1st Time Grow, Let Me Know What You Think

[Can’tSmokeIt]

Legal grow here in Michigan. I've always wanted to grow so I decided to invest a little over $600 for all materials including seeds.
So here's what I went with:
3x3 mylar tent
600w vipraspectra led
4 inch inline fan w/ ducting and carbon filter
Hanging ratchets
A few 5 gallon and 2 gallon fabric grow bags
Fox farms liquid fertilizers
Organic soil composed of perlite, sphagum peat moss, poultry litter, ground limestone, "aged forest product and/or compost"
Worm castings (I hear worms make good shit)
Seeds purchased from Attitude Seed Bank

I decided to go with 3 plants to start out with as my first grow. 2 autoflower and 1 female.
I went with Buddha Seeds White Dwarf auto, Barneys Farm Pineapple Express auto and DinaFem Blue Cheese.

I was interested in seeing how the growth would be different for the strains and the difference between auto and fem. I started the seeds at different times, I figured I was growing indoors and light cycle would not affect the autos.
So... I started the big Blue Cheese around May 10th, the Pineapple Express Auto a week later and the White Dwarf Auto the week following.

Odd enough, my White Dwarf was extremely small and then in the past few days, has become my tallest plant at almost 20 inches and the plant is around 3 weeks old. Anyways it seems that everything is healthy and I will be switching over to flower this Sunday because my large female who I've centered the grow around is getting absolutely massive.
Being a cold weather state, I also have a few other happy plants in the tent, basil, jalapeno, red succulent, a few soon to be seedlings...

I've included a few pics, 2 of my full grow, and each individual plant that I took out to water on my counter. They aren't the best photos due to space, but they will suffice. 1st is White Dwarf auto, 2nd is Blue Cheese and 3rd Pineapple Express auto. Cheers! Any questions, comments or recommendations are welcome!

 

[lvlohawk8]

Beautiful!!

 

[HigherTheHigh]

Keep doing what your doing buddy as there looking great, invest in a good PH pen .

 

[Nunyabiz]

Looking really good.
But you're going to really hurt your yield on the autoflower by cutting the light to 12/12 for the single photo period.
The autos should stay at 20/4 all the way to harvest.

Other than that everything looks really healthy, keep doing exactly what you been doing.

 

[lvlohawk8]

Looking really good.
But you're going to really hurt your yield on the autoflower by cutting the light to 12/12 for the single photo period.
The autos should stay at 20/4 all the way to harvest.

Other than that everything looks really healthy, keep doing exactly what you been doing.

My are autos ...they are 55 to 60 days and im doing the 12/12 ...so should i not do that then?? Should i do 20/4 is it ??

 

[Nunyabiz]

My are autos ...they are 55 to 60 days and im doing the 12/12 ...so should i not do that then?? Should i do 20/4 is it ??

yes keep the lights on 20/4 , that's the whole beauty of autos and why they grow so fast.
How long you been doing 12/12 on them?
It might stress them a bit doubling their light .

 

[Backlipslide]

You should never have autos and photo periods in the same tent. Especially when your wanting to switch the photo periods to flower. Autos do it automatically and photos you need manually change the light to 12/12

 

[lvlohawk8]

Thanks

 

[Backlipslide]

I shouldn’t say that, because it’s been done before, autos grow under 12/12 as well, but they aren’t meant for that light schedule

 

[Backlipslide]

Everything other then that looks good. Welcome to the site btw! Drop in on my journal if your interested and have a read. It’s a lil long and I understand that, but your more then welcome! It’s located at the bottom of my post.

 

[Can’tSmokeIt]

I've read mixed reviews as far as light periods for autos are concerned, I don't have experience so I'm just experimenting. I've seen some people say they do fine on a 12/12 and some just as those mentioned above a 20/4. I've had mine on 18/6.
So, I could potentially keep the grow on 18/6 and wait for the autos to finish and then switch to flower for my female.
Or I could just switch to flower and post results.
I'm sure there could be a loss of potential yield for the autos, but I have a good dozen of other strains that can be done differently going forward.

 

[Backlipslide]

The photo period will probably be way too big for your tent by the time to autos are done. It’s up to you really, if your all for experimenting, giver a whirl.

 

[Can’tSmokeIt]

Update for about a weeks progress here. I started a 12/12 cycle a few days ago to have my big female blue cheese flower at the same time, it seems it is only a few days behind the auto flower strains.
I have started using the fox farms bloom liquid nutrients every other water.
I forgot to mention that I do have a PH tester and my PH usually measures out at almost a perfect 7, so water quality from tap is stellar.
Temperature stays from 75°F-80°F during the day with 50% humidity levels.
Nighttime temps go from 70°F to 74°F.

All have started to bloom and look healthy, I will LST my white dwarf auto as it is growing upwards far faster than the other plants. Happy growing, here's another progress picture.

 

[Mastrmasn]

Looking great for a first grow!! Welcome to the forum.

 

[Backlipslide]

Good utilization of the room you have!

Plants are looking healthy!

 

[Can’tSmokeIt]

So here's an update on my grow: Blue Cheese fem is about 3 feet tall, flowering and with 7 large coals. Pineapple Express Auto is into heavy flower with one large cola about 32 inches tall. White Dwarf Auto is 52 days old and ready for harvest, chopping very soon as the trichomes are almost all cloudy with maybe 5% orange/amber. Interesting enough the white dwarf is almost 3 feet tall as well had I not LST'd the plant, it would be as tall as my large fem. Never go verbatim what the seed companies or reviews say! Holy crap does it look sexy. All have been fed with fox farms liquid fertilizers and bloom nutrients. Fresh water in between fertilizers. White Dwarf is only on water as of a week ago to flush.
Pictures are as follows: Blue Cheese
Blue Cheese main cola
Pineapple Express Auto
Pineapple main cola
White Dwarf Auto
White main cola top close up

Cheers!