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Defoilation or lst

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First time growing and it's an auto. On both of my plants I want to expose two growth nodes to more light I really want to pluck the leaves. For now I tucked them under bigger fan leaves but I want opinions on what would be better to do.
 

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You can "prune" your plant and take off those fan leaves that are blocking the light - usually "defoliation" (heavy) is done in week 4 of vegation and week 4 of flower . For now just remove the two bottom fan leaves and possibly the second set - no more. Lst is a method one can use all thru grow with defoliation. Is the plant an auto?
 
Thanks for commenting on this_ I grew three autos for part of my last grow and was very careful-probably too careful, and have been wondering how much stress I can put an auto through to get more colas? My experience has been with photoperiods mostly.
Do you think I could get away FIMing an auto if done around the time it gets a fourth node? Then doing just LST and light pruning afterwards.That way I could get a more symmetrical plant to work from with LST afterwards...I did this with one plant before by mistake and it turned out ok, but then I backed off on the LST being wary after reading I shouldn't have done that! I'm thinking of using two auto strains that have 70-80 day seed to flower finishing times, to hopefully have a little extra time for the FIM to heal before it goes into fllower mode...suggestions appreciated!
 
It's mainly just two leaves blocking my light .not lookig for amazing yields just yet for my current needs 1 to 2 ounces a plan is sufficient. I'm roughly in my 3rd week of growing
 
Here is an example of an auto defoliated and very aggressive tying down...she is 22 days old...taking full strength nutes and thriving

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Check out my baby tika thread...
 
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