A Barney's Farm Wedding Cake Auto in 3 gallons of living soil (my own creation, mostly worm castings, so much fucking worm casting). She will receive weekly compost teas and some top dressing when we hit flower. I didn't top dress on my last autos, I won't make that mistake again!
Sprouted July 1st, true leaves July 3rd. We're calling July 3rd day 1.
Went ahead and topped on Day 14. She had the 4th node developing with a 5th node far enough away that I felt comfortable cutting.
We're also going to do a bit of defoliation once we see some stronger growth. We'll also be doing some light training. If she responds well to defoliation, we may full on mainline this fucker and do a second top!
I'm cognizant of just how weak my lighting is. It will be interesting to see if we can get a small plant with a shitload of dense mains. I'm not looking for super high weight, I'm looking for some quality fucking bud.
@ganjaq, Oh man yes, the 4 autos I've grown so far have all been super fruity smelling. This fucker is all skunk! I had to hook up the carbon filter about 10 days ago on her, she was stinking up both tents and my wife started complaining about the smell from the garage 😂
@Ferenc, So far I'm seeing about as many bud sites as with the auto's I've LST'd (even minus the branch I accidentally snapped off), but with far less work. The training of this plant has been very, very easy. Whereas with the scrog net, it was just fucking constant tweaking. When I finish up my photo run in the big tent I'll run 3 auto seeds, I'll expect them to be somewhere around 3x the size of this plant with the same general structure. I'm feeling that real hard, so as long as I don't have a sudden herming, or a really bad harvest, I'll continue to top rather than scrog/LST only.