EazyRider

cheers, you really do need a fair bit of luck with autos, as it's always a gene lottery.

Plastic corrugated board, works better, I use it on my pyramids.

howdy, the two on the right are the Blue Power, one's the runt and one is just very small, frosting up well, their poor performance is why I ran these three Grapes, I got spooked by the BP and wanted something with proven reliability. Yeah, I'm not really worried about spindly stems because I'd rather see that they like to grow, because I know they'll support themselves eventually. They have come along fast in the past two days, d17 is when autos really take off. Also the very reason I do same strain grows now is to be able to see how much variation you get that you can blame on something else. The very tallest one is also the fastest grower over all, I pay particular attention to internode spacing as a clue to later development. But I'm happy all three are good, because I had a dud in my three Mangos, it was like it had cancer, then with the BP, one was a male. But all three of these are good. I've heard this is a big plant and I can copy with anything. But the tall Grapes, just go to prove that the BP have big problems and I'm not the only one. I'm going to run another BP in a mini pyramid and also another unknown quantity Redball, in a mini pyramid as well to see what it does before I run it in a big pyramid.

@gottagrowsometime, I will be growing Night Owl genetics for the next year at least, my first ones Mango Isle I am very pleased with excellent terps and trichomes, meets my minimum standards for size, I got 6oz each. A breeder who is very well worth trying is Terp Treez based in the UK, their Blue Nerdz auto is the best quality auto I have ever grown after growing autos for six years. The hardest thing to come to terms with with autos is the variability. These Blue Nerdz were the ONLY strain I've ever grown where ever single one was strong and produced consistently excellent structure, fast to finish and high trichome density, I grew 10 and my final one this week that I grew with my Mango Isle, had no purple, like all the others, but still had the same terps and same beautiful structure, huge buds and not many leaves.

Howdy, all my NO's have been very delicate and spindly only one of these can stand up on its own, at the moment, but they are developing at the right pace, so they should be OK in a week. Blue Powers are very stumpy, which is a pity as they look like they'll have good flower. You're right about the ppm going in that is what I pay attention to. Lately I've cut my concentrations down.

@sanibelisl, when you get to the Blue Power, they require much less nutes, I'm just giving them 300ppm and they are doing well now albeing small.

@sanibelisl, that's what I expected from the Blue Power F4's, stability, but they appear very unstable. This is the reason that I am committed to growing single strain grows, in order to find out what is really going on.

@sanibelisl, I was going to do something more exotic but I got spooked by my stunted Blue Powers and decided to go for a classic instead. Might do a Bruce Banner next!