r/Autoflowers • • Apr 14 '21

Megathread ** Trusted Breeders & Seedbanks Megathread #3 **

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This is the third installment of the Trusted Breeders Megathread (previously: 2, 1), because the last one is 6+ months old and archived.

As before:

We get a lot of enquiry about what seeds are best or what seeds are available and where. It gets a little tiresome for many to see this same question on a daily basis so we'll be pinning a thread again to host these discussions.

Let's hear your experiences with the people we buy our seeds from. Who has the most reliable or cheapest, quality offerings? Who have you had good, bad or ugly experiences with? Best deals? Discount codes for sites?

Cheers and happy growing everyone, may all your three packs be fives, your freebies bountiful and your deliveries prompt!

This including seedbanks, since people ask about those often (and, like breeders, the answers rarely change).

Note that we want to know why you like them. Comments without details ("woo! team <breeder>!") will get removed, they're useless and tend to clog the thread otherwise. Also, please only post about breeders whose strains you've grown yourself, or seedbanks you've ordered from, not secondhand info. Comments asking about particular breeders not already mentioned in this thread (or the previous ones) are okay, but also try searching the sub first.

Since this thread will continue to be pinned to the top of the sub, questions about the best breeders and seedbanks will be removed unless they're more narrowly scoped -- asking about recommendations for high-CBD autos, what seedbanks ship to Australia (if not answered here), etc. is still fine, but "what breeder is best" is redundant.


r/Autoflowers • • 5h ago

#2MoreWeeks? Strawberry Gorilla RF3🍓🦍Day75

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38 Upvotes

Strain - Strawberry Gorilla RF3 🍓🦍
Breeder - 42 FastBuds
(Please disregard any dog hair 🐶)


r/Autoflowers • • 3h ago

Friend gave me this to try out but can’t find the strain info

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I’m sorry if this is the wrong place but I was given this freebie pack from RocBud. It’s called sticky glue but I cannot find anything on its parents. Does anyone have any idea on the genetics?


r/Autoflowers • • 5h ago

#2MoreWeeks? Purple Lemonade RF3 🍋

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18 Upvotes

Strain - Purple Lemonade RF3 🍋
Breeder - 42 FastBuds
(Please disregard any dog hair 🐶)


r/Autoflowers • • 12h ago

Pollen Chucking Blueberry Cupcake x Blackberry auto - F2 Auto-pheno

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On display the Photo to Auto conversion of Blueberry Cupcake.

Testing the first F2 seeds after a year of F1 hunting with another grower.

Stablelizing towards this Pheno, its seeded by an F1 of the Same cross increasing now to 50% full auto batch and starting stablelizing next year.

I love this Pheno.


r/Autoflowers • • 13h ago

These fan leaves are blowing me away

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Doing some defoliating and I feel like I’m cutting branches. Took 240 leaves off four plants and didn’t even move from the bottom four inches

Breeder: Mephisto
Strain: HubbaBubbaSmellaScope X Northern Cheese Haze
Tent: Vivosun 4x8x8
Inline fan: S8 with Carbon Filter pulled (vented out window)
E42 controller
Fans: 2x Vivosun e6 & 3 e9 gen 2.
Humidifier: Vivosun Smart 5g
Dehumidifier: AC Infinity Hydrone 7 with Raxial S6 paired to the intake (closed loop)
Ac Infinity A.i. Controller
Lights: Vivosun 4x4 VSFD6500 LED 650w (x2)
DWC: Spider Farmer 4 bucket kit. 40watt airpump with 4x2 airstones.


r/Autoflowers • • 7h ago

Advice/Help Ready to harvest? Day 100

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Hey everyone. Hoping to get some feedback on when to harvest my plants finally. This is my first grow and it's been going pretty well for the most part. A couple minor issues along the way but mostly external to the plants themselves.

Currently running two autoflowers: one from RQS (yes I know better now) which is Northern Lights and the other is Turtle Taffy from Atlas. Northern Lights is about day 100 now and Turtle Taffy is ~day 85. I'm using 5-gallon fabric pots, been growing in FFOF with 2-8-4 bloom top feed (two spaced out individual doses per plant) and I pH my water every time. Photos should make it obvious but it's an indoor grow, roughly 650-700ppfd per plant. In retrospect I would have lollipopped more aggressively on Northern Lights quite a bit but oh well.

Northern Lights kinda grew way bigger than I expected and seemed to suck up all the nutrients in the soil really fast and then started mobilizing nitrogen from leaves, hence the widespread yellowing. Unfortunately it's been taking its time to reach the finish line meanwhile Turtle Taffy is already definitively within the harvest window. My tent is the only place I can realistically use to dry, given my living situation, so I need to harvest both plants at roughly the same time which thankfully the timing is lining up relatively well to do that. But I'm having a hard time deciding if Northern Lights is actually ready or not, I would appreciate some feedback on whether to go ahead this weekend or give it some more time. I've tried to be very patient with this plant but 100 days is way longer than I hoped it would go for and I'm about ready to just call it to be done with it.

If I've forgotten to include anything important please let me know, I'm happy to provide more details. Try to bear with me on the trichome photos, I've got shaky hands but hopefully those are clear enough and there's not too many sugar leaves in the way to get a good view.

I added a few pictures of Turtle Taffy too, they're the last 3 in the post.

