Just...Damn. You've been busy. That's obvious from all the stumps left from the chopping. You're definitely getting everything shaped the way you want. Some of those branches you chopped were as big as the main stalk on some of the last small plants I had. You will be rewarded In the end. Doesn't look like you'll have any small buds at all. If you're doing what you love, it's not bad work. I would love a frigging room full.
It’s a worry chopping those big stems for sure, hopefully it’s worth it. How are you going with your photoperiod foray? Are you sold yet?
I'm still into running photos and finding a great pheno to Clone. Advantages for growing autos for me is that they are more friendly to being around for me. The light can be off and my wife can go in the bathroom/growspace , and she turns on the overhead lights and leaves them on by mistake. With photos I worry about hermies from that stuff. As far as DLI, since autos start flowering after 2-4 weeks , they kinda are still vegging at the same time they're budding. These last ILGM plants stretched for 1.5 months after starting flowering. But they do seem to be able to take more light. I dunno. The other thing that grabbed me about them is that if you find the right breeder, you can go from seed to harvest reliably in 60-75 days. The Mephisto plants I started 7 weeks ago, one is about a week to go and the other maybe 2-3. I can grow a bunch of different strains in a year in a shower stall. If I had a separate grow spot and didn't have to live with the plants then I'd mostly do Photos for the overall yield and the ability to Clone a winner. I would probably still throw a few autos in the veg room from time to time. Honestly, I really like Photos and Autos. I plan on running both. My lowlife stepson somehow made bond. He's not here but probably not paying Child Support either. I told the wife, fuck it. I'll finish this run. I just put 4 new seeds of 65 day strains in paper towels and I'll fkn pay the $60 Child Support for 2 months. Then after harvest, I break it all down and wait. It's worth paying to not have the partial Coronary I got last time the cops surrounded my place. But, there's what and why my reasons for growing Autoflowers are what they are. It's more a necessity than an outright preference. Hopefully things ease up. I'd love to have 2 pound+ plants. But, I do make do pretty well with a $128 light in a shower stall. Lost the closet. The kid in the Navy decided to come home instead of re-up and that is his room( for now). It is fun experimenting. You don't really run short that I've seen so the quick timeline probably isn't a factor. But, if you ever need some fast, these are hard to beat.
I agree about the variety part totally. I only have room for 4-6 plants at a time. I also like to have several strains simultaneously. During the day, more Sativa leaning stuff keeps me high without nodding me out. At night I like having strains that I know will rock me to sleep. I think you will like the Mephisto cultivars. I can reliably harvest most of their stuff in under 80 days, and it really be finished right. Nobody else's stuff that I've run has had that reliability. I'm cutting down those GGautos tomorrow. They finally finished after 115 days or so. I have a CDLC that's 2 months tomorrow and it's basically done. Like 5% amber trichs and I like 15-20%. Point being I can get 2 harvests in the same time running their gear. And, it's always damn good weed too. So fast and good. I hope to have a cloning setup soon and find some nice Bodhi mothers to cut clones off from the photo seeds I have. I dig any good weed photo or auto.
Those are some impressive numbers
Damned impressive for a 90 day plant. The guy has his system down perfect. He uses coco and salt nutes. So, basically hydro. He uses autopots and has some kind of device that pumps air to the roots cause he runs straight coco, no perlite. It's more attention than I feel like giving, but, I see what can be done. I really want to try coco. I've got a whole bunch of nutes that suck in soil but are supposed to be great in hydro. Maybe a side by side run is in order. I'll learn something anyway. I'm sure if I have hydroponic related questions ,I can get advice from you and Annie.
Yeah everybody loves coco.. I’ve never tried it properly. Clay balls for now but if I could do it over I would probably go back and build a better rdwc system. I would much prefer to have no medium at all if I could manage it, aero is too finicky for my taste.. but rdwc.. aerated, nutrient rich water so they can just hang and feed all day long. Yep.
I'm too forgetful, and have too many things going on for me to run Aeroponics and alot of hydroponic systems. Alot can happen in a day or 2 and I am not ready yet. I'm trying to get some Autopots. That way I could run Coco or Soil and even be able to leave the system to itself 4-5 days when needed. We just talked to our Personal Injury Lawyer and she said that Virginia is telling them that they have some charges against me(?) . There is no mention in the police report of anything and they won't tell the lawyer anything. So, I'm sweating that now. Surely they woulda served me in the hospital if it was much. I had a gun on me, but it was legal,,,,and,,, the police report only lists an empty holster...Someone took my pistol. I'm sure I had weed, but, it's legal in Virginia and lawyer said no worries there. The lawyer said that after a year they can't bring any charges, so, better to leave things be. They can't expedite for anything under a felony and I don't plan on returning. This year has been a beast. But yeah, I kinda like having a medium to grow in to help buffer my fk ups.
Yeah man for sure, I wasn’t suggesting you should.. just that if I were to build another setup here I would probably go dwc. Autopilots sound like a great Idea. There is an Aussie bloke called “hoocho” on YouTube who does all sorts of budget systems for his outdoor hydro and he has his own auto pot design you can bang out on a 3d printer if you have one. He is well worth a watch actually.. very clever fellow and a great channel.
Looking great! One thing I've really got to do is run a more sanitary growspace like yours. I get a little too lazy sometimes and need to straighten up. A grow worth running is worth protecting from fungus and pests. I went to the growstore today ready to buy some coco. He was fresh out of Canna coco and only had some bricks of a brand I couldn't vet and the Fox Farm Cultivation Nation 70/30 Coco/perlite stuff. I just bought a fkn bag of FFOF. The damned gnats are gone and I have a working system. I'll work on something else later. I've got seedlings that will be ready to transplant in the next few days.
Pretty sure you can use whatever, probably cheaper from a gardening centre, just buffer it with some cal/mag before you use it.
Haha, I had just cleaned up in there.. it gets messy enough sometimes don’t you worry
You going to take some more cuttings of the BHP before you flip them yeah? They are worth preserving I recon..