2x Pine Apple Express - advice on feeding.

CollieGreens

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Hi, as the title states, i am growing 2 pine apple express autoflowers. They are roughly 5 weeks in and as this is my first successful-ish run at autoflowers im not too sure how they look in comparison or how i should be feeding them. I have growing "normal" plants before but hear autoflower feeding is different.
The nutes i have are AN Micro/Gorw/Bloom, Dutch Pro Explode, Root Tonic and CalMag.
I began the first 2 weeks on pH adjusted tap water and some Root Tonic, on week 3 i introduced a light feed of mostly Micro/Grow and some Bloom. I have increased the feeding further as the weeks passed.
Now she has shown pistols and their fluffing out a bit, im unsure on how i should continue, ive read to stop feeding veg nutes and concentrate more on blooming.I should add the medium im using is coco/clay balls; the reason i purchased clamag as i hear coco isnt good at retaining either.
Here are the pics of how she looks today, roughly 5 weeks in.
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The cfl in the room makes them look a lot more yellow than they are, the leaves do have yellow patches and are a bit saggy. Have had problems with the temp varying and getting cold but should be resolved now.
Looking for some guidance of what i should be feeding them and how they look.
Thanks for the look, any help is greatly appreciated,
Collie.
 

grow4fun420

Active Member
they say that... but i haven't found a single auto that hasn't needed grow nutes the entire time... now the laws of physics may be different in my grow room.. the only thing i have gotten by cutting out grow nutes is shitty looking plants... don't take my word for it. lots and lots of ppl say you have to/must stop grow nutes... but i find it's like almost everything else ppl say about auto's: bullshit
Im a noob at the indoor growing and nearing the end of my 2nd auto run. The strain I'm growing seems to hate nutes because I fed them once and burned the shit out of one of my fav plants. Take into account that this was only at 1/4 strength feeding (once). I think my plants look damn good for being around week 7. The only other thing I've been doing is giving them PH'd water and molasses. Oh, and I just gave them a small dose of some bloom nutes a couple days ago... All I can say in response to this is "Do your research". I do research all the time and watch mad grow videos, youtube, ect... But there are people out there who have fed autos all the way through with just water and I think they turned out damn well. I have seen it and read about it.:bigjoint:
 

grow4fun420

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By the way Collie, your girls are looking good IMO! Keep it up... :joint: I'm also growing pineapple express at the moment so I have to ask, what breeder did you decide to go with?
 

CollieGreens

Active Member
Cheers for feedback mate, might just stick to only bloom nutes and molasses. Went with barneys farm mate, seem decent enough like. Ive done researhc on research but nothing specific to the AN nutes im using.
Cheers pal
 

cyanarnofsky

Active Member
depending on your medium, if you where in soil and this happened that rapidly...might look at your ppm of just the soil. Might be mixed with nutes from start?
 
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