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Originally Posted by ZEN MASTER
hey BTW man Damnnn! Beautiful plant man, i always wondered what that auto stuff smoked like. so do you think it would be worth it just to primarily grow autos? also during the latter period of flowering, was the smell just loud or does it get up to the "smell it outside" kind of loud? i don't know, but i think that would be kinda sick though if i got 30-35 1gal pots, and for every group of males i pull, i seed one plant, and just replace them with another set of plants. and so on and so forth. that is until i get tired of that strtrain, or i run out of seeds(whichever come first). but yea, definitely interested in that. so holler.
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Yeah, the autos have their definate advantages to them. As for the smell, holy crap
Very, very strong...and that was just the lowryder 2. The auto blueberry x AK47 I'm finishing up now is even worse. Easily smelled outside but fortunately we do legitimately have a skunk that lives right outside our place so not too many eyebrows get raised
The biggest advantage to growing just them is that they only have the 1 light cycle. Just the 18/6 or the 20/4 (strain dependent). No need for seperate rooms for veg and flower or fancy grow cabs (I am diy illiterate sadly). Just put'em all together. Also, no cloning with them. It won't work (well, it'll work but it can't re-veg and won't produce enough to make it worth it). So it's all from seed.
Another big plus to these is that they are near IMPOSSIBLE to kill. My grow room environment is absolutely awful right now. Temps over 85 typically and surpass 100 once per day (it's just a sad little closet with no ventillation
)(moving the whole set up to the more grow friendly basement
). And they don't even really need nutes to do what they do. The highest I ever got was like 660ppm with that beast of a lr2. And even then it showed some signs of nute burn. Guess this is all pretty typical of the ruderalis-based strains. I guess if you can grow naturally in alaska, you can survive just about any environment.
The males are the big drawback to them. Ugh. Especially in hydro-dwc with a shared rez. But I was plannin on doing what you described with replacing every male with a new seed. That, and the best autoflowering strain will probably never be as strong as the best non-autoflowering strains.
I'm holding off on the perpetual grow with all of the seeds I have now until I experiment with the basement growspace and trying my hand at cloning...something I have avoided for a while cause it sounds like too much work
Speaking of which...holy crap that is some serious root growth on that clone!!! I had to do a double take there. Thought I was looking at a blonde wig on the bottom of a rockwool cube at first.
Rockwool really sounds like the way to go with cloning from what I've read around here. But rockwool and I do not get along (I chronically under- or over- water it). You obviously seem to have cloning in it down pretty damn well so I'll probably be hittin ya up for info when I start playing around with cloning. I have an aerogarden set aside for just that purpose (*see the Butter's Aerogarden definition below if you are unfamiliar with this product).
Thanks for the tip about not mixing the A+B together before mixing with water. I woulda made that mistake like 5 minutes after opening the bottles for the 1st time
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Good luck getting your grow journal in your sig boss. It definately helps in getting people to check out your journal. As does a really catch a title...like "Michael Jackson's face in rockwool cube". Put that as your title, and you'll have 4500 views in like 10 minutes
Take it easy.
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Aerogarden
A hydroponic gardening system that men's wives/girlfriends get as a gift on certain occasions. The females then grow basil, and tomatoes and such in them for about 2 months before becoming tired with the product and realizing that they don't even cook with basil anyway so what's the f'n point. At which point the male realizes "Hey...I bet I could grow weed in that thing", puts in a couple of seeds, quickly realizes that he has no idea what he's doing once they sprout up, performs an internet search on
marijuana growing which inevitably leads him to RIU. The aerogarden, the commercials say it's for chics and vegetables...but we know better
