First Grow, just inquiring about my plant.

This was my first grow, I decided to start hydroponically using the aeroponic system and AUTOFLOWER seeds (I only chose autoflowers because I'm going on vacation in may and needed quick harvest. It was pretty much a trial and error grow, I wasn't expecting the world out of this but wanted to get slapped around a bit so I don't make the same mistakes next time. Yes, mistakes were made.


So I started 2 autoflower plants, one was a week older than the other. Everything was going so perfectly, my older plant skyrocketed straight from taproot in germination til about a week ago. it was beautiful, covered in vegetation, super healthy looking, small cal/mag def because my water is super clean and from a well (town did not mix in calcium/magnesium and I didn't know this until last week. My Fiancee and I made a larger grow area one night drinking and I decided to flush the res about 4 weeks in. So I did that and Ph'd the water.

The Ph testing kit I have only shows yellow if its 6.0, it wont tell me how far below 6.0 I am so I thought I was in the right area, but in reality I was drunk and lowered the PH down to like 3.0 on accident (mis-measurement). I woke up the next morning and my leaves were so yellow and crunchy I thought the thing was going to die any second. Thinking It was a Cal/mag problem I rushed to buy that not even thinking about the PH and how every single element was locked out!

After 3 days of a complete nurient/element lockout my leaves started to crunch and become completely useless (I lost about half my vegetation). I then flushed the system and put the ph to 5.8 (where it should be). I was instructed to trim the dead of the leaves to allow for more light penetration.

Now my question:

My plant must have been severely stunted because of this ordeal, so It seemed to stop growing at 8 inches (right when all the lockout occured), it's been a week and I really haven't seen much upward growth. It is now Week 5 on the dot and I'm thinking about just completely changing the lights to warm 2700k since I feel like my veg period is over and fucked because of what I did. I have about 90w of 2700k on them right now, with 50w of 6500k just in case she wants to gain an inch or two in the next week. I introduced 1/2 strength big bloom along with my 1/4 strength grow big that I have been using since week two. (the small plant died from the Ph Ordeal, I had to remove her)

The plant actually looks better in the picture than it does in real life by a little bit, but I know I already messed up pretty bad on that 4th week, im probably going to get like a 1/4 out of this plant. In your opinions, now that everything is going smoothly will this still produce buds? I'm just going to see it through for the learning experience, when I get back from vacation I plan to start an outdoor grow in late may as well as another indoor autoflower 6 plant grow now that I know what I'm doing!

Thanks guys, any positive feedback is appreciated! (ONE OF THE PHOTOS IS OF BEFORE THIS ALL HAPPENED, THE REST ARE THE REMANENCE OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED, My grow box is half assed, worked out perfect, only problem was my Ph that one time, I guess that's all it takes with an autoflower since I cant give it time to recover)

That's a shame my friend

A foolish but not impossible medium for this type, autos are very difficult to bulk feed, you really can't force this strain as any autoflower grower will say, once the seed is germed the clocks running, many guys who grow in hydro grow with the expectation of quick bulk returns, something that is very difficult to achieve with autos, as autos don't need bulk nutes or food at all, the root system is small in comparison to photos, that is the obvious to many hydro / photo growers.

I would flush these plants with a view to moving to soil/perlite medium as soon as you can, let them recover, avoid any nutes ...but I'm not you

I understand, I just tried to grow some autos for personal use to see if I was capable of some sort of yield, whether it be an 8 or a z off an auto flower (was hoping 1/2-z per plant but I messed it up. Should I just cut my losses and straight up start full fledged blooming, substitute ALL 6500k's for 2700k and solely use 1/4-1/2 dosage of big bloom on each flush? I know I'll be lucky to even get a 1/4 out of this but I do want to see it through in case I stumble upon some blooming mistakes that I will be aware of next time i grow. Soil Is looking more and more of a probability for me growing autoflowers, I just thought aeroponic would be easier but its way more touchy I think. Like I said Im starting an outdoor grow in late may and probably wont be able to harvest until late september, so I am also starting a 6 plant auto grow in late may so at least 2 months before my outdoor harvest Ill have some smoke, this winter when I have a good hold-over stash I plan on growing all photo plants inside. How old are photo plants when you are able to take a clone from them?

It would be nice to take clones from my 2 1/2 month old photos outside after my indoor autoflowers finish, do you take clones in the beginning of the plants life or like half-full way through veg? I suppose I will research it but I love getting feedback from some of you professionals, puts my mind at ease and makes research that much easier! Thanks everyone.