Glad y a liked it cuz! How fast did they germinate?
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All but one within 24 then the last one about 12 hrs later and one that never happened! After my travesty with my last seeds this is great!
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Always good to hear about a good germ rate ! Congrats !
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Update for day 19… 26 days after germination. I’m really not after the CBD or CBG so killed the 2 boys of the Pink, and the 3 boys of the Snowryder. Like I’ve said before in this thread (somewhere, lol) this is basically just a ‘dry run’ to see how the Autos do with my treatment of them.
So now there are 10 total, 2 Pink Panama and 8 Snowryder.
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The top left & second & third row far right looks like they are trying to out run the other girls in growth
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Yep, they are a bit bigger, but it’s all good. lol Everything was same time, germed, potted, etc Been together since seeds dropped. There’s gonna be differences in the growth on different seeds/plants, as we all know.
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looking good Mr. Potseed I think it’s very cool to see an expeienced grower such as yourself trying autos for the first time glad to be just a tiny little part of that they look great can’t wait to see the rest even though I’m late to the show
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Well thank you, I’m not going to be doing anything like LST to these. Just let them grow to basically ‘get a handle’ on how they are naturally. Then when I start the real batch of Autos, that’s when the fun begins!
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The fun has begun, folks. I figure I might as well show you the next step for me in Auto growing…
first, I want to thank @cannabliss for gifting me some seeds to work with. The Sour60 are regular Autos, she had a good bit and sent me 224. Nothing spectacular according to my research, but then I’m doing something new and wouldn’t want to mess up using expensive strain beans! I gladly accept the very gracious gift, and will show pics of things as I go. It might not be daily, but at least weekly!
So here we go, and on with the show!
I got the beans Thursday, and prepped the tray of worm castings immediately lol
The Friday morning they went into the tray… by the next morning (Saturday) they had started to popping. Yes, I dropped all 224.
Then onto Sunday morning and this
So I went to work, putting them into small cups.
Next morning, Monday 6/28
Then the final ones on Tuesday 6/29
I can’t fit all of the cups into the pic at once, so had to take a few shots lol I ran out of the 3oz cups and had to change over to 5oz for the last 100
Out of 224 seeds, all germinated. Although the last 12 only had tiny tails sticking out so I didn’t bother with cupping them. I just tossed them into the compost bin to be whatever they feel like.
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In a couple days I’ll start putting them into their permanent homes of 2gl pots. Then into another room with 20/4 lighting…
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You take strainaholism to a whole new level and I love it! 
I can’t even fathom having that many plants going at the same time.
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That’s an army of solo cups! Better said, of plants!!! Nice! 
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Back for a short… this is a pic of the Auto’s I already had going. Pink Panama and Showryder as of day 22 after germination.
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And now on to the ‘Big Show’ lol this morning the majority of the new babies are standing tall. There are a couple of stragglers but that’s to be expected. One died overnight, but that too, is to be expected. All of these won’t make the ‘final cut’, and get put into their permanent homes, but enough will! lol
edit… I’m starting the count from the point all went into cups. Yesterday June 30 will be considered day ‘1’
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That’s not quite half of what’s in the veg room lol 460… But the photoperiod clones will be vegging for a couple months while I concentrate on this new venture… Auto’s!
edit… There’s also 9 of @Chronickyle’s Xtreme and 5 of @Mr.Sparkle’s Cinderevil Autos in the veg room in small cups a week now. They’ll be going into the budroom with these.
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pretty cool hey quick question maybe I missed it so you grow in mostly water only so if you don’t mind me asking whars your soil mix unless it’s up here somewhere and I missed it they look great btw I just had someone msg me on fb i gave a bunch of folks autos few months back in a FB group that was dedicated to legalizing here in NY yay we won sorta anyway he was like you sent me all males lol I told them all they were regs explained wgat that meant also tried to explain that stress will cause more males ugghhh idk usually I have a great ration I digress your inspiring me to pop more beans sir
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I don’t grow in water only lol I grow in soil…I use my own mix… I have a very large compost bin with another started beside it. This gets everything veg-matter tossed into it. All the household stuff like any veggies/fruits, etc as well as egg shells, and coffee grounds. Then I also have a ton of red wriggler and earth worms in it, as well as perlite for aeration. I had to start over with my compost when we moved back here to OK 3 yrs ago, but it’s a great mix that the plants love!
So a blend of worm castings, perlite, and compost… to answer your question.
edit… They mostly require only watering, but i do add stuff like the micro-nutrients, etc
edit2… Also I forgot lol all the fan leaves and stems etc from harvest or such go into the bins also…
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lol Now you see why I said ‘this IS moderation’!
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sorry thats what i meant by water only like you don’t use nutes so to speak well they look good whatever magic you have going on there
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Thank you, dear lady!