4) FastBuds / Lemon Pie Auto / MicroGrow

THOUGHTS: The concept of Daily Light Integral was helping me understand another reason, other than size, why the autoflower plant is important to micro-growing. Autoflowers, I was thinking, help microgrowers by allowing them to have lower wattage lamps that run cooler - important for growing in a small space - by allowing them to run a lamp longer instead of brighter/hotter. Was thinking, if you run a 12/12 cycle, like you need to for photos, you need more photons per second in order to satisfy the plant than when you run a lamp for 18 hours or 24 hours. So in other words, if you go 12/12 with a photo under a 95 watt lamp like mine, you'd prolly get worse results than what you'd otherwise get from an autoflower under the same lamp that can run 18/6 during flower. Know what I mean? Alternatively, run a 300 watt lamp in my tent for 12 hours during flower in order to get the juice you need, and I'd guess you'd have crispy, deep-fried buds. Pour some barbecue sauce on them. Diaries are for sharing thoughts, so I wanted to share that. I guess this means I'm never growing photos under this arrangement - unless I do a perpetual (not likely anytime soon.) If I'm misunderstanding something about growing photos, here, please let me know. I'm still a newb. I could be wrong. Maybe 12/12 from seed might work? THE WEEK: By Day 88, it was pretty clear that trichomes were now firmly in the cloudy stage. They looked like they needed just a little more time to look like plastic milk berries. And then on Day 90 I saw a greater deal of cloudiness, including some milkiness around. Looking like plastic now, but still mostly standing up. And it was all around the plant. Even the buds on the lower branches. So on Day 90, this plant was approaching peak. As such, I wanted a week or so after peak for harvest, so I officially decided at that moment that harvesting on Day 102, would be the best idea, given my work schedule and things like that (can't tell my boss I need a day off to harvest/trim my weed. ya know?) Temps were running hot outside, so my AC was hitting it pretty hard. I was glad there were only a couple weeks or so left of growing before I packed it in for the summer. Light schedule would be reduced to 17 hours on Day 86 and to 16 hours on Day 91 as per the DLI curve I was trying out. Was liking the results, so no reason to get off the DLI curve idea. Given rising temps outside, reducing hours was a welcome idea for this reason as well. Have a great grow day! Check out my YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtLdjlvS0mK9Pu3pkumUu-w