HELP OR RECOMMENDATIONS?
So...The Auto-flowers I have done outside over the years (maybe 10 varieties) were all messed with by using LST, trimming, lollipopping, (never have pruned an auto) to keep the height down, and also exposing more of the lower branches to more light...they turned out pretty good for a newbie. I grew photo strains indoors all winter here (7 months) and have also trimmed, lollipopped, and LST'd, and scrog'd them to get the most equal coverage of the canopy in my grow tent....made common sense inside for sure with static LED's...but auto's outdoors are getting much more light and in a round-a-bout more natural way....so does LST help?:smoking:
I wanted to do auto's this summer, and nice to join this AFN site and find myself in a couple competitive grows...cool. I have these 2 FB Rhino's hitting 27" at day 30, and I've never trimmed or LST'd them so it's odd for me not to. Should I experiment and just grow these Au-natural and see how they end up? Or should I use my LST and plant training experience that worked before, to make this new outdoor Rhino run perform better? I usually start LST around 2 weeks so maybe they're too big now? I have a Dinafem Blue Critical Auto at 30" and a Nirvana Short Ryder at 32" also...all grown without any modifications, training, or clipping. I guess I have a decision to make...have any of you folks run these auto strains just straight up? How do they turn out? It's much less putzy, but we had a very windy day today and I had to support them so that was a drag....but I'm at a crossroads where I need to split, flip, and decide which direction to take these for the next 60 days.....ahhhh, so many decisions!
