First time auto grow

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She is feminized white widow auto 26 days old 13 inches tall. I trimmed 10 large fan leaves off her main stalk (nodes 2-6) to divert growth to top. Have only seen like three pistils on main stalk so far. Wanted advice on how it sounds she is doing and when I should expect buds to start forming. She is soil grown and dyno-gro foliage pro nutes. She is drinking a gallon of water every 3 days.

 

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Removed 10 fan leaves 1st time nodes 2-6 off main stalk...2nd time I thought the upper canopy was too thick and ended up removing another 38 fan leaves, now all leaves of the plant are receiving adequate light.

 

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This is day 28 from seed defoliated twice.

 

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Is it bad that I'm cutting off the big fan leaves? I figure in nature they serve more of a purpose than a controlled indoor grow and takes nutes to maintain when I rather energy go to buds.

 

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[growlikedrevi]

Leaves are the food repositories. If you look them under a 120x microscope you'll see a layer of crystals. I never remove leaves until they die completely. You plant seems healthy just let it grow.

 

[AutoWW]

So no more bonsai'ing my tree lol

 

[growlikedrevi]

Haha yes trees like be trees

 

[AutoWW]

Day 29 16inches tall giving dyno-grow foliage pro nutes, should I switch to bloom only nutes now or do a combination of both?

 

[I like Cheese]

What I have come to understand about auto flowerers is, start them in the pot they will finish in. It is not a good idea to top or prune them as they have such a short life span,you do not want to stun them and stop the growth. Keep them on a 18/12 cycle. I always grow mine outdoors. About feeding, some say don't feed for the first 6 weeks and others say after 2 weeks. Which ever you choose be careful not to over feed. I would wait until you can see signs of flowering befor giving bloom.
Hope this helps a little.

 

[Budley Dorite]

Life cycle of autoflowering cannabis

Read this, 420 member Atrain knows about autos.

 

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Day 32

 

[parnelli]

I'm glad to find another rookie at the same stage as I am. My pants look similar to urz. I'm growing in an Aerogarden and have been trimming the big leaves. I'm on week 8 of the grow and have just switched to 15.5 hours of light per day. I'm hoping to see some buds start popping soon. When do u expect to see budz?

 

[parnelli]

my plants look similar

 

[AutoWW]

Is this a flower there are pistils all around but there are leaves at top, this is the top of the main kola day 35.

 

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Side view of kola.

 

[zBRiCKz]

You got yourself a female sir!

That bad girl is beginning to flower for sure! Congrats man!