Hummmm.......interesting topic. I am a fairly successful auto flower strain grower and have grown from several of the good names in the auto flower game. I hold the unoffical strain record for Mephisto's Sour Crack, a 3/4 pound Grape Crinkle. I have never had a seed fail to germinate and never have had a plant fail mid grow.
As part of a grow competition on another forum I went through great lengths to get my hands on some FastBuds seeds. I was very lucky to get my hands on some FB's GSC first. I had started one plant as a test plant prior to the comp start. The seed germed fine but it just didn't do a damn thing for at least 10 days. No real root growth...nothing(I grow in DWC so I see my roots from day 1). What leaves it had were half burned even as they were forming....it was just strange. I was just about to pull her and start new when she final seemed to get her legs under her and did something. Even with that said she is now 38 days old and looks like she is only 20 days old. Her leaves are very variegated to boot! I chalked it up to an odd seed and then started a FB Blackberry for the competition grow. She too germed fine. It formed a good tap root for the first few days and then just stopped. It's like she parked the bus but refused to get off....just sat there. A set of leaves would form and then they would turn dry and cripsy .....she would form a new node and repete. I pulled her at day 18-20...can't remember. There is a number of other growers that are still in the grow contest that also are commenting on very slow growth from their FastBuds plants.
Hummmm.......interesting topic. I am a fairly successful auto flower strain grower and have grown from several of the good names in the auto flower game. I hold the unoffical strain record for Mephisto's Sour Crack, a 3/4 pound Grape Crinkle. I have never had a seed fail to germinate and never have had a plant fail mid grow.
As part of a grow competition on another forum I went through great lengths to get my hands on some FastBuds seeds. I was very lucky to get my hands on some FB's GSC first. I had started one plant as a test plant prior to the comp start. The seed germed fine but it just didn't do a damn thing for at least 10 days. No real root growth...nothing(I grow in DWC so I see my roots from day 1). What leaves it had were half burned even as they were forming....it was just strange. I was just about to pull her and start new when she final seemed to get her legs under her and did something. Even with that said she is now 38 days old and looks like she is only 20 days old. Her leaves are very variegated to boot! I chalked it up to an odd seed and then started a FB Blackberry for the competition grow. She too germed fine. It formed a good tap root for the first few days and then just stopped. It's like she parked the bus but refused to get off....just sat there. A set of leaves would form and then they would turn dry and cripsy .....she would form a new node and repete. I pulled her at day 18-20...can't remember. There is a number of other growers that are still in the grow contest that also are commenting on very slow growth from their FastBuds plants.
Moving forward I decided to try once again and I have another Blackberry that is 2 days from sprout. We will see how she does.
Moving forward I decided to try once again and I have another Blackberry that is 2 days from sprout. We will see how she does.
