Jack Herer auto, week five or so. Solid healthy plant so far and my first successful reversal. Male flowers at least, to pollenate Sour Strudel.

Welcome to the community @codasteve. How did you reverse her? I’m excited to see the result, keep us updated.

STS, several treatments spaced a few days apart until male flowers appeared and then one more treatment.

Unfortunately, I can’t do anything with STS, please explain it to me. First I need a coffee to function.

Sts is silver thiosulfate spray, it does the same as colloidal silver with less applications of it. Instead of spraying a couple of times every day it’s one spray every few days or so when lights go out.

Thanks to @Crackadoo and @3xt3nd3d, I couldn’t make anything of the abbreviation. I had already researched the whole thing, but came to the conclusion that colloidal silver suits me better; so far, it has worked 100% for me. I still have a small bottle (brown glass) from the last run stored dark and cool in the cabinet. When I prepared the silver water, I made extra right away so that I’d have some ready this time. If I notice that it’s no longer any good, I’ll have a new batch made in two days at the latest.

Moin @codasteve, you’ve got beautiful girls! Quick question: it’s my first grow ever and I have Auto Skittlez, so I’m wondering if an 18/6 or 20/4 cycle is better. Both are currently around day 4 and about 5cm tall. Currently using the Viparspectra XS1500 Pro at a distance of 40-50cm with 20% power. Best regards

18/6 is fine, it’s down to personal preference if you want to give them more hours of light, etc., but what’s standard and most commonly used, in my opinion, is 18/6. But either way, it’s an auto, so I’m not well informed on that since it grows by days and not by light hours anyway. I recommend asking your questions in your grow, it’s much simpler and saves you from checking chat by chat, happy growing, enjoy it, patience is key, happy smoking.

Most people use 20/4 for autos, there are also people who use 24/0, but I think they also need some rest.

There they are again, those even numbers.

Honestly.
I’ve also grown with a 19/5 and 17/7 cycle.

I’d say anything from 16h of light is totally fine for automatics. After that, it’s just a matter of whether you can adequately get the heat out of the tent with 20 or 24h. Especially near the end when the lights are running at full power.

Best regards

BTW: I’ve also run automatics in a 12h flowering tent, lower yield, but if you have no other choice, it doesn’t bother them much either.

Do autos give you more yield than photoperiods?

If you know how to handle autoflower plants well, they bring quite decent yields. But autos have a predetermined lifespan that you cannot influence. On the other hand, if you take a photoperiod plant and let it vegetate for long enough, they obviously outperform the autos.
I think to test the whole thing, you should grow an auto and a photo, both same strain, medium… in the same timeframe, i.e., from germination to harvest, and only then can you say which yields more.

Yeah, I just don’t understand why people grow them indoors, I don’t understand why they are so popular, I don’t get what people see in them if they are worse in every way from my point of view, the only advantage is outdoors, but indoors… why? I was hoping someone would give me reasons or advantages.
(I grew 1 in each of the last 3 grows, but at

I can completely understand that, I had a balcony in my last apartment where I always had two photos standing and the autos were right next to them. I could train the photos nicely and keep them compact. The autos did whatever they wanted, except that depending on the weather I managed to get two to three runs done during that time. Every now and then I had to bring the last ones inside to get them finished. Indoors in the tent I had them take over the entire tent once and after that I was done with them. I think they do best outdoors directly in the ground, but I don’t have the space for that. In the forest I can also pretty much forget about it by now, since they somehow only chop down trees but don’t reforest anything. What really bugs me is that breeders always label them as beginner-friendly, and in my opinion they aren’t at all because they are absolute mimosas and don’t forgive any mistakes. If the summer is bad, the harvests are small, plus outdoors over the last few years I also had too many problems with powdery mildew and other nuisances like pests. That’s the main reason why I only grow indoors now, 3 years without pests , which hopefully stays that way. My favorites have always been my photos since I can train them however I want and they are simply not unforgiving, unlike the autos. \nBut I don’t want to ruin autos for anyone here, everyone can decide for themselves.

well at least I’m not the only crazy one who thinks that, but seed banks hype them up as if they were… wow… and pfff I never understood why, I understand that outdoors they are the absolute best, no light pollution, they are small, discreet, don’t smell, you can grow all year round.
but indoor? wtf it’s just like you say, you make a mistake, overwatering, a drought, and bye-bye… you’ve ruined the plant, photoperiods no matter what you do to them, you just have to take care of the flowering period and that’s it, you spend less electricity, better flavor, better yield, I don’t know, maybe someone who keeps growing sees some advantage

I’ve heard someone brag before that his autos outshine all photos. There was a huge argument over that. If everything goes right, they really do yield well, it’s not like that. For me, however, and I’ve tested quite a few of them, they are out of the picture. Sure, there were a few great strains among them, but almost every auto has a photoperiod version that I can shape and grow according to my will. What is also decisive “for me” is that you can’t reveg autos. The end of flowering completes the cycle, and there’s no changing that. If a photoperiod strain thrills me in growth and bloom, I can send her back to childhood after harvest and wait for grandchildren

Hi, I think each one has its charm, I’m talking about outdoors because indoor it’s my first time and I still don’t know the result, depending on the climate you have, for example I can enjoy 4 good months with weather from 20C to 30C in the south of Spain, autos work really well for me on the patio because I put 4 or 5 of them in 20-liter pots and get a good harvest to get through the winter without worrying about mold or bugs, just watering and feeding them, when I dry I have to do it looking for low temperatures because we’re around 30 in mid-to-late August.

If I use photoperiods I have to plant them in mid-June because otherwise they get huge and I can’t move them under a corrugated roof I have to cover them in mid-to-late September when the bad weather starts and they’re in the 7th or 8th week of flowering when they’re most sensitive to humidity and rain and drying is harder for me, although the temperature is better the humidity is much higher and it’s really hard to get below 65% , for that reason I bought the tent.

Thanks I’m on 20/4 now, I think that’s ok.

good cycle for the autos, well done​