Advanced Autoflower Training, tips, secrets

beaves IOW · May 18, 2013

God this thread is sooo god damn helpful!! Especially to us noobs! Please keep this thread goin I'm guna need it along with many others lol

Jeffdogg · May 18, 2013

All we can do is rate the thread 5 stars and start asking for this to be stickied. Its a good AF resource already.

tekdc911 · May 18, 2013

mwahahaha
i clipped a side branch from my amnesia and took a sample at 3 weeks O.O simply amazing

P.S. sorry for the shitty pic

tekdc911 · May 19, 2013

bumparoosky

technical dan · May 19, 2013

a blue mammoth thats going towards its second week of training and a white widow auto in its first couple days ........ train early to win hard.

and a mig-29 that was cut down n trimmed up on friday

technical dan · May 19, 2013

I would like to give airpots a shot but it costs a bit to get a set.

Jeffdogg · May 19, 2013

Anyone ever try a AF in one of those topsy turvy thing s they use for tomatoes? That would be like an auto lst method you would think ;P

tekdc911 · May 19, 2013

works good out doors hard to keep the water from going every where indoors

technical dan · May 19, 2013

yeah that would be interesting (at least to look at) to try if I had a nice space to hang on up outside

RB1956 · May 19, 2013

Yes air pots are exp.. start up but last forever.. But IMO they are the best thing for a plant.. Never get root bound which is half the battle for a lot of people.. Waiting to long to switch from 20/4 to 12/12 or even autos if you start them in something smaller than 4 gal buckets.. But if you can def give them a chance I don't think u will regret it

tekdc911 · May 19, 2013

ill use them on my next grow what ever size compares to a 2 gal and do a side by side 2 pots from this grow and 2 airpots

first have to get the 2 AKR's 2 frutta di venus and himalaya blue diesel seedling and one HBD in flower now
out of the way

p.s.
forgot to add one dinafem amnesia auto that has been harvested early and left with alot of lower buds that have been foliar fed with
B-1 thrive alive red dose and a half hopefully burns it bad enough it hermi's if not will leave it for a few more weeks and hope it pops a banana so i can salvage the genetics

RB1956 · May 19, 2013

I would use 7.5L air pots.. They're great

technical dan · May 20, 2013

yeah the next time I have some money for growing ..... and I dont need soil or other stuff just to run, as I did the last time I looked at airpots

WattSaver · May 20, 2013

Great thread,lots of needed info for growing autos.

I'm going to try some autos for the first time, and have a couple of questions. Been growing for several yrs but have never grown an auto. I want to grow the autos outdoors this summer, because winter just comes to early in my time zone. I'm gonna grow G-13 Labs Auto Pinnapple Express. Says it's indoor outdoor, but no info on how long it takes to finish, I'm plotting for something close to 90days??

I plan on growing them in hempy buckets, with a medium of equal parts Coco coir, coco chunks (mulch) & perlite. For nutes I'll be using CRF's so overfeeding won't be an issue.
Now my concern is I have to stay 4' or less to keep them out of view of the neighbors. I was hoping to top them, but after reading tekdc's comment's on early topping I really wonder if topping when only 2wks old is okay. It's something I wouldn't do with a regular.

Normally I start my seeds in small containers, but after reading here I guess I'll start them in the 2gal buckets I had planned on finishing them in.

If you have any other advice for a noob auto grower please throw it at me. Thanks

Jeffdogg · May 20, 2013

WattSaver said:
Great thread,lots of needed info for growing autos.

I'm going to try some autos for the first time, and have a couple of questions. Been growing for several yrs but have never grown an auto. I want to grow the autos outdoors this summer, because winter just comes to early in my time zone. I'm gonna grow G-13 Labs Auto Pinnapple Express. Says it's indoor outdoor, but no info on how long it takes to finish, I'm plotting for something close to 90days??

I plan on growing them in hempy buckets, with a medium of equal parts Coco coir, coco chunks (mulch) & perlite. For nutes I'll be using CRF's so overfeeding won't be an issue.
Now my concern is I have to stay 4' or less to keep them out of view of the neighbors. I was hoping to top them, but after reading tekdc's comment's on early topping I really wonder if topping when only 2wks old is okay. It's something I wouldn't do with a regular.

Normally I start my seeds in small containers, but after reading here I guess I'll start them in the 2gal buckets I had planned on finishing them in.

If you have any other advice for a noob auto grower please throw it at me. Thanks

I'm new to Auto's too!!

But like you have a fair amount of experience under my belt. I've found a thread for you to read. From what I can tell its about 8-9 week strain from seed. The page before last he shows it at 7.5 weeks so you can track from there when he pulled and of course by now im sure you know what a finished bud looks like so just apply some of you experience into the mix and you should be able to get a round about harvest date

http://www.420magazine.com/forums/completed-journals/155810-pineapple-express-auto-fem-cfl-grow-1-week-veg-4.html

Jeffdogg · May 20, 2013

WattSaver said:
Great thread,lots of needed info for growing autos.

I'm going to try some autos for the first time, and have a couple of questions. Been growing for several yrs but have never grown an auto. I want to grow the autos outdoors this summer, because winter just comes to early in my time zone. I'm gonna grow G-13 Labs Auto Pinnapple Express. Says it's indoor outdoor, but no info on how long it takes to finish, I'm plotting for something close to 90days??

I plan on growing them in hempy buckets, with a medium of equal parts Coco coir, coco chunks (mulch) & perlite. For nutes I'll be using CRF's so overfeeding won't be an issue.
Now my concern is I have to stay 4' or less to keep them out of view of the neighbors. I was hoping to top them, but after reading tekdc's comment's on early topping I really wonder if topping when only 2wks old is okay. It's something I wouldn't do with a regular.

Normally I start my seeds in small containers, but after reading here I guess I'll start them in the 2gal buckets I had planned on finishing them in.

If you have any other advice for a noob auto grower please throw it at me. Thanks

I'm growing outdoors myself but growing in ground not in a pot or bag. I'm pretty exceited my AutoXtreme from Dutch passion will be here on wed or thur

. Yeah its not recommended to transplant auto's, you will get a couple rogue growers who say they have done it w/o problems which I can see. It's a 50/50 chance in my opinion to really stress it out. I've transplanted many of times and never seen any kinds of shock. They just keep going. But I'm for sure gonna play it safe this round, Should do what i am doing if you are confident in your strain. Take one of the seeds get some Gibberellic Acid. You spray it on the plant according to the directions (they seem to vary on the seller) when the auto strarts flowering. t'll make male parts and hermie itself, and it will give you 100's if not 1000's of seeds exactly like the ones you bought.

As for the height LST them they like to be tied down

. Will stay under 4' that way for sure

(depending on the strain, some AF can get like 7' lol).

tekdc911 · May 20, 2013

8-14 weeks depending on strain and most will get good sized outdoors if you have some high drainage but still absorbs water type soil
if they get to large. drive a stake in the ground and tie the main stalk down from almost the top if. you can get the main cola/tip to bend down to where its looking at the ground "do this before flowering/ you can still tie them down after flower but be gentle" and bend it over a couple days or a week depending on how gentle you need to be if it feels like its gonna break or starts to bend stop and tie it off or stake it off
you get a s.o.g. effect

all it is.
is a controlled stress on the stalk i do it all the time its like super croping for auto's really dense's them up
i grow with cfl's and led's and its nice to not have stretchy plants
doing this has helped me alot