2 of my 6 plants are autos, and are on their 9th week right now. neither look even close to being done. both still have many white pistils, and all clear trichs. i thought autos should be done in 8-9 weeks total? these popped their shell on 7/12, and i would guess have at least 2-3 weeks left, just like my photo plants. whats the deal?
Some of them take up to 10 weeks and I've seen reports of them going up to 12 Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
Well I'm assuming you are flowering them in the same area as your photos, which means they are only getting 12/12 and autos need 18/6-24/0 all the way through
i read autos would work on 12/12 without issue. was that info wrong? they are budding decently, but no where near finished.
Technically they WILL flower without issue. But they're on a specific schedule and thrive best under 18/6-20/4 so you're gonna get a terrible yield
of friggin coarse. while im not worried about yield, my 4 other plants are for that, i was hoping these would be ready sooner than my others, preventing me from running dry. So these will most likely follow the usual 12 week schedule you think?? the autos were from pyramid seeds, and are white widow. pyramid says 8 week start to finish.
I have a sweet mango auto from greenhouse that was seeded outdoors in april and still isn't ready. Seems like some auto genetics revert to photo period sensitivity, could be stress related. Anything unusual or stressful happen to the affected plants or are they just taking longer than the others?
the 2 auto plants are both looking good. honestly not much shorter than my flowering photo's, but not as many buds. the buds and sugar leaves are beyond covered in trichs however, more than any plant ive grown yet.
Nope. She's organic and mostly water only. I'm harvesting another plant from the same seed stock this weekend that was seeded in late June. The 6-month plant grew huge for an auto, around 1.8 meters and bushy, still sending out white pistels. Her younger sister is about 45cm with cloudy trichs. It really does seem like she just reverted to photo traits. I can't ID any particular stress that could have affected this plant alone. Especially odd as I've harvested three other plants that germinated months afterwards. The bud formation and morphology are clearly the same as the other mangoes, just much larger.
Same here. One of my mangoes has about 10 even colas (lst) with relatively small buds, but they are covered in trichs and very very dense. This summer has been my first experiment with autos so I don't have much to compare with. I planned the same as you, to use the autos to tide me over, didn't ripen as quickly or reliably as planned/hoped.
Yes, greater consistency and predictability for autos is needed. Same for some photo strains as well. Don't get me started on dutch passion blueberry, wildly unpredictable, I wouldn't try their auto bb yet as it's probably even less stable. Two of my autos are just taking forever, have grown to large to move inside and may not fully develop before the cold weather arrives...
this is my 2nd failure with autos. my first attempt at them, none of the seeds even popped. this time, their taking MUCH longer than planned. ill try one more grow with straight autos, and if i get nothing, im totally done with them.
I'm with you, mary, especially indoors. Too unpredictable for the trouble. I'll still seed a few plants on the balcony next june to experiment further.
WoW! Check out my thread, "1st Time with Autos" . See the pics. I have about 2 weeks left and the bugs are getting fatter by the day! The Cream Caramel is short but has the thickest and shiniest buds of the group. So many trichomes that even the sugar leaves and some of the sun leaves have trichomes on them, a lot. I will do auto again, guaranteed. All seeds popped within 24-36 hours. The next time I will not mix in a photofem with them and keep them on 20/4 light.