Never top an autoflower plant. Right?

Creature1969 said:

I attribute the growth rate to the AutoCobs. I have 6 totaling 330w and I'm getting crazy growth and branching compared to my last grow under 400w HID. It's a phenomenal difference in my experience.

Between this cheese and the 2 amnesia I should be looking at near or over a lb from 3 plants. Fingers crossed for the amnesia's to outweigh the Cheese as they have like 6-8 colas about the size of my forearm each.

This is only my 2nd grow so it's certainly not my superior growing skills producing these plants.

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Creature1969 said:

How close do you keep your lights? My plants started out like that so I keep them at ~30" now to promote a little stretch. That cheese was real PIA to water.

Check out the 220w Mephisto grow thread in the auto section. He's growing 4 plants and aiming for a lb. Good stuff.

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Creature1969 said:

Science?

"Never top an auto." ~ People.

We see this all the time. Fact? Fiction? Myth? Tales of yore?

Let's find out.

disclaimer: I'm not a scientist. I have received no training. I have little experience. I have no personal protection equipment on hand and I've likely already smoked myself silly. Do not try this without stoner supervision.

Let's begin, shall we.

I don't just believe everything I'm told. If it came from the internet, even less. I take risks. Life is a game. Chance is involved. To win, you gotta play. If you play you can lose. I wanna play. So here goes.

Canuck seeds auto cheese topped @ day 26. Why? Free seed! Let's kill it! K, sorry no earlier pics. I did this on a whim because I switched to COB lighting and was experiencing exponential growth.

Don't mind the stakes. I did no LST on this plant at all. The stakes give a pretty good reference of growth. They're 14" taller than the bucket. Watch them disappear before you're very eyes.

Sprouted on 3/6. Topped 4/1. First pic was taken 4/14
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4/18
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4/21 (pulled her out to show her off. lol)
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So there we have it. So far, so good. She's in full flower now. Issues with this soil again but whatever. The only visibly slowed growth was the top. It's since caught back up and risen above the side branches.

I'm a little concerned with the number of bud sites and her finite life span. We'll see what happens there.

My only regret is NOT having another untouched cheese growing for comparison. C'Est la vie.

Science!

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Creature1969 said:

The thought occurred to me. If I had another space to put it in, I would.

I want to make my own seeds and I will when I have enough filled jars to get me by.

With the small space I have I plan to do a SOG style seed run. I'm saving 1-2 seeds from every pack I have just to make seeds. Just gotta figure out what strain I want to use for pollen. 12-20 pollinated auto fems in 1 gallon grow bags should give me years worth of beans in 60- 80 days.

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Creature1969 said:

She was at 26 days above soil. Pretty sure she was at 5 nodes. I hadn't planned to do it. Topping was a reaction to how well she was growing. I couldn't resist.

I will say, she is an utter pain to water and it's going to get worse as her branches stiffen up. lol

I have a sinking feeling she's gonna make a LOT of tiny bud. I hope I'm wrong.

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Yodaweed said:

91 days for an auto seems kind of long doesn't it? I mean i finish my photo plants faster than that...

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Yodaweed said:

That's not really true, they just have a life span that's not controlled by lighting, i have had photo plants that are ten times the size any auto could ever get with vigor an auto could never have, vigor and growth rate is determined by genetics and environment, auto's generally grow much smaller and show sex / flower earlier than photoperiod plants, that doesn't mean they are gonna grow bigger in the same time period, in my experience they grow smaller due to their lack of veg time and genetics(ruderalis is a TINY plant , and that's what autos are).

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Creature1969 said:

Smaller eh? 5'8" auto's for ya. Sounds like you should pay more attention to the autoflower section. You've already contradicted yourself.

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shushubandora said:

nice
few question if I may

I grown cheese before (green house fem seed)
nice plant, bit short. overall the main cola looks similar to the side branches.
I never grown auto cheese so I am not sure how the auto cheese looks
how is the other auto cheese you grown? they have main cola?

about 10 years ago I helped farmer friend cutting basil in his green house.
after 2 hours of work he took all what we cut and throw it in the garbage.
"why?" I asked him, he said he had no buyer for it.
"so why we cut it?" I asked him, he said he have to or the basil will grow flowers and then it's no good.
I am not sure autoflower will behave this way.
did you noticed this topped cheese finish later compare to others?
maybe by topping autoflower you increase side branching but delay flowering by week or two

thanks for sharing

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gwheels said:

6.3 oz from an auto is very impressive. I have 2 auto cheese and two auto amnesia from Canuck. I might have to run them next round.

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gwheels said:

I found the quarter pounder a very nice smoke. Very good sativa effect in an auto. I also had great luck with trans siberian (basically auto amnesia from a different vendor). That was one of my favorite tasting smokes of all time. And auto trans siberian is STRONG. Autos really do have their place in your tent !

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