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I couldn't find my old post on here so I started a new one to try to get any help advice comments

Growing 2 autos diesel ryder and auto ak. Mixed own organic soil using plant tone espoma blood and bone meal cow manure, lime perlite, soil and compost, grown in 5 gallon buckets from seed. Under 150 hps for first 4 weeks and have begun putting in direct sunlight for 5 hrs say then back into closet getting 3-5 hours dark daily. Been watering with alaskan fish 5-1-1 since seed for first 3 weeks and switched to ff tiger and big bloom. Had second dose of nutes yesterday. Have reddit times about the autos but decided to post to get everybody's opinion
I noticed a large number of side branches is this normal noticed a lot of the autos seem to just make a giant cola both of mine have 12-15 side branches
At first plants we're compact in size but since I've been subbing the direct sunlight the branches releasing the taking of stretching it's a good thing or bad thing
I have been doing the Fox Farm nutrients at full strength as well as previously using the Alaskan fish in a pretty high rate plants in the love the fertilizers with no sign of burn at all Fox Farm says to use every other watering plants are taking about a gallon every other day should I fertilize every other day or every other watering?advice from the long time growers here




update 18 days later
so here are updated pics, who know a journal really takes a lot and I have lacked but the grow is becoming routine and work was slow so I figured I would throw this out there, plus I would like some help establishing what plant is what,....diesel ryder or auto ak bc the labels fell off long ago. so sprout jan 21 so theyre at day 48 or so, no real hickups, did add a couple t12 shop lights standing up next to them at night, every couple days i will let them get some dark, but mainly 24 hours light and sun. also had to relocate to storage shed from tent inside due to company, watering 1 gallon every other day, every other watering gets nutes and molasses. this plant has really sugared and nugged up nicely, bout what I would expect from my 150, pistils started to brown 5% maybe, no loupe but will eventually get one to check out trichs trying to sub sunlight in the day did hack off most of fan leaves and bottom leave over course of last 2 weeks, (hence slow work weeks) so any comments or questions or if you think you can tell the difference between this plant and the next one def let me know as I am curious. now second plant the one on the right had to be tied down twice as she was reaching for the stars, even keeping the light over here a mere inches still topped out every morning, she is just now starting to have a few sugars on the leaves, still loose buds but still got some time overall she is a much taller plant, all pistils still white, gets same nutes and water. can we tell diesel ryder from auto ak?
 
can anyone tell difference

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midtown, I merged your threads because you created multiples threads for the same thing. Please do not keep doing this, it clutters up the forum and it actually makes it more difficult for members to help you because they won't know which thread to respond to. Help will come quickly but it doesn't come instantaneously; if you ever feel a post gets neglected or you need immediate help, you are more than welcome to send a PM to myself or any of the High Team members (they have a big HIGH TEAM icon below their names,) or you can see which High Team member is on-line currently in the AFN's Live Time Help Thread, where you can PM them either directly or post up in there and someone will either help you directly or direct you to the appropriate person! :thumbs:

Thank you for understanding!

As to a few of your questions:

any tips on how to dense up the buds or get any better results ?

Have you read any of the stickies in the New Growers Forum? Lots of really solid and great advice in there about growing; but honestly a lot of those great grows and results you see are from practice, practice, practice. Every time you grow, whether you grow the most epic bud you've ever seen, or some moldy, spider-mite infested schwag-bag, you should always walked away having learned something. Failure is subjective. You're at the best place you can be when it comes to community; what we can do for you is to help you help yourself. Follow the advice given here and learn to draw the comparisons between what you're being told and what you're doing and the results of what you're doing. I didn't know anything about growing before I found AFN; and if these brilliant minded individuals could help turn my necrotic-spreading black thumb into a budding green thumb, well there's hope out there brother! :pighug:

also thinking of using colidial silver on next run but also planting side by side so I can cross the 2 just for fun , I should be able to colidial one plant and take all seeds but no smoke and put next to some branches of the other plant and get some seeds and smoke the rest correct. anyone ever heard of auto ak x diesel ryder? all seeds should be auto fem from both plants correct? any comment are appreciated

I don't have any experience with colloidal silver myself; however there is a forum and sub forum with tons of great information on the subject! The parent forum is Autoflower Breeding and the sub forum, where you'll find some great info on colloidal silver, is Seed Feminization.

Hope that helps a bit bro. We'll get some eyes in here to take a look; in the meantime let's see some more pictures of your grow setup and what you've got going on!
 
Heyo! Yea the best way to get great buds is Practice! And research goes a long way. For the colloidal silver, you are correct. You cannot smoke anything that has been sprayed with colloidal silver. So to make sure you don't get it on its neighbor I would pull it out and spray it, let it dry a bit and stick it back in the tent.

A tip for the silver is to make your own... super cheap, and there are some good threads about it. From my experience start early and expect to wait at least two weeks it took one strain of mine over a month.

Best of luck mate!
 
Sorryabout all the double triple post was having difficulties with images and finding posts, plus got new tablet and not easiest to use . I deleted the duplicated posts. Whe cross breeding strains is there a method to the madness for which should be the pollen and which should be the female?
 
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Sorryabout all the double triple post was having difficulties with images and finding posts, plus got new tablet and not easiest to use . I deleted the duplicated posts. Whe cross breeding strains is there a method to the madness for which should be the pollen and which should be the female?

No worries bro, all taken care of! Appreciate the explanation, those tablets can be a little tricky! :Sharing One:
 
Well I'm no breeder, hopefully one day ha. But I don't see there being too much method to the madness. Just pick one. One way you could choose, is that the one you colloidal silver when it seeds itself it, the seeds should be very close genetically to the original plant. The one that is pollenated from another plant will have hybrid seed genetics and could turn out funky or fantastic... just my two cents for ya.
 
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