I have read many of those articles/papers. So much information but you still have to boil it down to what you can grow with what you have. I have yet to find any authorative work done on autoflowering strains. Have you found any?
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@Mañ'O'Green - didn't notice this sooner.
No, that's the thing - nothing on autoflowers yet. So, the first two questions I'm trying to answer are:
1) Do autos actually need lower concentrations of nutes? Theoretically, I'd think they'd want the same concentrations (mg/L), and their smaller size would be balanced out by less leaf area / less overall transpiration - so, same concentration, less volume (L/day). There may be differences due to root mass / stem volume / etc that do not scale linearly, as well as geno/pheno variations, but I hit higher than expected ppms in my first grow with
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2) Does a change in nutrient ratios impact flowering / time to harvest (e.g., P/K boosters and switching to bloom nutes)? People do seem to have variations in time to harvest even among the same geno, and without using light hours as a trigger, I'd think availability of nutrients would be the biggest environmental factor. So, I'll see if using the same formulation throughout the entire grow has any impact.
Being limited to two plants at a time / four total - I doubt I'll have enough samples to address pheno variations and really dial in optimal numbers, but I should be able to at least answer general questions like those.
