Hello welcome to my budget personal grow. Im in southern California, and my grow will be mainly outdoor and brought into garage under led at night for as close to 24 hr light as i can. the first few weeks of veg will be 90% indoors untill they start to stink.Grown in canna brand coco 5gallon air pot from start, reused from previous harvest, but flushed well and precharged with calmag. ph should be around 5.8, but i have a really cheap ph pen so it might be off, first 4 days were under 23watt 6500k cfl after that is a hlg 288v2 3000k quantum board at 119w first 3 days then lowered to 80w after buying a kill-a-watt and adjusting. I have two of these double grape growing but this diary will be focusing on my main girl. this one seems to be growing much quicker and more vigorous than her sister. i decided to top the runt as an experiment. if she comes out good i might post her. I am not doing anything as far as temp and humidity control as i dont have it in my budget. temps where im located can reach above 100f which is why i will keep them indoors as long as i can, but once they get too stinky they will get the boot as i dont have a carbon filter. I also just dont really have enough space to keep them indoors. they are kind of an inconvenience where they are at currently but its my only option.
I think it depends on the strain. I did a lot of LST on my last auto. I think it turned out alright, but I think that strain would've benefited from a lighter touch. I looked at a bunch of other diaries that let their auto of the same strain grow naturally and I think they had much better results. Of course, I only accounted for the plant itself. I didn't really look at lighting, hydro, etc..