Surprise Photoperiod Seeds! Now what?

[closet-grower]

So, I posted about a month or two ago about a 61-day-old autoflower that wouldn't flower. I am running a single plant grow of Pyramid Fresh Candy (package labelled as auto).

So I initially ran them at 18/6 but at the recommendation of someone here I upped the light to 20/4 for a few weeks with no luck. I have been feeding bloom nutes for weeks now and still not flowering or shooting pistils really. Recently made the switch to 12/12 a few weeks ago with no luck. Got a full spectrum LED light two days ago and haven't seen any change there (I know it's a bit early to see if that's going to fix it).

I did not set the room up to be light tight because I thought I was running autos (this was a big part of wanting to grow auto lol). So, today I hung a heavy quilt in front of the door and pushed a towel at the base of the door to see if it's light pollution? Though the crack is maybe 3/8" and the timer is set to turn on at 6 a.m. and off at 6 p.m.

A friend of mine ran a seed from the same pack and had similar issues, though his finally bloomed. The only real difference between us is he has a tent and I don't. When I got the light I got the same one he did.

Any thoughts here? The photos I'm attaching are only a few days old. I only have light space to grow one plant at a time and if I get this to flower I'm happy to wait it out (yield should worth the wait since it's photoperiod I would think?). I don't want to just chop it down and start over if I can avoid it but I'm running out of ideas here. Also, the desire to pop the Mephisto seeds I have is very strong, haha.

 

[Fitzy]

So, I posted about a month or two ago about a 61-day-old autoflower that wouldn't flower. I am running a single plant grow of Pyramid Fresh Candy (package labelled as auto).

So I initially ran them at 18/6 but at the recommendation of someone here I upped the light to 20/4 for a few weeks with no luck. I have been feeding bloom nutes for weeks now and still not flowering or shooting pistils really. Recently made the switch to 12/12 a few weeks ago with no luck. Got a full spectrum LED light two days ago and haven't seen any change there (I know it's a bit early to see if that's going to fix it).

I did not set the room up to be light tight because I thought I was running autos (this was a big part of wanting to grow auto lol). So, today I hung a heavy quilt in front of the door and pushed a towel at the base of the door to see if it's light pollution? Though the crack is maybe 3/8" and the timer is set to turn on at 6 a.m. and off at 6 p.m.

A friend of mine ran a seed from the same pack and had similar issues, though his finally bloomed. The only real difference between us is he has a tent and I don't. When I got the light I got the same one he did.

Any thoughts here? The photos I'm attaching are only a few days old. I only have light space to grow one plant at a time and if I get this to flower I'm happy to wait it out (yield should worth the wait since it's photoperiod I would think?). I don't want to just chop it down and start over if I can avoid it but I'm running out of ideas here. Also, the desire to pop the Mephisto seeds I have is very strong, haha.

So ya 12/12 is ur only option it will take 7 to 10days to really see it start flowering and as far as 1 flowering and 1 not that's a sign of it not being bread out far enough also wat size is that space I have 3 going in a 20 in deep x 40in wide and 6ft tall in 2gal pots so you Maude able to grow more then 1 this next run check this out for more info https://www.autoflower.org/threads/mephisto-my-crosses.70669/page-78

 

[closet-grower]

So ya 12/12 is ur only option it will take 7 to 10days to really see it start flowering and as far as 1 flowering and 1 not that's a sign of it not being bread out far enough also wat size is that space I have 3 going in a 20 in deep x 40in wide and 6ft tall in 2gal pots so you Maude able to grow more then 1 this next run check this out for more info https://www.autoflower.org/threads/mephisto-my-crosses.70669/page-78

Interesting — i'm about to move and will be putting together my next grow room here in the next few weeks! How does the light you have compare to the one I linked to in the OP? Will I have enough light coverage for two?

 

[closet-grower]

So, fun update. I contacted Pyramid Seeds to see about getting replacements and they said to contact Seedsman directly — they sent Fresh Candy photo seeds NOT auto seeds haha. Well, I'm just glad to know that I'm not going crazy. But I guess autos will seem like a breeze, haha.

 

[Fitzy]

Ya should do fine just remember to turn the pots so each area gets similar light. Now the light you have will work it didn't say how many watts it pulls from wall but my guess would be @200w which will work well for a 2x2 and smaller u could push it to 2.5foot x 2.5foot but that's as far as I would go. As for mine I built it its 460watts but I keep it dimmed down to 400watts it's a bridgelux eb strip light that I built its 2ft by 20in I also have a similar setup that's 200w that's 30in long and 16in wide also DIY build

 

[closet-grower]

Ya should do fine just remember to turn the pots so each area gets similar light. Now the light you have will work it didn't say how many watts it pulls from wall but my guess would be @200w which will work well for a 2x2 and smaller u could push it to 2.5foot x 2.5foot but that's as far as I would go. As for mine I built it its 460watts but I keep it dimmed down to 400watts it's a bridgelux eb strip light that I built its 2ft by 20in I also have a similar setup that's 200w that's 30in long and 16in wide also DIY build

good to know. I just looked and it says 115w draw from the wall? But at about 18" center PAR read is about 500-600 (it's 900 at 12" and 250 at 24").

 

[Doug58]

So, fun update. I contacted Pyramid Seeds to see about getting replacements and they said to contact Seedsman directly — they sent Fresh Candy photo seeds NOT auto seeds haha. Well, I'm just glad to know that I'm not going crazy. But I guess autos will seem like a breeze, haha.

Are they going to replace them?

 

[closet-grower]

Are they going to replace them?

Still waiting on a reply from my support ticket but I sure hope. I specifically got into this because of autoflowers. I don't have the time or resources exactly 2 nurture photo Plants. I've limped along with this plant for a while thinking it was Auto and kind of ended up spending a lot more money trying to make it pop so it has been like a pretty big inconvenience.

 

[Doug58]

Still waiting on a reply from my support ticket but I sure hope. I specifically got into this because of autoflowers. I don't have the time or resources exactly 2 nurture photo Plants. I've limped along with this plant for a while thinking it was Auto and kind of ended up spending a lot more money trying to make it pop so it has been like a pretty big inconvenience.

Are you in the US or a different country?

 

[closet-grower]

Are you in the US or a different country?

Dude so sorry I accidentally reported this comment. Anyway, yes in U.S.