Hello everyone,this is my first ever autoflower grow and one of only a few attempts at growing bud in my entire life. I messed up bigtime on each of my previous grows but learned something each time and did at least get some really nice bud!
So here i am growing an Auto variety as they are more resiliant to human error and mother nature accoring to alot of the info i've read online about Ruderalis etc. Oh and its meant to be much faster since they flower early and mature faster according to the seedbanks but i've learned here on this forum and on a female growers youtube channel that the seedbanks may be exagerating how quick you can finish off their strains and it generaly takes around 10 weeks or more.Hmmm lol.
Sorry im high on super lemon haze whilst writing this so i may ramble on a bit and not explain things in an easy to understand way but i'll try my best! I don't have pictures of the start of my grow but i will do it next time so this is more of a commentry on what has happened between then and now with some pics at the end for you to check out!
The growspace is a small side-section of an Ikea closet and its 15 inches wide by 20.5 inches long and it's 5 or 6 foot tall. I drilled rows of holes into the back of the closet at the bottom so that cold air can enter the bottom and im using the single hole i made for a power cable at the back/top of the closet as the exit vent for hot air. I plan on making this wider and sticking a PC fan over it to vent the hot air out the top. I light proofed the door with gaffa tape and i have placed objects around and ontop of the closet to block ambient light from entering into the small space between the back of the closet and the wall.
Inside the closet i have a Prakasa 7 spectrum 90 Watt LED UFO growlight that consists of blue,deep red,red,orange,white,IR & UV LED's rated at 5 watt each. They say they only push 3 watts through each of the 5 watt LED's so that they dont generate as much heat and it increases the lifespan of them and supposedly they are brighter. In total there are 28 LED's and when i measure how much juice it's pulling from the powersocket its coming to exactly 87 Watts. They claim it's the equivelent to something like a 150 Watt HPS and i hope they are telling the truth lol.
The plant was germinated i think on August the 8th. The strain is "Automaria #1" from Paradise Seeds. Now i bought these seeds 4 or more years ago and i did not keep them in the proper conditions to preserve their viability so when i attempted to germinate the 4 i had left from all those years ago only 1 of them managed to germinate! She started off very very slow compared to all the other strains i've grown before. It was making me wonder is the seed stunted because of its age or is it just a trait of these autoflowering genetics?
She started off as a window plant and at night i would place it under a 50 watt halogen light. She grew a bit lanky and was very slow at making new sets of leaves. I don't know if it was because of the poor lighting (i live in Scotland) or if something else was to blame. I had it in one of those little soil "pucks" that expands when you let it absorb water.My plan was to put it into a 5 litre pot of soil once the roots started to grow through the thin fabric of the puck it was growing in. It ended up taking more than 3 weeks for the roots to come through and i potted it in soil about 4 days after they started coming out of the bottom. She only had 6 leaves at this stage and they were smallish.
After a week or 2 of being in the new pot the leaves had gotten bigger and it grew another couple of new sets that were bigger and more developed looking than the previous ones. This is when i decided i was going to buy a UFO growlight and i found the Prakasa 7 spectrum 90 Watt LED for £78 on ebay. It seemed legit to me they told you the actual wattage being pulled from the wall and not the "output wattage" and when i measured it myself it was pretty accurate (87 Watts). I ordered the light and it arrived within 2 days.
She has been in the closet ever since the light arrived under the LED (6 inches away) and this is what she looks like. I reckon it's about 6 weeks old now. She's 45cm tall and started showing sex just over a week ago. I put her into a 20/4 light cycle a few days after it started to show sex previously it had been under light 24 hours a day. Since that time she has grown much taller maybe twice as tall and got bushier. The closet only ever gets a little warm it doesn't get "hot" and i always open the door a couple of times an hour just to try and ventilate it more. I go back to work on monday so i wont be here from 8am to 5:30pm and wont be able to open the door up like i usualy do untill i get back and hope this wont cause any overheating problems or ventilation/humidity issues. Personaly i don't think it will overheat especialy since its getting into the colder months now. Any advice on this aspect would be wonderfull.
When i look at her now im very pleased because she didnt really have any branches when she started to show sex and now she seems huge to me! I know its small but its already reaching the width and length limits of my closet so any tips on dealing with that would be appreciated!. I didn't know where else to write this so i just stuck it here in the pics section since i managed to get a couple earlier on today off my bro's phone.
