First true flower week for Auto?

Hey RIU! How's it going!? Quick question for you! But first, a little background..
I have two photo Sage N Sours and two af NL's growing right now in the same setup. My concern is keeping humidity at a range where it is acceptable for the veg of the photos while the autos flower. Ive read that 40-70 is good for veg and 30-50 is good for flower so i plan to keep the humidity around 40-50. Both autos have pistils at all sites. I read somewhere that smell is a huge signal when flowering but my babies have already been smelling so im not really satisfied with that lol

so to my question..
how can i tell the first week of flowering for my auto?

Destiny's Child

Grampie

Close up of biggest site on Grampie
Thanks in advance!

-Trippy

someone knows the answer....but who?

youll get pom poms of white hairs is when i swap to bloom nutes
thats a photo period but its for an example when it looks about like that i switch nutes

the auto's will handle what ever humidity the photo needs to veg
the NL's are pretty hardy

thank you so much! when you introduce nutes, what strength do you like to start at? i started mine at 1/4 strength of the recommended feeding schedule and am working up.

-Trippy

i start around 1/4 str
usually i just use that if there not screaming for anything in particular i usually have them in staggered ages so one feed for all type deal
im lazy and i really dont try to push them to hard

trippyhills said:

someone knows the answer....but who?

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I don't know the answer but will say I had the same drama weeks ago and now I'm nearing the end of my nl auto grow,middle of a bubblelicious auto grow and have a sage n sour aswell plus 2 more photos in my tent,have never had the humidity above 45%,lowest 20 the other day and all my plants are thriving. As tek said switch over when ya got white pom poms,my bubblelicious is into week 6 and I only started feedings 1 week ago,start at qtr strength what bottle sez and you should be fine. Smell isn't a definitive way to tell as my sage n sour started started funking reaking at week 3 (love that sns smell ).

im at the end of week 6 today with my autos, they have been on 3-4 weeks with the flowering feed, and i started switching to flowering feed a week after they came up, don't really see any prominent pistils on yours yet so i would give it another week. id wait till you see them popping up everywhere imo. just pay close attention to them they will let you know when they're ready.

this one has just started coming into flowering shes behind 2 of my other autos but she is 2 times the size as the rest
this one id say is still in early flowering as i notice shes still having pistols pop up.

idk if this helps but you can compare it to kind of see where yours are at.

when it pops preflower everywhere you still have a few weeks of veg thats why i go by when they are clustered up that way im not robbing it of precious veg time

What I do is....I split there life into 3 parts. First part of life I feed veg nutes,second part I feed half veg, half bloom,third part is the bloom nutes. This works well for me. Autos are very forgiving. This is what this system did for me.

Happy Growing, Polo

agreed on splitting it up i was just trying to keep it simple for OP
i use roughly a 7 part feed so i can just bump one mineral up at a time if needed

Hey guys! This is the schedule that im doing right now:
Week
1 - pH water
2 - very very light veg nutes
3 - light veg nutes
4 - veg nutes
5 - Veg/Bloom nutes 40:60% <-- Currently here
6 - veg/bloom 20:80
7 - bloom
8 - flush
9 - flush

-Trippy

what about weeks 10-possibly 14 ?

yea i have to ask the same question what about week ten? from what ive been reading on here that seems early to flush. i plan on flushing mine on week 10, maybe even wait till 11. it all depends on where my plants are at but. week 9 i feel like would be a bad time to flush as they would just be getting into their peak of flowering right?

The information i found on this strain from the breeder said that it was seed to harvest in 56 days, which is 8 weeks. im going for a week more, but should i go longer? is that what you guys are suggesting?

Thanks so much for the help!

-Trippy

i would go as long as you can. imo. letting it go for another week isnt going to have a negative effect, most of the autos i have growing now said the same from seed harvest was 55 days, but i feel as tho that is optimal conditions and a few other varying factors im sure. take a look at my journal. i just posted a new update im on the end of week 7 now. Tomorrow starts week 8. now i said i wanted to flush on 10 or 11, but if i think they could go longer then i probably will. im not going to push it past 85 days. im hoping between 75-80 ill be able to harvest,

Im at day 42 on my autos this is a peek at them girls, only 5 of my 10 in the tent are autos though View attachment 2915449View attachment 2915450View attachment 2915451

Id def go at least 80 days for the buds to fully mature on any auto regardless of how many days is is (supposed) to take, no plant is worth smoking if its 56 days old