Ill guess a Q.
Ive done loads of autos, the end result is always the same for me!
Between 7-28g of ludicrously good weed, but, not worth the leccy!

For the size of that especially in flower I say the final weight is 3.3G dry

Yeah it's tiny

Looking gorgeous Rozzy..interesting you're going with coco I've been researching like mad before I give it a go in the new year, I may bend your ear you've clearly got the knack

Hey, sorry for replying so late, I don't know I missed/didn't reply to previous messages.

Yeah man, coco is a bit of a tricky one to learn compared to soil but absolutely worth it... the results for me have been fantastic when everything's done right. I've made more than a few mistakes I'll be honest, but those are easily avoided with the right knowledge and planning :)
If you ever fancy a chat about coco growing or if you're curious about anything please just send a message, I'm always happy to chat... especially about weed and indoor gardening! I'll never claim to be an expert but I've picked up a thing or 2 over the years

(also I'm using fabric pots, apologies to Lee for somehow missing the reply)

100% mate will definitely touch base when the time comes. Have some work and £ to do, getting my environment right before any moves. Been focusing mainly on run-off tests, EC and PH management tbh as they are new to me having only ever tried soil. I like the idea of full control of the root system and what goes in vs what comes out, and seen very good reviews and journals once you get the right light intensity

Sounds good! Yeah, it's great to be able to control it like hydro but with less risk of flooding the place 🤣 like you say it's just about getting that environment and light intensity dialled in

One of the best things about coco imo is that the plants give you REALLY quick feedback compared to soil... literally within hours of feeding they can start telling you if something's gone a bit wrong. EC, PPM and pH are obviously really important, but coco makes it far easier to learn to "read" the plants

What pot type your using?
Looking good

For me. The fabric pots are too flexible and root damage is highly possible in the many feedings/movings.
The added rigidity and direct 3mm holes really are superb.
I’m no affiliate.

I'll let the grower answer themselves but can say the felt/fabric pots are highly rated by many a coco gardener

Can't wait 💪

Looking forward to it.

Also an update on the new flavours. They are being flipped soon.
Gelato Cookies, Mimosa x Orange Punch, Blue Dream, Mac #1, Exodus Cheese, Runtz

Healthy girls.

Are they plastic smart pots bro?? They look strong and sturdy for sure.

Soil or Coco??

They are in plastic pots and soil

Living soil??

Do you know why he grows in soil mate?

Living soil, i had some pretty decent results

Not sure but my best guess is the organic appeal and good results most likely.

Nice

Any idea of what kind of results is he hitting per plant??

I used 75ltr fabric pots and grew trees. Switched to coco and much smaller pots

There's few KG per room don't know exact numbers

Very nice dude.

Starting to stink i bet

Yes started around week 4 and it's getting stronger. Fresh weed my favourite smell! :)

I like week 6 onwards.

That ammonia, horse piss stench.

Buzzin for you man

Yeah xmas will come early this year :)

This is my Red red wine at week 6, couple days from start week 7.

15th Sept

Looking at the leaves you got some deficencies there you might want to dial back on your nutes a bit for the next run.

Nar thats because they are already about a week into the final flush mate.
I also let them get real dry every few days so they use up all of their stored nutes in the leafs and root zone.
Most leafs on the plant should be yellow or dead. Then you can be sure the flush is perfect with a decent white ash.

This method has been bullet proof for me and my set up.

What Ec is your water before adding any nutes bro??

It's not mine I don't mix the feed for them but yellow/brown tips suggest nutes burn tho.
How long they have left?

Yeah true mate.

Any normal grow once the tips burn, pull back on the feed. You also need to push your plants to get the most out of them.

Its not just the tips.
That leaf looks like its using up all stored nutes within it.

Tip burn is a very good inducation that you are giving them enough food for sure. My ppm's struggle to get over 0.8 with 2ml per litre more than the bottle says to feed. And thats with Calmag/Silicon/pk/boost/A+B all added

When i was using tap water my ppm's would be about 1.2-1.6

Tap water starts at about 0.6-0.8
Thats around half of your ppm's used up with the shit thats in the water.

