Thank you for creating this thread, Good Sir. This is our first grow from seed, and second attempt all around at growing. After murdering some photo clones in DWC after a bonehead airpump issue, we decided to give autos a go from seed. Originally some were in RDWC and some in a coco blend. Early on, we moved all to coco and one bubbleponics bucket plant (also the only lady getting megacrop and sweet candy).
Two were left to grow naturally, with just leave tucking and defol here and there, and one of those is a freak that we are just curious to see grow out.
One was mainlined above the 4th node and lst'd from there until we couldn't tie her down anymore.
Two were fimmed and lst'd all the way
Two were just tied down from the get go, and the largest trunk on it them is that first branch. We tied down the the top first, then let the side shoots grow, and as they got longer, we started staking them down, too.
At this point, they have all been in flower for two weeks (different paces) and are still stretching.
Currently, we have taken off all the less dominant colas and defoliated well up into the canopy, leaving the stems pretty bare on the lower three quarters. The critical purples and the one big bud are farther along in bud developement than the northern lights ladies, but all are doing great!
And the end result at this point looks ALMOST LOOKS THE SAME!
It's amazing how well they react to all of the techniques, and it is a plant-by-plant case basis!
Without discovering this forum and THIS THREAD, I don't know if we would have had the stones to attempt the kind of training we did.
Hopefully, this grow will finish up with the same fantastic results we have gotten so far, and I owe all of you guys that contribute your knowledge, experience, know-how, and problem solving abilities a HUGE shout out!
@A-Train,
@sanguine,
@jingo,
@Muddy,
@Simplicio, @Borodan,
@autobeast. And everybody else who docyments their work and insight on this kick-ass forum!!!
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