New Grower First ever grow, Northern Lights auto. Wish me luck!

[MoonUnit]

Day 21: Pruned the leaves I planned to yesterday and overnight ponytailed the top leaves for 12 hrs. Will repeat this again over the next few days to try and get more lateral growth.

1L drink today of ph 5.77/1050ppm

 

[MoonUnit]

Day 22: Took off another pair of leaves to try and get more light to the nodes underneath. She's a compact girl right now!
No water today.

 

[Epicxr]

Are you planning on tying her down? Shes a good age for it now

 

[MoonUnit]

you can't really see in the pic but I've put some pegs on the lower nodes to pin them down. The pair of leaves I removed (still on in pic) should help light get to them so they can grow out more and otherwise, there isn't much to tie down at the moment.

If it wasn't my first grow I would almost consider topping or supercropping her but I'll just keep defoliating and ponytailing to let light to the lower nodes for now

 

[MoonUnit]

Day 23: 1L drink of pH 5.76/1050ppm and she is looking happy.

Ponytailed top leaves again, sides beginning to grow out a little. First signs of pistils beginning to coming through.

 

[Walters7]

Try using ties to stretch out your side branches, poke a couple holes in the side of your pots and thread it through. It could majorly increase your yield if you've got short stubbys ✌

 

[MoonUnit]

Day 24: no water today, just letting her do her thing.

@Walters7 I've been hooking small pegs over the the branches to pull them down/out, I'll start tying the upper ones soon too. It's getting light to them to encourage them to grow out which is why I've been ponytailing the top and taking a few leaves off.

 

[MoonUnit]

Day 25: Not quite ready for more water judging by the moisture sensor, maybe in another 12 hrs tho.

Here she is over the last few days as I've been ponytailing to encourage some outward growth.

[Edit] I've given her 2L of pH 5.75/1030 ppm.
Still haven't watered 'to runoff' yet, wondering if I'm reducing her potential by not watering enough.

 

[420Forever]

Day 25: Not quite ready for more water judging by the moisture sensor, maybe in another 12 hrs tho.
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Here she is over the last few days as I've been ponytailing to encourage some outward growth.

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[Edit] I've given her 2L of pH 5.75/1030 ppm.
Still haven't watered 'to runoff' yet, wondering if I'm reducing her potential by not watering enough.

LUV the giffy! ppp

 

[MoonUnit]

LUV the giffy! ppp

Thanks, pleased with how my timelapse experiment is working out. Will be a nice video of the whole grow by the end