Kickflipfrontblunt
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First grow and I was curious to know if these tricombs are considered clear or milky
Trichomes & Harvesting
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They look milky. How long into flowering?
Kickflipfrontblunt
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Three weeks but mostly all the hairs are white a few of them are starting to turn Orange and the ones at the bottom have much more orange hairs than the top here's a pic of the whole plant then the next pic is the whole plant and the last is a better view of the tricombs
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Should go 7 to 9 weeks depending upon strain. Are they auto flowers?
Kickflipfrontblunt
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Yeah they are autos .. And 7 to 9 weeks sounds just about right for harvest the rate that they are growing now
Yeah maybe a little less. Have 1 auto going now, will look up flowering time and let you know
It says 18 to 20 hrs light 6 to 8 weeks to finish
Start to fimish
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I have 2 a
I have 2 blueberry autofems going right now ... I started them off with 18/6 400w metal halide ... I also have a 3 month old photoperiod afghan goo..so I leftthe afghan in veg while I waitedfor the autos to start to flower once they started cola growth I switched to 12/12 and eye hortilux HPS bulb and now both autos will finish first then the afghan will finish ... I did it this way so I would have a constant supply of medication ... All you have to do is keep your autos in 18/6 ... Light doesn't matter for a new time grower ... Personally though I'd veg them with MH and then once they start to bud go with HPS ... You will obtain a better yield and more potency.. Andyou can't really go by what "it" says... With auto fems the genetics are very unstable and certain phenotypes will vary depending on the individual seed... For example one of my blueberry plants grew to its maximum hight really fast and the other one it took a lot longer because of differences in the growth phenotype ... Just go by the Q's that your plant gives you like the smell, color of the calyxes ( hairs ) which will turn from white to orange and of course the tricombs will become more milky in color ... These are the best ways to tell when your girls will be ready for harvest
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True but autos can be done under hps. You still have to study each plant. Found blueberries tend to stretch alot. Look for a 100x mag glass makes things easier to look at. This is my first time an auto. Give white widow a try. Easy to grow and is bomb
Kickflipfrontblunt
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You're 100% right blueberries auto femmes do actually stretch quite a bit and you can also start an auto Fem under high-pressure sodium but you will get a much better yield if you start them under a metal halide and then switch over to high-pressure sodium... It's just their natural response to bud more in an orange dominant light spectrum
That's good to know being first time with auto flowers. Makes sense!
Kickflipfrontblunt
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Yeah they will flower without change in light... But like all cannabis it increases the bud size and just overall
Agreed I'm doing mine in two stages not sure that one light thing works
Kickflipfrontblunt
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If you have an auto flower you can use a single cfl( curly light bulb) per plant at an inch away From veg to harvest that's the nice thing about autos, the bulb is cheap and doesn't produce a lot of heat and won't raise your electric bill but... I also grow photoperios plants in between the autos so I need to use two stage light growth.. MH for veg and HPS as soon as preflowers appear and once preflowers turn to solid flowers I'll then start 12/12.. The autos take about 80 days to fully bud out and photos can take up to 8 months I have smaller quicker harvests from my autos and then huge yields with afghan broadleaf, you may know it as "afghan goo" (I just perfer afghan broadleaf because that strain is super resilient to shock , under watering, overwatering I know exactly how much nutes to give to it at certain times and I'm familiar with how it grows) and every plant I harvest I just replant another seed... But you can definetly use just one type of bulb just make sure it's either CFL,HPS, or MH. I know you can use LEDs but I never used them before so I can't tell you how autos do with them but autos are fun to grow just don't move it at all... I learned the hard way on my first grow by moving it from my porch for sunlight to my closet for CFL it was in a constant state of shock and I just didn't know what shock for cannabis looks like so It died.. I went out and bought a 400w digital ballast light fixture ( got it used for 150) made by hydrofarm and I got the MH and HPS bulbs and ever since my grows have been really on point
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Yeah good information! Going to stay with what's working! Lot easier. Sometime simple is better.
Kickflipfrontblunt
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Yeah dude if it ain't broke don't fix it ... I'm actually about to harvest one of my autos in the next few days... I'm pretty sure that I can harvest now but not all the hairs are orange only about 40% and the top hairs are still white with orange hairs around them... Here's a picture tell me what you think ... The second picture is my photoperiod tell me what you think about it does it look healthy too you?
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I would look in to a mag glass for the auto. Looks like it needs a bit more not familiar with them got my first one going so you can assist me. Second one looks good! Finishing up some purple rhino. Buds size of beer bottles. White widow next