Use the force

With my last disaster attempted grow I clipped the top once a few leaves showed up and it produced 5 grams of hay at the end so I decided to avoid topping and just bend as she goes. My box is one of those wham bam 92 Litre 59.5 x 40 x 52cm jobbies, so not topping was no small decision. There were so many ‘me made’ problems with my last attempt that I thought it best to try and avoid fighting with the plant as much as possible. Decapitating an auto flower seems a bit fighty so I left it. I also started with decent amounts of nutrients but had not bought all the biobizz range. I also didn’t realise that coir ‘steals’ a lot of the early nutrients and I had not ‘fed’ the coir or given it that sort of flush with cal/mag, etc. that people say on some of these sites. (In the picture you can see I added a layer of perlite to the top for a Christmas snow effect. I noticed a few wee flies and read about the egg laying and root killing monsters they create so read somewhere that a layer of such stuff might help. Possibly bullshit but I’m a perlite rich kinda guy these days).