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This diary is at its end and I'm quite pleased with the results. Dry weight came in at 150g from all 4 plants, I hoped for 200 but we'll get there on the next run hopefully . Trying something new and exciting for this next run with a bunch of different strains, look out for the new diary . Thanks to all who took the time to have a look here and give their input. Always great to hear from others! Much love peeps

Growth in veg is going well, all healthy plants and the training is even and flat for the most part. I will soon add in the first net to act as the initial spreader and leveler of the canopy. At that point I think I will start looking into flipping. In my last grow I flipped around here already and after harvest I felt I could have used a little bit more height in the space for some fatter buds and maybe less canopy. I got a few more pocorn nugs than expected so I would like to reduce that on this run.

Ladies moving along smoothe, stinking up the whole place. I removed all over lapping fan leaves aswell as a bunch of lower branches seeing as we getting a whole week of high RH, don't wana risk anything. these girls been treated all throughout their veg cycles, I hardly ever have to treat flowering plants, mostly because I am scared to spray anything on a flowering plant so I make sure I don't skip any treatments during veg. Talk of the town is that the Potassium Bicarbonate is safe to spray during flower, what's the consensus here? French Macaron Blueberry Hashplant Super Cheese Chernobyl Frosted Apricot

Just about 1 week in.

Been playing with an idea I stole off ig. Plant is a mC purple x lemon Jedi was gifted by @Bay Seeds quite a while back. This is from a cutting, rooted in a pot for just over a month. Transplanted over and given another month before exposing the roots and flowered out. Skull is thanks to my 3D printer. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Somebody stole some of my jars, hydro meters and weed.... you took some of my Boveda bags too.. not cool, bro! Nice job!

From what I've read around 6.2 is where you want to be. Again, this may not be 100% correct but this is most likely what I am going to be aiming for. Indeed. This is why I always read quite a lot and, to a degree at least, try and average out the opinions I get. Thanks, I'm probably going to be posting a grow diary on here. Then everyone can either silently laugh, ridicule, praise or tell me how lucky I am.

And this is only your 3rd grow ??

Very interested to see as well, please let me know when you've updated it. FWIW, two other friends of mine are also growing autos outdoors as we speak, one planted about a month ago and one about a week ago. The older plant, an Auto Gelato 420, is looking happy and healthy and has had very little attention according to him:

Couple days later, looks like they got their roots in the new soil. and we're off have done first Neem treatment last week Wednesday, Copper Soap treatment yeaterday and topdressed with DE this morning. next treatment will be Potassium Bicarbonate, we got a couple days of high RH about to hit. get ready.

Oh yeeeah that's what I like to see!!! Hope you see hundereds of little pins in the next few days!

Hello @CreX time to come out from where ever you have been, okay thank you, see you soon

Great! Means I can ask questions! What percentage boveda you using? I'm thinking my 62% is too much. Bud from December went a dark brown colour quicker than i think it should have.

Looking forward to it

Power of the forums

That is correct. Still finding my feet I'd say, but super happy with the results I'm getting this far

This whole thread just threw me back to August of last year when I decided to take the dive into growing my own cannabis! Varying opinions, unanswered questions and often, left with more questions than answers. Since then I've had 3 grows with 2 successful harvests. The 1 unsuccessful grow was actually Auto's and the whole experience threw me completely off of them. They seem like a great idea, they grow quick, they stay small, they don't need strict light schedules. How wonderful? Right? Na Bru! Someone mentioned earlier not to sneeze near them, I resonate with that . They are super fussy and definitely require more experience than Photos in my opinion. Now, with that said the best way to learn is to just go for it. 2 things that effected me heavily in the beginning were Soil and PH. Bad soil almost killed my plants. You're already doing better than me here with your good soil. PH was a tricky 1. I was given advice all the way from 5.5 to 6.8 and that is a huge difference in PH. 6.5 worked great for me in soil and I aimed for that every time I watered. You will never get it to exactly 6.5 every time and that's perfectly fine. What I found super helpful in the beginning was directing questions I deemed "urgent" to 1 or 2 specific people. This helped get me the answers I needed and directed me to a specific growing style. 10 different people will give you 10 different answers and all 10 can be correct. This is majorly confusing to someone just starting out. Questions where you hope for opinions are great for groups of people. Not so much when your grow is dying and you need urgent assistance . This forum is filled with amazing grows. You'll do perfectly well getting help from these dudes as I did! Pick your favorite diaries and try copy their style until you find your own. Happy growing dude, and good luck with the Auto's this winter. Excited to see how they turn out for you

Thanks for the explanation, that seems simple enough. And do you measure this in the runoff after watering only? How else would you do it when you are at the very early stages and cannot measure runoff due to just giving a little bit of water, i.e. not nearly enough to cause any significant runoff? Yes, I intend to let it sit and get to at least ambient temp before watering.