Ro water is very different

About 1.5 weeks left

Yeah depending in what area you are the tap water will be different. I know that our nutes are fine tuned for the local water quality. A proper RO setup removes too many minerals that you would have to add back to the water.

Them nutes sound wicked bro. What's the brand??

What size is your flower room dude??

Love to chat growing and geek out

I can't remember the name but the results are outstanding.

My mate's got multiple rooms going with around 40 plants each.

Absolutely weedporn 🔥🗣️💨💯

💯

The other corner screen of green. Starting to smell strong in here

Dunno about sea of green more like a fucking ocean of green there mate 😳

Either ways work for me :)

It’s fantastic and big 😎

Such a colour on them you should be proud 🦚 fair play for set up, looks excellent 👌

It's my friends set up but I agree it's pretty decent.

You don’t strip leaves on day 21?

I do it all the way through Veg and flower. Try to top the tallest shoots off at least 2 weeks before the switch.

And never do more that 20% of the plants total(would stress)

As a rule I never chop branches off past day 21, while im lollypopping them.

What's your process and guidance Franz??

Anything on at the moment??

Dialed in to perfection and look at all of those plants praying towards the light! Wish your pal a great harvest!

Yeah it will be a good yield :)

I should have that picture made into wallpaper!... look nice in the bedroom lol!

Do it! or even as a desktop background :)

Mega

Really nice to see, great job.

What strains are they bro??

3 strains in this room: Afghan Kush, Sour Diesel and Skywalker OG

Very nice choice 👏🏻

Absolutely bangers 🤟

Afghan Kush, yummy

Good selection

What breeders sour diesel is this?

Good question but not sure, they came as cuttings

Thanks for replying when its ready I'll grab some mate looks nice.

Looking healthy with those giant leaves

Beautiful man! Mine are a week or so away from getting flipped but if they end up looking anything like this I'll be happy af! Happy growing! 💚

Love to see them so happy and healthy. Can't wait for the results :)

There will be some much snow this winter ❄️❄️

Happy growing mate. I love using these foam ties, they are cheap and make 'low stress training' really easy. I usually trim the foam to pin the stems down with them early on and then use them as spreader bars between stems later in the grow to keep airflow between buds.
Good luck mate 👍

Nice idea with foam.

I normally have green garden wire embedded in my plants. They grow over it and form a huge knuckle

Yeah its great stuff, you can buy it on a roll too, if you spiral it round a stem you can pretty much free form them

Good stuff, I like that idea! And those are some really healthy looking plants!

Thank you! I'm definitely gonna do a bit of LST on these and wasn't sure how to go about it so that's a huge help :)
I really appreciate that man!

If your going to pinch off the head do it at 3rd, 4th node. I've had great success with it. Or just pull the fan leaves off to let the light in. Are they 30 litre pots??

Thanks for the tip! The pots are only about 3 gallons but I've grown some monsters in 3 gals before! The grow before last (grapefruit autos) were out of control by mid flower

Very good.

Good luck and I will enjoy the updates on how it goes

Hey boss,
I just want to drop my 2p here as I have grown this exact auto strain from RQS. If you take my advise you should swap this out to a better strain before you put too much effort into it, just to be let down by the results at end like I was.
Autos have much less potential for yield and I ran several auto strains when I started out growing none of which tasted up to today's standards.
I would advise against growing from seed as a beginner because they are a hit and miss. If you heard the term pheno hunting before it refers to growing a number of plants of the same strain from seeds and taking cuttings labelling them and at the end of the grow they choose the best pheno to keep and clone for consistent good quality.
If you insist on keeping the autos I would suggest you start low stress training as soon as you can because time is limited with them.
Once it starts to get bigger strip down all the lower sites so the plant will put all her energy into the tops, this way I got nice looking results but I was always dissapointed with how they smoke. Once I got hold of some fire cuttings my whole game changed for the best :)
Either ways best of luck and feel free to reach out if need any help with growing.

Thanks for the advice and the kind words man! They seem to be doing pretty well so far so I'm gonna keep them going, I'm sure a lot of people would appreciate some more oldschool genetics and if the bud isn't up to par it'll be priced accordingly. The plants aren't quite in flower yet but they're really healthy and seem to be adapting well to the environment so I'm just interested to see where they can go. Next run will probably involve a pheno hunt so I'm a lot more excited for that!

