If you haven't already, check out member Hazy and his auto Night Queen grow in the Dutch Passion forum, he uses the Bio Bizz nutes with great success, just the grow and bloom without the topmax. He adds the Grow part pretty much through the grow I think, but only a small amount. He also scrogs (canes) his plants rigorously and or practically snaps branches over to keep the canopy level and maximize the efficiency of his lights.
It's hard to make a nute schedule for autos because they all behave differently from strain to strain.
Your led panel is probably about the right size for your space, but you definitely want to lst/scrog to control vertical height. Light intensity fades quickly if the plants get tall. It sounds like the one panel worked well for you in that space on your previous grow. Was the temperature in the space higher that run? I do think it slowed your plants down some this time.
On a budget, you could save money by just adding a couple cfls or t5 fluoros to help sidelight (2700k or 3000k), help blend the spectrum with your led panel, and add a little heat to your space to keep temps above 70 during lights on.
Good luck, and post up some updated photos of your plants if you can.
thnks for the reply mediscrogs
i just took a look now at hazys grow. its really really long. i pm'd him with my quesiton about biobizz nutes. seemed the best way to learn about using them with autos is to just pm him directly.
ive been scroggin also, since my LED only has 3watt diodes. they seem to have very little pentration.
the led may be an ok size for my space. but from calculations, its more on the lower side.
the LED has a 180W draw power. room size is 6 square feet. that means 30w per sq feet.
i think i read that LEDs are best at 50W per sq foot, which is why i wanted to add more light, and why i was assuming that maybe the droopiness and extra leafiness was due to insufficient light.
however as you said, it might actually be due to other factors. i am starting to think that the jamaican berry just may have a droopy leaf nature. espceially since lighting is over optimal now that ive been using this 400w hps i borrowed. and even though all the other plants leaves will stretch out to the light. the jamaican berry will at best stand straiight, and maybe a littw out. while alot of the leaves slightly droop. they are super thin sativa leaves, which may also be casuing that...?
the 1 panel did give me a very potent grow. but the biggest fattest buds were the ones directly under the middle of the light. the ones that were on the sides had thinner buds. but also very potent (it may also be since i topped the outer ones twice since they were stretchier, so it could be that their buds were thinner since they had twice the amount of buds because they were topped twice.... i only did one grow with it so i cant say.
also my yeidls were pretty poor. i got average of 15g per plant. but hey were in 3 gal pots
but it was my first grow. and they got their fare share of stressing and mistakes (probably every mistake possible in the book
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so i dont know if its fair to blame it on lack of light.
im happy to pay to buy another light, since i should for sure make the money back easily. adding double the amount of lights, should easily at least of the least cover for the cost of the extra light, and more
ill try to put up some photos of the jb tommorow
. shes been looking really great. also i defoliated all the extra leaf matter that was everywhere, so now u can actually see the buds.
theyve already doubled in width. and are super frosty and sticky. mosty made out of white hairs.
assuming that perhaps maybe the grow time was delayed and i didnt actually know to follow the breeders time, how would you know when his super autos are ready?
by percentage of hairs going brown like standard photo strains?
by looking at the triches like any other strain? or do autos start dying when theyre ready to be harvested?