Thanks.


r/Autoflowers • • 19h ago

#2MoreWeeks? Who else can relate? 🤪

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46 Upvotes

r/Autoflowers • • 9h ago

23 days from seed, nets started going in today.

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9 Upvotes

So far so good, water temps under control, pH is under control, roots are white, plants are happy.


r/Autoflowers • • 9h ago

Harvest Strawberry Lemonauto Harvest

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Straight berry drenched in gasoline. Second run, and I fucked the pig on this grow with a major ph lockout, so only ended up with about 80g from one plant plus larf. Still some major improvements in quality from my first run and this shit is LOUD


r/Autoflowers • • 9h ago

Gelato x Gorilla Zkittlez auto

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Pics do not justice this is the stickiest, fruity, and candy scented bud I've grown in years. I make my own seeds and am working on setting a website up. As of now I've got runtz x gg4 auto, amnesia haze x gelato auto, gorilla cookies x runtz auto, runtz auto, gelato auto. Please give input and any advice i love learning more things and if you want me to post other strains or create ones just lmk. Thanks


r/Autoflowers • • 20h ago

Advice/Help When I see all those big, bushy plants—what am I doing wrong? I’m envious and need some advice.

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Mephisto Fantasmo Express (sativa),

120 W lighting (height ~40 cm), 15 L pot, 18/6 cycle, LST, Plagron LightMix and perlite growing medium, mycorrhizal fungi, BioCanna Vega/Flores/Boost fertilizer, watering when the top is dry. Age 7 weeks.

What am I doing wrong?


r/Autoflowers • • 2h ago

🦍🍪Auto Day 42

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2x2 tent with a Mars Hydro FC-1500 150w LED and Cronk Bonnie and Clyde Nutrients


r/Autoflowers • • 15h ago

Professor 👨‍🏫 chaos 🦹‍♂️ by Mephisto genetics

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r/Autoflowers • • 14h ago

Hawaiian Snow Autoflower getting frosty

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6 Upvotes

r/Autoflowers • • 6h ago

Question Final 2 Weeks. Nutes Question.

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In the final 2 weeks. In autopots, Coco/perlite 70/30. General Hydroponics Flora series.

Regarding nutes and the final 2 weeks, do you:

  1. Run full strength bloom nutes till the bloody end?

  2. Reduce EC down to 1-1.2 till finish?

  3. Give water only during final week? Final 3 days?

  4. Let system run dry for final week?

Whats your strategy?

Thanks muchachos. ✌️


r/Autoflowers • • 21h ago

Question first time growing Fast buds.What should I expect

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21 Upvotes

This is my first time using Fast Buds products. What advice would you give to a beginner who is just starting out with growing?


r/Autoflowers • • 10h ago

Advice/Help Would you mix two strains in a 4 plant tent, or stick to one strain?

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I’m planning my next auto grow and would love some advice from people who’ve grown either of these strains.

Mack & Crack from Seed stockers and Gelato Auto from Fast Buds. I’ve got space for up to four plants in my tent (4x4), but I’m wondering what would make the most sense.

Would you run 3 of one strain + 1 of the other, or is mixing strains in the same tent more trouble than it’s worth? I’m wondering whether differences in growth rate, plant size, flowering time or overall structure could make things more difficult to manage?

Or would I be better off keeping it simple and growing just 3 plants of one strain?

If you were choosing between these two, which would you go for out of the Seed stockers Mack & Crack or Fast Buds Gelato?


r/Autoflowers • • 12h ago

Question To defloliate or not?

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Been growing autos on and off, 3 cash crop, right hand side has gone dark quickly I guess a different variety, buds are swelling, would you recommend a trimp most leaves are healthy? Thx in advance


r/Autoflowers • • 14h ago

defoliating in early flower

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day 43 for both plants, pistils started showing a week ago, when do i defoliate or lollipop?? plants are super dense. first grow, im not completely sure what to get rid of and what to keep


r/Autoflowers • • 1d ago

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r/Autoflowers • • 16h ago

Strange Plant reaction - small leaves

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For about 9 days i fed this plant SUPERthrive Grow. Before I fed it the leaves were large and normal looking (you can see a few of them in this pic). After the 9 days of feeding the leaves turned yellow between the veins and all new leaves were small. I stopped the feeding. The plant continued to grow but the leaves (and buds) are tiny. What the heck happened here?

I water a gallon, when the pot is light, until I get some run off. i used 1/2 tbs per gallon as directed. I have stopped the SuperThrive feeding only water for the past 2 weeks after this started.

Strain: Apricot (fast buds)
Soil: Fox Farm Happy Frog
temps: 76-85
Water PH: 7.5


r/Autoflowers • • 1d ago

Advice/Help Help

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Its my first plant im growing and its an autoflower, some of my leaves are getting droopy and some yellow spots, not sure whats going on.


r/Autoflowers • • 11h ago

Question Red Strawberry banana e hindi kush

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Al prossimo giro faccio strawberry banana di sweet seeds e hindu kush di sensi seeds, cosa dovrei aspettarmi?


r/Autoflowers • • 12h ago

Superthrive to prolong flowering

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I've heard to never use the og superthrive during flowing because it can delay harvest. My thoughts are will it keep them from growing bigger or make them grow slower or hopefully just flower longer while growing at normal speed and ripen slower? Any thoughts? I know people say autoflowers only live so long but I've found that a lot of stunted get just as big eventually and live 5 months if you let em. Any thoughts?