Two Autos 450 Actual Watts LED FF Happy Frog Soil

[DreamingTrees7]

Crop King Seeds Autoflower 10 mix pack
I dropped two autoflowers they both are growing well. We’re on day 18.
They’re both the same size getting ready to really take off but they look really different. I haven’t seen anyone else’s plants look like this.
I also dropped a CKS Blue Dream Feminized seed and it is behind about two weeks. It is growing a lot of roots right now mostly. I will include that one in this journal too. It’s a photoperiod strain so we will see how big she gets by the time the autos are done and i switch the lights to 12/12 when the blue dream has the tent and both lights all to herself.

Grow tent
2x4x5
440 cfm vivosun 6 inch in-line fan
1 temp sensor on off switch
1 century mechanical 24 hour timer
20” cool grows carbon filter
3 feet 6 inch duct
2 600 watt mars hydro eco
4 rope hangers
5 gallon fabric pots
3 6 inch clip fans
2 bags fox farms happy frog soil
1 fox farms trio

Why do these look so different?

 

[EastCoastGhost]

They are stunted and already started flowering, if I were you I would cull those and start new ones

 

[EastCoastGhost]

The photo strain looks over watered to me but I would like to see pics of her in natural light

 

[EastCoastGhost]

So easy to over water seedlings, you ever consider growing in coco?

 

[Chris Scorpio]

Look stunted for sure

Water issues? What's yer watering habbits

Lights too close? How far away are they

Are u using nutes? Happy Frog dosent need it for a few weeks

Room temps and Rh?

 

[Preston9mm]

I think overwatering...

MHO

Seems like those autos never needed to stretch their legs, so they stayed fairly small above ground too. The small window for an auto's veg time has passed. Now they are flowering, I'm not sure you'll see a bunch of new growth.

I think I agree with ECG on this one.... I'd probably cull the autos & start fresh.

I'd let the photo girl dry out & see if she wants to stretch at all.

 

[DreamingTrees7]

I think overwatering...

MHO

Seems like those autos never needed to stretch their legs, so they stayed fairly small above ground too. The small window for an auto's veg time has passed. Now they are flowering, I'm not sure you'll see a bunch of new growth.

I think I agree with ECG on this one.... I'd probably cull the autos & start fresh.

I'd let the photo girl dry out & see if she wants to stretch at all.

I actually started the two autos under 12/12 lighting while my previous plants ripened up, would that make them start flowering that early? I think I’ll just keep those going and start two more. And see if they grow any faster. So I’m either using my grow lights wrong or over watering. I have two mars hydro eco 600 watt lights pulling around 400 true watts in a 2x4x5 tent. My lights are tilted slightly inward at about 27 inches above the leaf tips. Here’s my setup

 

[DreamingTrees7]

They should be bigger?

 

[Preston9mm]

I actually started the two autos under 12/12 lighting while my previous plants ripened up, would that make them start flowering that early? I think I’ll just keep those going and start two more. And see if they grow any faster. So I’m either using my grow lights wrong or over watering. I have two mars hydro eco 600 watt lights pulling around 400 true watts in a 2x4x5 tent. My lights are tilted slightly inward at about 27 inches above the leaf tips. Here’s my setup

12/12 light schedule will not cause an auto to flower. They have an "internal clock" that triggers their flowering, independent of light schedule.

How much (qty) are you watering each time? With a pot that size, fully saturated, can sometimes take 7-10 days to dry. If that soil is always wet, the roots never have to search out water. This will affect your root mass, and ultimately your overall plant size.

Nothing wrong with letting them babies grow to see what they do. Either way, it's a learning experience.

 

[DreamingTrees7]

12/12 light schedule will not cause an auto to flower. They have an "internal clock" that triggers their flowering, independent of light schedule.

How much (qty) are you watering each time? With a pot that size, fully saturated, can sometimes take 7-10 days to dry. If that soil is always wet, the roots never have to search out water. This will affect your root mass, and ultimately your overall plant size.

Nothing wrong with letting them babies grow to see what they do. Either way, it's a learning experience.

Yep I’m not gonna kill them, each one is special to me. The one that is obviously showing pistils already is the only one out of the two. The other one is just getting going well.

