autos looking small please help me out

Rodolfo

Rodolfo

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Hello all.

This is my first time working with autos. I have 2 girls lemon haze auto 5 weeks old about 5 nodes and northern light blue auto 4 weeks old about 4 nodes. The soil is the best I can get in my country its a mix of soil ,perlite peat moss and coconut fiber , I am using a 250watt CFL I noticed it was a bit far from the plants recently moved it to 3 inches away from the plants. No nutes so far the best I can get its a 20-20-20 mix not sure that will work? . Compared to other plants these ones look really small and one of them its showing pistils already, please let me know if there is something I can do to help them or is it to late?
 

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latewood

latewood

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Autos are generally a bit smaller than other plants. They are designed to flower and finsih in a shorter time frame. An Indica dominant hybrid will be much smaller than a sativa dominant plant.

I am sure you will get some more ideas. Happy growing
 
NanoGadget

NanoGadget

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Depends a lot of factors. Lighting, genetics, etc.. unfortunately all you can do now is give it the best environment you can to promote vigor. Giving it more red spectrum light as it flowers will help promote some stretch and good flower production.
 
Vnsmkr

Vnsmkr

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I didn't say all were small...though it is the nature as they need to flower fast. Last one was 2' tall and was an ounce dry
 
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GrowUrOwnDank

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Rodolfo said:
Hello all.

This is my first time working with autos. I have 2 girls lemon haze auto 5 weeks old about 5 nodes and northern light blue auto 4 weeks old about 4 nodes. The soil is the best I can get in my country its a mix of soil ,perlite peat moss and coconut fiber , I am using a 250watt CFL I noticed it was a bit far from the plants recently moved it to 3 inches away from the plants. No nutes so far the best I can get its a 20-20-20 mix not sure that will work? . Compared to other plants these ones look really small and one of them its showing pistils already, please let me know if there is something I can do to help them or is it to late?
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Look very healthy to me! I think your ok. As others said auto size varies. Even within the same strain. I have noticed one thing about them tho. They tend to grow slow in the beginning, my theory is the plant is busy developing a nice root structure. Once the root structure is ready, the plant takes off. I think this may be the case here. This early, I feel it won't be a prize winner but you could potentially still get an ounce or 3 off these plants. That's pretty normal for an auto. They look wonderfully healthy to me.
 
Rodolfo

Rodolfo

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Thanks to all for your replies. I appreciate any feedback you can provide. I will start on nutes probably on next watering and will start looking for some red spectrum.
 
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Bush Master 89

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This is my plant at 5 weeks. As you can see there are some major differences. This is my first grow so I'm no expert or anything but you might wanta think about Startin over. I had a few seeds get stunted at a young age before this one. How much light do you use on then as seedlings and how far away?
 

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Rodolfo

Rodolfo

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Damn looking way too different. What auto is that? .I have been using the 250watt cfl since the beginning. It was a bit far from the plants like 5 or 6 inches away. Should I really start over? :(
 
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Bush Master 89

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Sence it's an autoflower and it's on a time limit, if those plants are 4 or 5 weeks old I just don't see how they could ever come close to ever looking anything like mine. They mistake I made with my first couple plants is that my lights were too close. Seeding don't need much light at all. They are delicate at that age and too much light is a bad thing. For my plant in the picture I used 80 watts cfl and put them a little over a foot away to start them. It's not till the plant is bigger and stronger do you wanta put the lights close to the plant
 
BigEasy1

BigEasy1

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You need more light. I just pulled 150 grams trimmed and dried off a Barney's Farm Sweet Tooth. If you can't get at least 80 grams per plant you're doing something wrong.
 
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GrowUrOwnDank

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Bush Master 89 said:
This is my plant at 5 weeks. As you can see there are some major differences. This is my first grow so I'm no expert or anything but you might wanta think about Startin over. I had a few seeds get stunted at a young age before this one. How much light do you use on then as seedlings and how far away?
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That's a beautiful plant. Is it an auto? I have to disagree about starting over. I've had a roadrunner auto that grew like yours and it was in MG soil and MG nutes. I've grown a couple others out as well and they looked more like OP. The autos seem to range quite a bit.
Rodolfo said:
Damn looking way too different. What auto is that? .I have been using the 250watt cfl since the beginning. It was a bit far from the plants like 5 or 6 inches away. Should I really start over? :(
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Like I said. I think your ok. I've had monsters that I pulled in 56 days and I've had some late bloomers that looked like yours I only got an O off of. Never seen 2 from the same seed lot do the same either. Ease in on your Nutes and do the best you can giving it light. Although 250 actual watts of CFL should be able to grow 3 oz. Ive done it before.
 
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Bush Master 89

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Like i said I'm no expert, so I may be wrong... but at 5 weeks an autoflower should be starting to flower, I mean it's half way through its life already. 2 more weeks and it should be done growing and stretching. That plant looked like mine at 1-2 weeks. Your lights were to close to start, give it room to stretch when it first sprouts
 
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