🌿 Pink Rozay Automatic

@Natrona, I suggest following your own path on such things. There is good research for either case but the only way to know for yourself is to grow both ways. Heck maybe a different pot is more optimal than topping, with less work. Also, commonly accepted advice for photos isn't necessarily true for autos. Personally, unless I'm gonna scrog then I'm not gonna bother - I'm pretty lazy and would rather use multiple lights to brighten the sides. I wish you a good harvest with your own Pink Rozay Auto, and a happy new year.

@DurpDankley, I need to catch up with data myself and get a ph tester and alot of other nutes as well, i have a outdoor area and i do indoor for the first time where i am in the midwest. I didn't know you have all the light hitting the side of it, that will help alot and yeah always go with your own gut on how to grow, this is only my 2 or 3rd grow so its fun to talk about it and learn from others. I was amazed of how much the the flowers on my plants last summer grew and i pulled beans from them as well because they got stressed when i cropped and topped outdoors so i had some beans as well and i am trying to continue it as a migrated land race i suppose i should call it and continuously grow it in and outdoors for years up here. I think alot of it is patience when it comes to flower once the nutes and everything else gets figured out and i think we all are kina alienetic with it and go with the flow and can feel the vibe of the plant. Ty, i forgot to mention i use Tiger bloom and put it on the grow diary but i cant find it next to the superthrive i put it up on added, thought id let you know it works great. PEace

@Sativagrows, Also, sorry for the thesis. LOL. Here's the tldr : I'd considered scrog and all that, but I'm fundamentally lazy (says they guy who easily drops 100+ hours into a spreadsheet, and counting).

@Sativagrows, nope, not topped... Just real stunted. I've topped and mained my photos but not autos. No bleaching to my eye on any of my girls. Came close but have been watching closer - PPFD is on par (HAH!) with with what it should be for the current DLI of 40-ish. As for bending her over - nah. She's getting great side-lighting and deep penetration with the recent lighting upgrades - an array 8x 180W SZHLUX PT1800 LEDs which are tilted and positioned to provide full lighting to the sides as well. Plants get moved and turned and fully exposed from multiple angles. But, considering the horrible start my ladies have had (supply-chain issues on nutes, a single weak '100W on a good day' light, others - now mostly resolved through overarching overkill), I fully expect that main cola to be respectable when finished. I appreciate your input on increasing harvests but I think we may have different mindsets with respect to growing. I'm not growing for production or to push boundaries. Rather I'm growing for data. Take a look at the pix of the charts and graphs I post in my grows. Note the weekly growth and stretch data. I find the data collection and analytics here to be lacking so have been making my own (Currently Google Sheets, migrating to LibreOffice Base eventually). Anyway, I have a couple more of each of the seeds for my autos and when I re-run this grow I'll be collecting better data and will have nice side-by-side. If I bent or topped the plants, then parts of the data I care about would become skewed, no longer be useful, or unavailable entirely. Thanks though. Durp Dankley, Data Dork 😎

@Patricia_Zamnesia, Thanks. Having fun sorting out pH for my grows at the moment. Biggest problem with living on Mars is getting the supplies to deal with issues reliably / timely. 😬