Yo dude, Im growing a trainwreck auto using lst method. Bout 9 weeks old now.
Thank so so much for the solid advice man. I went ahead and started a couple more tie downs and it seems to be going well. Here's a couple pics.
So... I haven't topped or FIMed her but i was adjusting her ties and my yarn slipped and I snapped of a tiny new growth. I was so pissed at myself. Anyways. I got nervous again and took off all the ties. Smh. Hopefully I didn't stress her much. I'm really thinking about leaving her be till it's time to cut her down. Maybe I'll try some better technique on my next one. But anyways here's a pic of the little piece I broke and a pick of my canopy so far. Let me know what you think.
Yo dude, don't stress.. she will be fine.. might stunt the growth a little but It'l push through.. try get everything else perfect like ph levels and air temp etc. just watch how she grows and tie more arms down when she starts to increase in size again. I snapped a branch on my girl and taken a beating with a little nute burn but still producing big sticky nugs. All comes down to the seed, hopefully yours has good genes.. here's an update on my girl
Hey thanks for sharing. Holy crap. That thing looks sexy! Your post helped me get some courage to do the ties again. Hopefully it pays off. Also I'm seeing like 8 main bud sights. Is that ok for my first go around?
Nice. So how many branches can you see are producing nice buds? I'm seedling my 8 on mine and I'm m sorta wondering if that's decent. I don't wanna push it
There are five now, the main coala and then four others all producing like the main. The life is so short and I'm using a 300 watt led which is great it I didn't want to over train and under produce. I've got five mains now and 5 or 6 others that will add a little to the yield I've got 20 days left and have decided to take the string down so it doesn't interfere with the product. But she responded great, stretched really fast. Next grow I'm scroging 5 autos ready to see that out come
That's great man. I hope it ends well. I hope to get a decent yield outa this girl. It'd be nice to see an ounce but I know that may be wishful thinking.
What type of lights/ light schedule/ median/ are you using? And how far along is your girl
Get the cfls closer. Within an inch and a half to two inches. They don't get hot enough to burn the plant if they aren't touching them. You biggest worry with a cfl is penetration. So yes you should be activly lst'ing the side branches out so the get light because the cfl won't penetrate down far enough. And switch to 24/0 if it's not a money issue. I've done both 20/4 and 24/ and hands down 24/0 always yields more. The plants are genetically altered "auto"maticly do what nature does for them in the dark. They are short lived plants so give them all the light, as often as you can. And a hint (coming from someone who tried to go the cfl only rout a few times on my small grows) by the time you buy a tone of cfl bulbs to get your watts up and the sockets and splitters and all that it's well worth going with a 300 watt led. Youd pay less in the long run man, power, product and extras (sockets), and have a lot cleaner set up with a full spectrum light that will actually penetrate your plant. Just some advice bud. On my smaller grow I'm using the 300 watt led with I'm also using several cfl very close for a little light on the outsides. Drop the 70 bucks when u can and put all those productive cfls to work in hard to reach places!
Here's how I keep my cfls constantly with no troubles or burn at
allLol it was laying close and It's hard to see that's 2 inches without actually seeing it's two inches lol. But yeah no prob you don't have to measure them man just get them close as you can without touching.and yeah I do. You've still got 50 % life left if it was me I lst a couple longer outside branches, put those lights as close as possible, and let it be a plant
Good luck bud keep us updated