Recon Auto

Does Recon finish outdoors in Ireland? It does, planted out at the end of May and cut by early October. The 60/40 balance handles an Irish season without special treatment, which is most of the reason to choose it. Bloom takes 50-60 days, so the harvest date is set by the calendar far more than by your technique.

What should I expect to take off it? up to 300 g/m2 indoors and up to 400 g/plant outdoors are the published figures, and both assume a full light or a full season plus a root run to match. A tunnel gets you most of the way to the outdoor number; a windowsill will not. At 20% THC the effort is well spent either way.

Is it a sensible first grow? Reasonably. Anyone who has finished one grow will manage this one; it asks for consistency rather than expertise.

Soil or coco? Coco with fertigation at EC 1.4-1.8 through bloom if you are there daily and want speed. Peat-free soil with slow amendments — fish, blood and bone, seaweed meal, rock phosphate — if you are not, and want flavour. Both suit this hybrid; the deciding factor is your week, not the plant.

How does it handle the weather here? Hybrid vigour covers most of what an Irish summer does. Keep the root zone under 28°C and do not transplant into a warm spell.

When does bloom feed start? Within a week of the first pistils. The 60/40 balance shifts demand quickly at the transition — phosphorus and potassium up, nitrogen down. Soil growers top-dress; coco and hydro switch formula immediately.

Tunnel, outdoors or indoors? A tunnel is the best value of the three here. Indoors you own the 50-60 days of bloom completely; outdoors the plant gets light no lamp matches and can reach up to 400 g/plant, and pays for it in rain. Flowering: 50-60 days. Indoor yield: up to 300 g/m2. Outdoor yield: up to 400 g/plant. Plant height: 90-120 cm. Medium. Rated easy difficulty.

Recon arrives in order. The first draw at 20% THC gives peppercorn heat that lands at the back of the throat. The euphoric, happy, relaxed character follows in minutes, as head and body together. Thinking stays clear while the muscles let go by degrees, which is what makes the dose, rather than the genetics, the thing that decides the evening. Limonene underneath contributes a lift that stops it going heavy.

Primary: Caryophyllene · Secondary: Limonene · Tertiary: Myrcene. Temperature decides how much of this profile survives. Low vaporisation at 180-188°C keeps limonene and myrcene audible over the caryophyllene; run it hotter, or burn it, and all three collapse into one note that is pleasant enough and tells you nothing.

Who does well with Recon? Back-garden and balcony growers in Dublin, Cork and Galway. Anyone who wants a crop dry and put away before the autumn closes in. Indoor growers short of headroom. The autoflowering genetics run to their own clock, so there is no schedule to manage and no anxiety about light leaks. Rated easy, which means a moderate learning curve that rewards attention without needing specialist kit.