hi again hi again we back guys we wanted to do a fun little video top five things that we wish we
knew before we started growing autos because now we've been doing them for a while we've
what do you think four or five harvests under our boat total since we started how
many have we done since the garage days well i mean now i'm doing pretty much
one every month yeah definitely chopping the plants it's hard to say how many i have under
my belt yeah but we've got a fairly good amount so we're learning something yeah we came up with
kind of five things that we wish we would have known before we started yeah before or
just new growers number one less is more yeah um a lot of people think like the more newts
you give to uh obviously the plant's gonna do way better right yeah wrong less is more learn to read
the plants and that's really something you can't rush it's just it comes with learning to grow so
you know don't beat yourself up when you make a mistake you know but in starting out what we
found less is more because it's easy to correct if you did a little too little you can add some
but if you overdo sometimes it's just more of a problem yeah and that leads us to number two
um yeah in auto specifically uh we found that um once once you see an issue
it's probably a little too late to completely correct it you just if
you're yeah if you're running dry amendments only which we we are at the at this moment um
so if you're doing any kind of dry amendments especially with autos because they grow so fast
um we have found that if you're seeing any kind of deficiency in the plant
at that point in time if you're seeing it you're already playing ketchup yeah yeah especially if
you're using dry release amendments where you're mixing it in your soil and top dressing like
after you mix it in it's a week until they get something so if you've mixed it in and then you
start to see stuff or if you're waiting and you're not sure and you see a sign and you top dress some
you know it's already a week until it's actually gonna be able to get to those nutrients so
compost teas things like that to you know we're learning to adjust so something to think about
yeah yeah yeah um what about number three number three captain captain autoflower 84 out the door
for autos uh we have found that if you're going any longer than 84 days with an autoflower plant
no matter how big of a pot you're using yeah it's that's the end of the line 84 days is seems to be
the most mature that the plant is gonna get um for what you're you're wanting to get out of it yeah
and there's two eyes there's always special cases like sometimes you'll see a plan and you're like
you know it needs just a little bit longer but in general we feel like for autos doing
in soil like we're doing with the dry amendments it's about 84 days for it to get done start to
finish so well in a lot of places um where a lot of seed banks will say well autos only take
nine weeks um and i say nine weeks is definitely on the shorter end of the spectrum yeah if you're
doing like a one gallon pie or something yeah and that's i mean and that's if you're having like
a small the smallest of small grow spaces yeah nine weeks i could see it happening yeah but for
the most part we don't see them ready being by yeah it's usually 12 weeks but it all works out
perfectly especially with our perpetual situation where with the 12 12 week time total grow
once we start it we can be chopping autos every single every month yeah so we just start
four plants every month and then every month we're chopping four down so it all works perfectly for
us in our situation everybody a little different but in general 84 days is about as long as we're
gonna let an auto go unless it's kind of a special case scenario yeah but number four number four
when when to train and how and this is kind of our personal from what we found with our method
this is kind of our personal training and what we do with auto so definitely not the end-all be-all
guys but how we like to do it at least day 25 20 20 to 25 range we cut the bottom two notes
because they never really seem to branch out or do much on auto so
very soon soon in its life cut those bottom two nodes wait a couple days maybe day 28 to 30.
if we're gonna top it that's when we're gonna top it and we're only gonna top once because
we've tried multi-tops we've tried a lot of topping with autos if you've seen in the grow
and um i don't want to say like i wish i would have known that before growing autos
but i wish i would have known the best ways to train autos because people are like
no you set it and forget it with autos and you can't i and which is a method for some people
but if you if if you want the most out of your plant i find that training um training
it you're going to get the most yeah we find if autos are performing well and they're excelling
just to try and keep the canopy even i like to top it i usually if i'm gonna do it it's usually when
it has five nodes and then wait for it to get a little longer so you have a little piece of
stem sticking up and then top that because if you top it too close it'll make it sometimes the top
will split where you top it if you don't give it enough little extra so around day 30 if i'm
gonna top it that's when i top it and then i have five nodes and you can clock those branches out
if you guys have seen how we do the training with the stakes it's a little different when the tide
i'll say though when you do top an autoflower which a lot of people will say don't even do it
um but i will say if you do it early enough in the plant's life like he's saying around that
fifth note yeah it won't have much an effect on the i want to say it can recover it gives you
enough time to recover quickly and it won't stress it too hard so that's kind of what we do day but
if you go any farther um i would say i could see it stressing the plant out a little bit so
um if you don't hit that window yeah if you guys are super bomb growers no we're still learning but
i'm sure people can do it with good results for us what we found if we want to get the most yields
usually a single top and you can train it out evenly so sometimes runaway plants that's shooting
up real tall i'll do that so that way i don't have to figure out some kind of crazy light adjustments
so more than one top isn't necessary though i don't know for autos because they don't they
really don't get that big although i've seen some deep water culture people were just like massive
i've seen some yeah insanities but we're not at that level and most people homegrown watching this
probably yeah we're trying to be talented we're getting there we're learning so but i find like um
topping autos we'll just go into it um with number five and just saying that genetics on autos are
just wild wild card yeah so that's what we've noticed even though we've tried a couple different
uh seed companies now and you know you can pop a white widow from this person and the white widow
from that person and chances are they're probably completely different and every seed you pop is
usually you know we've actually had seeds from the same company wildly different very different last
grow video check out the lsd the comparison of the buds from mine to the game even more recently that
was from the same order same pack so more recently the purple kush you had one mine is very different
from your pur purple crush so um and they were from the exact same pack so um
genetics are wild cards when it comes to autos but that's but that's kind of part of the auto game so
we know photos way more stable genetics way more consistent results we understand that but we still
love the autos faster around and in general they always turn out pretty good you know sometimes
you get a fox daily bud once sometimes you'll get a leafy or fluffier bud one like the wedding cake
i did still super duper frosty still smell great smelled amazing just the buds weren't as dense as
the plant right next to it you know so but i will say with autos also i'm gonna probably
slip another one in here i've learned a lot more with doing autos than i would feel like i would do
with photos just because there is so much change and there is so much to pay attention to yeah so
i feel like as a grower and growing autos i have almost like propelled the process of growing and
here he's learning here's a plus six for you guys saw on photo syntax live stream last night
he's actually gonna be on ours tonight so by the time you guys watch this you can watch the live
stream that we'll have done with him but awesome grower awesome on youtube check them out guys but
get an evaporative dehumidifier if you're going to use one i'm an ultrasonic one
and what it does is if your water if you don't have a water softener or purifier in your house
if the minerals in the water will then become like a dust when it when it vaporizes in a um
and the humidity i thought it was mildew yeah she's like oh yeah no but it's just
dust from the hard water and it gets uh it's not harmful to the plants it's not it's just
unsightly though and it gets all over so evaporated humidifier
get one of those because i'm about to get one of those to fix that issue that i've been seeing with
the one that i have so that's a that's a bonus one for you guys but thanks so much for watching
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