New Grower BillyWu's first grow - Think Different autoflowering

[Farmzybaby]

Does Seymour's have a growth spurt at any point? I remember it just being really bushy continuously and just getting fatter and fatter until it exploded with bud...I don't think you want stretch at all really, the more squat it is, the better, I'd have thought. Although, I'm really really high and I cba to google and read through Seymour's thread again .

Oh and dude, could you friend me on Diablo? You've got my email I think, haven't you

 

[lostboy]

A bit of stretch can be a good thing if you have a bushy plant as it helps with light penetration. I make mine stretch if I know they're gonna be bushy.

Also I think most plants have a growth spurt after the start of flowering when they get used to the switch from having lots of N to needing more PK. That's why I add carbo load to help with the transition.

Just my 2 pennys worth

Good luck with the grow

Lostboy

 

[BillyWu]

Does Seymour's have a growth spurt at any point? I remember it just being really bushy continuously and just getting fatter and fatter until it exploded with bud...I don't think you want stretch at all really, the more squat it is, the better, I'd have thought. Although, I'm really really high and I cba to google and read through Seymour's thread again .

Oh and dude, could you friend me on Diablo? You've got my email I think, haven't you

You got it bud :]

Day 15

Getting to be one fat bastard plant, it's really dense at the top and sparse on the bottom!

 

[Farmzybaby]

God damn that's a good looking plant

I reckon it's just the lighting, but she looks a little yellow though? Also, have you been spraying the leaves every day? I always liked to try and simulate rain as much as possible. It also seems to me that the reason she'd bunch up at the top like that is because there isn't enough light getting underneath, but obviously it's still early days and I'm not familiar with many different growing habits!

 

[bgrt]

if youre spraying try to do it before lights out as hid lighting can burn the leaves, being magnified by water droplets etc. they look good, maybe a little yellow hard to tell, i think the bushyness is just the sidebranching coming up and out looking good billy:thumbs:

 

[BillyWu]

God damn that's a good looking plant

I reckon it's just the lighting, but she looks a little yellow though? Also, have you been spraying the leaves every day? I always liked to try and simulate rain as much as possible. It also seems to me that the reason she'd bunch up at the top like that is because there isn't enough light getting underneath, but obviously it's still early days and I'm not familiar with many different growing habits!

Thanks man
Yeah the yellow is the lighting, HPS has an orange glow to it. I haven't been spraying the leaves, don't need to I don't think :]

 

[Farmzybaby]

Just seems like common sense to me to spray them :S How would you like sitting under that light for hours and hours non stop everyday, getting even further dried out by the fan?

The only outcome of spraying it effectively is positive, so I see no reason to not do it. Plants need rain to survive, it's a fact of life. Sure, we can just water them and that simulates the rain in a way, but they've evolved millions of years to be the way they are, and to thrive under natural conditions, so...

 

[BigJohnny]

Well done on having common sense.

 

[BillyWu]

Just seems like common sense to me to spray them :S How would you like sitting under that light for hours and hours non stop everyday, getting even further dried out by the fan?

The only outcome of spraying it effectively is positive, so I see no reason to not do it. Plants need rain to survive, it's a fact of life. Sure, we can just water them and that simulates the rain in a way, but they've evolved millions of years to be the way they are, and to thrive under natural conditions, so...

I've read quite a lot of mixed things about foliar spraying. Some people do it, some people don't. My plant is growing perfectly without a single misting up until now. I'm researching spraying now, perhaps I may use it.

 

[Farmzybaby]

I was just saying I do it, and it's logical: near constant heat + near constant air flow = dryness. I don't think it needs research mate - it's not going to be the difference between an ounce and 5 ounces, it's just good to do it. It's like saying having a shower is a matter of preference. Sure, it is, but you wouldn't go without, would you? So why take the aspect of rain away from your plant?