Quote Originally Posted by anbesol
i just read about 1 paragraph of this and I saw that you were planning on growing lowryder, and lowryder in 3 gallon pots. Hold the grow!!!!! First off throw those lowryders away, there pieces of shit. I just got finished on one of my lowryder seeds a friend gave me and I was so disappointed!!! With 1 plant under 400 watt hps in 1 gallon pot with co2!!! I only got .6 grams and the bud was the size of a bic lighter. I know others will scoff and say i did something wrong, since ive never grown an auto flower, but i do very very well on my real grows. I used Advanced Nutrients Connoisseur with them 2. Good Luck...and get different seeds
Thanks for the advise and the best wishes, but I'm going to at least try one batch for myself, because I saw another documented account both on this site and another site of a guy that did 6 LR t1's and he got 90g out of each plant he grew and they grew to a full height (and he only used a 400w MH/HPS switchable). Also, did you germ straight from the 1gal pot? If so that may be part of the reason why your plant grew small is because you didn't repot up from a very small container. Another reason is possibly the full time HPS could've prevented a lot of the veg growth, hence the small plant you got (which is actually good to know that you did the full HPS system and got that result because that's what I was planning on doing. This other guy switched between them and got huge results, so this might change my plan down to a 400w switchable with more supplemental lighting...or I might even switch it to a full HID system).

Not saying that you screwed up and that you can't grow good stuff, but like you said, you've never grown autoflower before and you only used one spectrum the entire time you were growing. Although I've only done research and have not yet tried this yet (thus why I can't say anything), it seems like if I give it the right light during the right stages along with nuts, it should grow beautifully.

Another thing is that even on their site, they say that the LR's are VERY light and nut dependent, which could mean that not switching between an MH and an HPS could make the entire difference on how large the plant grows (assuming nuts are correct).

If anyone has had ANY experience with LR type 1's or LR's in general, please post your advise. I plan on working with this strain for years to come, so basically after a few grows I'll have a very thorough guide put together on how to properly treat autoflowers in general and specifically the LR type 1's, which I will of course share with the site.

By the way: Stra8,

How many and what kind of LED lights would I be looking at getting if I'm trying to grow 8 plants in that second tent? If you can URL me to a site that has them and just tell me where to look through and what I'm looking for I'll be able to figure it out, and that would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks again.