Hi, I hope you’re all having an awesome day. I’m used to growing plants from clones. Yesterday a friend asked for my help with plants. He’s never grower before , here is what he told me
He has run out and bought a starter kit. 100100 tent and some lights etc. he has 45L pots of 70/30 Coco fibre/perlite mix and 1 atoflower seed in each pot, waiting to hatch l hope the seeds are shallow.
All I really know about autos is that they trigger after about five weeks veg. And I better use that veg Time efficiently because that’s all I’m going to get.
I can help him with basic growing but I have no experience with autoflowers I know he’s far from the perfect starting point,but I would like him to get enough yield to give him some inspiration to keep going. Please help me make this happen.
Like I said, I have some experience in growing mostly hydro I don’t have any experience with auto flower, and I don’t have much experience with seeds With seeds I know how the life cycle is going to be different from clones and I know he should’ve probably popped them before pushing them in the pots. Thank you overgrowers
My suggestions:
Be gentle. It’s easy to over love a seedling. We’ve all done it, lol. Overwatering is probably most common, but not likely in coco. I like to keep a clear cup over my seedlings for the first week or so and keep the inside of it sprayed with water regularly.
Autos are easy. Though you must be careful with the abuse. Most can take it, some cannot. I tend to not top autoflower plants(at least not regularly). I’ll wait until they’re old and limber enough, then just bend em over at a 90° angle. From there I will continue to just spread branching outward and stake or tie down until I get the shape that I want.
Good luck!
One of the most useful tools you’ll use growing autos is leaf tucking. The idea is simple enough, you want to tuck larger fan leaves out of the way of bud sites giving them more light to grow larger buds with. Give it a look you can’t go wrong with it.
I don’t use that medium but put seed in final pot to start they don’t transplant well. Only top of growing healthy and not after staring pistils. These can be done but greatly increase stress stunting and end up with small plant. Leave the lowers the usually come up pretty good. Lst and leaf tucking are huge tools in arsenal. Grow weed easy.com has tutorials for autoflowers they are good at explaining in simple terms with pics. Good source I bet the weekly news letter.
Sorry I’m late to the party, as usual these days. I have never grown in coco. Went straight from soil to hydro. I do still grow autos in both soil and hydro but, know nothing about coco. Sorry. Like @blowdout2269 said some autos can be finicky at least thats been my experience but, I’m no expert.
Gary
I was going to tag @repins12@ReikoX as the auto ambassadors they are. @estab87 is quite knowledgeable as well but hasn’t been around OG in months sadly
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Here are my autos I will help out if I can, I only grow autos Just DM me!
They are about 60 days, under a 480W LED light, in FFOF, FFHF, only using Doctor Earths, 4-6-3, Flower Girl, and Cal Mag, water always PHed to 6.2 to 6.5
Picture #1. AK-47, #2. Super Skunk, and #3. Sour Diesel.
Leaf tucking or just stripping the fans off the main stalk to open up the side shoots during that first few weeks is good to keep in mind. Other than that once you get like 3 nodes high you can start slamming it with nutes then back off if you burn the tips. Coco is easy to go “whoops too strong” from one watering.
I don’t have much experience, I’m just now working on harvesting #2. I do however consider myself an expert in killing or tormenting seeds and seedlings. I’ve found seeds like it hot and humid. I have a whole seed starting ritual as most do.
I’d at least put cups upside down on them, and if you have a seed mat you could put the pot on? I use root riots, which I find easiest to keep warm and humid.
They get soaked in a glass about 24 hours then when they have tails I rip the root riot in half a bit and slide the tail in there. They sit like this in the blue seed tray in the back until roots poke out the bottom then they go into their “final pot” with the hydroto and get top wateres. Once their tail poke out the bottom of this they go into their bucket in the big girl tent
