bubble bucket amnesia autofem xxl - need pruning?

bill_w

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I'm trying my first bubble bucket grow using a single dinafem amnesia autofem xxl. I don't know much about this strain and I'm looking for some advice about pruning. Attached are 3 pics showing progress. Even though I have 2 - 160 watt leds on the plant I'm not sure that the lower leaves are getting much. Even if they're getting some light, should I consider pruning the lower leaves/branches? As you can see the plant is very short, but it seems pretty happy.
What can you tell me about the strain and about pruning?
many thanks
 

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Logan Burke

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Why prune a plant that size? Particularly, an auto? Pruning auto's during their early vegetative state is probably one of the worst things you can do to an auto because now it will miss out on 3-7 days of vegetative growth while it copes with the shock of pruning. With photoperiod strains, it's no biggie, just veggy them longer. But with autos, they are on a set time limit and if they miss out on growth, it will directly translate to a lower yield because it doesn't have the extra time to recover properly. A plant that size shouldn't need pruned anyways, just use LST'ing to open up the plant so that light can penetrate the canopy. Not to sound like I'm coming down hard on ya or anything, we all live and learn :) Just saying to avoid pruning unless you simply cannot get lower budsites light via LST'ing. LST'ing is as simple as tieing a string (plastic coated wire made for plant training works best) up under the very top growing shoot, and then bending it downwards and tieing the string somewhere lower on the base stalk of the plant. It can make your plant look weird and messed up at first, but as it grows it will help all bud sites to get light and stay at equal height as the main top bud site, creating multiple large colas instead of one central cola and a bunch of little satellites. :) Good luck buddy, and please only prune auto's as an absolute last resort :)
 

bill_w

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Thanks Logan....that's the info I needed ... just a couple of days late.
Of course, now that you explained it, it makes perfect sense! I should have been able to figure that out.
Oh well, hopefully it will serve others who may have the same question.
I'll certainly know better next time!!!
LST makes sense also.
Still, it's looking pretty good .... might be entering flower now.....30 days in the bucket
 

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Zogs

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I'm going to have to disagree with Logan a little bit. I remove the first node on all my autoflowers and F'im or top them before day 18 at what would have been the 4th node. And very little LST required. And I strip the inside fan leaves that block the bud sites when they start to flower as well.

Here are 2 examples of what they look like following this procedure.

Bubba Kush Auto with a F'IM 7 tops
https://www.rollitup.org/t/dinafem-bubba-kush-auto-harvest.987182/#post-14833074

OG Kush Auto Topped.
https://www.rollitup.org/t/dinafem-og-kush-cbd-auto.988732/
 
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