I started all of them in red solo cups and transplanted all of them at the same time on 4-15.
The blue dream photo fem I’m growing along side I definetely transplanted too soon since it broke the soil on 4-5. She is settling in nicely.
I’m germinating another Autoflower
I got an Autoflower ten pack from a seed bank that is very reliable but they didn’t label which ones are what. They have ten different strains and ten different Autoflower versions so I’ll be guessing what they are. Exciting

 

[DreamingTrees7]

Yep I’m not gonna kill them, each one is special to me. The one that is obviously showing pistils already is the only one out of the two. The other one is just getting going well.

I started all of them in red solo cups and transplanted all of them at the same time on 4-15.
The blue dream photo fem I’m growing along side I definetely transplanted too soon since it broke the soil on 4-5. She is settling in nicely.
I’m germinating another Autoflower
I got an Autoflower ten pack from a seed bank that is very reliable but they didn’t label which ones are what. They have ten different strains and ten different Autoflower versions so I’ll be guessing what they are. Exciting

That’s what journals are about right?

Lesson learned, don’t water your seedlings much at all or they won’t grow as fast as they’re supposed too.

 

[DreamingTrees7]

The photo strain looks over watered to me but I would like to see pics of her in natural light

Yea I’ve been over watering. I dialed that back. I just transplanted them from red cups.

 

[DreamingTrees7]

Look stunted for sure

Water issues? What's yer watering habbits

Lights too close? How far away are they

Are u using nutes? Happy Frog dosent need it for a few weeks

Room temps and Rh?

I didn’t use any kind of dome either. RH is always about 40-50%

 

[KingNyx]

I actually started the two autos under 12/12 lighting while my previous plants ripened up, would that make them start flowering that early? I think I’ll just keep those going and start two more. And see if they grow any faster. So I’m either using my grow lights wrong or over watering. I have two mars hydro eco 600 watt lights pulling around 400 true watts in a 2x4x5 tent. My lights are tilted slightly inward at about 27 inches above the leaf tips. Here’s my setup

Does kinda look like its flowering

 

[Strainyourbrain]

Welcome @DreamingTrees7 . I have some auto's going as well and having my own hassles with slow growth.
Been doing this for a while and all I can say is sh.. happens!

 

[KingNyx]

Welcome @DreamingTrees7 . I have some auto's going as well and having my own hassles with slow growth.
Been doing this for a while and all I can say is sh.. happens!

You can do surprisingly well despite having no idea what your doing in my experience. Just gotta be happy with whatever happens.

 

[Strainyourbrain]

You can do surprisingly well despite having no idea what your doing in my experience. Just gotta be happy with whatever happens.

Yeh. And every grow is a learning experience.

 

[Barney86]

Don't need all that light for seedlings iether mate. I'd bunch the pots together and just use 1. They don't want much light to start off with and the plants can only use light upto about 60w per square foot. Much more and they stress out and do all sorts of weird shit. If youve got them angled in you could be pushing serious wattage on those wee babies.
I've got a 130w cfl reflector that can grow 8-12 plants in rockwools at full tilt for the first 2 weeks. Not much use for anything other than that but perfect for getting them passed the fragile stage. Many of us use really low power stuff to start with cos it's just easier. Can get the lights like 6 inches away too so can control how much or how little you want them to stretch really easily. Cheap to buy too. Mine was only £30 and it's made the entire process so much easier for me.
Ive tried starting with 250w leds a few times and it's never worked out well. Usually get too leggy so I lower the light and fry them lol

 

[DreamingTrees7]

Does kinda look like its flowering

That one was definitely flowering and wasn’t going to be much at harvest so I replaced it with a freshly germinated seed. (So far I have 100% success with germination)
I re planted it in another pot to see what it does. The other Autoflower that looks funny is doing really well and not showing any signs of flowering yet.
The blue dream photoperiod is looking good but I have to prop it up with a bread tie.
My last harvest was like 6 ounces of dank bud two black indica plants. Those started off slow too because I watered them too much also. So I have my watering technique down and I have one healthy blue dream in veg growing faster and one Autoflower still vegging growing faster and one autoflower seedling about to sprout and I’m going to water it right.
Picture time!!

I am only using one light like you suggested the temp with lights on is 80 and my fan works a lot less harder to keep it at 80.
Rh is about 55%
Waiting on the seedling to break ground.
Why does one of the healthy ones look so different? Does anybody know?

 

[DreamingTrees7]

Day 22 for the auto
Day 17 for the blue dream