If you're into old school genetics , check out The Real Seed Company . They do all sorts of land race from around the world and a few Western classics too . Iv'e grown a couple .The best so far was the Afghan90. The flowers were lighter and leafier than modern varieties , but the skunkyness really lingered in an old school kinda way .

Thank you man! I'll keep them in mind, I love the old-school skunky buds

There's no question they will adopt and flower with nice looking buds like all autoflowers. Try to run a non auto of the same strain and see the difference in flavour and effects.
Autos are like a watered down versions of the original strains having the ruderails genetics added to them to make their life cycle fixed.
You will be shocked how much more you can get out of "normal" plants with your setup. :)

Yeah, I get you there, but in all fairness I've had better results from autos than photos so far. It could just be that I've only been growing a year though. The mangos from the last crop were photos and I think down to my own mistake they started flowering too early and didn't get very tall. The bud is pretty nice but honestly not the best I've grown. The best I've done so far has been an auto (choc orange by dr krippling) and honestly it was up there with the best I've had in my life! But the next run will definitely be photos just so I can pheno hunt and get some consistency going. Growing from seed in general has been a bit hit and miss so far

It is for sure a bit of a hit and miss and also some seedbanks are better than others. I wasn't much impressed with RQS but had few from the US with exeptional results.
With regulars you get more control and can veg one plant to fill up your space before flipping to flower. Cleaning the lower sites that get small to no light will give you better tops in both cases tho.

This is them at 22 days from sprout and they seem to be loving life! No signs of any flowering or any major stretch yet so that's a positive sign! It means they can get a lil bit more height before the actual stretch and hopefully fill the canopy up

All looking healthy there mate, are you just letting them go straight up or have you got any other plans for them?

I'm just gonna let them go straight up, tuck some leaves so the branches/nodes can get good light and separate the bud sites with a trellis net before any buds actually grow. Also gonna cut the really low down branches that'd grow crappy buds. The plan was to do some LST and use the trellis net early on but I figured I'll let them do their thing and get some height before I mess with them too much 😅

At that size I would be tempted to nip out the tips and aim for a more even canopy.
If you do decide to top autos then never cut them just gently part the top and knock the tip out with your fingers, if you do it right the plant won't notice anything has happened and they will bush out big time, losing the main kola gives you the benefit of being able to get the light closer to the canopy.
Whatever you decide to do keep us posted they are looking happy and healthy 👍

looks great.

Good luck on the latest journey Rozzy

Good luck! I've heard you can grow NL outside in the southern parts of the UK. Anyone else heard such rumours?

All plants will grow in the uk during the right time of the year.

Gorilla grows using autos can do 2 crops a season, 3 if they are under cover and get good sun

I've heard similar rumours about some oldschool strains, I don't think NL specifically but there's a lot of strains that people say do really well in the UK climate... I grew a solo strawbnana plant outdoors in 2022 and was genuinely shocked at how well it did

I will put 6-9 autos in that tent mate. 3 autos it’s not enough for that space you could have much better yield in same time.

I really appreciate the advice but autos just seem to get out of control for me! I think it may be something to do with being in coco and also maybe because I keep feeding veg nutes during early stretch (until bud sites are really forming), OR possibly because I've been lucky with genetics, but I tried running 5 autos in there before and sadly had to kill 2 of them due to sheer size. This pic is the canopy with 3 grapefruit autos in it (grow before last) and that wasn't even the buds at full size!

Nice

Cheeky trichome shot 🤤

Yum. Looking forward to this dropping. See you mid December!

Awwwwwwww Fifi ❤️❤️❤️❤️……there is genuinely nobody else like you on LB- Please stay with us🙏🏽….and post MORE OFTEN 😘🥰😘

Oh my God! 😵 thank you SO much Polly!

