Autoflower training

[Canuck147]

Took the girls out for watering/feeding - fed them a tea blend (bird poo/worm stuff...) - I water in the sink with 2 containers 2 gallons each. With 3 plants these 4 gallons are best for me - always get runoff and the containers are easier to measure the nutes and stuff. Phed to 6.4.

Bruce is going to be a good one - the little abuse i gave her hasn't slowed her at all. Reset her bindings to allow for the vertical growth - don't want to hold her down.

Lucy is a slow one - working on node 5.. She strikes me as an autoflower that is not going to be tall.

Cookies I chopped off her first node - branches are almost ready for a little training - working on node 5.

And while myself and I did all this - it was me who wiped down the inside of the tent.

[Sylvester]

I'm following along with great interest. Nice photos & great looking plants.
Thanks for showing every step Canuck147 👍🏻 I plan on sowing my first ever Autos as soon as my grow area is clear from a massive Purple Trainwreck & Sugar Breath both in 13th week of flower Is it any wonder I want to try Autos?!

[Canuck147]

Bruce lost some leaves - needed em to get outta da way. Started on the next set of branches for LST.

Now I'm not trying for any mainline/quad or whatever - just attempting to get the branches growing apart from each other. For WPM protection .

She looks funny now - just wait a couple of days.

[Sylvester]

Oh Bruce! She'll be alright, looks so healthy & vibrant.
What hours have you started on? 18 light, 24hr or another if you don't mind telling me.
You & your plants are going to be like good friends to us following you know.🙂

[Canuck147]

it's in my signature - 18/6 - used to go 20/4 - but my Cree COB doesn't have that in the timer - so its easier to let the timer in the light do t b e on/off for me.
Don't want to go 24/7 cuz I don't want to burn out my light too fast.

[Sylvester]

Oops, forgot the signature info. I'm new here.
Thanks for answering, totally agree ~ I would go with 18/6 too.
Began my photo grow at 18/6 & they all did great.

[Canuck147]

Cookies here - started LST on first set of branches - which is the second node. Node number 6 is working its way up - once there's enough to snip off - then it'll happen.

[Canuck147]

With autoflowers one has to start it early - sometimes- most times their stems are quite thick and not very pliable.

[Canuck147]

Honestly I didn't see Tiger until you pointed her out.

[Sylvester]

Cats are great at camouflage 🐱
Hi Tiger, you are famous now. 🤗

[Canuck147]

Now Lucy here I'm undecided on what to do with her - her nodes are really close together as well as her branches are taking their time growing. So just so she didn't feel left out - I snipped off 2 leaves to let some light on her small jumbled mess . As well to find out if she likes being hacked at.

[SoOrbudgal]

She is a tight node gal when i have a auto like this all i ever do is top and remove large fans blocking the bud site. This is where nimble fingers and feeling for the branches pliablility? I break branches with these short node autos so i leave it alone. But it can be done, i just am not doing anymore damage to it LOL

[Sylvester]

Enjoying & appreciating seeing all these stages of training.
Lucy looks reticent & needs to be teased out gently. 🙂 Alot like my photo Sugar Breath did, showing Indica traits, almost there at 13weeks flower.
None of that with Autos! I'm so looking forward to planting for first Auto grow.

[Canuck147]

Lucy got topped

[Canuck147]

Cookies got topped

[JeffInCanada]

Great pics! Thanks!

[Farmbuck]

Nice !! Real nice !!

[Canuck147]

Oopsie - someone broke a branch
I told you guys so - now you're gonna make me look like a moron.
Hey - me resembles that.
You should - every time you look in a mirror you see one.
What happened?
Well me and myself have been doing most of the work lately - we weren't being very forceful at all and it just kinda sagged down all of a sudden.
Amputation.

Okay we talked it over and a third nodal branch broke so we decide to let the branch below it creep up and fill the space

[MeEasy]

I had almost that same talk with me, he's my helper. We had the talk right after me cut off the wrong branch thinking it was the bottom branch of a over under node, but it was a side by side node. Hope that made sense lol I didn't know how to describe it

[Canuck147]

Frustrating when shit happens.

[Canuck147]

Watered and fed the girls full strength nutes. Looks like Bruce will be okay - LST is progressing as I've shown you in the past pics.

Lucy is still a slow grower.

Hey why aren't we posting pics like before?before we been busy with contractors/technicians and stuff. Don't have time.
But it's not hard to post.
So if we post pics everyday then no one's going to see a change.
Besides - doesn't appear many are paying attention anyways.

[bboyfromwayback]

Me is here. Not sure I am or where He is but you got Me attention. 😁

Timing was perfect too, I have 3 autos about a week behind yours so Me will truly be following along after 3 more sets of leaves.

[Canuck147]

It wasn't me but someone is whining here - couldn't be me cuz I'm a moron remember.

[newbutoldgrower75]

Definitely paying attention buddy. Cant wait to get a small setup to try growing Auto's in the near future. Cheers

[Catfish22]

We has been trimming but myself and my plants are about 8 days behind! Farm on Canuck147 !!

[Canuck147]

I snuck Bruce outside for a pic

[JeffInCanada]

Looking good & strong in the sun Bruce! Stem looks pretty thick already, is it still bendy?...wait and find out Jeff, Geeesh, the guy's busy! Never mind, sorry.

[JDU]

Very nice Amigo!!!!
This un just might be Lucy's long lost sister lol. I have to thin her almost every day. (The before pic was 3 days growth.) She's showin pistols & thin leaves like the rest of em & a few buttons! Here we go!!
It sucks tryin to follow you from ahead so- How did I do?
Edit- when I noted on the grow record I saw that she dad 5 days growth there- not 3.

[Canuck147]

looks good - few more days will tell.
Just curious - why isn't your pot filled with your grow medium?

[JDU]

Yeah- all the autos I've tried so far stretched tall so I planned on top fillin these ones. Not knowing to not do that lol. & then these didn't stretch anyways

[JDU]

Dammit.
I can tell ya how I did- I took way to many fan leaves for her to finish....Most of the rest that aren't so tight noded look better though

[SoOrbudgal]

These are the reg. auto seeds not fems i got as replacements of the other all male autos.....so i've not done much work on them. They sit in a tent on the outside screen patio not doing to great do to weeks of cold out there. They are 3 to 4 wks old looking kinda boyish but we'll have to wait longer to see. Perfect day i mean it's 83f clear as a blue sky could be. Got a couple more autos in the tent all the same strain as this just wanted to get these out of my seed cuboard.

[Canuck147]

They look good really. To me - they look a little love srarved. I can see it - how they are just sitting there looking a little lethargic.

[MeEasy]

Most of the time the tall ones end up the males. Maybe you'll get two ladies and a tall man out of it