Grow-Along: Autoflowering Cannabis in a 2x2 tent
Follow along with weekly updates as we use a 2.5'x2.5' Complete Grow Kit with a PhytoMAX-2 200 LED Grow Light to grow 4 autoflowering Cannabis plants- 3 'Girl Scout Cookies' and 1 'LSD 25'- from seed through harvest!
Each week we will post a new video overview of the week's activity for this grow, so check back every week for an update! This grow-along also discusses the differences between autoflowering plants and "traditional" daylength-sensitive Cannabis plants, along with the pros and cons of each type.
Week 1
Preparation for the grow, planting the seeds, and germination- off to the races! Also includes a discussion on the difference between autoflowering and "traditional" daylength-sensitive Cannabis strains.
Week 2
Demonstrates nutrient / fertilizer mixing and the second week of growth for the seedlings.
Week 3
Covers re-potting the autoflower seedlings into their final fabric pot as they start to take off!
Week 4
The plants start showing their first signs of flowering and explode with growth! We trim and clean up the bottoms and switch from vegetative to flowering nutrients.
Week 5
Monitoring the plants and adjusting the fan and lights as necessary while the plants start to really stretch during flower.
Week 6
As the plants continue to grow we do some minor leaf pruning to help the developing flower buds. The 'LSD 25' strain is starting to show some crazy colors, and the trichomes are indicating that the plants will be ready to harvest in a couple weeks!
Week 7
In the final week of growth, we flush the plants to eliminate excess fertilizer.
Harvest Day
Only 67 days after planting the seeds, we harvest, trim up the buds and put them on our drying racks.
Grow-Along Coverage
This grow shows how to plant Cannabis seeds and germinate them, how to water and care for your plants, trimming, training, harvesting, drying and curing the flowers.
A couple of things you did mention could be contributing to short, under-performing plants though:
We recommend keeping the temperature when the lights are on at 85 degrees, because our light spectrum doesn't warm up plants' leaves as much as HPS or other lights. At 80 degrees, the plants are being kept a bit on the cold side under our light, and this would slow down their growth.
The Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil is a "supersoil" with nutrients the plants will need mixed in to start. By diluting it by half with the coco and perlite, the plants may not be getting fertilized enough. Once the plants go through all the nutrients available in the soil, they may stop growing- and usually will show signs of being nutrient-deficient. Unfortunately the signs will very depending on which nutrient ran out first.
Im using 1000 watt LED
FOX FARM OCEAN FOREST
3 GALLON POT
Last grow i only got an ounce but that was because i was super green. Now in using nutrients and its taking off. Thanks everyone always great feedback
Any suggestions welcome please
Happy gardening,
Black Dog LED
I am using 24 hour light and the rate of growth is amazing. Is there a reason that you had six hours no light in your grow?
We used the two of those for the first half of the grow. Once the autoflower flipped and started producing flowers, we switched to Bloom and Pro Tekt for the rest of the run.
Thanks for the question!
Amanda
Thank you for the question, but we do not understand it completely. If you are asking if we run a fan underneath the plant while it is growing, we do not as our focus is air circulation around the leaves. If you are asking if we are running a fan while using a drying rack we do use a fan on a low setting to keep the air from being stale.