Auto flower topped vs not topped

MATTYMATT726

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My wife was absolutely infuriated when I showed her someone using my plant pics as their own on the internet. I took it as a compliment.

Put it in the final pot and let it grow that's my method. You guys argue just to argue
Raise of hands for anyone that cares about his wife??? Let's keep on track MR. "I know EvErYThInG about NoThInG"
 

GoatSoup

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I'm currently growing three Autos, two White Widows and a Durban Poison.
I do the WW's in an NFT tub and Lil' Durban in soil, well really mostly green waste compost.

I topped or FIM'd all of them and they are 9-10 weeks from seed now. IDK if topping the WW's changed their structure as they appear to be different phenotypes. WW#1 is now ~36" and WW#2 is barley topping 21". WW# is frosty and stacking her buds, WW#2 is greasy and has buds all the way below the SCROG net. I've been driving them hard and keeping PH 5.6-6.5. They really haven't taken that much GH Trio maybe 2 oz each for the 10 weeks. WW#1 has had full spectrum light at as much as I could give her with my 100 or 150 watt lights. Keeping the lights close untill the plants spread out.

I doubt that I stunted WW#2 with the topping at node four but she's got 10-12 colas from mostly a ~80 watt Burple. She's sticky and frosty. I won't get much off her as she's small, but that's the ruderalis I guess.

WW#1 is certainly not stunted! SHe filed her half of the SCROG Net and is pushing #2 out of her's! I think she's stopped stretching now at ~36" she tried to hog a bit of Lil' Durban's light too. I cut her back though. She's got top all over at least 12-15 colas formed and frosty.

Lil' Durban has had a rough start, but is now pretty happy. I tried to FIM her for four top colas but missed and got only two. she's filling out now and hairy as heck. She has a very light color almost lime green and I've been feeding high N Trio mix at full strength. The soil is very moisture retentive so It's not something that feeds nutes easy.

All in all I kinda like my Autos, but I think I can get off on these girls after new years. I do think that autos can have a lot different pheotypes even from the same package. I'd like to get any one of them in a uniform pheno package. But cheap seeds from Spain that isn't going to happen.
 
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