Week 5
A full week after the mod on the cabinet, plant doesn't seem any worse for wear, being 11 inches more away from the light. Lots of great growth this week, again, nothing special from me beyond a bit more defoliation (4 more big fan leaves) and just position the plant to maintain where I want it's final form.
I'm going to call next week full on flower, we could probably call this flower, but Imma call if pre-flower.
@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.