Can I Supercrop an auto?

atrain1 said:

Between the 3rd and 4 node place a strap to the pot rim. You don't have to bend her all the way over just bend a bit and place good pressure on her and let it grow. Everyone a side branch reaches the same height as the main now place a strap on it and open her up the same way. Soon you'll have a fully trained no stress plant in flower. Here's one of my last lst plants
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Dinafem: White Cheese Auto

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That's beautiful. I start LST early. I use a similar method. I don't know this for a fact but I feel like the plant can focus more of its axins to the right places without stressing it out too much and you get a stronger / healthier plant. I've tried the same on an auto flower (black berry) and it did great. However that strain did not respond well to any other type of training or bending.

Awesome thread! Do you guys have any pictures of how you do it? I've got an auto that just started to flower in the past day or two would love to see how it's done.

Derick32 said:

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What was the time between tYing and the end picture?

Kind of a before and after. See how when it's larger it's trained and doesn't need to be tied any more. You could but I don't. It doesn't seen to really increase yield.

Meimei said:

What was the time between tYing and the end picture?

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It's the same strain different plant. But it doesn't take long.

Derick32 said:

It's the same strain different plant. But it doesn't take long.

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What if you spread the plant in the bottom pic a little more

By tying side branches down, facing out in evry direction, soight can penetrate the core of the plant?

OGAerogardener1990 said:

What if you spread the plant in the bottom pic a little more

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The bottom two are the same plant just different perspective. And yes you could do that. I personally don't like to stress them too much. I also lolly pop them before flowering.

I have 3 White Widow Autos going right now in 35 gallon DWC. They were under 600w maybe a foot and a half under the bulb and after the sixth node they were barely showing preflowers so I topped them. Theyre just starting to hit flower heavy today or more accurately will tomorrow and the next day but since then I've done everything you should traditionally not do to an auto. I mean I topped it that one time, I scroged it, I've been defoliating, bending main stems and squeezing every branch just to hear the crunch... and there has been NO stress at ALL to my plants. I put another 600 in the tent and I'm hoping to blow peoples' socks off with my yield.

Don't listen to the modern day propaganda on autos most if it is not true.

ricky1lung said:

use lst to train it, then you're not really hurting the plant and it will bush up nice

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Agreed, lst all the way. My feelings is an auto cant be controlled so your taking a big risk by letting it recover instead of flowering IMHO. My guess decreased yeild

ryan s said:

I have 3 White Widow Autos going right now in 35 gallon DWC. They were under 600w maybe a foot and a half under the bulb and after the sixth node they were barely showing preflowers so I topped them. Theyre just starting to hit flower heavy today or more accurately will tomorrow and the next day but since then I've done everything you should traditionally not do to an auto. I mean I topped it that one time, I scroged it, I've been defoliating, bending main stems and squeezing every branch just to hear the crunch... and there has been NO stress at ALL to my plants. I put another 600 in the tent and I'm hoping to blow peoples' socks off with my yield.

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Would love to see the results on your grow. Let everyone know how it go.......

I did a lot of work on the ventilation of my grow tonight. I'm pulling cool air from an adjacent bedroom now and it's working like a dream. I didn't have a thermometer above the water until this week but I'm sure my temps were at 90F++ with lights on for this whole grow but now I'm sitting at less than 79F.

To do this I used 2 - 8" fans rated to ~800 cfm each. I have a speed controller for at least one fan so I have the exhaust slowed to hopefully around 400 cfm, which is the max limit of my carbon filter. So I assume there is about 700 cfm of cool air making into the garden and about 400 cfm being scrubbed. I read somewhere that it's great to have more intake than exhaust so this happened to work out.

Anyway all is looking good, technical information to follow. Super stoked on these...

As I type... lights on... 2x600w HPS
3 x White Widow Auto
Air temp: 76F
Humidity: 33%
TDS: 580
Res temp: 67F
pH: 5.9
~1.5 lpm per gallon
~500 cfm air flow

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It's easiest to see where it's been topped and super cropped if you look at the plant on the left.

I guess I killed this thread but if you must, gaze upon the glory that is the ruderalis hybrid.

ryan s said:

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Well done.

You can top them young. I topped mine @ 2wks and ties them down a week later