Day 77. The Monster plant is swelling up nicely and has a lot of glitter now. The others are catching up in flower, but all have different needs. Basically, the 2 on the left are getting half feedings (10ml/gal A/B) and the ones on the right are just getting RO water. The monster is fading from the bottom up now and the other plants are following. This auto grow is really pushing the edge of the autoflower life cycle. Im optimistic that they will finish up though.
So strange.... The monster plant has what appears to be tip burn, only it hasn't been fed in 9 days, just water. I suspect its starting its end of life fade but in a strange way. I've removed about 2 handfuls of yellow leaved from the bottom of the plants. The back left corner is slowing down flowering and fading without a lot of bud production. Super leafy and small.
Now on to the new problem child in the tent. So, one of these plant is now the biggest (over 40") and still vegging. I know it a photo but I'm trying to allow it to share space for a week or two more. Then I'll flip it to flower. Hopefully after I harvest the monster plant. I defoliated it hardcore and lollipopped it again, just to try to stunt it a bit. Still only feeding it water. The size will be a problem, but I'm optimistic about training it once I have some room in my tent.
I'll start another diary for the photo auto when time permits. I'm going to take some clones of it to, assuming that RQS used their own Northern Light Photo when crossbreeding their autos. Maybe flower the clones and keep this big one as a mother. I don't know much about this process but any advice would be much appreciated!
This is the most unpredictable auto flowers I've ever had. It will be 50 days soon and only preflower on one plant. Ive used a 12/12 light schedule on autos before. Should I try this on these plants? If, so keep it 12/12 untill the end? No turning back to 20/4 when they go?
I see a trained Plant in Preflowers. There is no Need to Keep 12/12 on her. She will go into full Flower soon, and love the Minimum of 18 Hours. I see you topped and trained the Plant, that will be the reason for alittle later Flower than usually, but shes in the " timewindow" to Flower. No reason to be sad, she just does what she can do. If you trrain those Plants you delay her alittle. But Training and topping bring her a open canopy with some nicely exposed budsites
Day 70 and I have a plant that has preflower stretched for almost 4 weeks now. No bud sites or pistils really and is massive. 4 auto seeds, same strain. All crazy different, all very different needs. Pull it, keep it, defoliate hand sized leaves, 12/12? Grows 2close to light
hi Bezzy@, your plant should not be automatic, some phenotypes of some strains of automatic plants show stability problems and are not autos, they are feminized. you will have to change to 12h / 12h for it to start flowering. in order not to harm the other automatic plants wait until they have the best shaped and fattest buds and put on 12/12 the last 2-3 weeks. I already finished the last weeks of several automatic plants at 12h / 12h and I never felt harmed in the harvest for that. good luck mate 👍
Looks like you're gonna have a nice crop there!
Same thing happened to me with the uneven growth. It was just uncontrollable! Even with wire!
I got a monster too, and it's fantastic!
This strain is THE BEST!
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Fair to say the genetics of RQS Nl has gone a bit haywire, having the same issues in my grow with 2 completly different looking plants 😂 shame as the small one is a little beauty, but the tall plant is becoming a monster 😂 all good fun, keep up the good work 👍