New Grower Do Super-Auto's flower less heavily in 18/6 than in 12/12?

[hedgeraider]

I have Nirvana Sky @ 107 days, and some of the buds have starting producing 5-6 nodes of mostly leaf above the buds, stretchy vegging with 1-leaves instead of 7/11. The photos i have beside them are re-vegging too because it's 18/6... I think that the super auto's are showing some veg reactions to the light. The bud is very nice on them, natural marijuana style, not skunky, smell is nice etc. i have seen pics of the same plants with masses of crystals, so i am thinking perhaps they bud more strongly and crystally with shorter days, and in 18/6 they stay in suspended budding/veg growth for longer.

 

[steelrat]

The lighting hours don't affect the vegging period with autos.

http://shortstuffseeds.com/shortstuff-seedbank-news/what-are-super-autos/


atb,

steely

 

[mclovin478910]

Super autos are best outdoors. Stitch advised me that for best indoors sometime best to switch to 12/12 around day 70 to kick into full flower.

 

[Balarama]

I think there must be some light sensitivity in superautos, although it's normal for almost 100% sativas to grow stretchy buds and even revegging the whole time of flowering, which can happen also on 12/12. This is why sativa growers shorten the lights to 11/13.

 

[Dr Who]

I have, much to my dismay, a load of Short Stuff Himalayan Blue Diesel seeds that not only won't flower under an 18:6 photoperiod, but also after forcing to flower under a 12:12 photoperiod then returning to a longer photoperiod will start to reveg. So far I've grown 4 and they have all reacted in the same way. I have also grown some Short Stuff MI5, and of the 5 I grew only 2 autoflowered. These plants weren't superautos, but have been sufficient to convince me that Short Stuff are not being entirely honest about what they are selling. Frankly I'm not surprised with the way your plants are growing, but you have my sympathy. My recommendation is basically just not to use Short Stuff seeds, I've had hardly any issues with any other autos (Flash, Dinafem, Barneys Farm, Auto Seeds, Dutch Passion, Royal Queen), but Short Stuff just seem to be a recipe for disappointment as far as I can see.

 

[hedgeraider]

haha @doctor who, sounds like himalayan blue diesel is nonsense! the best thing about it is the name apparently.

Yes it's fine if the super autos have some reaction to light, as long as i know about it! it's stilly agressively an autoflower, just that it's made for outdoors... like 18/6 light is the same as exists in finland in height of summer, and i have it @ 600w so i think it should be the perfect plant for outdoors.

nice one. balarama and mclovin for the info's!

 

[kaosangel22]

I would contact stitch about those. See. What he says.

 

[hedgeraider]

i did he said he thought i'd put them in a new pot and they were going late.

 

[Dr Who]

hedgeraider, it sounds, as you say, as though they are starting to reveg. The HBD only did this after forcing at 12:12 then returning to 18:6 (as a photo plant would). It sounds as though you haven't changed the photoperiod though. Perhaps the plant thinks it is going to get a much longer summer than it expected. Perhaps some gradual reduction in photoperiod once they get to the size you are after is the best bet.

 

[yodabuds]

SMH those are not AUTOS than, or if they are than your getting photo phenos which would lead me to believe that they have not been bred out all the way to auto.... Wtf put it in a bigger pot? Put it on 12/12 indoors... Yea all good advice, for a PHOTO. I definitely would ask to get them replaced... If you didn't get them from stitch direct, than I guess your on your own as Stitch has informed us the seedbanks have unauthorized stitch gear... Hope you figure it out... The good news is autos won't suffer much yield loss on 12/12... Just a shame they should be able to finish out in 24/0 lighting or it's not a full auto.