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Is joining this contest and the non autoflower contest permitted or can I only join one of the two (with different plants of course)

Wow, I have never seen something like this before. I LOVE the ingenuity you see from people I truly believe all levels of growers have something new to offer and learn from if we all stay open-minded and humble, I come from the completely other ends of the spectrum you can see my diary of a 200 light 7,000 plant setup. But I truly appreciate these small fascinating grows that people can design and come up with I truly believe it is a talent all of its own. Congratulations on doing something so cool. Would you be alright with me offering you advice to help out? Of course I do not know about growing in a bucket, You will know more about that than I do. But I would love to offer you some general advice you may be able to take advantage of or utilize. Before I say anything I will begin by saying I understand you will be limited with your setup but I shall begin regardless. Cannabis plants love heat and humidity. It is the buds that hate it, In veg and in early flower wen can exploit this for more vigorous growth and get through the slow growth stage of seedling and early plant life quicker. Temps of 79-84 MAX are great for this and we want no more than 9 degrees less with lights off. If we allow for too much fluctuation with lights off we stretch our plants a lot unwantedly. Your temp gaps are nice and tight that is good work, I would only recommend warming up the lights on and off temps ever so slightly. If you want to see how much degrees matter, Check out VPD. Vapor pressure deficit and how it relates to growing cannabis, All growers should learn this and use a VPD chart daily to log their room numbers. We can utilize humidity at this early stage of plant life & through the first few weeks of veg to build up more healthy vigorous plants, Faster. Supplemental intake from the leafs will really help speed us along, Humidity of 60-70% is great for this. Once we get into flower and our plants have finished their vertical growth by weeks 4-6 of flower with photoperiods with autoflowers we watch for it by eye. Once this happens the plant's responses to environmental stresses has changed. Now it won't want to stretch, It will instead send extra energy into the budding process and resin production. So once we notice our ladies have finished growing upwards we want to slowly begin to widen the gap in temps between lights on and lights off to beyond 10 degrees less and a little more each passing week until harvest. This helps us trigger the plants genetic responses to want to insure its reproduction by building nice big flowers to make its seeds in or getting really sticky to attract pollen well. Even though we are not trying to make seeds, The genetic responses are what we want to trigger to get our plants to finish up the way we want them to. Doing light deprivation in the last 2 weeks, Colder feed temps in the last week will really help you accomplish this as well. If you do not have them already get yourself a thermal laser temp gun like the fluke 62 MAX & a PAR meter to better help you read your plants and grow to their needs. I could see it being even more needed with your style of setup. They help you grow to your plants needs more and dial in your light to plant distance optimally without issue. Again man, Congratulations on doing something so cool! If you ever have any questions please feel free to ask I am always here to help. Like I said earlier check out my diaries to see what I mean about the difference in size, Shoot me a follow & I will do the same back. I am also doing a youtube tutorial series for all levels of growers. If that interests you hop over and subscribe it is linked off my grow diaries profile. Happy growing friend!