First time grower, droopy leaves

Thanks guys! Ok I'm gonna elevate the smaller girls up to the level of the biggest one. Thanks for the advice. I am seeing hairs, so ill add my bloom nutes(ill start with low amounts and raise gradually). Also gonna be germinating 3 more beans this week in a 2x2x36 tent I just got for propagation under t-5 lights. Thanks for all your help.
 
Hey jsheeze if you are still around I have a question for ya. So my plants are doing great. Flowering now(well my biggest one is in full flower, and the other is just starting, that one took forever for some reason)and I'm expecting to chop them down around the end of February. Even the 3rd plant that I broke the main stem clear in half I saved and treated as a big clone is starting to flower lol won't get much off her, but it showed me you can save anything. Anyway, I have 6 seedlings(afghan kush Ryder autos) that are already about 1- 2 inches tall and in solo cups(wasn't messing around with watering small plants in big final pots this time!). I'm gonna use six 2-gallon grow bags(trying/experimenting with smaller pot sizes and more plants). So I'm making my coco mix now. I looked back at our thread but couldn't understand the amount of Neem seed meal to use in my coco/perlite 50/50 mix. So my question is how much Neem seed meal to mix into 12 gallons worth of substrate? And would you recommend adding anything else into the mix? Its canna coco so I won't have to flush or buffer it this time around. Thanks again, ill try and post pics of my plants soon as well.
 
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This is one huge freaking autoflower! It has like 9 main colas(maybe more actually). I may just grow autos if this is what they are like(but its taking up my whole 3x3 tent). Its why I am switching to smaller pots with more plants this coming grow so I can see what yields more total. You can see my smaller plant in the front left corner(just starting to bud), but these pics are really just 1 huge auto. Got about a month left on the big plant. Maybe month and a half or more on the smaller one. Couple more questions... How far from projected harvest(around Feb 24th-march 3rd) I stop feeding nutes? Should I feed her anything then? And I'm going to flush with flora-kleen, when should I do that and how many times?
Thanks for the help guys.
 

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DoubleX5150

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I would keep feeding nutes up until you chop, then give a plain flush with neutral pH water. A lot of websites will say to stop feeding all nutes a week before you chop, but I have tried both methods and I realize that the last week before harvest is when you can really fatten up the buds.
I have never used this florakleen stuff but it looks like the manufacturer says to do 2tblsp in a gallon of water 2 days before harvest.

My plants are about the same maturity as yours, I'm about 4 weeks into flowering.
 
I have another rookie question... When the strain I'm growing says " flowering weeks indoor: 10-12 weeks", does that mean 10-12 weeks from when I saw the first pistils? Or weeks 10-12 of the whole grow? If it means 10-12 weeks after I saw the pistils then my projected harvest will not be the end of February, like I first thought. It would actually be the end of March. At least it gives me more time to get bigger buds!
 

DoubleX5150

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10-12 weeks from the day you switched to 12/12. But those are pretty long flowering times, usually they are only 7-10 weeks depending on the strain. Sativas generally have longer flowering times than indicas.
 
Thanks for the quick reply. Its an afghani autoflower, so I didn't flip to 12/12. And yeah it does seem pretty long, but I just double checked and it says flowering weeks: 10-12 weeks. I guess ill keep a close eye on her. I have a jewelers magnifier. When I see a decent amount of orange/red pistils, its time to harvest correct? They are all long and white right now. Thanks.
 

Thundercat

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Flower time is from when you first see flowers forming. Measuring from 12/12 is pointless because different strains and plants take longer or shorter amounts of time to begin flowering. Some breeders will actually specify "12/12 time" but otherwise flowering time is from first signs of flowers.

Some breeders are different with autos, but typically it's still from when you see flowers since that is how you know it has began to flower.
 

Thundercat

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In all reality though the breeders time frame is just a loose suggestion. Your plant could be done at a completely different time because it could easily be a different phenotype from that the breeder had, and your grow is different from the breeders. Those things hugely impact flower times.
 
So I found out from the breeder that it is 10-12 weeks from first leaves. Great news! So that means I'm supposed to harvest late February, early March. I've been reading that auto flowers are best to harvest when most of the leaves are yellow. Mine just started yellowing so that's a good sign. I'm also checking trichomes with a jewelers loupe and they are still clear. I've cut down nitrogen a lot, but still give a little. Cut silica totally out. Still giving 2ml per gallon cal mag. And I'm giving 10ml per gallon liquid kool bloom. Also still giving 2ml per gallon of diamond nectar. Plan to cut all nutes about 4-6 days before harvest and flush 2 or 3 days with flora kleen, and then 2 or 3 days with plain ph'd RO water. I have a fabric closet I just bought to hang dry for 7-10 days. Any drying tips? Oh yeah, all that info is for my one big plant. My other plant is a little slower so still giving her different nutes, and will have to harvest her later. Maybe like 2-3 weeks after I harvest the first plant. You can see a little of her in the front of these pics. And I have my third plant, that I almost killed by snapping her main stem, in a smaller tent, by herself. and she is flowering!. I cut where it broke(base) on a 45 degree angle, dipped it in rooting powder, and treated her like a clone, and she survived. Actually from the looks of it she may give me 20 grams or so. Anyway, here are some pics of my main plant! And my smaller one in front of her. I hope they fatten up a little more, and I think they will. Thanks for all your help guys.
 

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Going to harvest in about a week! The bigger plant at least. Going to wait a couple weeks on her sister in the front of the pics. Leaves are turning yellow, and trichs are finally starting to get cloudy on the bigger one. White pistils still shooting on the smaller one. Same age, same seed. Thinking I must have stunted the smaller one somehow. Man I'm going to love this hobby.
 

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