Thing's are going well, had a few run ins with light burn via water droplets on leaves and had to raise the lights again. Not sure if I want to defoliate it, only remove a few leaves here and there or just bend leaves out of the way. Crystals are coming in thick and sticky and the smell is awesome. All in all I'm happy with how my first auto is shaping up. Can't wait to try it and run some thru a nugsmasher.
I agree its best to leave lots of leafs on autos they will suck all the nutrients back into the plant when they start thier end of the run power budding and all the big leafs are easy nutrients it doesntvhave to convert from soil . bet your plants last weeks will make some big buds ! Hope my green house seeds white widow does as well .
Looking good ... Just got done harvesting a Northern Lights Auto & a AK-49 Auto myself. Currently waiting on my White Widow Auto to finish up. Check them out if you can. I wish you the same success.Good luck with the rest of your grow
@plantie, Yeah its a mini jungle lol, I've only pulled the dead leaves. It has decent light penetration and a big fan moving a lot of air around so I let it do it's own thing. It's already been shocked once or twice, didn't want to push my luck, so I've been easy on it. I've been told autos are touchy.
A friend said I would be able to defoliate a bit this week and it should be good by the time it gets its last feeding before flush.