-I’m going to check tomorrow, March 2, to see if the seeds have popped. I’ll take pictures then.
-It’s March 6th and the seedlings are looking happy. I’m hand watering them with filtered water. I’ll make a tea and start adding some benies the next time I water them, hopefully. I want to add my go pro and stream live.
I was tieing all my autos down just like you are and let me tell you it was really hard not to do it but if you remove all the tie downs and let it grow she will take off and get way bigger. I stunt all my autos and really hurt my yield when doing this so I tried to training just leaf tucking and my plants have never been bigger. my strawberry crinkle is the best looking and massive and I did nothing to any of them except Girl Scout monkeys, I bent the main stem for maybe 5 days and then removed it. I probably won't go back to tieing down my autos because compared to the ones I have tied down are just so small and bushy compared to the ones I just least tucked. also I've move your like up way higher and let them stretch. move it to the top of tent and put it as 100%. let the plants decide how much ppfd they want by growing into it. They will adjust themselves. I did all of this on this last run and I've never seen better results!
@Capulin, it allows light to reach lower nodes that normally wouldn’t get to much light. Weed comes from the nodes and if it doesn’t receive enough light the weed it makes is small, leafy, and not as potent as a node completely covered in light. If a plant isn’t trained properly the yield will not reach its full potential.