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Best Way to Train Auto-Flowering Strains?

The greenman knows! 💥 Everyone can enjoy a growing style that fits them and their willingness to experiment. 😊 And love those donkey dick buds! 😁
 
I just love it Green75, do yo thing bro. This is my first auto and all I did was a 90 degree bend an lots of tying down, cause it was my first one I had read that you ain't supposed to mess with autos much, but after seeing your grows I think all that info is a bunch of horse hockey.Keep it up bro, changing minds.
 
What I noticed is that if you top an Auto, you delay when you start to flower. If I am on a tight time line I will LST an Auto but if time is not a problem then I top.
 
Yes, it seems like the real trigger to stunted autos is almost everything else besides actually topping! Over the years, it seems like the biggest problems with autos seem to be overwatering or a bad environment. Autos need to "get out the gate" strong, where a photoperiod plant can give you months in the vegetative stage while you're trying to get things right before you have to start flowering. In that way, photoperiod plants can be more forgiving if you're having trouble when you first get started, but a good setup usually makes that unnecessary!
 
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I'm far from experienced, but I can tell you what I've noticed so far from my Auto grow compared to my Photo grow: 26 days in, not much... They've behaved similarly to the toppings and LST. No stunting to speak of, just a couple of days of slower growth, followed by explosive growth. I experienced the same thing with the photo's. Same with defoliation, the first time it seems to slow growth for a couple of days, but then it explodes with new growth and every defoliation session after doesn't seem to bother it in the least bit.

I do think having a healthy plant, lot's of light and a good environment is key to keeping the plants going strong when you're introducing these stresses.

I'm about to pull down a big harvest soon which will give me a lot of time to experiment, and possibly fail, without worry. and I have a bunch of freebie Auto seeds to play with. Expect a thread from me where I'll try anything and everything we "shouldn't do" with Auto's to see if the stories are true.
 
nebula IN your picture with the scissors , if you move it down one node where you can see the two new growth shoots and top it their the two shoots just take off but that is with photos I haven't topped my autos yet they are only 8 days those are just my observations
 
I'm late to the party it seems. I'm for topping autos, generally after the second or third node. I like to strip the first node and keep nodes 2 & 3 as my mains.
For me, it's about space. My grow is small, under 10 square feet for everything including nute storage etc., but we smoke a lot of weed. When I grew photos, not only did they take too long but they also got too big and became unwieldy in my little 2'x4' tent.
 
To add to my previous post, this was taken 2 days ago, freshly defoliated.

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And this was taken today.

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No signs of stopping
 
Yes, topping lower down on the plant works great with photoperiod plants (i.e. manifolding), but the idea with autos is to remove as little growth as you can, since that "wastes" as little of the plant's limited vegetative growth as possible, so you end up with a bigger plant going into the flowering stage. With a photoperiod plant you have time to grow the plant out to its full potential, while with an auto-flowering plant you're on a time limit so to get the best yields you want to avoiding wasting vegetative growth if you can. With an auto, growth=time and you don't have a lot of it.
 
Beautiful looking plant! It obviously loves what you're doing.

Just curious, would it be okay with you if I used some of your pics for our upcoming auto-flowering article?
 
Thank you, and yes. You have permission to use any pics I post on here. It's all about sharing and helping.
 
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