Well, definitely not tripping now, and still think the same :))) And here is a super, SUPER  special thing for you, with 'Puff', in it :))) .... ( but not because I'm hoping you'll lay puffer fish eggs for me, haha, don't worry, but just because - girl, boy, fraggle or sandperson, I don't know,  but you're super special  :)))


https://youtu.be/B91tozyQs9M?si=TSBkqLfDDoKN5OyY


I don't think I'm going anywhere anytime soon, haha. To quote you, Big Roo,  ( big up ☺️ ), I read this on your manifesto thing -"I love this place, it feels like home" - Really resonated with me. Bit cringe-ely up close and personal, but I'm going to say it anyway - I had parents who couldn't accept that their child had learning difficulties, and moved me from school to school to school during primary /middle school. All this did was make me feel that I didn't fit in or belong anywhere, and as is often the case with stuff  that happens during such formative years, these belief systems tend to become hardwired as the blueprint for how the rest of your years will pan out. I've Always struggled with feeling like the perpetual outsider, but not here :))) even on other forums I've been on, say, about my pets, I'd go on them for a few months, and as soon as someone was mean or critical I'd peg it. But on here I have actually been called ridiculous, fake, desperate, attention seeking and honestly I think most of those things are probably true, but when I've come on here, out of my tree tripping my face off and bang on about how much I love this place and my friends here, I totally mean it, and the 'fake', bit definitely isn't true :) And normally hearing stuff like that I'd be gone , lickety - split, but because I know so much that I have some seriously good, REAL friends here, it's not so hard to weather the horrible stuff :))) and I love it here, even though I'm very aware that this place is definitely not all sweetness and light, and let's face it, a place that you really do need to be super cautious in, I've made friends for the first time in a long time, and I love it so much. And thank you Polly for being a big part of why LB feels like a soft spot to land for me :))) °•♡•°🌷🌷🌷

Wow...that little fish digs 24 hours a day for a week to build the "most complex and perfect" construction in nature and all for love huh?.....gotta love da puff! lol!

I do know what you mean about LB. Stay here long enough and you pick up all kinds of flack- I've had the weirdest of threats and hate over the years but its a tight little community who contribute and really watch out for each other. The haters simply don't win. We do...

I'm so glad you've stayed with us (heart heart heart- no emojis on this keyboard lol) xxxxx

💕🌈°•♡•°🌷🌷🌷

Who doesn't adore Polly, even if they just scratch their surface. That's 100% not a question, hence the lack of question mark.

I feel Polly needs to trip more to feel the universal love for themselves though...

YEAAAHH!!! Trip report, Polly!!! Go on!!!

Its crazy...I've got the Psychonaut gear in the fridge - its been there for months. They've talked me through it and we all know what experts they are, B0W13 said he'd trip with me, Ruxxy cajoles/encourages me all the time...and yet still I haven't tried it. One bad trip on a blotter when I was a kid has ruined me lol....but there's still time...ooooooh....

Polly is a legend and I adore them 🐰❤️🦊

It’s been a few years now my fluffy friend 🦊♥️🐰

The true story of the Rabb1t and fox explains how life can be better when we make friends.

Friends make our lives happier in many ways. Also, showing mercy and sympathy will make a person's heart much bigger.

Ah fuck wrong fox and Rabb1t is spelt wrong 😑

So lovely!! Can I know what the fox bit is about, or is it private friend ting?

No secret but there was a time where Polly rocked this as their avatar

Boom boom!

Legend!- gotta love da Fox!

You're grrrrreat, DeadRAbb1t 👾💥💥

Ahhhh you are a legend yourself you're enthusiasm and openness is uplifting ❤️❤️

🌟🌟🌟😃! 🩷🩷🩷💕🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷💥👾

I love this, a beautiful random act of positivity from you FJ and it's well deserved too, in fact you're both right up there with the goodest of eggs as far as I can tell💜💚

Love you bud!! Thank you for being my friend 💛💛💛

And here's a line from that song I just posted, just for you - as a nod to your love for nature, and your green fingered prowess -

" flowers of the earth,
Who can even guess how much a real friend is worth" °•♡•°🌷🌷🌷

Aw thanks for being mine mate, you're the best💜💚

B0W is one cool dude with one cool hound hehe...

Im not sure how cool he is at the moment, little toerag has been starting beef with big dogs, such a little menace!