Can you grow an autoflower as a photoperiod?

[gopherbuddah]

I started a lowryder diesel about 4 weeks ago. It's sttill very small and I'm not thinking that in another 4 weeks she's gonna be done. This being the case, can I just grow her as a photoperiod and veg her a couple months on an 18/6 cycle then change her to 12/12 cycle? Or because she's an auto will she start flowering no matter the size? I'm kinda excited about this strain but I don't think she's gonna yeild zip at this pace as an auto. But as a photoperiod she might.

 

[ganjaluvr]

don't know why you would want to.

if your wanting a plant that flowers with the change of lighting (photoperiod).. you should have just bought regular seeds instead of investing in autoflowering. I mean, what was the point in ordering them.. if your wanting to use the photo-period??

doesn't make much sense to me.. but that's just MO.

peace.. and good luck.

 

[gopherbuddah]

don't know why you would want to.

if your wanting a plant that flowers with the change of lighting (photoperiod).. you should have just bought regular seeds instead of investing in autoflowering. I mean, what was the point in ordering them.. if your wanting to use the photo-period??

doesn't make much sense to me.. but that's just MO.

peace.. and good luck.

I don't wanna grow her photo, i bought the autos because of the low maintenece, quick grow method. I'm just saying worst case scenario, that's all.

 

[gopherbuddah]

Anybody else got any advice? I'm really confused as to what to do next

 

[dmc1984]

give her 24hrs of light or 20/4

 

[darkdestruction420]

Thats not possible. You missed your chance this time, if you dont get good/excellent growth during its *veg* period you cant really fix it besides adding as much light as possible, what size is that container?. Sorry. How many watts and type of light are u using? The whole point of autoflowers is that they will start flower no matter the photoperiod, thats why you cant change it.

 

[darkdestruction420]

those harvest times are not set in stone, you should make sure its done before you chop, it will probally be closer to 10 weeks.

 

[gopherbuddah]

Thats not possible. You missed your chance this time, if you dont get good/excellent growth during its *veg* period you cant really fix it besides adding as much light as possible, what size is that container?. Sorry. How many watts and type of light are u using? The whole point of autoflowers is that they will start flower no matter the photoperiod, thats why you cant change it.

I got her in a 2 1/2 gallon pot. Didn't wanna have to transplant cause I heard that was stressful to these little plants. I'm using 3 cfls. They're 395 actual watts, 1150w equivalent.

 

[napa23]

Yeah I wouldn't recommend transplanting. I had a feminized auto blue mystic and transplanted it. Other than that it had almost no stress...but it hermied. I'll be using a peat pellet to tranfer it to my larger smartpot this time.

 

[gopherbuddah]

Yeah I got a jock horror auto I think I'm gonna start in a smaller pot and tansplant her at week 3 when I start the nutes. My theroy is that she grew down, and stretched out her roots in the bigger pot. She never really grew up at all. At week 5 she's just up to her 4th node

 

[napa23]

I thought plant size was directly related to root size. More roots=more plant. Is this false?

 

[Bigby]

You cannot extend the life of auto flower plants whatever you do with the lights.

 

[gopherbuddah]

I thought plant size was directly related to root size. More roots=more plant. Is this false?

I'm not sure I'm just guessing at what I did to mess this grow up