Auto Flowering?

[tooldini]

I am trying to grow some purple jems autoflowering cannabis. I have 1 left out of 3 and it is in soil. 17 days and the plant is only about 1" from seed LOL I am kinda just messing around till my grow room is ready. I have it in a PC case in a locked cabinet. I have 3 CFL's on it. I had it in a 16oz party cup cut smaller than half. I replanted tonight in an almost fullsize cup. When I took the plant out of the small cup it had a bundle of roots bigger than a golfball. I have the lights on 24hr do you think this is TOO long even though it is an auto. Also do you think I just had it in too small a container? Thanks for any help

[helpingpatients5]

i have done one grow for a patient with the autoflower and the best results i got was using the 20 hours of light and 4 hours of darkness. that was the ak47 / lowrider strain from attitude sb. autoflowers are cool to look at but yields suck. on the positive side it is a quick process and took about 7 weeks to flower 10 weeks to harvest. they were cool but wouldnt jump at the idea of going that route again.

[DT61]

20/4 is recommended in most cases by auto flower breeders.

If they are the 60 day wonder type, they also need to go directly into their flower containers - do not wait, you may cause the plant to stay smaller than it may have been capable of.

[tooldini]

thanks guys I also had someone else tell me to try removing some light and using just my 6500K CFL for a bit. I put it in a bigger cup but maybe thats not big enough. I will be glad to get half a gram LOL

[DT61]

That actually is a good idea for starting an auto flower - for a short time then on into hps for finish.

[tooldini]

LOL yeah I got a 1000w HPS but room is not ready yet,, so these are being grown by CFL's. Just for fun not quantity,,lots of learning doing it like this. Micro bubble tote and CFL's in PC case. bubble plants I already threw away I know they were dying. So failure on that but it was my fault by pulling them from soil after only 1 week from seed.

[Wild Bill]

Can autoflowers be cloned and if so how long before flowering should you do it?

[SublimeWind]

Can autoflowers be cloned and if so how long before flowering should you do it?

 

NO.. they can not.. they are not photo dependent, they are time dependent... A clone would be the same age as the parent stock, they flower regardless of light, and based on a timetable, so no.. you CAN however seed them and carry the autoflower traits...

[tooldini]

Anyone on here grow auto flowers all the time in their veg room? I watched a video earlier that this guy does that and it seems to me this would be a good way to always have some harvesting to do.

[SublimeWind]

I have..

 

http://michiganmedicalmarijuana.org/gallery/image/4321-dsc07911jpg/

[tooldini]

The plant in the bucket? What type is that?

[SublimeWind]

I'm sorry, yes, the plant in the bucket and the plant with the scissors next to it...

 

G13 labs Poison Dwarf..

[tooldini]

How old is that dwarf in the pic? Here is a pic of my Purple Jems after 24 days LOL we had some rough times and it is kinda stunted LOL Doing much better since I repotted in foxfarm soil

[SublimeWind]

I'm gonna say they were 40 days or so...

 

Can tell you right now, if that's 21 days, you "should" be seeing sex and it should be bigger...

 

Yeah man, you stressed that one out pretty bad..

[tooldini]

LOL still learning alot I guess I have to kill some things to learn more. Here is a pic I just took tonight. Looking much better and bigger but has a couple tips that are light brown. Not light burns so not sure.

[tooldini]

Think I will need a microscope to sex this one

[MJ_ALCH3MIST]

Purple stems, light brown/yellowish tinges not always a big deal with seedlings adjusting to the world and sometimes it shows

[tooldini]

Ok cool I just wanna make it work out this time. thanks for the help

[tooldini]

Ok another question could there be a flowering starting already. I am not sure but I think I see something going on at the very top of the plant. I think I will get magnifying glass to see

[SublimeWind]

look at the node, if you see a pear shape come up and 2 hairs stick out like legs in the air, you got a fem... if you see multiple balls/pears forming, no hairs, you got ballz..

[tooldini]

I think it is female but the thing is so small. I bought a little microscope from my grow shop but it is so freakin hard to use and see with. It looks like little almost clear like hairs sticking up from the top of the plant were I assume is a bud. I don't see any balls. I had a male plant once before so I do remember what that looked like but it was much bigger LOL thanks for the help

[SublimeWind]

time will tell, no worries, you have time and diligence on your side..

[tooldini]

ITS A GIRL for sure white like or clear hairs seen thru microscope. This was taken with camera on 4x so not the greatest but maybe you can see the hairs

[Bilbo The Grower]

When is the best time to add flavors and are there any recomendations? I'd love to try this but don't want to get the wrong stuff and add it at the wrong time. I am currently on the 3rd day of flushing and wondered if I am too late now.

[tooldini]

sorry I don't know anything about that. THis is my first grow also