Auto flowering schedules

donpaul.p;1820480 said:

thanks for the info, at the minute ive got a male producing me pollen, this is a kc45 that was grown under 12-12 and again it is over 2ft, so im collecting pollen to produce more kc45 autos with the kc45 auto fem i got growing and ive also got a auto bubble fem growing again under 12-12, so might put pollen on that if its a small auto so hopefully the big kc45 auto will rub off on the little auto bubble and should produce a good mix of pheno types i can work with, but i might be wrong and get a big auto bubble under 12-12, im sure its only a matter of time before i find out

the problem with autos and low yields is down to the breeding, autos are bred to be a very quick grow, the quicker the reach harvest the better as expected yields are based on a sea of green style grow, so buying just 1 auto and you get low yields, but buy 30 or 40 autos and even if you got 10g dry per auto every 60 days then thats 300 or 400g dry every 60 days, so autos have always been bred to reach harvest quick so its a fast turn around,

but this is not good if you only buy 1 or 2 autos, you get pretty gutted when you end up with an 8th or 1/4oz per plant, its just not good, luckily their are now breeders working on producing autos that yield well, how ever grow time will increase due to this,

you could grow regular plants under 12-12 from seed to harvest and produce more than 1/4oz, you could get anything upto about an oz under 12-12 from seed with none autos, but growth time will be 4 weeks for veg and 8 weeks for flower or slightly less, so thats why autos are quick to grow and reach harvest as its the fast turn around time that the breeders have always worked on due to growers growing in sog style grow,

the big bang auto yields around 40zdry, not a strain ive tried but a few growers on here grew a few of them and all yielded around the 4oz mark but grow time was increased, if an auto has a longer grow time then its pretty pointless it been an auto as it would mean either keeping it under a veg schedule for longer or keeping it under 12-12 for longer, but the problem their is we normally grow autos with our other plants so we cant keep the lights on veg for ages just so an auto produces well, so their needs to be some level ground where an auto will yield well under a normal veg cycle or under a normal flower cycle,

im hopfully trying to produce a decent auto strain which is tough as you cant take clones of the best female to use for back crossing with, so its tough to get an auto stable, auto fems are a bit easier as you can cross 2 females that are the same pheno type, so autos are not that easy to work with, so ive crossed a none auto male with an auto female, this will produce seeds that around 1/4 will turn out auto, so ill cross a male and female that turn out auto and that will produce auto seeds, so ive got a way to go before i can start working with the autos to produce something thats stable but ive started so will continue with my auto project and see what happens.

i just thnk if we could increase growth by a couple of weeks then the returns will really pay off, if an auto stayed in veg 2 weeks longer than the extra growth would give us a higher yield possible double what we are getting at the minute

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