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Fantasmo express= she's doing really good when she hit flower four days ago today being the fifth she has taken off. Just under a foot tall four days ago she was under a half foot tall. So since when. I don't have flower nutrients right now tell sometime this week. So to get her threw I gave her another feeding of Alaskan fish fertilizer but instead of normal dosage I gave her double an she took it like a champ an just grew more.so I'm satisfied with her as of right now.

Automazar air pot=this girl right here is getting bushy instead of height I'm hoping she will gain height sometime soon or atleast when she goes into flower cause she's so green an healthy an bushy bushy. All the flower shoots want to grow past the plant an the main cola. So I don't know will see what happens with her she's still getting the same nutrients as the rest hope to see something from her.

Automazar 2= this girl is perfect all the flower shoots are all the same length an height an size I'm likening her allot she looks like fantasmo express nothing like the air pot tho. She's doing real good looking really healthy she's on the same as the rest haven't done no trimming besides the bottom leaves that I dident want nothing to do with.

Other then that there really healthy an good an questions or toys please let me know be much appreciate everybody have a good day an smoke some good.

Doing well Bro, you wanna carry on with Grow nutes till they stop stretching.... you got a bit of time yet before you have to switch to Bloom.

Hey Autobud mate, I dug this out for you..... the lifecycle of an auto. From your post on the 9th, when you realised you were about 26 days, now you are in week 5, so have a read!

A common question I see is when to switch autos from veg to bloom. Many people are under the impression that as soon as they see the first flowers it's time to switch. Perhaps a little explanation of the life cycle of autos will help to clarify this.

Weeks 1 - 3. Once you've started your seeds and they break the surface of the soil, they are in their seedling stage. The first set of leaves to appear will usually single fingered, followed by a second set that may still be single fingered or perhaps 3 fingered. Once that second set appears growth will start to accelerate as the new leaves provide more photosynthesis. This process will continue, more new leaves, faster growth. Depending on the type of soil in use, mild vegetative nutes can be introduced at week 2. By week 3 most plants will start to show their sex. Males will start to produce pollen sacks and females will display pistils.

Weeks 4 - 6. The plants are now entering a pre flowering stage. During this time the plants should exhibit explosive growth, often as much as a new set of nodes and 1" vertical growth a day. This is the time when they will gain most of their vertical height. Many people make the mistake of switching from vegetative to flowering nutrients at this point, assuming that since they see flowers it must be the proper time. This is incorrect. If the switch to flowering nutes is made at this time the vertical growth will stop and the plant will put it's energy into producing buds. If you need to keep your plants small, or want them to finish earlier, they by all means switch nutes at this point. But if you want to get the most out of your plants continue feeding vegetative nutes until you see the vertical growth slow and stop. Depending on the strain that will usually be sometime during week 5 or 6.

Weeks 7 - 9. By now vertical growth has stopped and the switch to flowering nutrients has been made. The buds will start to fill out and put on weight, becoming hard and tight. Pistols will start to change from white to brown, orange, red, etc. By now the plants will also have developed a strong smell. Toward the end of this phase the large primary and smaller secondary fan leaves will begin to turn yellow. This is an indication that the plant is moving toward the end of it's life.

Weeks 10 - 11. At this time flowering nutes should be discontinued and only plain pHed water fed to flush the remaining nutrients from the soil and improve the taste. Yellowing of the fan leaves will continue as the plant draws the stored energy from them. Eventually they will die and fall off. By the time that the smaller leaves that come from out of the buds will also start to turn yellow. Then it's time to harvest.

I know that many of you are thinking that the seed bank said the plants will finish in 8-9 weeks, so why are you saying they take 10-11? The claims made by the seed banks are somewhat deceptive. If you switch to flowering nutes at week 3 or 4 the plants can finish in the times the seed banks say but they will remain small and not reach their full potential yield. Years of growing by myself and others has shown that autos do best if you follow this time line.

Of course, there will always be variations depending on the strain, the environment, nutrients, etc. This information is meant to only serve as a general guideline.

thanks to Seraphim19

Thanks teetee appreciate that lesson haha. An I haven't switched over to flower nutrients just yet. It's still on veg nutrients so I'm going good thank you for letting me know I was about to start feeding it flower. Thanks for staying up to date on my grow an watching it. An one more question haven't had to deal with spidermites ever in my life an I don't want to deal with them I saw ledbud had one. What would be the best thing for them.

Haven't done a update in awhile cause I'm having light problems but here are the girls. If I had a bigger light I'm pretty sure they would get way bigger but for the light they did have before it went out they got pretty big.

#1= fantasmo= is in flower pretty good she's growing flowers like crazy white hairs just keep popping out. I gave it its first super bloom feed an she's taking it in like no other I'm thinking about upping the dosage a little cause she's just wanting more an more she's got about four weeks left on her.

#2=automazar air pot= this one is crazy the stock is half inch thick an just stretching for the light finally she was stretching to much so I gave her some super bloom to try to stop the growth an go to flower. She is bushy bushy dissent look nothing like the others so will see what she produces N gives me. I'm thinking she's gonna be big she has like two months left to go an is in flower.

#3=automazar= in a nice size pot an she's getting big big but not bushy at all so will see how she does she's in flower to an got super bloom she's got hairs coming out of everywhere an I think is a hermi not sure yet iv cut a what's looks like a ball off her but idk still checking her every day.

Just thought I would update cAusE I know all you guys haven't seen me post in awhile but there they are. If you got an questions feel free to ask about them girls haha have a good day everybody.

things looking good man, shame you didn't get a pic of the bollock, but you done the right thing, pull it off asap!

I got a picture of it tee but I dissent pull it off when I touched it it fell off.

looking nice mate, automazar can get very big in flowering. she will still grow for 4 weeks into flowering and get fat.
give them loads light.

My top fell over on one of the am like it was super cropped like teetee did but I stood it back up an stabilized it. So I don't know what's gonna happen haha. An my air pot plant the top top leaves are like curling weird like not the tips but like the edges are curling upward. But outher then that there doing good. An still using cfls trying to get a light now.

How much nutrients should I give them like super bloom wise there getting double the dose an taking it like a champ like they want more. An that leaf curling I was talking about in the last paragraph has all's happened since it started so I know it's not from the nutrients. An the free seed is doing good good she flowering really really nice.

If teetee see this please tell me what I should do on the top bending haha it's in flower so I don't know if that's good. An lb if you got an tips from here on out for me let me know. Seems like you know a lot about the am an you have done a lot an like it.

Have a good day everybody.

leaf curling can be high PH. I will keep PH at 6.2 and EC at 1.2.