This bushy baby.

[GreenThumb313]

This is my 5 1/2 week old Critical Purple Auto.

She is laid over and LST’d. And short to start with.

I still have tons of new growth happening. I’m running out of space in the canopy. Is there a point at which I start nipping off the new growth to leave that energy to my existing branches and the bud sites on them? Similarly to how I would pinch back tomato blossoms to get fewer but bigger tomatoes?

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

@GreenThumb313Welcome to AFN. It is my personal experience that you will get about the same yield off an auto plant regardless to the training type. This assumes you are providing between 40 and 50 DLI of full spectrum light and all of the other cultural/environmental factors are kept in range. I have tried all of the different training methods. What I do now is top above the fourth node and only defoliate for air flow underneath if needed. That is it. I think I have learned the plant knows more about how to grow than I do .