Dear growers,

I have a couple of questions regarding the Low ryder 2 strain. I must admit, it is very interesting strain (auto-flowering). Especially the time it takes to finish, wow!
I looked at some diaries which were helpful and showed different results. They left some questions open aswell.

Now, is this strain advisable to grow in clay pebbles (hydro)? or in a different medium?

I'm a bit confused about the auto-flowering - Do you leave the plant at 18/6 light throughout its growth? Or 12/12 from the beginning?

I would start off the plant growth with a 250w (blue) eco light and then put them under a 600w hps for flowering. Is that a reasonable idea?


Thank you for your advice,

your friendly austrian

Hello again, in all honesty i would consider any of the lowryder family an outdoor plant , main reason being you can grow far more and better with another strain using the same amount of electricity, even better if you get to the stage where you can grow from clone, there are a number of issues with lowryder and lowryder 2, main thing is yield and the lack of it, you have to go 18/6 for best yields and alot of the time the grows are taking much longer than the stated 10 weeks, the best yields from this strain are around the oz mark, very few people have managed to get anything more substantial, it would be more realistic to say an average is more likely to be between 14/21 gram per plant, as you have witnessed there is alot of variation in the results, obviously some growers are better prepared and perhaps more skillful than others, but none the less there is still alot of variation going from batch to batch seed to seed with this strain, you can grow 12/12 all the way but you will most likely end up with small plants and small harvest, you cant top them to any real benefit, you cant clone them or re-veg all you can do is breed them, alot of people would argue and say the best thing to do is bin them because of the very disappointing yields and generally its only a mild hitter, you have to flower it to the max as well to get the best hit, do yourself a favour and get a different strain for growing indoors , save this for the outside garden, plant around mid to late spring, Rj

agreed ^ Best to use this maybe for an outdoor grow next year while you wait for other crops to complete

You could have a proper grow done indoors in basically the same time if you veg for only a couple of weeks and then flower for 7-8 weeks except yeild etc. would be higher

I'm interested too in this strain but I'm going to plant some outdoors next year

Hmmm....

What to do? The problem is that i will be returning here to uk in mid january and i will have exactly 10 weeks time to grow!!!! Because i have to leave another 2 weeks then (A bit too long for the wilma system being on autopilot).

My idea was to start growing by growing LR2 on a 18/6 light regime and start some other strain while they are finishing. Haven't decided yet what strain, though. Wanna give White berry another try perhaps.

I could kill for clones, cause that would reduce much of the hassle. I wouldn't need to give LR2 a thought. A friend of mine was suppose to help me in the clone department for january, but told me yesterday that he wouldn't be able to do it at last.
LR2 is sort of a desperate move.

Has anybody grown LR2 in clay pebbles? Joint Doctor which produces those seeds said on their site that they have higher yields whith hydro systems. Is that true?

I still have some hashberry and kc tnr seeds, which i plan to plant outside this year. Is it possible to take clones from them once they stood outside?


Thank you,

your friendly austrian

Yes its true what the joint doctor is sayin, what hes not telling you is that ALL strains will generally yield more in hydro, Rj
e2a: when you say outside this year you dont me now as in December ?, surely you mean next spring

Next spring of course!!!

they love 20/4 hour lighting , i had mine on 24 full time light . and they loved it , lots of peeps on hb (before it went down) used to ask the question . just keep them 20/4 and things will be fine ....

on a side note HB should be back soon , the site is being revamped . that will probably be the best place for all the af questions

Hi
I grew out lr2 a couple of months ago and was impressed with the quality of the smoke, the yeild was not great i got about 1/2 ounce from each plant.
They grew under 18/6 and took 9 weeks start to finish.
ATB Soap

PS. that was with a single 250w red enviro, you will defo do better using 600w's of hps

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agreed ^ Best to use this maybe for an outdoor grow next year while you wait for other crops to complete

You could have a proper grow done indoors in basically the same time if you veg for only a couple of weeks and then flower for 7-8 weeks except yeild etc. would be higher

Is this actually true, yeild i mean, i can imagine that going 12/12 from seed with a good strain will produce better smoke but from what i have read 10g is about all you are going to get per plant and 10g from a lr2 is poor.

Yep its true, alot of variation in lr, Rj

You can do that? I thought that you could to put flowers into 12h cycle only after sexing, hence the 4-8 weeks of vegging.
But has anyone actually done that? starting your grow with 12h light. I just can't imagine it can be good for flower and then expecting a good yield after 9 weeks.

