New Grower Amnesia Haze Auto LST

[CheapLatexHandle]

Hi fellow AFN'ers. Long time listener, first time caller.

I bought 3 amnesia haze autos from ILGM. This is my first grow. It is a single plant under a 300w galaxyhydro, in a 12" H X 12" diameter pot (its tapered, so not a true cylinder, about a 5 gal pot I think). She is the only one of the 3 seeds that made it beyond a week of sprout. Tent is 32"x32"x63". Light is currently about 12 inches from the highest cola (which is the true main..you can't make that thing stop growing no matter how far you tie it down).

This plant, I call her Amanda, was born July 25th 2016. I started LST'ing by tie downs August 11th. First the main stem, and then all the shoots. The method was "down and to the outside" on everything. Is that technically called "star" pattern tie down? After a while of this I notice the middle of my plant was bare stems and fan leaves and small pre flowers not doing much. I thought, well, thats just stupid..all the colas are on the outside of the pot, nothing in the middle directly under the light. It was a little two late to change the method, but now I am starting to see the middle colas start to rise up and take shape.

All of the large colas are on the outside of the pots footprint as you can see, and just outside the physical footprint of the light's chassis by about 3" on both sides.

Is my LST job "ok"?
Was this the wrong method?
What would you have done differently?
What will happen to all those colas on the outside that are taller, fuller, and further away form the light laterally?
Can I defoliate? Some say yes, some say no.

These photos taken today. Don't mind the droopiness, she does that when the lights are off and perks right up when they come on. I haven't had any problems so far. Slight nute burn on tips using grow big at 1/4 but nothing worth writing home about.

 

[phlemthrower]

Low and busy. Looks fine. I don't mind defoliating but not where you are in the pictures, unless the leaf cannot be tucked out of the way of a bud.

You could run a string around the whole bush and tighten her up a bit if the outside buds aren't getting enough light.

 

[CheapLatexHandle]

Thanks Phelm! I am paranoid I did this LST job wrong. I needed someone with experience to take a look.

I think I maybe should have started this plant offset in the pot to allow training. Plus this setup makes it so hard to water this plant. It sorta the only reason I want to defoliate. Its just a mess under the hood.

So you reckon there is a good time to take some leaves off? I wonder if the reason the colas on the outside are so much taller is because the lack of light from being slightly outside the LED footprint? Don't get me wrong, its bright all over in the tent, but I don't know how far outside of directly underneath is too far.

There are no journals for an amnesia haze auto from ILGM out there. There are plenty for RQS Amnesia auto. I wonder if I can expect similar outcomes.

 

[phlemthrower]

I would imagine the outer kolas are older and that's why they are bigger. You have at least 4 or 5 weeks to go by the looks of things. If you bring them back into the light a little as described above you can harvest them first then give the smaller ones below extra time if they haven't caught up. For de foliating I only remove if really necessary to let light get to the sugar leaf, or top. I have grown RQS AH but not ILGM so can't help. They tend to take a bit longer than the sellers say.

Good luck with her and I hope you get some more advice and ideas.

 

[CheapLatexHandle]

Thank you Phlem!
1- For giving me the idea to bring the taller-outside kolas in and harvest them first. I have seen people talk about harvesting top and then bottom...I just didn't know I might have the opportunity to try it! I see mostly folks just chop all at once.

and 2- for giving me an idea about how much longer these should go. I've never had a legit grow before where I make it to this stage. I really had no idea how much longer to go, just figured it would become obvious and I'd somehow know it was time.

 

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This is when pre-flowers became very noticeable. August 24th. Just about 4 weeks as she spread here first wings on July 25th. Todays date is Sept 2nd.


I suppose I will document the ILGM Amnesia Haze Autoflower for those out there interested.

Hopefully it won't be too hard to read as I am starting this "journal" over a month in to the grow.

Hope this helps some other folks!

 

[CheapLatexHandle]

Guys I have some really nice "macro" pictures that are just dazzling at full resolution. All the photos I post must get compressed for the audience. Anyway to avoid that so you all can see her in her full glory/resolution?!?

 

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For anyone curious soil is Happy frog with 30% perlite.

Notes are trio. I just recently figured out how to feed he by reading the schedule for soil. I would never give her more that one type of nute per watering because it said never to mix nutes. I learned two days ago that this just meant don't put them together before putting them in water.

So her last feed/water was yesterday. 15ML Big Bloom, 4ML Grow Big, 5ML Tiger Bloom, this is per 2 gallons. Also 1 tablespoon molasses. This is the first time she got more than one nute in the a single water/feeding. My math look ok to ya'll? I had a major freak out because I forgot to PH the water just this one feeding, the biggest feeding she ever had, and I didn't do my due diligence Hopefully she doesn't fire me for a crappy job!

Its that blue dream strain that made me forget! Plus I had never done so much nuting of water before, I forgot the last step to ph as needed. However I checked the run off, it was 6.8. Usually the runoff is 6.25.

 

[CheapLatexHandle]

Also, at this age, can I expect more vertical growth? 100x3W GalaxyHydro is already only a foot away from the highest kola, maybe 15-17 inches for the shorties in the middle. I don't see any issues but I don't really know what to look for.

 

[phlemthrower]

They look fine .