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You'd burn the shit out of them with a 1000 watt hps.
Autos' light period is longer than photoperiods so you have to be careful with your DLI if not supplementing with CO2. At a guess you would only need a 400/500watt hps in that space . So be careful not to overdo it.
Also Fastbuds recommend the max pot size is 20 litres for autos. As they only really veg for 35 to 40 days. So there is limited time for it to establish a bigger root mass in a larger pot.
1 gallon per month / 1 gallon per foot of height... general suggestions.
you can get away with less in soilless with chelated hydro nutes (not soil nutes)
if doing any 'special' irrigation method like multiple fertigations per day, you need to think about it differently. some familiarity will be needed to know how big your plants tend to get and how quickly they can drink
24 hour soak and dropped em in some 6 gallon pot. The soil is made up of the leftover mix from lst years pots. My autoflower mix is Basically:
Sunshine mix #4 (1:3)
Perlite/vermiculite mix (1:3)
Lobster compost (1:3)
And a few tablespoons of bone meal.
Most times I'll also add worm castings,blood meal and hardwood ashes but I'm broke so I'll wait till I can afford it and make a tea.
Beginning of week 2 for these 2 Gorilla Cookies
Started brewing wormcasting / compost tea to bring some microorganisms back into the used soil for nutrients uptake and overall plant health. The stalks are thickening quickly under the hps
Might back thelight up and let her stretch some for a bigger skeleton to LST
Beginning of week 3. You can tell its a Fastbuds product with the very fast and uniform growth.
I broke out the bubble stone and a 5 gallon bucket and whipped up a nice batch of compost tea. Microorganisms should increase nutrient uptake and availability 👍
Each plant has 6 shoots so far. Theyre not big enough to lst yet, however.
It's about time to get the perpetual grow going! One more week and ill have 2 more plants to start. One Gorilla Cookie and something else 🤔
Any suggestions to an autoflower by FASTBUDS that grows similar to GC auto?
Put the 1k HPS cool tube in there on 75%. The heat keeps my place nice and toasty through the winter months.
Started LSTing and they are responding well.
Decided on FASTBUDS Cookies Auto (their old GSC) and Gelato Auto. Gonna get going on the perpetual harvest and get them going as soon as they touch down! 🍃
Continuing to tie down these girls to let them breath and get more light penetration. They are wayyy bigger in person not sure if the camera does em justice. Been feeding water and compost/worm casting tea. Gonna start bringing the temp down to 72 from 80 with more fresh air intake. Very fast growth so many budsites!!
They're still growing vertically pretty fast while putting on flowers. I Trying to make these as frosty as possible so cold air intake starts tomorrow. Still feeding compost tea every other watering or so. Theyre eating quite a bit judging by the soil level in the pots.
I've never run into deficiencies using this mostly organic compost aggregate approach.
HPS GOD BLESS THE WHOLE CROP
Introduced cold fresh air intake. Commence the frosty nuggage ❄️ 🔥 ❄️
Gc 1 has more buds on it so it's filling out a little slower. Pistils are starting to become abundant. Smells like fruity deisel. Heavier on the fruit aroma
Gc2 has less buds but they are bigger and more compact. Pistils are abundant as well. Smells the same as #1 but heavier on the deisel aroma.
They're looking excellent so far and almost as big as some CO2 injected GG4 autos I've grown! Frost is starting to appear.
Couple weeks and I'll be planting 2 Gelato Autos to keep the harvests coming perpetually.
Wow. Did not expect them to bulk out like this.
They're both decent sized plants but damn. That one on the left is the definition of a perfect auto IMO. Trial and error baby. The frostyness is stating to take over the leaves and the smell is permeating the tent.
Delicious looking buds that I will definitely be growing again as soon as I can get some more seeds to pop! I've never had a chance to say that about any of the autos I've grown before trying them but these buds just look and smell so nice.
They're eating up compost tea and loving it. The HPS is really killing it here. Fuck yeah! 🤜 🎄 🎄 🎄 🤜 🦍 🥠 ❄️ 🔥
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