Truer words never spoken. @merlin44 ’s grow just puts the rest of us to shame. 
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I’m used to dealing with problem children 
I just hope she doesn’t grow up too fast, time will tell if she starts maturing early 
How long was it again for autos to typically start?
Will check out both of those for ideas! I’d love to not Have to support branches at all, but damn phenomes seem to do what they want. Two of my GSC need support, but one of them could lift weights even with it’s smallest branches haha
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For my autos, so far they seem to flower between 30 and 45 days in. @Lacewing @JaneQP and @Underthestairs have all either grown or started growing the Yeti Wedding, but she’s fully auto. Their flowering times ranged between 22 days from seed to maybe 30ish? 45 is my latest bloomer by far.
Yours is an auto/photo cross so with any luck she’ll just not auto on you at all.
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Mine was 30 plus or minus 2 days 
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From seed, does that mean from starting germination, or from sprouting?
I’ve got the date for both so whichever it is I’ll mark 45 or 50(to be safe) days to consider it a future mommy plant if it hasn’t started flowering haha
Hmm could it being an auto/photo cross effect how long it takes it to autoflowers if it’s got that auto gene??
Or is it more black and white like if it’s an auto it’ll start in that range etc?
I honestly don’t know. I believe that if she doesn’t auto within a “normal” auto timeframe (I guess between 30 and 60 days from sprout) then she will be a photoperiod. She may behave more like an auto (have a faster flowering period). My limited understanding is that utilizing the ruderalis gene to get photoperiods with a short flowering time and then back-crossing them is how breeders get “fast flowering” strains. So if it’s an auto/photo cross that doesn’t auto in a reasonable period, it won’t auto (probably).
I’ll go with “from sprouting” for 200, Alex. But I’m also not sure, in reality. The only date I ever write down is the date they go in water to begin germinating, but they usually sprout within 2 days of that so the margin of error is slim enough.
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In some auto the flowering gene from ruderalis is weak. Recessive or just plain dormant. Happens a LOT i have noticed lately.
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To be safe Ill wait 60 days from sprout then before taking clones. If she grows quick enough she could still make being the next veg group 
Its a race between her, the ILGM blackberry, and the wedding cake re-veg clones haha
If she turns out a photoperiod, would she still have a faster flowering period? And does that mean she finishes quicker with a lower yield per plant, or more like she ends up the same as normal photo but does it faster? 
Probably a theoretical thing lol
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Yeah its a lemon haze x skunk #1 x a male auto (fir autoflower traits. Its called “lemon auto”.
It doesn’t have a good germination right but when you do get one to pop its typically a good producer and super skunky 
But check out this setup, i just used some plastic draws from the trash really and sit my plants on bricks. Nothing special really but very easy to do.
If you know you going to train for a net. You can use it to soread the plant out as it grows.
Putting it on early and just slide it up as the plant grows spreading tje branches out useing the net to hokd them apart…
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For what it’s worth, the yield on my fast flowering strains has been comparable to the yield of my regular photoperiods. I’ve grown a fast c99 twice now. I don’t recall the original plant yield but it was sizeable, somewhere between a quarter and a half pound. For me, that’s above average. 1/4lb is my typical plant in my conditions with my level of f**ks given (zero).
I have four other fast flowerers going right now, and they’ll be ready within the next few weeks so I can definitely let you know how they fare compared to the C99, who is coming down tonight.
She’s cooked:
I think the cross you’re running may have a fast flower. The thing about the Wedding Cake parent was she was very slow to transition into full blown flower. She threw some pistils early (autoflower) and waited another 14-21 days to give me hedgehogs. So the plant with the “auto” was oddly slow compared to the others I’ve run. Although the YW was a fast flowerer, in addition to being fast to get to flower, so the Wedding Cake didn’t totally slow it down to unbearable speeds.
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Damn,.so many variables haha genetics make my head explode.
That’d be awesome though if it got the makings for a fast flower while still sitting on the photoperiod side.
Maybe the auto part of the wedding cake is more recessive than others
I guess time will tell, dec 8 If she’s still vegging and healthy at that point, she’ll be a mommy wether she wants that life or not
Oh damn, her fan leaves look like they were done with this world a while ago
But the bits that actually matter look great😍
@1HappyPappy oooo! Love the idea of being able to move it up as they get taller, that was one of my concerns. Gonna go through your post with a comb lol
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So far I grew one Hawaiian Wedding Cake (WC crossed with a photoperiod Kona Kauai) and she auto’d on me. @Mr_Wormwood is perhaps dropping a White Wedding soon, but that won’t help us discern the odds with your plant 
Yeah, it’s not my idea of a good time. I almost failed chemistry and biology was not much better. Here I am doing botany as a hobby and chemistry as a profession. 
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I love reading and watching videos about genetics and many other topics actually my problem is i can’t remember half of what I use to
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Unfortunately I’m on a bit of a hiatus until I can get some personal finance crap figured out. I overdid it last go round, as was informed I’d be taking a break for a bit… lol.
Feels weird as hell not having something growing though. (I don’t count the aloe plant I have)
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Aw c’mon K, whatcha gonna do when y’all run outta smoke and it’s still 3-4 months in the making?
Sometimes I think about slowing down and focusing on a couple plants and then I remember what a PITA it was ramping up to consistent production levels.
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That c99 looks amazing !!
My outdoor yeti started showing pistols at like 18 days…I harvested it in 56 days
This pic was taken on the 55th day
I have never grown something so dense and tight and packed
And it’s killer smoke
5 more yetis going indoor …the larger one was planted right into the same fabric pot as the one harvested …and sprouted in early September .
It was definitely stunted in the last few days of September /early October by about 10 days of non productive growth conditions ,rain and overcast and 50 degree weather or spent that entire time under my patio glass table …then moved into here just after that …
It’s also been under LST …lol
I think those yetis are just amazing strong fast plants .
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Well I guess I’ll just light my last j on that burning bridge, as I’m sure this would not be an argument ima win. So I just lay low
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Merlin is where I got my ideas from for sure!!!
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I was always good at that stuff when I was younger,.
But just like @1HappyPappy I just can’t remember jack crap anymore
And I think I’m hitting that point where learning new stuff hurts my brain so I kinda avoid learning anything until it’s a necessity
Bleh! Too much damn foliage in the flower room I think, and not enough ventilation. Even though the weather dried out and humidity is down at 30%, it’s still about 80% when I open the door… Been leaving it open while I’m awake to air it out, gets it down to 50-60%, but then from just 5 hours with door shut before lights turn out, gets back up to 80%… I gotta get it down before getting deeper into flower 
Anyone ever tried that thing with a bucket of salt sitting in a bigger bucket taking water out of the air?
Or any other ideas? I have a dehumidifier in there already but it’s small it doesn’t do much…
I can install another intake fan, but more exhaust would be really hard since there’s just the one 4" pipe in the ceiling already ducted with my single exhaust…
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