Squintygirl's Lowryder First Try 11-08

[squint2focus]

3 plants total
2 weeks old as of 11-12-08
Outdoor grow in soil- Miracle Gro Potting Mix
5 gallon container (will be transplanting to single containers later)
Central Florida- warm days, cool nights, moderate humidity
Dynagro 1-2x/week





New grower- first time trying lowryder! Only second grow total. Any help, recommendations are greatly appreciated!
Will update regularly.

[FloridaBud]

You will need to seperate into individual containers. also with temps getting cool at nite, would you be able to put inside? it will stunt the growth, and they won't want to grow very well, you will have poor yield and will take alot longer.

[Ms.Fox]

IMO, this really isn't the optimal time to start a grow outside because there's less than 12 hours of sunlight a day. They will go straight into flowering. Good to see you do plan on separating them. ;-) MG soil isn't the best because of time released nutes. This makes your plants prone to nute burn if you add any supplemental nutes. ;-)

[squint2focus]

From what I've read, this strain doesn't have a vegetative growth cycle (supposed to be about an 8 week grow??) and goes straight from seed-flower! Yeah, I'll start bringing them inside at night. What kind of soil would you recommend? I have a small six-plant hydro kit but its still intimidating me a bit.

Would giving them additional light when I bring them in for the night be the best thing to compensate for the short days right now?

[Ms.Fox]

Lol! Unfortunately I have no personal experience with growing lowrider. ;-) I think you should decide whether you want to grow outside or inside. From what I just read it is better to start a lowrider plant out with a 18/6 light schedule at first and then the following month go to 16/8. Starting out with 12/12 may greatly affect your yeild and may shorten the life cycle of the plant overall.

[McBudz]

Fox Farms Ocean Forest, Sunshine Mix #4, or Pro-Mix. You should be able to get them at your local hydro shop. I use FFOF with some added dolomite lime and love it.

Yes Lowryder auto-flowers but I believe it will do better as a plant if it were under more than 12 hours of light,

Good luck, looking forward to this grow.

[mr.mike]

I'd say water them with plain water until they have a couple of sets of true leaves then increase if you think you need to but not much, especially if your soil has fertilizer in it. You certainly DON'T need fancy ferts. Get used to the growing thing, then figure out how you want to do it.

You don't need to put them in separate pots, but you could. If you are going to move them in and outside then one pot may be easier.

It would be best to bring them in at night. Put them under a 20 Watt daylight CFL, it will do great for them as they grow. They don't do so great outside, though.

If you like the whole Lowryder/autoflowering plant thing, and you like it after this grow, there are some other, better (imo) strains from the joint doctor, like Lowryder 2 and Dieselryder. Lowryder 2 really is a big improvement over the original.

[McBudz]

You may want to transplant them into smaller pots for now since that soil looks pretty wet and those little things will never use up all that moisture. You are flirting with root rot if you stay in that big pot and soak the soil that much. My 2 cents...

[norcaliwood]

I got some 11 week old lowrider that just now started to flower. I have 3 going under a little 250 watt hps and the peeps that sold me the seeds say I am using to small a light? thats the reason they took to long to flower. What do I need a 1000 watter to make them autoflower? These are from Amsterdamn Seeds they also told me that Low2 is just a sales thing. But then they also told me these seeds would be auto flowering. 9weeks out the door. Week 11? I even had to force flower mine. Good luck with your grow tho, Stay Down Wood

[glassbowls]

hey man good luck i want to buy some lowrider or some lowrider 2 prob 2 for this summer.

[Bee23]

Gotta love 420 learn something new everyday. Thanks for sharing Squint2focus.

[squint2focus]

Update*** Friday 11-21-08

Power is about to be shut off again- had some eletrical problems and now they are completley rewiring the house. Will update Sunday or Monday but will only be online sporadically until next Friday! :( Bummer for me, bummer for my plants that are tired of being moved!

Indoor, self-contained grow cabinet- OH, how we long for you!

[FATMIR]

you got ripped, and those people obviously know they sold u crap. mine started flowering after 3 weeks. goldenseed.com has em for a pretty good deal and there very eliable and super fast at shippng.

[Coleman]

i guess too you get riped by the shop wher you buy that seeds!
i do now 5 lowryder2 and the ydoin werry well!
i use some ferts for them(bio-bizz whit 11week instructions)
they should show pre-flowers after the firts 3 set of leavs!
you should go too your shop and tell then too F@&@& !!!!!
i hope this little grow will end up to a nice growing buds:P
good luck!!
( i use 400HPS and its weeerrrrry enught!!!-i have under 5plant)

[norcaliwood]

Oh I know what happened, it was just funny to see if they wanted to make it rite. The product was ripper. Now they say next order they throw in a freebie. Still what I did get was hella good herbs. And I scored 3 out of 3 females. And they are burning as I type. Good Luck Squinty. And Stay Down Any Woods out there. Wood