First time grower

[moeloco]

i have started my first grow and to my surprise with all the research that i did before i started i have a so far successful grow i started with 8 plants and ended up with 5 females and they are in second month of flowering. now im looking forward to my second grow and i am reading about lowriders and was wondering how much bud can you get off one plant. am very curious!!:rasta:

moeloco Reviewed by moeloco on 04-27-2009. First time grower i have started my first grow and to my surprise with all the research that i did before i started i have a so far successful grow i started with 8 plants and ended up with 5 females and they are in second month of flowering. now im looking forward to my second grow and i am reading about lowriders and was wondering how much bud can you get off one plant. am very curious!!:rasta: Rating: 5

[headshake]

welcome moeloco! glad you found your way here to canncom.

congrats on a (so far) successful grow.

allow me to recommend that you read all of the faqs and stickies at the tops of all of the forums pertaining to growing.

you will find a wealth of knowledge and information 'round here.

you might also want to read up on posting. the reason the forums are divided up into sections and sub-sections is so you can get answers to your questions quicker.

seeing as how this is the introduce yourself section, you should, well introduce yourself. if you have questions pertaining to lowryders and harvested weight, you might want to try posting somewher in here.

as far as an answer to your question, there is not a solid one anyone can give you. it depends on many factors. your grow enviroment (lighting, cooling, nutes etc. etc.) as well as what strain you decide to go with.

i have no experience with the auto-flowering strains, but from what i hear they are a novelty at best!


-shake

[justanotherbozo]

just remember, auto-flowering strains are the herpes of the cannabis culture.
once that gene is introduced to a line, there's no going back.

[meandmine]

just remember, auto-flowering strains are the herpes of the cannabis culture.
once that gene is introduced to a line, there's no going back.

I don't understand what you mean by this can you explain please?

[headshake]

what he means is that once you introduce the ruderail strain and make a hybrid, you can never breed those genetics out. so once it is autoflowering, it will always be. if it were to theoretically be breed to every strain then we would be SOL!


-shake

[justanotherbozo]

what he means is that once you introduce the ruderail strain and make a hybrid, you can never breed those genetics out. so once it is autoflowering, it will always be. if it were to theoretically be breed to every strain then we would be SOL!


-shake

ostgood:

what he said! lol

if you breed your collie with a german shephard, all the offspring will be part
collie and part german shephard and no matter how many generations you go
into the future you will never be able to breed either the collie or the german
shephard out of the line.

with non-autoflowering strains, you can keep a mother alive and generating
cuttings for more than a decade, and if it's killer weed, that's a pretty nice
thing.

with auto-flowering strains, you loose that ability, all you get is, 1 seed, 1 plant,
period, no mothers, no clones, just one harvest only.

i, for one, think that sucks and i wouldn't let an auto-flower within a mile
of my grow!


(You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to headshake again.)

[warfrat73]

Actually that's not *exactly* true, as far as the "breeding out" issue. It's true that if you breed a pure Indica and a pure Ruderalis (or a Shepard and a Collie) you end up with an offspring that is 50/50. However, if you then breed a 50/50 Indica/Ruderalis with another 50/50 Indica/Ruderalis it is possible that the offspring will turn out to be genetically 100% Indica OR Ruderalis. Since each parent only submits one of a pair of chromosomes it's possible that each parent will submit ONLY the Indica genetic coding or ONLY the Ruderalis and the result will be a genetically pure specimen. This is, of course, highly unlikely, but it's possible. More importantly though, given enough selective breeding and diligence it is at least theoretically *possible* to breed out the auto flowering trait, it'd probably be a major pain in the ass though. Obviously, the more generations that go by the less likely this becomes.

[justanotherbozo]

Actually that's not *exactly* true, as far as the "breeding out" issue. It's true that if you breed a pure Indica and a pure Ruderalis (or a Shepard and a Collie) you end up with an offspring that is 50/50. However, if you then breed a 50/50 Indica/Ruderalis with another 50/50 Indica/Ruderalis it is possible that the offspring will turn out to be genetically 100% Indica OR Ruderalis. Since each parent only submits one of a pair of chromosomes it's possible that each parent will submit ONLY the Indica genetic coding or ONLY the Ruderalis and the result will be a genetically pure specimen. This is, of course, highly unlikely, but it's possible. More importantly though, given enough selective breeding and diligence it is at least theoretically *possible* to breed out the auto flowering trait, it'd probably be a major pain in the ass though. Obviously, the more generations that go by the less likely this becomes.

lol, i stand corrected. in truth, i knew about the theoretical possibilities and
chose to be a little more black and white than reality because, first, it really
would be a major pain in the ass to do, and second, i think the best way to
deal with the problem is to not introduce this trait to the gene pool to begin
with.

and like you said, even suffering that huge pain in the posterior is no guarantee
that you'd actually, completely remove the trait and not leave it as a recessive
that would come back to bite you in the ass at some later date.

nah, i say kill 'em all!

[everTree]

What I've read about lowriders is that you can get anywhere between 30g and 60g a plant.

[meandmine]

Aren't they easy to grow though since they don't require such careful monitoring of light and such? I'm going to be doing my first grow in an aerogarden to see if it helps with my ptsd and my anxiety before I go all out and build a grow room.They will be in two completely separate places in my house if it helps so I don't think one should interfere with the other, do you think?