First Grow Ever - GGAuto

Had to skip a week in the journal and then another week of documentation of harvest. Life happened. More updates to come. ========== Week 14: This week was uneventful. I found a small amount of amber trichomes on plant 2 (per pic) in the beginning of this week and mostly cloudy trichomes (75+%) on plant 1 that same day. Life events had started to bare down so I decided to begin the flush then ---- I started a 4 to 5-day flush. Concluding the week and creeping one day into the next week I started 36-48 hours of darkness. The darkness explains the droopy plants on harvest day. ========== Week 15 (The Begin of Harvest) This week was supper exciting but very rushed and disappointing because I was not ready for it (time precious). THE HOUSE REEEEEEEKED! My wife could smell the house from her car 5 doors down driving in. lol. I didn’t tell her I was harvesting so I know she wasn’t exaggerating. I was able to wet trim almost all of plant two. I didn’t have time, so I had to hang plant one without trimming. After trimming plant one; I absolutely and whole hardily advocate wet trimming. Total hang/dry time was longer than I was hoping for – 10 to 11 days. Luckily, I did buy Bovida packs and all is well. I have been monitoring the jars with hygrometers in each. They are all sitting at about 58-63 %. *** I fucked up hard and had to drop most of the plants in card board boxes for a day. that is why there is a 2 day split on the pictures. I luckily had enough of fresh boxes to use. this is also why I don't have sweet close in bud pics. THEY LOOKED AMAZING, but then they looked flat sided. ========= Top VS. LST with this Auto If you want to top this auto it is totally doable. I got a about an extra 1+ oz. off the topped plant (dried). the un-topped plant was much heavily covered in trichomes and a lot easier to manage. So, it was a tradeoff. Plant two buds were far more denser and plant one's buds ended up being very airy. Your preference, I guess.