So am I right in understanding that outdoor plants will have more yield than indoor plants, due to the direction of the light and the fact that it moves?

Eish, the odds are not in my favour. I've only got the 4 seeds, so let's see what happens. For how long?

I usually opt for solid plastic pots outdoors, otherwise they dry out too fast outdoors, but you'll be fine since it's winter for now. Just keep an eye on that when summer time rolls around with regard to the pooling, this will only really be an issue in the rain, so keep them handy, otherwise keep with their base in a tray, because when you feed or water cause the plants are dry, then you don't want the runoff to run away, but rather to soak up the nutrients and bit of water you gave it. like I said, you really only need to raise the pots when it rains. just give Proms Little Tent thread a looksee, he went into detail about how his new raised pots are causing him problems. this can happen outdoors too, so literally only when it rains should you raise the pots. IMHO, the whole EC thing is easier to understand and navigate than PH. not sure why so many people overcomplicate it. once a new grower steps up there's a bit of a ego block where it took the experienced guys some time to understand something so now they don't wana tell the next person how easy it really is, people get a thrill watching others struggle and not help them and take little petty jabs with their "get on my level" notion, without really trying to really help a person. EC, you know stands for Electrical Conductivity. We learned in school that water is conductive... the more dissolved solids (TDS = total dissolved solids) the higher your EC will be. the higher Parts Per Million (PPM) the higher the EC.... this directly equates to your nutrient count. Too high EC/PPM/TDS = too much nutes / hot soil Too low EC/PPM/TDS = too little nutes / dead soil Perfect EC range = differs between Organic & Hydro, although the big picture stays the same - small plant want small EC, big plant want big EC seedlings -> 0.1 - 1.5 EC medium size -> 1.6 - 5.0 EC flowering plant -> 5.1 - 7.5 EC once you see your first amber trichom, inside a bud, not on sugar leaves, then you stop feed to save some money and just give water as the plant has already stopped taking up nutes anyway. don't flush the nutes out like people say, the end of cycle flush just refers to moving to clean water, because the plant doesn't go from taking potentially 7.5EC to nothing at all, it slowly eats less and less, but still wants food, just less of it and what's left in the soil will be more than enough for two weeks. Sounds good! Just don't give them cold fridge water root zone prefers to be at a constant temp between 25 and 30°C. giving a plant cold water will slow down root development and could stunt over all growth quite a bit. in nature the cold slows down eeeeeverything

Pollination in full swing.

My outdoor lot really off to a slow start. Condition's not ideal but I wanted to see for myself. Will be updating that thread soon. As far as growing autoflower, this is what I've learnt planting close to 100 if not more seeds thanks to @Bay Seeds. Start with tried and tested soil. Plant 3 seeds per 10l pot. Humidity dome for the first week. Only spray for watering, no watering soil directly. Nurture those futhermuckers. Tried LST. All those plants ended up smaller than the ones left alone. Once the plant is strong enough I water maybe once a week. After a month or so I stick my finger in the soil every day to judge watering times. Occasional molasses. Male's aside I've harvested about a third of the plants. So that gives me about 30 plants that were flops. Sent from my S40 using Tapatalk

Winter grow is smaller.. Autos don't turn into 4 meter trees. The bigger the pot, the taller the plant. If you stick to a 10L pot, the plants will hardly reach 75-90cm during summer. Winter temp/weather wise, less big anyhow. Bending the main is about as radical as LST can be done. As you do not care about canape outside, i would just LST the side nodes to have sun as much as possible without getting shade by any fan leaf. Autos you avoid removing anything... tug away the fan leaf if needed, don't remove it. Autos love no stress ^^

My intention is to do some very, very basic LST, mainly starting with the main stalk after about 3-4 weeks and bending that one down to the opposite end of where they are going to be planted, and then maybe doing a few other of the main branches depending on how it goes from there. I've read up on the method you describe as well, but this seems to be a more prevalant method with shorter, stubby plants with a thick main stem that cannot be bent. Anyway, I'll see how it goes and adjust accordingly. I want to do LST for a few reasons: a) to attempt to maximise any yield during already trying conditions b) to grow shorter, wider plants that's hopefully more inconspicuous and has a higher resistance to wind c) because it seems like a fun thing to do Absolutely, I only intend to do a few steps of it and I'm trying to keep the rest of the plan quite basic. If I've learned anything from the countless hours of videos and whatnot I've watched and stuff I've read, is to try and keep the process simple.

