Female or male? First time growing

[Dragonlilly]

Im not too worried about the smell unless it gets really bad. But ill have to come up with something if that happens. Should it be in full sun for 12 hours or can it be in the shade?

[Royal Nugs]

Cannabis is a light loving plant. The more light it gets the better. It is the most important factor when it comes to yields assuming environment is ideal. When your plant goes into flower it's critical it gets at least 12 hours of darkness or you will confuse the plant into thinking it's still summertime and revert back to vegetative growth.

[insomniaczzz]

An 'auto' is a plant that does not need the 12/12 light/dark cycle to flower. It has its own veg / bloom cycle no matter how many hours of dark and light, but it prefers more light hours A cola is any side growth that will produce a flower. Your plant seems tall and slender. I would suggest cutting her back a few nodes and letting her get bushy, develop more side branches, then switch her to bloom cycle. You will get a bigger harvest that way.

She does seem very healthy though. I fear you may not have enough soil in that pot, it's only half full. If you let her the way she is now, you will get one main big flower and maybe a few smaller ones. Since this is your first grow, maybe you should just let her do her own thing without interference.

Refer to the GWE site on topping and training plants to increase yield.

All in all, it looks like a good healthy plant. Keep up the good work.

[insomniaczzz]

Here is picture of a flowering plant that was never topped or trimmed but so it could get bushy. Its one of my recently harvest plants.One big main cola and lots of little ones at the bottom. This is okay, we still got a harvest from it.

[insomniaczzz]

Here is a plant that was trained to get bushy. It has many main colas and a lot more flowers. Picture is courtesy of NugBuckets.

[Smoke-a-lot]

When would you suggest be the earliest to top a plant

[Dragonlilly]

Thanks alot guys!! Your information has been very very helpful!! Considering its my first time ill just let her do her own thing but if you think i should change pot or put more soil in please tell me!! And any criticism is more than welcome!!

[Dragonlilly]

And those plants looks really good!!

[Dragonlilly]

And i wasnt even expecting her to get this far so im pretty happy if i get anything from her at this point!!

[Sonnyhad]

Im not sure what your talking about with "cola". Ive grown it outside but bring it in when it goes dark. I read somewhere that putting it on 12 to 12 from seed helps it bud faster? So thats what i did. And what did u mean by "an auto"?

I think you would do well to keep reading and posting questions here because I think you missed a ton of growth by going right to 12/12. They will grow, but think about how much light any plant gets in the growing season. Many of us do 18_20 hours of light until we are ready to let the plant go into the flowering stages and that's when we go to 12/12.

[insomniaczzz]

Ditto what sonny just said. I learned soooooo much from reading the GWE tutorials and even more by reading and asking questions here at the forum. It's not too late to try to pull that one large stem down and out of the way. Other than that, just let her go. If you get any big fans leaves that are covering areas where you see a bud is forming, pluck that leaf so the light can get to it.

[Dragonlilly]

Yeah i agree with you guys about putting it on 12/12 too early. As it is the first time trying im still learning. Im reading everything about 5 times to make sure i get every bit of help!! And with pulling that big stem down do you mean like the top of the tree and tieing it down? Im open to any advice on what i should do! Should i trim it? I dont really want to do anything to it as im not very experienced and dont want to stuff things up? Does it matter if i cut leaves off aslong as its not where the hairs are coming thou? I still have alot too learn

[Grower-Aaron]

Yea tie it down like a tree. Kinda like when they are gonna use it to slingshot someone in the cartoons lol. The only leaves you wanna cut are the bigger fan leaves and only if they are blocking a bud site

[Dragonlilly]

Okay i will tie it down and post a photo to make sure its right! If anyone has any photos of tieing them down so i can get a reference that would be really helpfull. Im planning on getting a bigger pot later this week so should i wait till ive done that?

[Dragonlilly]

And didnt really put it on 12/12 from seed more like 4 weeks after growth.