Three days from the time you put them in soil? Thats pretty good! I do use paper towel method and have better luck than soil for some reason, i also plant directly into the hydroton as well. I do understand the dislike of using PT though as it takes an extra delicate step.
I let them crack and only allow the root to just poke out anymore and they get all fcked up then that just cracked open seed goes in a jiffy pellet
The only thing about dark periods during veg is stretch! 18/6 will produce much stretchier plants than 24/0-plants grow like crazy during the dark period. I wouldn't recommending anything under 20/4 if vertical height is an issue...
I totally agree, but they also have much greater distances between nodes, which isn't always desirable.
I get 100% for the paper towl method
These r gown on 18/6 mh how much tighter u want the nodes and also during dark keep the temp up and u will have fck all stretch
Transplanting is your friend, ESPECIALLY if your growing is soil and plan on using anything bigger than 2gallon pots to finish in. You shouldn't have to go more than 3 days inbetween waterings, as more water = more oxygen = more growth. If you start in pots that are too big they amount of times you water during it's life is greatly reduced, they more you water, the more they grow. If you sticking to anyting under 2 gallon, you could leave it in there it's entire life, but if you plan on going bigger, tansplanting is the way to go. It also prevents the medium from staying wet too long and attraching pests like gnats. You can get away with never transplanting, but growth will be slow at the beggining as you wait for your medium to dry each time. I recommend at least going from a party to your final container.
Your plants look great, and I was 18/6 guy my entire life until I saw the benefits of fluros and 24/0. Everyone's set-up is different, but I've managed to increase yeild with smaller plants vegging under fluros. More side branches and smaller plants - for my style of growing it works WAY better, and costs way less in electricity. If I was still growing bigger plants than I would say HID all the way for overall growth, but if you want short compact plants with the tightest nodes, 24/0 or 20/4 is definitely the way to go regardless of HID or fluro. They both have their pro's and cons, but I would argue that 24/0 fluros is far superior to 18/6 HID IF your style is smaller plants. If your using 600w or less HID, anything under 18" of the canopy is all wasted growth, as light can only penetrate so far. I got sick of growing 3' plants with only the top 1/2 producing what I would call quality bud and not larf.
Um slower growth with no transplant u r extremely wrong sorry but ur wrong grow a auto man and transplant it lol u will decrease yield I used to transplant after a transplant u get 3 or 4 days no growth while roots settle as for more water more oxygen I also disagree water to the plants needs no more when in soil have good medium lotsa perlite ... The explosion is ur plant having room to grow if u went straight into the big pot from word the start u will have that explosion the entire grow
I missed the auto part, my bad. Photos benefit from transplants- the faster your medium dries out, the more frequent you can water. The more frequent you can water, the faster the growth.
Photos and auto r the same during veg and I've also grow photos in this way there is very little difference in auto and photos man except auto will bud when old enoughSo I assumed we were talking about photos since this wasn't in the autoflower section. Scratch all my advice which was for photos, DUH! I totally missed we were talking about autos
Faster the medium drys out u water tiny amounts in large pots and if u have skill and can manage this u will have 0 problems ..
No a mh dimmed to 200w for first 2 weeks.. this is them 3 weeks
I went from foam cups to 5 gallon pots, which they will be in untill cut. How long should my root be before I transplant?
Wow thats reaply explosive growth, what nutes are you using? Also I'm following the less is more saying with the nutes. I have big bloom, bone meal, bat guano, and tiger bloom. I was thinking about picking up cal-mag as I think I'll run into one of those deficiencies.
finally the roots have taken and the stems are getting thick!!
I wish I could see more explosive growth!