Autos flowering early

Aolelon

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I have 2 autos and 2 photoperiod plants growing, the autos are about 20 days old from sprout and I switched my lighting to 12/12 about a week ago, and the autos are throwing pistils too. Is this normal? I was under the impression changing the light cycle doesnt affect autos.
 

MATTYMATT726

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I have 2 autos and 2 photoperiod plants growing, the autos are about 20 days old from sprout and I switched my lighting to 12/12 about a week ago, and the autos are throwing pistils too. Is this normal? I was under the impression changing the light cycle doesnt affect autos.
Your right. Autos flower when they are genetically ready. 12/12 or 24/0 they are ready now.
 

Aolelon

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Your right. Autos flower when they are genetically ready. 12/12 or 24/0 they are ready now.
just kind of weird after 17 days they are flowering. One of the plants have only 2 or 3 nodes. Doesn't seem like its nearly mature enough to begin flowering. From what I can see, they are flowering at the same rate of my other plants, just not really growing.
 

MATTYMATT726

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Some are small faster plants and some bigger longer. Imortant to read heights and widths and estimated days when choosing autos. Also looking at parents can help you find what you want. I have 2 Ripley's OG from Mephisto at day 82 and buds are so heavy from branches they are leaning and almost breaking off. 1 is atleast 4 ft and the other about 10" shorter.
 

SNOLEPERD

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Depends on the strain your growing, I'm running northern lights and my plants started to flower between day 20 and 30, but cutting your light down to 12/12 may be a contributing factor as I choose to run my autos 16 on 8 off, by cutting the light could have triggered your autos to start to flower so what? You want your autos to flower the sooner the better usaly between day 20 and 30 let em run, your friend.
 

Thegermling

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I have 2 autos and 2 photoperiod plants growing, the autos are about 20 days old from sprout and I switched my lighting to 12/12 about a week ago, and the autos are throwing pistils too. Is this normal? I was under the impression changing the light cycle doesnt affect autos.
Thats weird. For some reason you induced flowering with your autos.
 

SNOLEPERD

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Well my plants are 41 days old topped off and in full flower, now I switch up, I flush out all the food residue and add botanacare pro flower base & Atami Bloombastic at this time I allso switch the spectrum of my light from full spectrum to full bloom, by doing this it greatly enhances your flower and will give your flower structure, I never ran an autoflower just under full spec, when they top I change, I just do it this way and allways have and it works for me, the pic is one of those northern lights just before I switched, note health of plant, size, multiple bud site's but no bud structure all small bud site's, in a month you will not recognize these plants, they will completely be filled out, flower with structure a nice cola bud, I know it's not much to look at now but watch this plant, toped off early at day 41, will bring home right on time around day 70 i can tell. Your Friend
 

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Logan Burke

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While they are supposed to flower on their own designated time line, I've heard that a few things can influence earlier flowering, such as switching lights to 12/12, and applying bloom fertilizer's...I've also noticed that the smaller the pots they are grown in, seems to be the faster they want to throw flowers...with autos, throwing pistils and throwing flowers can be a bit different...they will show signs of sex, yet continue to produce foilage as if they were in veggy for awhile...it's when they full-on put out buds that they seem to stop focusing on foilage and start focusing on their flowers.
 

Aolelon

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While they are supposed to flower on their own designated time line, I've heard that a few things can influence earlier flowering, such as switching lights to 12/12, and applying bloom fertilizer's...I've also noticed that the smaller the pots they are grown in, seems to be the faster they want to throw flowers...with autos, throwing pistils and throwing flowers can be a bit different...they will show signs of sex, yet continue to produce foilage as if they were in veggy for awhile...it's when they full-on put out buds that they seem to stop focusing on foilage and start focusing on their flowers.
These seemed to have been thrown in to flower due to the 12/12 flip. One of the autos stopped growing completely and stayed at 2 nodes, the other stretched slightly and stayed at 5.
I was also reading that they can be triggered into flowering by switching to 12/12. I just wasnt aware of that at the time.
 

Logan Burke

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Is it possible you got the wrong seeds sent? I got my usual order from Bonza this last time, and two out of the four Transiberian Auto seeds I popped ended up NOT flowering until I switched to 12/12, so now I'm stuck with two mystery strain photo plants out of a 6 plant auto grow. With that being said, auto's are definitely far more easy for me than some people make them out to be. It really just requires a strain with stable genetics...I've had amazing luck with THC Bomb and Tran Siberian.
 

Aolelon

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Is it possible you got the wrong seeds sent? I got my usual order from Bonza this last time, and two out of the four Transiberian Auto seeds I popped ended up NOT flowering until I switched to 12/12, so now I'm stuck with two mystery strain photo plants out of a 6 plant auto grow. With that being said, auto's are definitely far more easy for me than some people make them out to be. It really just requires a strain with stable genetics...I've had amazing luck with THC Bomb and Tran Siberian.
It's always possible, but I havent done any other tests to see whether or not they are autos or not. I will grow one out next run for sure.
 

Boatguy

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Is it actually flowering or just showing sex? Mine was an obvious female with pistils at 4 weeks but took 2-3 weeks more before it really started flowering.
 

