OLD REVIEWS Fastbuds Seed Recommendations?

[MrAutoGrower]

About 14 Oz off 3 as they stayed quite small to some others I grow I also ran them before these I'm running now I think they will be in my sanlight thread .I've also grown loads of there strains there a fair few in solo cups or 2litr bottle s and normally there all down in 70 days

I know it sounds crazy. But obviously to get a bigger yield with autoflowers they need to veg longer. My runtz is still in veg and she is pretty damn big at 35 days old. I am going to be running experiments regarding keeping autos in veg a while longer.

I know a lot of people say this is not possible, and its down to genetics. But i am going to be trying some stuff out.

I transplanted stardawg at 11 days old imto her 15l pot. When do you usually transplant? She is still growing since the transplant so I'm happy about that. But I feel i should have transplanted around day 14-16 when her roots would've been a bit stronger.

I've been doing a lot of reading on possible things to do and try to get as much vegging time as possible.

If i get good results I will post a thread on it.

Did you plant the gorilla cookies into 2l bottles and still get 14oz from x3 2l bottles? How much wattage were u running

 

[St. Tom]

I know it sounds crazy. But obviously to get a bigger yield with autoflowers they need to veg longer. My runtz is still in veg and she is pretty damn big at 35 days old. I am going to be running experiments regarding keeping autos in veg a while longer.

I know a lot of people say this is not possible, and its down to genetics. But i am going to be trying some stuff out.

I transplanted stardawg at 11 days old imto her 15l pot. When do you usually transplant? She is still growing since the transplant so I'm happy about that. But I feel i should have transplanted around day 14-16 when her roots would've been a bit stronger.

I've been doing a lot of reading on possible things to do and try to get as much vegging time as possible.

If i get good results I will post a thread on it

Mine go out of solo cups around day 10 also some of these longer strains say the 11 to 12 week strains floating around like Dutch passion and super sativa seed club seem to veg way longer but these plants have a clock and I don't think you can change that but I'm happy your trying new things also I find with fastbuds I can still get excellent harvests and there one of my fav breeders

 

[Fast Buds Heather]

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Im gonna go with the gorilla cookies and bruce banner the next run.

How much did u yield on the gorilla cookies bro

Nice choices!! If you're looking for potency like the Gorilla Cookies, I could suggest our Strawberry Banana as well =). Happy future Birthday by the way!

 

[Doug58]

I know it sounds crazy. But obviously to get a bigger yield with autoflowers they need to veg longer. My runtz is still in veg and she is pretty damn big at 35 days old. I am going to be running experiments regarding keeping autos in veg a while longer.

I know a lot of people say this is not possible, and its down to genetics. But i am going to be trying some stuff out.

I transplanted stardawg at 11 days old imto her 15l pot. When do you usually transplant? She is still growing since the transplant so I'm happy about that. But I feel i should have transplanted around day 14-16 when her roots would've been a bit stronger.

I've been doing a lot of reading on possible things to do and try to get as much vegging time as possible.

If i get good results I will post a thread on it.

Did you plant the gorilla cookies into 2l bottles and still get 14oz from x3 2l bottles? How much wattage were u running

You aren't going to get large yields in a 15 liter pot if you are growing in soil. 3 gallon pots are barely large enough in my own experience. I currently have some plants growing in about 1.5 gallon pots and the plants all get to the same size, which is small. They also seem to finish faster in a smaller pot.

Ones I have grown in 3 gallon fabric containers usually get larger but even in a fabric pot the roots start to fill the pot and the plant suffers from it.

My sweet spot seems to be 5 to 7 gallon size pots. Plants do well, need to be watered less and are still easy to move as I start in a tent and move outside to finish under the Summer sun. 11 gallon pots are just to large to move around once the plant gets to a certain point.

Just my own experience, when growing in soil in a large pot the plant seems to take longer to enter flowering. I never transplanted autos before this year. I started soaking my seeds and planted in double containers like others have posted here where the inner containers has the bottom cut out and placed into an identical container with weep holes cut into the bottom. Slip the outer container off at transplant time and the plant never seems to be stressed at all.

As far as pot size, I use gallons as I am in the US. If a pot is marked as 3 gallons, I don't believe it actually holds 3 gallons in reality. I've read that pots hold closer to 3/4 what they are rated to hold by size.

 

[MrAutoGrower]

You aren't going to get large yields in a 15 liter pot if you are growing in soil. 3 gallon pots are barely large enough in my own experience. I currently have some plants growing in about 1.5 gallon pots and the plants all get to the same size, which is small. They also seem to finish faster in a smaller pot.

Ones I have grown in 3 gallon fabric containers usually get larger but even in a fabric pot the roots start to fill the pot and the plant suffers from it.

My sweet spot seems to be 5 to 7 gallon size pots. Plants do well, need to be watered less and are still easy to move as I start in a tent and move outside to finish under the Summer sun. 11 gallon pots are just to large to move around once the plant gets to a certain point.

Just my own experience, when growing in soil in a large pot the plant seems to take longer to enter flowering. I never transplanted autos before this year. I started soaking my seeds and planted in double containers like others have posted here where the inner containers has the bottom cut out and placed into an identical container with weep holes cut into the bottom. Slip the outer container off at transplant time and the plant never seems to be stressed at all.

As far as pot size, I use gallons as I am in the US. If a pot is marked as 3 gallons, I don't believe it actually holds 3 gallons in reality. I've read that pots hold closer to 3/4 what they are rated to hold by size.

