Beautiful work and awesome that you were able to capture it this way!
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JLO F2 just a little over three weeks from germination. I expect the autos to start showing sex over the next week or two.
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Nice. How do you get seedlings to grow that fast? Mine are fairly steady but your growth is twice what I have been getting. My seedlings get water only until they outgrow a beer cup. Then transplanted. I have been using Happy Frog and feeding at 1/4 strength nutes for about a week then switch to half strength. For the rest of the grow they get 1/2 nutes. In flower they get some of the foxfarms beastie blooms again at 1/2 strength. Think I am starving them? They always seem to grow well. Just not as fast as some people do.
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Jacks 321 full strength flooded daily.
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Even in the seedling stage ?!?!
I am always afraid a lot of nutes tat early will burn them up
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Yeah started them in rapid rooters and moved them to coco around a week in, I fed full strength since then.
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I have been using the FoxFarm Trio for a couple grows. I think it works well if you dont follow their formula. Once dialed in it works great. Turns out to be about 1/2 their reccomended dosage. I still have about another grow’s worth. I think after that I may change to Jacks. Everyone that uses it swears by it. And have not heard negative about it.
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Hey,
Reiko, I just joined the boards because of this thread. Hoping to work with some non-fem autos to find something(s) that will work outside in my climate, which is hot. I will be following… and asking questions.
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Welcome @Dirtron to the forums
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Welcome to OG. Ask away, im happy to help.
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I came here because of this thread too. !
And I like Bubble gum what a coincidence! LOL!
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Last night I counted three females and a male autoflower (20 hours of light). I will most likely cull the two taller plants tonight. Here is a webcam pic from this morning.
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It will be a sad day in ReikoXland
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Not really, there are 24 and I only need 1 male and 1 female. All the photoperiod plants will end up as worm food eventually.
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How many generations does it take to make a stable auto?
I’d like to get there someday. 
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Three filial generations. Autoflowering is a recessive trait, so the first filial generation (F1) are 100% photoperiod. The next filial generation (F2, what I’m growing now) should have 25% autoflowering and 75% photoperiod. Crossing the autoflowering F2 plants will give you 100% autoflowering in the F3 generation. I will likely do one more generation of selections after these.
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Awesome! That’s a good deal faster than I was thinking.
How’d you get the 50% on those grape walker x JLO?
Sorry. I’m still learning. Thanks for your patience. 
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Well, the JLO F1 all carry one recessive (autoflowering) gene and one dominant gene (photoperiod). The Grapey Wlker Kush have two recessive (autoflowring) genes. So when I (accidentally) crossed those, half of them will get the recessive gene and be autoflowering while the other half will receive the dominant gene and be photoperiod.
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I get it. Makes perfect sense with a bit of 'splaining. Thanks again @ReikoX .
Ugh. Back to work.
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@ReikoX
So first question group:
What is the range of maturation times you have experienced with the auto’s? Fastest and Slowest?
What influences how long a particular cross will take to finish?
If you were to cross the same auto male to two different photoperiod strains (or vice versus auto fem x 2 different photo males) , one which takes 8wks to flower and one that takes 10/11wks… after growing out the 2 generations to get back to some auto’s… would you expect the (auto x 8wk F2) to finish faster than the (auto x11wk F2)?
Does the finish time come from a combo of the two strains traits, or is it wholly dependent/controlled by the auto-flowering gene (since the auto’s are all aa there is no photo-period gene) and thus the auto parent in the cross?
What letter do you use to signify the photoperiod/autoflower alleles? P and a?
Are there different versions of the autoflower gene, perhaps from different original latitudes/climates that flower after a different number of days, but are individually consistent? (so in my example 60day auto x 11wk photo F2 OR 60day auto x 8wk photo F2 both finish @ 60days, while 75day auto x any photo strain will be 75days)
Thanks,
Dirtron
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