Spring 2021

Started a White Widow Photo to grow as a mother for later since I have some room. I don't want to start another auto a week later than the others that made it. It might be nice to have only 4 autos at one time anyways. The CBD is doing better I think I over nuted and she had clawing as signs of Nitrogen od I have been just watering her every other day or so. I do not like the pot she is in but she was an early experiment and I started LST but noticed the nute issues so stopped thinking it was the training, then after she recovered a bit I topped her. She is my little experimental girl (hopefully, seeds are not fem). I want to experiment with training on the photos while this first batch of autos I want to grow naturaly. Then consecutive batches I want to try different training methods on each of the same strain/genetics to see what is best. I think next grow I may top, then I may LST and I want to test something I saw randomly on YouTube where a grower put a Styrofoam cup over the main cola in beginning flower for a day and the side colas pushed up to create a more even canopy. He called it a no stress training. My hypothesis for training vs not training with autos is that it seems any training will induce some stress which can lengthen the time to harvest. I have seen other grows where an 8 week strain takes 12+ and I wonder if it is b/c of the training, The first group is the control group, zero training just some fan leaf tucking and maybe some lollipop towards the end to clean up the underside for airflow. I will be recording the yield of each technique and the final quality as well. Personally I am looking for quality over quantity so I want to better understand if training is just increased yield at sacrifice of speed and quality or is the quality the same but sacrifices speed to harvest.