Fast Buds American Autoflowers with A-Train

[A-Train]

It's all in growing style and strain man. These girls are in my perpetual tent. The lights stay all the way up all the time. This will give fewer leaves and a little more stretch. When I was running plants 4 at a time start to finish I would always keep my lights in close and open the plants up. This would cause them to have more leaves and be busier than others

 

[arpowre3]

Yeah I have issues with these bushy plants. I was doing ponytails alot, and I now constantly tuck. I should have started LST or something earlier. It's getting annoying tucking and re arranging all the time.

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[A-Train]

The ponytail works great. Keep the lights in close and ponytail. When they bush up pick the lights up high and let them stretch. This will have a plant that has good height and stretch but the extra leaves to me means extra photosynthesis wich in my opinion equals bigger plants and larger yields

 

[A-Train]

You can always defoliate a bit in flower if needed

 

[arpowre3]

Mine are in week 5 right now and developing small buds so I want to bring my light back down right? Or jack it up and let them stretch?

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[A-Train]

They will still stretch while starting flower. You can leave it up until they stop. Then bring it in close. The plants I posted pics of are starting flower and getting bloom nutes but they will be much bigger when they finally stop stretching

 

[MeefChief]

I found that the calcium carbonate didn't really do much for my girls in flower. I believe that's what it is? It's 3 in the morning and I'm a bit fuzzy...


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[TheGreenMan]

@A-Train May I ask you around what day would you usually ponytail? I'm thinking of trying it out this round.

 

[A-Train]

It's really not a certain day my man. I watch the plant develope a bit so I would say after day 10 for sure but around 15 or so when I see the lower branches start to be shaded by the third set or leaves that's when I start tie ing up the upper growth in the ponytail to expose the lower branches to the light. They will usually respond after 3 or 4 times of being tied up and you'll see there's still a main cola but it's not nearly as prodiminate. The side branching will be right up there with it then I primarily leaf tuck to expose all the bud sites possible to light. It's up to you then ....... you can let your plant grow natural. This will provide 1 main cola slightly above the satellite colas but allows more light to them during flower and in my opinion results in bigger buds.


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You can bend the main cola over and maintain an even canopy with lots of buds and "main" colas at the same height.

@Discretepete2676 can you post a pic of that cheese to demonstrate?

 

[TheGreenMan]

That's some awesome info. Cheers!

I'm now thinking about just letting them grow out naturally and just doing a bit of tucking here and there. Decisions decisions lol