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whoyouwantobe

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Helloooooo...:joint: So never grown before but figured its the safest way to get your herb really. You don't have to deal with any sketch-city dudes or anything and don't have to waste gas $ and time hunting guys down just to get some smoke. I always hated buying green here on the E. Coast because its so valuable that people will charge ya through the roof for good nuggets and at the same time act like YOU'RE hassling THEM to get the whole thing done...anyway...said 'nope' and gonna do my own thing now. All you need to know is 47 degrees latitude..

So Im about to receive my order of 3x DutchPassion AutoDurbanPoison and really excited to get going. I know its much too cold to be outdoors yet but I figure I will start a few seedlings indoors in my under-construction, home-made grow box with a few standard 60Hz CFLs inside, along with white paint or some reflective medium & and small fan. Hopefully I can put seeds to water [germination, i.e.-"Day 1"] by March 26th, and thus have, at a minimum, one SOLID month of veg-growth indoors in my little grow box. (Of course I will essentially grow these, and top them accordingly, for as long as it remains too cold to move them outdoors. I want to start weening them into the outdoors when the daytime temps start hitting 55-65 degrees or so, just to get them used to the suns rays, but then still pulling them indoors until the frosts are over for the year.) I plan to do this with ONE of my THREE AutoDP's this Summer, to learn myself the ropes. If everything is going good a few months in, and I have decent bud size and resin production, and my aromas and leaves are all okay from pest and such, I might attempt cloning the plants for a multiple harvest summer in my very first attempt at growing :)

So theres my basic idea, can you guys give me anything here....also I think Im getting 1x g13 Labs Blue OG for a freebie so will probly attempt that as well as a living experiment sort of...
 

GreatwhiteNorth

Global Moderator
Staff member
Helloooooo...:joint: So never grown before but figured its the safest way to get your herb really. You don't have to deal with any sketch-city dudes or anything and don't have to waste gas $ and time hunting guys down just to get some smoke. I always hated buying green here on the E. Coast because its so valuable that people will charge ya through the roof for good nuggets and at the same time act like YOU'RE hassling THEM to get the whole thing done...anyway...said 'nope' and gonna do my own thing now. All you need to know is 47 degrees latitude..

So Im about to receive my order of 3x DutchPassion AutoDurbanPoison and really excited to get going. I know its much too cold to be outdoors yet but I figure I will start a few seedlings indoors in my under-construction, home-made grow box with a few standard 60Hz CFLs inside, along with white paint or some reflective medium & and small fan. Hopefully I can put seeds to water [germination, i.e.-"Day 1"] by March 26th, and thus have, at a minimum, one SOLID month of veg-growth indoors in my little grow box. (Of course I will essentially grow these, and top them accordingly, for as long as it remains too cold to move them outdoors. I want to start weening them into the outdoors when the daytime temps start hitting 55-65 degrees or so, just to get them used to the suns rays, but then still pulling them indoors until the frosts are over for the year.) I plan to do this with ONE of my THREE AutoDP's this Summer, to learn myself the ropes. If everything is going good a few months in, and I have decent bud size and resin production, and my aromas and leaves are all okay from pest and such, I might attempt cloning the plants for a multiple harvest summer in my very first attempt at growing :)

So theres my basic idea, can you guys give me anything here....also I think Im getting 1x g13 Labs Blue OG for a freebie so will probly attempt that as well as a living experiment sort of...
Auto's veg for as long as they feel like it and then they flower - no amount of manipulation can change that.
If you top an auto you will likely lose yield for the reason above.

Get photo period plants if you want to play those games.
 

CashCrops

Well-Known Member
Also don't waste money or time on reflective material for an area only used for vegging (my opinion) the only reason I see for getting extra light on the lower nodes is to help feed the lower buds, even for autos It's only good when there flowering so if your flowering outside make it easy on yourself and just run the box with fan and cfl.
 

GreatwhiteNorth

Global Moderator
Staff member
Also don't waste money or time on reflective material for an area only used for vegging (my opinion) the only reason I see for getting extra light on the lower nodes is to help feed the lower buds, even for autos It's only good when there flowering so if your flowering outside make it easy on yourself and just run the box with fan and cfl.
My favorite is flat white latex paint.
It allows you to utilize just that much more of the light you're paying for.
 

whoyouwantobe

New Member
Auto's veg for as long as they feel like it and then they flower - no amount of manipulation can change that.
If you top an auto you will likely lose yield for the reason above.

Get photo period plants if you want to play those games.


Wow thanks a ton man...I would have went and tried topping my Auto's so you saved me there. Haha, would never have thought that I could LOSE yield there...but thanks thats a lifesaver! How about the whole thing with moving them outdoors gradually until they are there full-time...do you think that could shock my plants?
 

whoyouwantobe

New Member
And one more thing...I chose Auto's because I don't have the time, or the patience, to wait till Mid-October to harvest. I like the idea of a set start date for my flowering period, that way I can start the beauties indoors and move them outdoors into the warm when the time comes, for AWESOME NATURAL FLOWERING. Going to be growing completely organicly (using nothing store-bought) and going to try to do some innovative things with my plants.
 
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