I have a lot to learn, wow (sorry was trying to figure out how to reply without bumping and double posted)

#109

Except for the amazing plant that didn’t get grown because you’re growing the same thing again.

Just playing devils advocate… sorry about the thread jack.

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