Depends a bit how you do your LST.. if you bend the hole plant over first, off center isn't a stupid idea.. but i usually just pull the side branches to the outside. Training is usually done to indoor plants to keep the canape even. Indoor light is not the same as the Sun, fades with distance very quick while the PAR you measure in sunlight on top or bottom plant is still the same reading. Outdoor training is done to maximize harvest, indoor training to reduce fluff buds. If is your first grow.. I wouldn't go to complicated.. the more you add to your first run.. the easier you run into a fuckup. Starting to drive with a F1 car Setup will not make your life easier as a beginner. Normal car is fine.. then add step by step more complexity to the menu. As LST says.. light STRESS training. Still stress... learn to grow the plant, autos are cool. But over all you will want to run a few photos too, so you can learn their behavior too and the combined knowledge will teach you how to grow cannabis.

Another question, is it advisable to plant slightly off centre if you intend to do some LST? I see mixed responses on the subject.

I ended up buying it and I also spoke to the company that makes this product on Friday. He suggested about 1 teaspoon. Thankfully it doesn't look like you can overdo it. Yes, based on the discussion I had with the company I bought it from, the plan is to mix a teaspoon or so into the Orgasoilux's top layer, most likely distributing most of it more or less where the seedling will go, and water about 20-25% or roughly 2l. Then let that sit for a good couple of days before planting. That way, hopefully when the seedlings reach the soil it will already have some good stuff going on and not be too harsh on them.

Thanks, I thought as much. Going to be tricky to do that on the roof. Along with the fabric pots I also bought some plastic pot raisers to prevent any water from pooling. Thanks, I still need to do a bit of reading and research on EC and what it means. I know what it stands for and what it respresents, but haven't really assembled any information on what constitutes a good or bad EC. In my case the pots are quite small (10l) and they will only really be moved to a potentially high rain area once they're about a month old, hopefully by that time the leaf coverage will be more adequate. I guess I could just make a small makeshift raincoat for the pots out of a plastic bag if it gets really hectic. Thanks, that's the plan. I aim to test a few controls as well to see how accurate it is. But at this point I will most likely use the tap water filtered through the carbon filter in the fridge.

Shot brother! Thanks for that info. I noticed my first pin this morning Its only one so far but it still feels like a million dollars

Welcome back. @MrE builds his own lights.

He's playing on Instagram with all the influencers

Howzit Mense, oooow I have a good feeling about the present, I think you all do. We are uniting to find a position of prosperity in the current cannabis culture, and it’s amAzeballs I might add. maybe the wool is over my eyes, but baaaa baaaa Alrighty, we have budrot, main bud on the sugar widow that was looking the best, so we chopped the kop and still fighting the good fight. Geez I don’t know how long it’s been, but maybe another week or so. I need to feed the other one again, I think I underfed the plant to be honest, anyway. then the Wilsonxlhead and Wilsonxslurri pictured below, man this slurri cross is a dam winner, the sweetest smells I have ever, so glad to be rerunning her, then the Lhead cross, is like superman weed, you’ll be doing lots of shit around the house (pictured first by that distinct sativa structure) then in order top to bottom crepes, lhxwilson, slurrixwilson, gg#4 (flower time!) All the best!

Previous batch moved over to flower tent, was using the veg tent for some other stuff... got het cleaned out and ready for the next round 3 x Super Cheese, 1 x Frosted Apricot

Autos in 10l pots could get to about 40-70cm tall depending on allot of things. Type of sun they get. Wind plays a big factor.the soil medium. The are full of Shit little plants. Good luck.

Harvested 2 anastasia 99's today, they are loaded with mature dark feminized autoflower seeds. Very happy with the phenos we picked as mothers. Can't wait to start testing the seeds. Let me know if anybody wants to test these new seeds indoors? 3/5 germinated from the fastbuds old school cheese autos and are happy and healthy. Going to make a kak load of cheese autoflower seeds.