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can I grow a photoperiod alongside autoflowers??

UpInSmoke420
UpInSmoke420started grow question 4 years ago
If I was to grow a photoperiod along side my autos until they where done then switched to 12/12 would that work? Also if it was to be fine, would me switching my lights from veg to bloom affect the photo while it was in veg still?
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m0use
m0useanswered grow question 4 years ago
Hey UpInSmoke420, If you wanted to grow autos and photos together in the same tent, then switch from 18/6 to 12/12 when the autos finished flowering you can do that. I'd say to try and trim and LST your photo plants as they will get quite big with that long of a veg cycle. 8-10 weeks ish. You can also switch the lights earlier to 12/12 even before the autos are finished to trigger flower in the photos earlier if you want. The autos will flower automatically regardless of the light cycle. The only down side is, you may suffer lower yields with them, but if your using any other tools, like LST, Defoliation exct, you can gain that extra weight back by the plants mass being bigger then a normal untrained plant. I grew a auto with 3.7oz on it, was my biggest yet. I'm sill an armature but its possible, all my other autos previous to that was 1oz a plant give or take. m0use
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blendmedmedman
blendmedmedmananswered grow question 4 years ago
yes you can. make sure you start the autos first on 18-6 for a veg for a few weeks, then put your photoperiod strains in for veg under same light. if your photoperiod plant are in flower and you decide to start a auto your yield from the auto will not be as much as if it had loner light hours. heres a chart a bit on autos and what to expect: 3-5 weeks are the vegative stage 4-6 weeks is the stretch phase 6-10 weeks is typically the flower stage autos are bred to do their job and make us buds, hope this helped
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Complicateanswered grow question 4 years ago
yep I'm doing this now running 3 20gal pots 1 auto, 2 for a nice veg. Check out my journals if you want to see it. Good luck!
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rhodes68
rhodes68answered grow question 4 years ago
Ok bloom light spectrums will make plants in veg stretch. Second you will need to keep in in full spectrum. Last you will have to watch the humidity for the buds and the size of the vegging plant, Yeah do it all the time
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NobodysBuds
NobodysBudsanswered grow question 4 years ago
Sure.. a photo will continue to grow -- pot and nutrients willing -- as long as you don't give it uninterrupted light for at least 10-12 hours. Your autos could be fine under 12 hours, if you can increase intensity of light to provide same # of photons as you did over 18 hours (or however you are setup currently in a proportional way) The only requirement here is that you provide uninterrupted darkness when you want the photoperiods to start flowering -- 100% your choice when this occurs... other than that you can do it. Even reducing # of hours on autoflower is mostly unimpactful as long as you provide more light over fewer hours to make up for the loss... and that extra light itself causes no problems of course.
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