Thanks for looking! Wish me luck im gona need it! lol I'll get more pics up of the closet im growing it in and the light im using. Peace!
So here i am growing an Auto variety as they are more resiliant to human error and mother nature accoring to alot of the info i've read online about Ruderalis etc. Oh and its meant to be much faster since they flower early and mature faster according to the seedbanks but i've learned here on this forum and on a female growers youtube channel that the seedbanks may be exagerating how quick you can finish off their strains and it generaly takes around 10 weeks or more.Hmmm lol.
Sorry im high on super lemon haze whilst writing this so i may ramble on a bit and not explain things in an easy to understand way but i'll try my best! I don't have pictures of the start of my grow but i will do it next time so this is more of a commentry on what has happened between then and now with some pics at the end for you to check out!
The growspace is a small side-section of an Ikea closet and its 15 inches wide by 20.5 inches long and it's 5 or 6 foot tall. I drilled rows of holes into the back of the closet at the bottom so that cold air can enter the bottom and im using the single hole i made for a power cable at the back/top of the closet as the exit vent for hot air. I plan on making this wider and sticking a PC fan over it to vent the hot air out the top. I light proofed the door with gaffa tape and i have placed objects around and ontop of the closet to block ambient light from entering into the small space between the back of the closet and the wall.
Inside the closet i have a Prakasa 7 spectrum 90 Watt LED UFO growlight that consists of blue,deep red,red,orange,white,IR & UV LED's rated at 5 watt each. They say they only push 3 watts through each of the 5 watt LED's so that they dont generate as much heat and it increases the lifespan of them and supposedly they are brighter. In total there are 28 LED's and when i measure how much juice it's pulling from the powersocket its coming to exactly 87 Watts. They claim it's the equivelent to something like a 150 Watt HPS and i hope they are telling the truth lol.
The plant was germinated i think on August the 8th. The strain is "Automaria #1" from Paradise Seeds. Now i bought these seeds 4 or more years ago and i did not keep them in the proper conditions to preserve their viability so when i attempted to germinate the 4 i had left from all those years ago only 1 of them managed to germinate! She started off very very slow compared to all the other strains i've grown before. It was making me wonder is the seed stunted because of its age or is it just a trait of these autoflowering genetics?
She started off as a window plant and at night i would place it under a 50 watt halogen light. She grew a bit lanky and was very slow at making new sets of leaves. I don't know if it was because of the poor lighting (i live in Scotland) or if something else was to blame. I had it in one of those little soil "pucks" that expands when you let it absorb water.My plan was to put it into a 5 litre pot of soil once the roots started to grow through the thin fabric of the puck it was growing in. It ended up taking more than 3 weeks for the roots to come through and i potted it in soil about 4 days after they started coming out of the bottom. She only had 6 leaves at this stage and they were smallish.
After a week or 2 of being in the new pot the leaves had gotten bigger and it grew another couple of new sets that were bigger and more developed looking than the previous ones. This is when i decided i was going to buy a UFO growlight and i found the Prakasa 7 spectrum 90 Watt LED for £78 on ebay. It seemed legit to me they told you the actual wattage being pulled from the wall and not the "output wattage" and when i measured it myself it was pretty accurate (87 Watts). I ordered the light and it arrived within 2 days.
She has been in the closet ever since the light arrived under the LED (6 inches away) and this is what she looks like. I reckon it's about 6 weeks old now. She's 45cm tall and started showing sex just over a week ago. I put her into a 20/4 light cycle a few days after it started to show sex previously it had been under light 24 hours a day. Since that time she has grown much taller maybe twice as tall and got bushier. The closet only ever gets a little warm it doesn't get "hot" and i always open the door a couple of times an hour just to try and ventilate it more. I go back to work on monday so i wont be here from 8am to 5:30pm and wont be able to open the door up like i usualy do untill i get back and hope this wont cause any overheating problems or ventilation/humidity issues. Personaly i don't think it will overheat especialy since its getting into the colder months now. Any advice on this aspect would be wonderfull.
When i look at her now im very pleased because she didnt really have any branches when she started to show sex and now she seems huge to me! I know its small but its already reaching the width and length limits of my closet so any tips on dealing with that would be appreciated!. I didn't know where else to write this so i just stuck it here in the pics section since i managed to get a couple earlier on today off my bro's phone.
Thanks for looking! Wish me luck im gona need it! lol I'll get more pics up of the closet im growing it in and the light im using. Peace!
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