New Grower A little over a month into Dinafem Cheese Autos

[PDTheGreat]

Been lurking since I started my first Autoflower grow. It's actually my first grow all together, so bear with me


I'm growing 6 Dinafem Cheese Autos. I started them in 1gal pots in my closet. It was 2x4x5. I transplanted them about a week later into 3gal pots. I had them under a 96Watt T5 Panel (6500k) for about 2.5-3 weeks because of temperature problems. Then I bought a grow tent 4x4x6.7 and put them in there. Now I have them under a 400w MH bulb and the T5 panel.
Over the past 3-4 days they've started to develop pistils, so I'm wondering if I should switch them to my 600w HPS bulb now?
I've been using Cyco nutrients every 2 waterings since it stays pretty hot in there and uses a lot of water (86 degrees Fahrenheit, with an A/C running outside of the tent) And I put them in a Happy Frog Organic soil mix since germination.

I just want to see your guys' opinions on how you think I'm doing so far. In my opinion they look a little slower than other people's autoflowers, but maybe i'm wrong. I'd love to hear any opinions.
Thanks


2 pics... The first one is yesterday, the second one is this morning after I fed them last night

 

[Cosmic Charlie]

They look good to me 4 weeks ish you are saying? do you know what day they are on? I would prolly switch to the Hps mainly because it should run a little cooler ... MH run pretty hot . I think because of the blue in the spectrum... You still have a lot of vegetative growth to go obviously and they wont mind 86 too much at that size so its up to you really but I would try to get that temp down a bit . A lot of people run Hps from start to finish with their autos (photos as well) including my self. I am using HF for soil as well and ran 1000 watt hps with digital ballast from start to finish... Ran the ballast at half strength to start then 75% then full . Well actually I havent finished yet but you can go check out my grow if you would like. I documented the begining quite well as it is my first auto grow and I was a lil perinoid . So you should be able to get some idea from that...idk I am newb to autos too hope this helps ... I am sure someone with more experience will be by soon ... oh and I have a couple dina fem criticaljacks in there too ...

 

[PDTheGreat]

The first picture is day 34 and the second is 35

 

[Cosmic Charlie]

ok I haven't grown the cheese yet but I read up a bit and they aren't super big yeilders that being said yes you are a little behind... I think you started another thread... I would just use that one or choose one to use ... No worries though ... Again I would switch to the hps there is a chart on my thread /grow journal ...I want to say it is on page five and that will help you with your light heights ...keep in mind that that chart doesnt figure in heat of the bulb so if you are not in a sealed reflector with an inline fan you are gonna wanna go towards the higher end of that chart...Hope this helps...