We are in Tucson for the year (I think), This will be our first Summer in the desert in several years and it is a question of MsBubba and Summer Sun and heat. If we last I will be doing an experiment with growing both Auto and Photo plants outdoors, in the back garden.
It is set up to grow 4 Autos and four Photos. The Autos are Durban Poison & Bruce Banner. The Photos are a local grown Thai Nights (based on Durban Poison genetics) and a Afghan Land Race.
Two things I'm trying to test are: will the Cannabis plants survive the heat and is there too much light pollution at night for the Photo plants to flower.
Auto flower plants are different and will not always follow the rules of growing photo Cannabis. Most Cannabis literature is about growing Photo Plants. Many times the information and/or process is wrong for Auto plants. Most of the time you have to learn by doing. It can be a slow process.
As an example, Auto plants are on a hard genetic time line. If the plant is stressed it will not grow to full potential. It doesn't take much to stress and slow a Autoflower plant just the stress of transplanting will affect the life cycle of an Auto plant.
This is a plant that was set aside without care until I noticed it was still alive and making flower at about 5 or 6 weeks. Potted it and it's sister a couple of weeks ago, I doubt it will grow anymore but I expect we will get maybe 20 or so small smoking buds off the two plants.
