emerson61
Well-Known Member
I had a couple of Northern Lights auto seeds for last couple of years. I’ve only grown photo seeds indoors, or outdoors during summer/fall here in SoCal. I thought I’d experiment with the autos outdoors here, where about as cold as it gets is about 40 degrees at night with occasional high 30’s.
I am pretty knowledgeable about topping and shaping plants, and have heard that you don’t cut autos. Now, my favorite method indoors is the old pull it over at a 45 degree angle after breaking apical dominance at the 5th node, and leaving nodes 3 and 4, then top again later to get the 8-? Colas you want. I popped one of the autos about 2 weeks earlier, and when it was small I did the 45 degree pull over to get the side branches to rise up to become tops. With the second Northern Lights, I just left it alone. Both are doing great and I’m stoked about being able to maybe get something decent in the middle of winter outdoors!
Check out the effect of pulling the plant over at 45. It confirms why that is the basic method I’ve settled on. Bushes are better than Christmas Trees!
I am pretty knowledgeable about topping and shaping plants, and have heard that you don’t cut autos. Now, my favorite method indoors is the old pull it over at a 45 degree angle after breaking apical dominance at the 5th node, and leaving nodes 3 and 4, then top again later to get the 8-? Colas you want. I popped one of the autos about 2 weeks earlier, and when it was small I did the 45 degree pull over to get the side branches to rise up to become tops. With the second Northern Lights, I just left it alone. Both are doing great and I’m stoked about being able to maybe get something decent in the middle of winter outdoors!
Check out the effect of pulling the plant over at 45. It confirms why that is the basic method I’ve settled on. Bushes are better than Christmas Trees!
, with branches at least