Light and Nutrients for Auto-flowers

Vmino

Member

• Apr 1, 2013

• #1

Can I grow Autos and regular photoperiod plants in the same tent? What I mean is if the auto takes longer than the photoperiods stay in veg, will the photoperiod change to flowering have any effect on the autos? also what kind of nutrients do you give an auto flower? do you start it on veg and then switch to flowering nutrients? or do you just start them on flowering nutrients?

 

Vmino

Member

• Apr 1, 2013

• #2

Bumpalizing bumpaloo

 

tekdc911

Well-Known Member

• Apr 1, 2013

• #3

yields on auto's are less under 12/12 you could just veg your photo's longer lst or even crop them and they will bush out more then you could flip em to 12/12 and get more out of them

 

tekdc911

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• Apr 1, 2013

• #4

could cut some clones maybe and give your photo's time to recover

 

Vmino

Member

• Apr 1, 2013

• #5

I have no experience with autos whatsoever, do you know about the nutrients?

 

tekdc911

Well-Known Member

• Apr 1, 2013

• #6

start with lite nutes 1/4 strength and work up give them veg nutes until vertical growth slows usually a week or two after preflowers it slows down for a couple days then explodes this is when i switch also if you start on bloom nutes they tend to finish faster but this slows down and cuts short the all important veg phase and auto's can go from yielding ounces to maybe a quarter bag veg highly reflects yield i start them under what im gonna finish them under but im just running mixed cfl's far from a real setup

 

tekdc911

Well-Known Member

• Apr 1, 2013

• #7

also they like really high drainage soil/soiless i run 1/3 perlite 1/3 saghum moss or however you spell it and a coco based indoor soil they dont like soil that packs up real easy they respond really well to root pruning i mean really well