Yeah, to work effectively, you need the ones that hum and maybe make your hair crawl when you're near it lol. I keep the hanging yellow tape and the vinegar/sugar/soap traps out. But,, until we find an easy way to kill em for sure in the medium, I fear they'll be a problem. They've definitely gotten fewer since I have been bottom watering and peroxide misting the top.
Man, if I had more light, then I would. Those 3 plants are under just 2 100w QB's. I figure the autos have 4-5 weeks left. After that I can put the big light over the HP's. I'm definitely taking clones and starting those. I'm hoping for another( hopefully better) bar style light by next season. I can see where this cultivar would be easy to bush out. The last run has cured to have a really sweet fruity, hashy smell. As good as it turned out to be I can only imagine how a healthy plant would be. I hope I can keep these healthy.
Are those autos or photos? If they're autos , then, they really shoulda gotten a bit bigger in 6 days. Autos are just so sensitive the first rew weeks. But, I don't know shit about hydro so I'd probably stunt mine. If those are photos then you're great if you figured out your issue. I guess genetics matter too. If you're running some people's autos then you might have 6 weeks or more before flower starts. Every Mephisto plant I've ran has started flowering in under 5 weeks. Hey though, they say that taproot touching bottom is a big trigger for start of flower. A deep hydro setup might fix that. You'll nail it down eventually and be growing some big ass ladies.
They're CDLC from Mephisto. They are definitely bigger than the last 2 CDLC at the same time. I saw a post somewhere here that had day by day pics of some CDLC that looked about the same. Can't find it now.
I was listening to a podcast about a bloke who grows autos.. he said never let the taproot touch the bottom with autos as that is where they will stop getting big. He also said he like to hit his with constant far-red spectrum as it makes them get a good vigorous stretch on.
Maybe they'll take off soon. It's a difficult thing to hit all the marks in hydro grown autos. I've seen guys really yield quite a lot of really killer looking stuff. I'm sure you're close to hitting yours. I usually seem to do pretty good for the first month. Then if I'm not careful, I'll see a couple deficiencies. That's when a hydro setup would really crush imo. I'm anxious to see what you do.
I've heard that enough times from too many breeders and growers in the industry to not believe it. I know that personally I've grown same strain same company in two 3 gallon pots. 1 was tall and skinny, other was short and fat. The tall pot yielded 6 zips. The other 3 something. I usually fill my space up running 3g but a tall 5g did give me almost 8 zips of that ILGM GGauto once. Dude, I could totally see somebody with your gear and skillset being able to regularly pull pound a plant harvests with the right genetics. But, nobody can argue with your results. But, I can only imagine all the different strains you could grow in a year in your setup. Man that plant you just harvested looked fine without a loupe. I'm sure someone was glad to see that. I hate having to harvest early too. But, sometimes you got no choice. I let my wife smoke the underdone stuff with her friends.
Thanks for the video! Found 2 others that also stressed not blocking the tap root which is what I stilled managed to do.
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