i asked fastbuds the following: "if topping which is best week for fastbuds genetics? or is the genetics best suited not to top?" and the response was: "If you are experienced i would top her above the 5th node!"
here's a little tip for growers, put all your current grow info on a notepad or wordpad on your computer so you can easily keep track of things, then you also don't need to put extra info on plant tag, here is an example of mine (pop means popped soil):
zkittlez x 2 - 60-68days ... 16/17oct pop ... - 23/24dec(68days)
gorilla cookies - 10wks(70days) ... 6/nov pop ... 15thjan(10wks)
gg auto(out) - 8-9wks ... 27/nov pop - 12/jan out ... 21-28thjan(8-9wks)
gg (out) - 8-9wks ... 29/nov pop ... 30jan-6thfeb (8-9wks) -(3jan flw -5wks)
amnesia lemon -10wks ... 2nd/nov pop ... 25nov flwr/out ... 20jan(10wks)
so far looks like i will get a low yield due to it being a strange pheno, maybe topping it helped towards that so next run of auto's i will not be topping as they seems to take longer with others i have been growing and not impressed with results even though they say you can improve yields i would rather just not mess with it, this was a free seed so can't complain and not a good representation of the strain as you can see others get good results
due to the size of the tent (280x140) and as you can see at 3 weeks it takes up almost the whole room and being sideways it's hard to get a good pic due to hard to get light in there but in a few weeks will be downgrading to a 150x150 tent which will face the door so will be easier for better pics, also i forgot to mention this is just 1 gorilla cookie plant, in 3 weeks i took 2 pics at different angles, this was also a free seed from a herbies order
@chronicon, Yeah maybe, next time give your plant a bit more time before topping. Actually for 3 Weeks she looks really really tiny (Myb bcs of the light or the distance to the plant?). But m8 you have enough space to harvest more than a kilo. Try SOG, SCROG and LST. I believe in you
Crazy plants 😯🛸
They have 1000W LED? Really?? I like to know what is your humidity, temperature, ph, ec... You have very strange plants👽
Hope U will have some good special weed from that ;)
EDIT: I look you topped your plants... This is not good for autoflower genetics. They lost some time by regeneration yourself, instead of standard autoflowering process 😉
...and sorry for my english, not my main language:)
@chronicon, yes yes... They do say that... I use autoflower only outdoor (in central europe), but if doe or deer eat some tops of my plants, they never give good harvest. Plants spend grow time for time for regenerate. My expirience is- autoflower plants never extend grow time, only give me less yealds for same time if repoting, topping and all HST is used. That is autoflower principe.
Anyway I wish u good luck and happy grow🌵 Let's all potencialy thc power enter concentrated to that small-stone-buds 😉👍
I will observe your UFOplants again too 🖖
@SpliffRagga, they do say that it can cause a delay and time being precious with auto's sometimes it's best not to do it unless doing at the right time and doing it with most will improve yields but next run i will try without topping as i have had auto's that take longer so maybe it's adding time onto it as some have taken a lot longer than they should, i topped at 3 weeks and was a massive grow boost between 3 and 5 weeks but maybe it even stressed the plant to make it give low yields or maybe it was too focused on stretching instead of flowering
@SpliffRagga, it is actually 2000w (Greenfingers LED Grow Light 2000W Full Spectrum) but it isn't in the drop down list, max is 1000w, the temp maybe around 30-33 as that is the temps outside (i have a fan though) but i don't have a thermometer and don't have something to measure humidity, it was free from herbies so can't complain and in regards to topping many do top auto's, if you look it up there are people that say it is better to top but there would be strains that are best without it, part of the reason for stretch would be light height as i have a much taller plant so it needs to be much higher but it should still be bushy i would expect, i have a zkittles auto that is fairly bushy and nowhere near as tall, i think i have a strange pheno but it seems it won't be a good yielding one
@chronicon,Hi friend there was surely a problem of growing conditionsHi friend there was surely a problem of growing conditions but also the phenotype but I put it on a stroke of no luck because I know very well but I put it on a stroke of no luck because I know very well fast buds it's fire but as you can see our two pheno looks the same
@ZoobZoob_farmZ, maybe there was something wrong in the growing conditions? did you use 1/2 nutes as photo periods use as it's an auto? maybe it was a bad phenotype, gorilla cookies is one of fastbuds most popular strains so it shouldn't be too common for bad phenotypes, just unlucky
a strange pheno, almost all the buds don't have hairs and look like small condensed nugs, it still has 3+ weeks to go (maybe even 5) but it is strange, usually buds have a lot of hairs, there are a few that do though ... (edit) i added a couple of pics of one that has hairs