Photography My current autos

[BigBuddha]

This is a couple of days on with the LST’ing on the automatic and the SAS:


The SAS is stretching a bit and looks bigger and the automatic is healthier overall and setting herself up to branch-out some decent main stems.

At this stage I like to be brave and amputate the occasional underside node that isn’t getting light or will just be in the way later on, which I’ve done with the automatic today, and yesterday I tied-down the SAS side stems which are now turning up towards towards the light again and each will produce at least two other good stems themselves.

You’ll see red circles where new nodes are developing and as these are trained they’ll get a lot more light than they would have had otherwise and will get stronger, fatter and more cola-like over time, rather than just underdeveloped lower twigs.


Enjoy. I’ll keep training them for about another week but a lot can change in that time.

 

[insert name here]

lookin good, I like the lst!

 

[Eschatos]

Found it nice BDSM BB

 

[BigBuddha]

Cheers fellas. Just looking at those snaps makes me realise what an untidy state I leave my tent floors

 

[Ganjaman]

This is looking good BigBuddha, I'm new to growing, and I didn't lst my auto assassins this time around, so I'm going to be hovering around here to see how that tying goes in the next while.

 

[BigBuddha]

Thanks, G. Correct me f I'm wrong but aren't you the guy with the really kick-ass LST skills? Out of curiosity, what made you not do it this time since you're pretty good at it?

Although they're only test-subjects I've got a biodiesel & skunk mass in 1ltr pots that are't going to be trained.. so I suppose these'll be my first non-LST'd plants. Funny thing, I've become so interested in training that I started on a couple of my houseplants as well!

I also have a theory that with some well-planned training a plant can compete with a scrog. I haven't yet fully tested that. I started a few months ago and for quite a while the trained plant was doing as well as the scrog, but they both went into sickbay and I canned the scrog entirely. And next month I plan to train a plant to spriral around my death-ray before I use it to take over the world but that's another story.

 

[MrN]

Very nice BB!!..just alittle word of advice...becareful on how much you trim off in a short amount of time...from my experiance of doing this...too much in a short amount of time while doing LSTing can cause to much stress and make them hermie!..i've done it before...plants are lookin awesome bro!..can't wait to see how things turnout!!!!...:smokebuds:

 

[BigBuddha]

Cheers MNS,

Admittedly I can be a bit savage with the trimming but not so much with autos. I suppose - on average- with an auto I'll trim about 3-4 obstructive fan leaves as she's training, and probably do away with 2-3 lower nodes on the dark side of the stem, but they usually start flowering before too long so that limits it. That said it's never occurred to me to consider hermying, though it shoulda because they do get stressed several times a day! That's a good point so thanks for the reminder. Easy to forget the obvious sometimes eh!

I tied them both down again last night so there should be some good upward growth by now I reckon. I'll get some snaps up later on.


Glad some of you are enjoying the early training. It'll really start showing its dividends in another 2-3 weeks.

 

[BigBuddha]

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[BigBuddha]

In case anyone's interested in their growth-rate.. I've just made a 7-day comparison montage for the sas (left) and automatic (right):

What do you reckon that's like for autos? Bear in mind they're being trained from about 14 days old.