Hows she doing? Is the end close?
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Seedperson1
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Nice! Personally, I’d say it’s not ready yet. I don’t know the grow history of the plant but, based on your photos, if it was mine, I’d be giving just water and drop light to 10/14 or 8/16 for a few days and then 24-48 hours in the dark to plump everything up real good.
Thanks for the reply dude, ive attached some trich shots if you wanna review, ill consider changing up the light
Based on trichs how long till i can chop do you think?
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IndoBlazing76
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Hey Bossman, is this lady an Auto-Flower or Photoperiod?
IndoBlazing76
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From your Trichome pics I'd say she's not quite ready, i normally wait till more of the trichs look creamy, with a few turning amber, but i like more of a couch lock effect, lol
Shes an auto, i have noticed a few ambers while looking her over with the microscope, probably about 5% if all ive looked at
Plus im aiming for the early side of the high, got another plant to leave longer
IndoBlazing76
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To be honest, I haven't had a lot of experience with autos, but can i ask what lights you're using and on what light schedule, 12/12, 18/6? Just to give me a better idea of what's going on.
2 600W LEDs daisy chained under 20/4 they were on 24/0 during veg, i was under the impression light schedule didnt matter with Autos?
None of that extra complexity is required whatsoever. That stands even if this wasn't an auto plant.
Light schedule doesn't matter with autos. The more, the better.
Also, what lights are those? I suspect that although they claim 600W, they're more like 60W each, and it's lack of light that's a partial cause of the smallish bud growth.
What medium and nutrients have you been using?
IndoBlazing76
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Lack of light definitely isn't the issue or what's causing the buds not to fatten up and you're right, Auto's prefer more light, 20/4 sounds right. Hopefully an Auto grower might be able to help more here, but if I think of anything that can help I'll give you a shout
I should mention its over 4 foot tall with little training, just some defoliation here and tgere and a bit of lollipopping, i trained the main cola to reduce the height but it shot back up again
IndoBlazing76
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Wow, I've not used LED and if that's true I can't believe they can get away with those claims. That's awful. Good old HPS for me.
100w actual draw each, so 200w roughly over all, growing in coco in perlite mix, 20l fabic pots, canna range nutrients but at this point im just doing A, B Pk13/14 and Blackstrap
Pretty well most LED manufacturers claim "Equivalent to 600W HPS!!!", but when you actually read the specifications, the draw is often a 10th of that claim.
These outright fraudulent marketing schemes are extremely prevalent with the cheap crap found on Amazon.
See if you can't either add to your lighting, or a replacement. Better lighting will not only help produce larger yield, it'll help keep the stretch down that you spoke of earlier.
Aye i went for the LED for the running cost saving, it was a first grow so i gradaully built up from a tinfoiled cabinet up to full tent throughout the grow,
My notes are to upgrade my extraction and to pick up something from the mars hydro range for lighting next time around, gunna go organic too.
