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cortez-the-konqueror posted an update in the group
4 months agoGrow Talk When do you start training your autos?
today is day 19 on these tropchem candied cheese auto by Babylon burning selections, I germinated in solos, about day 3-4 I transplanted to one gals, and about a week ago they reached final home in these tall 5 gallon pots… I used 5 table spoons of grow dots to the 5 gallons of super soil and recharge this whole process goes without saying, since going to final home I’ve been feeding silicium silica as well in preparation for the training I did today… started off with a light defoliation and broke out the garden staples, my goals with those is to map out quadrants for symmetry… more simply I find the 4 strongest branches and make a cross, I anchor those first then I find the weaker limbs and fill them in equally into the 4 quadrants, in this process I’m leaving the main cola to shoot straight up uninterrupted and I’m dictating the side branch structure of the plant… the goal is to get the limbs to reach all the way to the outer pot which at that point I’m replacing the staple with a 4 foot bamboo steak and securing it with latex covered garden wire, you will have to move the staples as the limbs grow, protip where ever the staple ends the limb is shooting straight up at a 45° angle towards the sky, even stouter indicas which don’t require bamboo still benefit from the staples because your are spreading out the branches equally for maximum light penetration into your canopy… now no branches are stacked up on top of each other… within the next 2 weeks this auto will start to go into flower, in my opinion this is the perfect time to train an auto, but let me know what you guys do in the comments down below as far as training methods, and if your in the opinion that I shouldn’t had transplanted you can keep that to yourself and watch what I do with these beans 🤭
sasquatchimo, texasgrows and 10 others4 Comments-
Looks good.
I too transplant my autos when I grow them. I started with autos and being a life long gardener already I just naturally used transplanting…works just fine.
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@texasgrows skill and finesse is key my friend, I started my tent growing with autos… grew 20 years earlier in high school… but that was brick weed seed with mixed results 🤷🏽♂️🤣👌🏼💯
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I start training autos pretty much as soon as they are tall enough to be bent over without damage. I start by bending the top over horizontal.
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@texasgrows Very nice, I used to do that but I’ve found more success personally letting the main shoot up and pinning off the sides
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