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Swiss Cheese auto

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Some good bud development since my last update. She's still responding nicely to the removal of unneeded leaves, and has a strong structure from earlier training. I really like keeping these autos low and wide, which makes the CFL lighting much easier to manage! 😊
 

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Why that is very sweet of you to say Bob! 🐸 Swissy will be so thrilled when I tell her... .she's always wanted to have her moment in the spotlight! 🌻🌻🌻
 
Thanks Sonnyhad! It can be a fine line between training/trimming that encourages the plant, and excessive hacking that sets it back...especially with autos and their limited lifecycle. I can only say that you just need to read the plant closely at every step to see if it's strong enough to respond well. Good luck with your grows! 🌻
 
Thanks Obi....glad to hear that the photo was appreciated! When this girl is finished, it will be fun to get a pic of the stripped down frame! 😉 🌿
 
also, Rock, do you look at the root structure too? (i mean of course after it's all over) and if so is it any different for superior/textbook training like that? just curious for curiouser's sake
 
I do check out the roots Bob...mostly to see if they really needed the 5 gallon pots that I grow autos in. And yes they appear to be utilizing every bit of soil...so for now my thoughts of switching to 3 gallons have been put on hold. Since I'm growing one plant at a time (indoors) I will pay the price for a 5 pound Kind soil purchase to give everything I can to these children of mine. 🌿
 
so just to clarify bc i'm literal like that....the root structures of perfectly trained (up top) autos fill your 5 gal pots whereas non-trained autos' root structures don't? or not as much?

i know you love your chirren, rock, you don't need to convince me of that ;)
 
Honestly haven't observed a difference in how extensive roots were between untrained and trained autos....but I will definitely be making note of upcoming grows with this in mind...since you brought up the subject! 🐸
 
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Sup rock man that auto flower is looking very nice. Did you too it really early to get it to grow out like that? I switched mine to flower start of this month and it's doing great can't wait. I did a final trim and it's just so dense up top hopefully I did it right and get all fat buds.
 

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Nice, she is looking real solid in growth! I would suggest removing many of the leaves that are blocking your light from reaching the expanding buds on the lower parts of the colas. This has helped my grows at this stage to pump up the buds. Don't go crazy though...just open it up a bit...get rid of large fans.....the girl doesn't really need all those leaves at this point. You should be in for nice harvest! 😉
I topped Swiss Cheese as an experiment at the second node, and this allowed me to keep her main arms very low and spreading out. Seems to have worked well so far! 🌿
 
Thanks Jibberjoe! Before the last two grows I was allowing plants to grow pretty much without training. Thanks to great growers like Green75, I saw the benefits of a strong training style, and now I can see me continuing to experiment this way in future grows. 🐸
 
For sure rockman I was hesitant removing more leaves as I already did a big trim a few days before switching to flower but she is growing very fast. I might pull some of those off those I'll post more updates as it flowers
 
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