First year I grew I had 12 plants growing at one time. One was a photoperiod plant outside. That one plant I did a huge amount of LST, topping repeatedly and didn't think it would finish before snow fall. I harvested it over a week and a half. It had huge buds as big around as my calf. Way to much to trim at once, I wet trim. I got over a pound from it but by the time I finished harvesting I had five days with no sun and constant rain and powdery mildew and budrot managed to ruin 1/4 pound before I had time to harvest the last amount.
I grew about 18 autos total that Summer. My first plant was a small auto that yielded only about 1/3 ounce. I was disappointed. Later ones of various strains yielded anywhere from 1 ounce to 5 ounces. Now when growing autos I rarely do any LST at all and maybe only top once. I usually just let them grow and pull off leaves when they are dying.
I have three White Widow/Northern Lights plants in 1 gallon pots finishing up outside. I have really defoliated them of fan leaves and taken about half the buds off one last week. Next five days are going to be cloudy and rainy but I don't think they are ready yet, I checked the buds I cut with a microscope and last week they only had a bit of amber trichomes and I want to let them go a bit more to get more of the couch lock I like. First time I have ever grown in such a small pot size. They were just plant and let grow. Very little care. I've gotten lazy.
I went out and counted the seedlings from just throwing seeds on the ground again today as they are getting bigger. 75-76 seedlings. Probably a week old and they look better than ones I grow inside in a tent at that age under LEDs and T5 lights.
OF which everybody says its way to hot for autos, and on top of that I wouldve been adding more nutes. Would've been an absolute disaster. With the better guidance im getting from here im sure ill bump my head a few times but ill learn from it n get thru it.
