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Critical Purple Autoflowering

Growers Choice Seeds

VEG

Fission 300W Light Emitting Diodes/400W

Custom

FLO

Fission 300W Light Emitting Diodes/400W

Custom

Indoor

Room Type

LST

weeks Technique

Soil

Grow medium

11 L

Pot Size

17.78 cm

24 hrs

25 °C

No Smell

25 °C

3 L

1 L

45.72 cm

Nutrients 2

Cal-Mag Plus - Botanicare

Cal-Mag Plus 5 mll

Pure Blend Pro Grow - Botanicare

Pure Blend Pro Grow 5 mll

Gteh420

Plant doing well. At week 2 it had pretty vsd nutrient burn due to wrong soil. Switched to fox farms and changed nutrients

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29.21 cm

18 hrs

25 °C

No Smell

25 °C

3 L

1 L

60.96 cm

Nutrients 2

Cal-Mag Plus - Botanicare

Cal-Mag Plus 1.321 mll

Pure Blend Pro Grow - Botanicare

Pure Blend Pro Grow 3.963 mll

Gteh420

Plant looks healthy . Some new leaves aremuch ligheter green than older leaves and a few feel paper thin around lower down bud sites. Watering every two days. Change light from Mars pro 2 epistar 400w to hlg 135w v2 3500k for veg and flower. Defoliated for the first time. Scary

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Gteh420started grow question 6 years ago

Some newer leaves from older stems looks almost bright green and paper thin comparrd to the deep green older leaves and some of the ones top look slightly discoloured at the tips. This is an af at week 7 of veg. No signs of flower as far as I know.

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Leaves. Color - Yellow

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CRiSPrGrowanswered grow question 6 years ago

Hey Gteh420, Sgtoso is right, the newer growth is actually pre flower actually, so it's a good sign. should look like that before flowering, nothing to worry about. To induce flowering, keep the lights, or use both lights, cut out the veg nutes and switch to bloom nutrients, and use 10ml of molasses in your next feed, hopefully the nutrients will kickstart flowering. If they dont then change the light schedule, sometimes autos are not autos , it's rare but it does happen every now and then. You're seeing pre flowering so hopefully that's not your case and you can maintain the auto's light schedule. I would be careful using less light wattage as this might stress the plant and lead to hermie. Hope this helps ! 🚀

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31.75 cm

18 hrs

25 °C

Weak

25 °C

11 L

1 L

38.1 cm

Nutrients 2

Cal-Mag Plus - Botanicare

Cal-Mag Plus 1.321 mll

Pure Blend Pro Grow - Botanicare

Pure Blend Pro Grow 3.963 mll

Gteh420

I defoliated quite heavily today. Using this plant to experiment on. Some leaves not looking too healthy color wise. In actually think it is starting to flower maybe? I see some white hairs growing out I think but not too sure.

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40.64 cm

12 hrs

25 °C

Weak

25 °C

11 L

1 L

33.02 cm

Nutrients 2

Cal-Mag Plus - Botanicare

Cal-Mag Plus 1.321 mll

Pure Blend Pro Grow - Botanicare

Pure Blend Pro Grow 3.963 mll

Gteh420

So started flowering after flipping 2 weeks ago. Go auto... I heavily defoliated today as you can see above but I think there's room for more.

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Gteh420started grow question 6 years ago

Wondering if I should further defoliated this plant. Not sure how much to remove. It is an auto but it grows aggressively. defoliated twice before and it always came back with a vengence but that was during veg Should I remove all leaves on the lower part? Leave just bud sites?

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Techniques. Defoliation

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OutForRealanswered grow question 6 years ago

You already have fairly defoliate the lady you switch 2 weeks ago and she will probably stop to stretch soon so except if the lower leaves are blocking light there is no need to remove them and no need to defoliate more than that as she's not going to bounce back each time as her life time is limited by the auto genes. Let her start her flowering 😊

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45.72 cm

12 hrs

27 °C

Weak

25 °C

11 L

1 L

45.72 cm

Nutrients 2

Cal-Mag Plus - Botanicare

Cal-Mag Plus 1.321 mll

Pure Blend Pro Grow - Botanicare

Pure Blend Pro Grow 3.963 mll

Gteh420

Well into flowering now but a bit slower than the gorilla glue in the same room . I'm concerned not enough light is getting through to the middle. I defoliated at the start of flower but maybe not enough . Will I cause harm if I start removing some leaves?

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50.8 cm

12 hrs

27 °C

Normal

25 °C

11 L

1 L

40.64 cm

Nutrients 2

Cal-Mag Plus - Botanicare

Cal-Mag Plus 1.321 mll

Pure Blend Pro Grow - Botanicare

Pure Blend Pro Grow 3.963 mll

Gteh420

Added molasses 10ml per gallon last week and removed some family leaves at the top to make more room for light. Also tucked some inner leaves too. No pH adjustments needed at all it seems.

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50.8 cm

12 hrs

27 °C

Normal

23 °C

11 L

1 L

40.64 cm

Nutrients 2

Cal-Mag Plus - Botanicare

Cal-Mag Plus 1.321 mll

Pure Blend Pro Grow - Botanicare

Pure Blend Pro Grow 3.963 mll

Gteh420

Super bushy plant but light seems to be making it's way through. Wondering if I should defoliate a bit. I don't want to interfere too much with flowering just seems like too many fan leaves compared to the other 3

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Sgtosocommentedweek 76 years ago

New growth is usually a brighter green. Lower, older leaves will be darker unless they're not getting light in which case they'll wilt and die. Best to snip those off at the base of the fan leaf and let the remaining stem fall off on it's own. I get discoloration on the tips when feeding too many nutrients. Not sure why she isn't flowering yet. Might want to change the light schedule in case it isn't an autoflower.

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Sgtosocommented6 years ago

@Gteh420, I may not have articulated correctly. When I trim my fan leaves off, I trim them off close to the leaf and not the stalk. It causes less stress on the plant and from my experience sometimes the cut doesn't go as well when close to the stalk and then it rips away like a thread from a sweater. I hear you on the light issue. One has to do what must be done. I've had some autos go 6 weeks before pre-flowering so it isn't uncommon. Best of luck!

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Gteh420commented6 years ago

@Sgtoso, thanks that's what I was thinking. So cut off the weaker ones not getting light. I thought about them not being auto but I'll wait another week or two. Im vegging a photo plant under same light that is only 3 weeks and 4 nodes

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Gteh420commentedweek 76 years ago

As for lighting, i switched to an hlg 135 3500k. Out of the box it outputs 120. Should I increase it to Max? Just using it for 2 plants I. 2x4x6tall

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CRiSPrGrowcommented6 years ago

@JohnDee, yeah man pretty much anything that's not branded "cannabis" will be a heck of a lot cheaper lol

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JohnDeecommented6 years ago

@CRiSPrGrow, 9 bucks for 12 kilograms is amazing! :)

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Gteh420commented6 years ago

@CRiSPrGrow, you rock thanks.

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grzesiekcommentedweek 76 years ago

very nice

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CRiSPrGrowcommentedweek 76 years ago

i'm gonna be using Nalite made in china 670W true watts , one of the "fluence-like" type of lights, hopefully it will be the first and last led i'll ever use and buy lol

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