I have a dimmable ballast and had been running at 50% or 300w. Upped it to 75% this week. Now running 450w. Adjusted fan to maintain temp in tent. They have transitioned from seedling into veg this week. Nutrients were increased, but still light. Many suggest that autoflowers need less nutrients and I am allowing the little ladies a chance to tell me what they need. If they need more, I can up nutrients, but I definitely don't want to burn them. Gave the girls a New Years Day feeding. Each pot was given a quart of nutrigation. It seems like they need about 1 quart each, every couple of days. As soon as there is a little more growth, I plan on starting LST.
@KentuckyOG60, I traded for the 5 TD beans. Well, I will trade, as soon as I cross paths with them again. I now have some Zkittles that I am paying back with. Grabbed 20 photo during a recent ILGM sale. I am eager to see the end results of the TD, as I have never run autos. 😎
@HAPPY91, I would have liked for 100% success, but still pleased with the 4 out of 5. The 5th one tried to start and just didn't make it. At least it tried.
@KentuckyOG60, Your's look great, too! I have been watching your diary and figured I would start one, too. You have about 3 weeks of a head start on me.
question...did you run into much problems with the general health of these plants? I ask because I'm having real difficulty with the plants appearing very droopy in between water or feeding. I'm leaning towards it being caused by the actual size of the plant being too big for the 3 gal pots. It's not strain specific because the N lights in the same tent on the exact same schedule is also affected. Both are roughly the same size at well over 30 inches tall. The skunk auto in same tent, 6 weeks or so behind so obviously much smaller doesn't seem to be suffering.
@@@pizzaman841, Overall they were healthy and pretty easy. I over-watered one time. I tried to water until run off. They didn't like that. After that, I watered them more carefully. They were fed daily. I reduced my amount of water, so that the next day.... they were just needing watering. Tried to keep a nice balance of moist to dry enough to allow roots to breathe. Never dry enough where they drooped. I am sure I could have watered less often, if I had 5 gallon pots. I didn't mind the 3 gallon. I sorta think of treating Pro-Mix like when I used to grow with rockwool. Back then, I used a res, dripper, and pump system. I hand water these days, but I still think of it that way.