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Should i LST or Top my Wedding cake auto ?

Ashenw73
Ashenw73started grow question 7 months ago
Hi all, This is my wedding cake auto (18 days old ) by Barney's farm. Shes in coco soil and perlite mix under 18 hours of light. I just transferred her in to a 5 gallon fabric pot. Should i go ahead and top her or ahoukd i just do LST. She has grown another node too.
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001100010010011110answered grow question 7 months ago
lst is probably better, but if you only remove a small bit of plant material when topping, that 1.5-2.5 growth nodes you clip off won't matter much in the long run. Since your auto is on it's own timer, anything you lop off can't be mitigated with a longer vegetative phase as you can with photoperiods. losing a couple nodes won't add up to much of a loss. Lop off something substantial to do it to too many branches and that will definitely impact yield in a noticeable way. Maybe, just the apical meristem and stick to manipulating apical dominance after that and it'd be fine.
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Bobbypj
Bobbypjanswered grow question 7 months ago
Noooo topping for non-photo plants. Because they're on a time crunch (until flower) they can have serious trouble rebounding back into good health from it whereas a photoperiod can get all the time in the world to recover. LST is the way! 😁
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question 7 months ago
When it comes to autos,.........LST yes, topping, no.
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taprootArmy
taprootArmyanswered grow question 7 months ago
Your plant is going into preflower soon, only top if you are 100% certain that you get height problems. Transplanting already is a lot of stress adding stress from topping on top of that is a second reason not to do it imo. If you only have one plant, thats a third reason not to top. Better no risk if you only have 1 shot...
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SkunkleDamo
SkunkleDamoanswered grow question 7 months ago
If it's an auto it's highly advised that they don't get topped. The yield will be greatly compromised.
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