Autoflower ?

[LOC NAR1958]

I just want to know how you keep a mother alive if they autoflower ? I tried 18/6 light and they go into flowering. 24/7 and they still flower on me. These new strains are hard to keep in veg for more than 2 or 3 clonings. I have tried northern lights and pappya. It's good for sexing Just can't keep them in veg. Clones take a little longer to take and veg too. If I clone to replace the mother, the clones keep flowering and don't go back to veg. I got a clone to start roots off of monster bitch. Thought there would be a return of MB but it looks like it won't go back to veg and is dying.

[Gen]

Hmm, well I have no experience with mother's, but are your mothers' in dirt or hydro? Plants need to constantly grow or they will die. So if she is root bound in soil then, try trimming the roots, putting in fresh soil and give a good watering. I have also read that some newer strains of mj have the problem of autoflowering and have difficulties vegging for long periods. Can you cut some clones off her to save the strain?

[LOC NAR1958]

Hi, Gen
I have kept my mothers in a phototron. A little dif than any thing else. The first northern I had came from my cousin. Fem seed. The bean was 2 years old I kept it the whole time. Stayed alive over a year and gave many a dozen of clones. I don't know where it came from and was my first couple of tries in soil before hydro. Still have the strain alive. I've had the tron for over 15 years, I know old time sucker. LOL There good to keep a plant alive for long times and lots of trimming. The beans I have now are nirvana (pappya) and they Autoflower at about 16 inches and show there sex. More flowers than I have ever seen in a tron. HAHA. Yes I can get clones, Already started and I can get more. I suppose it's the strain mix. I have lots of beans from nirvana, 6 dif strains to play with. Just wanted to know what the norm was . Thanks

[Gen]

What is a phototron? I'd like to keep clone mothers once I get going.

[LOC NAR1958]

A very exspensive closed enviroment with flouro's. If you can find one laying around maybe, your better off to get flouro's and soil or hydro. It would be cheaper and better. You can go look at them there name dot com. You have to use there stuff, they call it pyraponics. A friend and I have tried nine ways of sunday to use something else in it and failed. I just tried to make one into a bubbler and it stayed to hot it needs vent fans. You use spagnum moss and there nutrient and instruction to the tee or you will fail. I don't care how long you let it go it just doesn't have the horse power to flower. check them out but don't buy, ask more if you want to know.

[Gen]

Holy cow batman, that is slick looking. That looks like a display case for flowers. Not a grow box.

[LOC NAR1958]

You should see it with redneck sthealth. That's duct tape up all the widows so not as much light comes out. I show one in my thread (redhair ladies). They have reflectant on the windows so when lights are out you can't see in. They have to be kept where you can controll temps, like house AC or they get too hot.. There water tight so I will keep trying to make a hydro unit with one. You can do much better and cheaper with regular hydro a few flouro's and a cabinet with vents. If you have them laying around, you know sometimes you have to work with what you have.

[Gen]

Redneck stealth. Ha Ha, that's funny loc.

[Gen]

So how did you get this phototrons? Did someone give them to you?

[LOC NAR1958]

I bought one 15 years ago with a friend who is past away from cancer last year. My best friend. Mine is off white. The newwer one like the black one on there web page came from my cousin. When my brother came to get his light I told him it was going in the trash. He didn't want it cause you could see it in the back of his truck. Like it's illeagle. I am going to take the black one and try a drip system in it for veg. My brothers an idiot. I'm rambleing, guess what I'm doing. LOL I'm listening to Robert Plant and Jimmy Page on dvd UnLedded( NO QAURTER) on a Bose system. If your a Zep fan get it. Later Gen

[Gen]

Yes, I'm a Zep fan. Sorry to hear about your best friend. Bummer.

[LOC NAR1958]

Thanks , man. He was a true friend and more brother than my real ones. Yes check out the zep DVD they filmed near Marocco. Looked like alot of hash smoking going on.

[Gen]

Will do.

[mountainman]

I have tried northern lights and pappya. It's good for sexing Just can't keep them in veg.

Ummmm, is Northern Lights an autoflower? I might be mistaken, but I didn't think so. Any insight?

[LOC NAR1958]

They might not be but mine seem to autoflower at about 12 to 16 inches tall.

[mountainman]

Do you change the lighting time or the nutes? Or do they just do it on their own?

Anyone else seen what he's observing?

[LOC NAR1958]

They just do it on their own. The only thing is they are in a Phototron, which is just floruo's. I have grown many a bag seed in there and not seen autoflower. Maybe I'm just lucky, it sure make it easy to clone. I backed off on the nutes and my papaya is going wild. I will get many more clones off of it. The northern is gone except for one clone that has rootted.

[mountainman]

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