Setup:


400w MH (Top Chamber)
2 - 4' T12 (Bottom Chamber)
4 - 20w CFL (Bottom Chamber)
Grow Tent (4 ft length, 2 feet width, 7 ft high)
4'' Exhaust Fan
3'' Cooling Fan (For Steam Strength)
Digital Timer (Set to 20/4)


Soil/Nutes/Water:


Foxfarm Ocean Forest
Foxfarm Big Bloom (For Flowering)
Purified Water (RO)


Seeds:


10 Lowryder 2 (dr. chronic)


Method:


The idea here is to harvest at least a pound every month or 37 days. Since Lowryders auto-flower with no change in light cycle this means their life cycle is 60-70 days from seed to harvest. Also, if grown correctly can yield anywhere from 1 to 1.5oz per plant.


You cannot correctly clone an auto-flowering strain, so clones are out of the question.


So in order for this method to work, you need a ton of lowryder seeds, so I'm going to sex my two strongest plants from this batch and begin the system directly afterwards.


The bottom chamber will be for the seedlings and their first month of growth, the top is for their flower cycle to harvest. If I germinate new seeds every 25 days, I could have new sprouts every month.


Of course I will need to germ a bunch of seeds since there will be chances of male plants.


The total amount of plants in the flower chamber will be 8-12 and veg chamber: 20-30

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RIU AUTO-FLOWER CREW
Current Grow Sea of Ryders

I ordered my seeds two days ago, so once they arrive I will begin this journal.

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Okay! Today is the first day, I just received the seeds (10x Lowryder #2, via Dr. Chronic) and have been placed into the germination chamber.

They Sent me two bags of 5 seeds, I dunno why, really matters no less.

Though this is the first day of the project, I will not consider it day one of the grow, once they pop, that's day one.

(Dr. Chronic took less than a week to get here btw!)

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RIU AUTO-FLOWER CREW
Current Grow Sea of Ryders

goodluck I just finished my seed run of ryder hybrids.. Now the sea begins...

Hey i'm curious, what size pots are you going to be flowering in.. when you do the SOG?

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6'' x 6'', since their lowryders you can do the entire grow with these pots, plus they stack next to each other well allowing you to have at least 16 under a 400w

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Current Grow Sea of Ryders

Ah, ok.. I think i'm going to be using 4x4" (5.25" deep) pots for my grow.. the ones i've found hold about 1/3 of a gallon i think.

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What strain will you be growing?

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It'll either be White Widow again, got some going in 6L pots right now and 16oz. cups.. or if my PPP gets here in time i'll try to get a good mom from those seeds. I ordered from the Doc too so I hope I get 'em soon.. he's always been fast for me too.

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Ok so, I was able to get 8 Lowryder seeds to pop out of 10, and for the hell of it planted a white rhino seed that germ'd as well.

So in a few days here, we'll see how many sprout!

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Current Grow Sea of Ryders