I'd say my current runtz is pretty big and reckon she will yield around 5 oz or more in this 15L. I noticed that she has been longer in veg than the others have, and her pot is fill to the brim with coco. The others have less coco and they flowered earlier.

I might start trying bigger pots but just not sure the autos will fill them out with root mass as their lifespan is predetermined really.

I also transplant the way you do. I do that in solo cups and also never slowed growth.

So what you r saying is, the bigger the pot, the longer the plant will remain in veg? Or just start flower at her usual estimate time and take longer to finish flowering?

 

[Doug58]

I'd say my current runtz is pretty big and reckon she will yield around 5 oz or more in this 15L. I noticed that she has been longer in veg than the others have, and her pot is fill to the brim with coco. The others have less coco and they flowered earlier.

I might start trying bigger pots but just not sure the autos will fill them out with root mass as their lifespan is predetermined really.

I also transplant the way you do. I do that in solo cups and also never slowed growth.

So what you r saying is, the bigger the pot, the longer the plant will remain in veg? Or just start flower at her usual estimate time and take longer to finish flowering?

In soil. I don't use coco. I use Fox Farms Happy Frog when I can find it, recently using Ocean Forest which is hotter and mix 50/50 with ProMix HP.

I don't find fabric 3 gallon pots work well with larger Fastbuds strains growing outdoors in a hot climate. They aren't big enough for the rootballs I get and they dry out too fast to the point where I have to water 2-3 times a day due to the plant being so large and the added evaporation from being outside, 80-90 degrees with a constant breeze.

I currently have a Fastbuds Skunk in a 3 gallon plastic pot that is just beginning to bud, I have a Fastbuds Strawberry Pie in a 5 gallon plastic pot one week behind the Skunk and it just started to show sex.

I also have three plants from a Fastbuds Original White Widow crossed with a Northern Lights auto growing in about 1 gallon pots that were planted a week before the Skunk. They are just about ready to harvest. They probably aren't taller than 18 inches. I was going to use them to make feminized seeds but the plant I reversed has not turned out producing usable pollen from STS. Another skunk strain I have been spraying with STS has produced no pollen flowers at all.

Using a soil and Promix HP medium 5 gallon to 7 gallon containers has been best for my grows, outdoors. For the largest Fastbuds strains I think they do best transplanted straight into the ground. I've had plants go over three months, reach five feet tall with nothing but LST and maybe top once. In ground, the plants need little care at all, never get over-watered, can go longer between waterings, can grow bigger and don't need any added nutrients added other than the manure and compost I added to the plot originally.

I do have a Canadian Goose problem in my yard every Summer and clean up their dropping and mix into my soil when growing straight in the ground.

 

[Doug58]

Here are some pictures from plants I have growing outside.

The three on the left are the White Widow/Northern Lights cross in about a 1 gallon pot. These were intended for a seed run but my pollen attempt failed and they are almost done.

The one in the Brown pot is the Fastbuds Original Skunk in a three gallon pot, just starting to flower, topped once. The one in the rear is a Fastbuds Strawberry Pie from seeds Heather @ Fastbuds sent me last year. It is in a five gallon plastic pot and just started showing sex. These were all planted within a two week spread.

 

[Doug58]

Here are two unknown autos which self seeded after dropping from some plants that were grown for seeds last year. They sprouted in March of this year with snow on the ground. They survived three months of temperatures as low as the high 20's Fahrenheit, at least a month of freezing nighttime temperatures. Nighttime temperatures were below 60 degrees F until this last week and they just began vegging to any extent. Temperature has been in 90's for last three days during the day. Three months and the tallest is about 12 inches, the shorter one about 6 inches. I just let them grow to see what the extended veg at low temperatures would result in. There were four to begin with. One showed itself to be male so I pulled it last week.

 

[jdm61]

You aren't going to get large yields in a 15 liter pot if you are growing in soil. 3 gallon pots are barely large enough in my own experience. I currently have some plants growing in about 1.5 gallon pots and the plants all get to the same size, which is small. They also seem to finish faster in a smaller pot.

Ones I have grown in 3 gallon fabric containers usually get larger but even in a fabric pot the roots start to fill the pot and the plant suffers from it.

My sweet spot seems to be 5 to 7 gallon size pots. Plants do well, need to be watered less and are still easy to move as I start in a tent and move outside to finish under the Summer sun. 11 gallon pots are just to large to move around once the plant gets to a certain point.

Just my own experience, when growing in soil in a large pot the plant seems to take longer to enter flowering. I never transplanted autos before this year. I started soaking my seeds and planted in double containers like others have posted here where the inner containers has the bottom cut out and placed into an identical container with weep holes cut into the bottom. Slip the outer container off at transplant time and the plant never seems to be stressed at all.

As far as pot size, I use gallons as I am in the US. If a pot is marked as 3 gallons, I don't believe it actually holds 3 gallons in reality. I've read that pots hold closer to 3/4 what they are rated to hold by size.

The three gallon pots seem to hold a little more than 3. The 2 gallon pots are defnetalty small from what I have seen. I think that all pots are made to "duplicate' some standard nursery pot size. A #5 plastic nursery pot is actually like 3.7 gallons.

 

[Frank the Dank]

Just throwing my two cents in….. in my experience the larger the pot the bigger the yield/plant. I’ve gone up to ten gallon and this stayed true. They stay in veg longer, especially if you do some light training. I don’t transplant, just plant directly into final pot and make sure not to over water…. Even small strains will yield pretty well in a big pot if things go well, just be sure to give them room to stretch out