Hi there
I have nice small growbox (0.2m2, cfl 10k lumens, diy carbon filter) for two plants.
Two seeds (RQS royal gorilla auto, auto somango from some other breeder) sprouted at 2019-10-15 (moreless 2 months/9 weeks ago).
Running in 8l pots, 18/6 light; both plants healthy and bushy, never had any problems. Now both fed with organic bloom nutes.
Gorilla is already flowering for 6 weeks, still two-three weeks to harvest.
Somango showed first preflowers at 35th day; now its at 65 days, but still just some hairs here and there.
It slowed down vertical growth, first preflower hairs already browned - but nothing close to buds forming.
Now I have to decide what to do - should I treat somango as slooooow auto (and assume it will finally flower), or treat it as regular plant so I have to switch to 12/12.
And now I'm wondering what can I do
a) just wait assuming somango will finally flower; once gorilla is harvested I can start new auto plant on its place
b) switch to 12/12 until flowering starts, then switch back to 18/6 (maybe it just needs trigger for auto trait to kick in?)
c) switch to 12/12 light; this can hurt gorilla yield, and after gorilla finishes - next plant will have to grow with 12/12 (or leave half tent empty until somango is done).
d) maybe rather than that - try with 16/8 or 14/10? maybe this would be enough to trigger somango while ensuring some more light for gorilla and newcommer?
e) take some clones from somango, run them on 18/6 until gorilla is done, then switch to 12/12 and flower mother and clones...
f) just trash somango asap and start new plant...
What would you do?
m.
I have nice small growbox (0.2m2, cfl 10k lumens, diy carbon filter) for two plants.
Two seeds (RQS royal gorilla auto, auto somango from some other breeder) sprouted at 2019-10-15 (moreless 2 months/9 weeks ago).
Running in 8l pots, 18/6 light; both plants healthy and bushy, never had any problems. Now both fed with organic bloom nutes.
Gorilla is already flowering for 6 weeks, still two-three weeks to harvest.
Somango showed first preflowers at 35th day; now its at 65 days, but still just some hairs here and there.
It slowed down vertical growth, first preflower hairs already browned - but nothing close to buds forming.
Now I have to decide what to do - should I treat somango as slooooow auto (and assume it will finally flower), or treat it as regular plant so I have to switch to 12/12.
And now I'm wondering what can I do
a) just wait assuming somango will finally flower; once gorilla is harvested I can start new auto plant on its place
b) switch to 12/12 until flowering starts, then switch back to 18/6 (maybe it just needs trigger for auto trait to kick in?)
c) switch to 12/12 light; this can hurt gorilla yield, and after gorilla finishes - next plant will have to grow with 12/12 (or leave half tent empty until somango is done).
d) maybe rather than that - try with 16/8 or 14/10? maybe this would be enough to trigger somango while ensuring some more light for gorilla and newcommer?
e) take some clones from somango, run them on 18/6 until gorilla is done, then switch to 12/12 and flower mother and clones...
f) just trash somango asap and start new plant...
What would you do?
m.