If I could only get my hands on some clones

Which strain do you think would be good for a 2 week vegging and quick finish - In other words: What else can I grow in 10 weeks (from seed) other than LR2? I welcome any suggestions and with diary even better!!!

Cheers,

your friendly austrian

Theres nothing else that auto flowers so quickly other than the lowryder family , i wouldnt flower anything out so early its just not worth it unless its a clone,
Rj

so people who say you can get a better yeild from a normal strain in 9 weeks from seed are talking crap?

i grew LR#2 with just sunlight and a couple ov weeks under CFL's and was suprised at how well they perfomed my main 1 grew massive and i had people telling me to hydro them they perform well so im in process ov getting an aeroponics system and was gon slap a LR#2 in with my grow on 12/12 just to see but if u want to bump up the yield and size ov the plant, invest in some HALO bionic plant food this shit is the kit m8 as i have been told so i got some in process ov a lttle experiment now with just 1 ov me 5 plants getting it just to see how big a difference it makes aswell, so perhaps this would help with ur LR#2 plans?? anyway good luck with ur choice m8!!!

You will get some yield, but its going to be very very small and the smoke itself is not going to be the full potential it should be, personally i've never tried to flower anything so prematurely, i have seen other peoples efforts trying this and i cant say i was impressed with the yields, much typically less than lowryder 2, the argument would have more sway if it were lowryder #1 where some yields were reported as low as 7 grams or less per plant , but in all honest i personally wouldnt bother, Rj

Austrian Tokker, check out this grow diary, where Spaceman3 recently got nearly twelve ounces off four plants growing Lowryder2. I'm trying some out now alongside our main grow, and they certainly do grow stupidly fast.

I have the impression that reports of poor yields mostly relate to the original lowryder.

e2a 1 ounce = 28 grams

i grew lowryder 1 .... i would say i got at least 2 oz,s . and that was from just two of my plants , i have just choped the last three and i think in total when dry i would have about 3-3 1/2 ozs in total ....


the lowryder is a very versatile plant , i know its not to every ones likeing but it should be a mandatory frist grow imo .

Thank you people for your thoughts!

I think that I will have to go with LR2 unless clones can be found. I must say that some diaries on LR2 have been encouraging, especially spaceman's! Some others were not so good. I just hope that my plants will be nice and yield as much as spacemen's
I noticed that everybody grew LR2 in soil medium. I have a wilma 10 with clay pebbles, which is nice - we can compare results for future reference. Low ryder 2 - Hydro vs. Soil.
I never heard of Halo bionic food - I have Canna Aqua A&B for veg and flowering, I also have some rhizotonic. I plan to buy some cannaboost and pk13/14 in addition, unless told otherwise. But i think that i will stick to canna. I must also add that this will be my first hydro growth and i believe that LR2 should give a bit of confidence, so that I can grow a better strain after that. White berry and White Rhino are my top candidate until now.

Sincerely,

your friendly Austrian

I grew out a couple of Lowryder#1's as a side grow, the 2 were really different in height, yeild and slight variation in taste, the biggest of the 2 yeilded about 15-17 grams (rough estimate) and the other must of been the 'micro pheno' as it was around 6-7 grams, the northern lights taste came through on the bigger yeilding pheno, tasted alot better than what i expected, the smaller yeilding pheno tasted like red berries/red wine, again the taste surprised me, neither gave me the 'High', more of a body stone, good plant to grow when growing other strains at same time as it's ready/harvested before the main strains which gives you plenty of 'OK' smoke till the other strains are ready . Baz

Goodluck with your grow mate all the best, Rj

I'd "go with the Low".

Don't even bother with the hydro, just shove some seeds in compost (straight into final posts is recommended for LR, they don't even need to be big pots) and let 'em go. They make a nice, quick low-maintainence grow that will get you out of a hole. They'll take stress and temp changes well. They're easy.

They may not be the best yield or the strongest but hey, they're quick and very easy and that's what you want, right?

Erm i beg to differ

pretty potent compared to LR1 ,better yield ,some of them down autoflower..besides that good strain all in all ..if you like ruderalis crosses ,which i dont
try lowlife seeds LR X AK47..optimum autoflowering strain

besides all that ^^
what rastajedi said