New Grower Trimming autos a no-no?
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Great looking plant man. This is something I have been thinking about too as I am a snipper when it comes to my photo periods, they have plenty of time for them to come back from the chop shock and grow new stems, but as auto's have a very short life in comparison, I'm gonna leave mine alone, mind you I am doing my first ever grow of auto's so best to get advice off one of the experienced auto growers. i'm just gonna let them do their own thing. I have a feeling that the benefit of what you may gain in branching would be cancelled out by the short life span and you could end up reducing yield rather than increasing. would love to hear what the experienced have to say. Good luck man 
Great looking plant man. This is something I have been thinking about too as I am a snipper when it comes to my photo periods, they have plenty of time for them to come back from the chop shock and grow new stems, but as auto's have a very short life in comparison, I'm gonna leave mine alone, mind you I am doing my first ever grow of auto's so best to get advice off one of the experienced auto growers. i'm just gonna let them do their own thing. I have a feeling that the benefit of what you may gain in branching would be cancelled out by the short life span and you could end up reducing yield rather than increasing. would love to hear what the experienced have to say. Good luck man
my first auto as well.. i have 3 of the same strain going so maybe i can experiment with it. i also would love to hear what the expert auto growers have to say
Maybe ask the question in the help threads where only the guru's can answer. I'll be interested too 
I'm interested also, I know LST is acceptable, bending them. but snipping I've heard various sides, and it really depends on your situation from what I've heard, if you have the space and adequate lighting then no need to do any sniping or anything but if space is limited then there is some things you might need to do, to maximize your yield and light penetration.
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Personally I would leave her. She looks perfectly healthy.
Leave all the leaves on that you can especially during vegetation. You may want to trim the small side shoots and such when it develops those later, but for now, let her grow!
I defoliate my autos since it works very well for me but only if I've got them used to it from very early in veg.
I made the mistake in one grow of letting the plant grow normally then trimming a bit in bloom and she really hated it however as long as I snip the odd leaf off after the 4th/5th internode appears then by the time they've got big they don't miss a beat when I give them a good haircut.
I've just moved the current 2 plants to a bigger tent so haven't trimmed at all for a couple of days since I've found that just a water change or pretty much any change in environment means not trimming for at least 24 hours after as losing leaves as well is too much of a shock and they'll react badly. Once they are back in the rhythm I'll give them a good trim.
This is all just my own routine and goes against a lot of conventional wisdom.
I always change what I can about the grow environment before I alter a plant but once you've used all your space up, got the tent fine tuned, tucked, lst'd, etc. it's nice to have the option to trim a plant that's used to it. The big thing is committing yourself early on to training the girls even if they might have turned out not to need it but that's a decision for the individual to make
I made the mistake in one grow of letting the plant grow normally then trimming a bit in bloom and she really hated it however as long as I snip the odd leaf off after the 4th/5th internode appears then by the time they've got big they don't miss a beat when I give them a good haircut.
I've just moved the current 2 plants to a bigger tent so haven't trimmed at all for a couple of days since I've found that just a water change or pretty much any change in environment means not trimming for at least 24 hours after as losing leaves as well is too much of a shock and they'll react badly. Once they are back in the rhythm I'll give them a good trim.
This is all just my own routine and goes against a lot of conventional wisdom.
I always change what I can about the grow environment before I alter a plant but once you've used all your space up, got the tent fine tuned, tucked, lst'd, etc. it's nice to have the option to trim a plant that's used to it. The big thing is committing yourself early on to training the girls even if they might have turned out not to need it but that's a decision for the individual to make
like bilbo says try other options before trimming, like tucking the leaves so it opens up the lower area with out stressing
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