Aolelon

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Is it actually flowering or just showing sex? Mine was an obvious female with pistils at 4 weeks but took 2-3 weeks more before it really started flowering.
They were flowering, they completely stopped growing, I actually just ended up chopping them because they havent done anything for the last 2 1/2 weeks or so. Not worth it to grow 2 plants with 4 nodes when I can only do 4 plants.
 

Boatguy

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They were flowering, they completely stopped growing, I actually just ended up chopping them because they havent done anything for the last 2 1/2 weeks or so. Not worth it to grow 2 plants with 4 nodes when I can only do 4 plants.
Cant blame you there..
 

SNOLEPERD

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No, when you have an autoflower in veg and then switch to bloom nutrients it's done and cannot be undone, your autoflower is now no longer in veg regardless of size and will never grow in veg again, I learned this the hard way, when i first started an autoflower started to flower as usual but I though I would help it along by adding some bloom base and agent, mistake big mistake, my plant imedietley stoped growing!! It never again grew, I flushed it out and tried to put it back in veg nope, the plant never grew again, with autos timing is everything, all i want is my autos to top off and be in full flower, that's it, this usaly happens between day 50 and 60 depending on strain, however at day 41 my northern lights toped and are in full flower a bit early but they have been in a controlled environment a.c. ect, today I flushed out the food residue from my plants added botanacare pro flower base and Atami bloombastic, I changed the spectrum of my light allso from full spec to full bloom, what I did cannot be undone my plants are now longer in veg and will now forever be in just flower, once you take this step it's for keeps, for better or worse, that's why timing is important, I looked at my 41 day old plants, they all toped, are in flower, and starting to show trichomes so a bit early but ready and once I did what I did it cannot be undone, never try and help an autoflower along by adding flower base and agent until your plants are ready beacuse once you change growing season is over.
 

Budzbuddha

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It’s because you flipped light.

Autos are premiered to throw pistils around week 4-5 of growth ... now BECAUSE of 12/12 they are flowering early and will not reach the potential it could have been.

Anything less than 18/6 is cutting yourself short.
 

MATTYMATT726

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No, when you have an autoflower in veg and then switch to bloom nutrients it's done and cannot be undone, your autoflower is now no longer in veg regardless of size and will never grow in veg again, I learned this the hard way, when i first started an autoflower started to flower as usual but I though I would help it along by adding some bloom base and agent, mistake big mistake, my plant imedietley stoped growing!! It never again grew, I flushed it out and tried to put it back in veg nope, the plant never grew again, with autos timing is everything, all i want is my autos to top off and be in full flower, that's it, this usaly happens between day 50 and 60 depending on strain, however at day 41 my northern lights toped and are in full flower a bit early but they have been in a controlled environment a.c. ect, today I flushed out the food residue from my plants added botanacare pro flower base and Atami bloombastic, I changed the spectrum of my light allso from full spec to full bloom, what I did cannot be undone my plants are now longer in veg and will now forever be in just flower, once you take this step it's for keeps, for better or worse, that's why timing is important, I looked at my 41 day old plants, they all toped, are in flower, and starting to show trichomes so a bit early but ready and once I did what I did it cannot be undone, never try and help an autoflower along by adding flower base and agent until your plants are ready beacuse once you change growing season is over.
You keep posting rhis almost same paragraph in every thread about how you start flowerng at day 40 and keep it to veg and flip at day 60 and on and on. You keep speaking magial fairy land gardening tips to the normal people here. Again on many threads here i share that from DAY 1 I USE GENERAL HYDROPONICS MICRO AND BLOOM WITH CAL MAG FROM DAY 1 UNTILL HARVEST. Can you read that? My plants also in a half ass thred here did not start to flower till 40 ish days. Zero GROW nute bottle and FLOWER nutes from day 1 of sprount. GET IT? Go to Grasscity/Icmg(whatever it is) or thc farmer with this load of random crap.
 

Aolelon

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It’s because you flipped light.

Autos are premiered to throw pistils around week 4-5 of growth ... now BECAUSE of 12/12 they are flowering early and will not reach the potential it could have been.

Anything less than 18/6 is cutting yourself short.
So say I was going to grow 2 autos and 2 photos, would waiting until the autos are flowering, and then I would switch to 12/12 to allow the maximum growth from both.
I know switching 12/12 light is going to reduce yield of an auto anyway, but if I was to do it that way
 

MATTYMATT726

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So say I was going to grow 2 autos and 2 photos, would waiting until the autos are flowering, and then I would switch to 12/12 to allow the maximum growth from both.
I know switching 12/12 light is going to reduce yield of an auto anyway, but if I was to do it that way
Idealy youd let the autos on 18/20/24 hours on untill halfway than start the photos so they will use the same light to veg as autos flowering. Autos finnish and phitos go on flower. I wouldn't do 12/12 for autos. Such a waste.
 

Aolelon

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Idealy youd let the autos on 18/20/24 hours on untill halfway than start the photos so they will use the same light to veg as autos flowering. Autos finnish and phitos go on flower. I wouldn't do 12/12 for autos. Such a waste.
I see, but what if you just increase amount of light hitting the autos in 12 hours as opposed to 18 hours?
 
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