Chopping up AUTO Flower strains

One of best things you can do for auto to increase growth is provide it with as many amino acids as you can. Amino acids are involved in many aspects of plant growth, including: Protein synthesis: Amino acids are used to synthesize proteins, which are associated with plant growth. Protein synthesis from amino acids requires less energy than nitrate and ammonium. Nitrogen transport: Amino acids and nitrates are used to transport nitrogen through the xylem and phloem of plants. pH maintenance: Amino acids act as buffers to help maintain the pH within plant cells. Protection from ammonia toxicity: Amino acids help protect plants from ammonia toxicity. Carbon and energy source: Amino acids are considered a carbon and energy source. Here are some examples of how amino acids can affect plant growth: Germination: Amino acids can improve germination rates. Root length: Amino acids can increase root length. Fresh weight: Amino acids can increase fresh weight. Grain yield: Amino acids can increase grain yield. Grain quality: Amino acids can improve grain quality, including ash content, protein content, and nutrient content. Plants synthesize all 20 proteinogenic amino acids themselves, unlike humans and animals. The amino acids in plants are synthesized from the nitrogen absorbed by the roots, through a process that involves a high energy expenditure. This expenditure of energy is critical in situations of stress (drought, illness, abrupt temperature variations, etc.), circumstances in which more free amino acids are needed, these contents can increase up to 100 times. The natural synthesis of large amounts of free amino acids decreases the formation of proteins, negatively affecting the growth of the plant. For this reason, the application of peptides and free amino acids in the plant favors all the processes in which the proteins intervene. Takes a large portion of plants energy to produce aminos itself.

People kinda need to stop focusing on days as if it's some magic denominator, it's a indication your plant has been through 61 cycles nothing more. How much work got done in each one of those cycles will determine how far along a plant will get in those 61 cycles. The better you optimize your growing environment and parameters the more plant will get done in those 61 cycles. The more plant can get done is a reflection of the knowledge you hold with regard to those complete cycles. Photosynthesis by day, Cellular respiration by night. Auxin is a plant hormone that plays a central role in the development of a plant's shoot apex, where it promotes growth and prevents the development of lateral branches: Growth: Auxin promotes cell division and elongation in the shoot apex. Apical dominance: Auxin prevents the development of lateral branches near the shoot apex, a condition known as apical dominance. This allows the plant to focus its energy on growing upwards towards the light. Organ formation: Auxin plays a central role in the formation of lateral organs, such as leaves and flowers, from the shoot apex. Auxin is mainly synthesized in young leaves at the shoot apex and then transported downwards in the polar auxin transport stream (PATS). The concentration of auxin is high close to the bud, inhibiting lateral growth, and lower further back, where branching occurs. Plants that are maximizing DLI and growing rapidly in environment will have such aggressive growth, any lst will barely reduce growth or at least will hardly feel like it slows. A plant that is running fairly average dli with unseen bottlenecks or less than optimal environment will have a slow slogged recovery possibly wasting up to a week in recovery. If you want more from autos then you need to provide environment which enables it to do more during the 61 cycles.

Our outdoor auto runs at work run about 60 days and we top those. There's time. depending on your growing method. If you grow little micro autos in soil and terracotta pots then it's probably a bad idea. On the other hand, if you use a soilless method with a reliable fertigation system you're likely to still end up with 5-6' monsters. Stress is really overstated by people on here. I've never seen topping stress/slow/stunt a plant that was healthy. Obviously doing stuff to a plant that had other things going on can compound issues. The only time I've seen a plant get stressed from removing stuff is when cutting back mom plants and going a little too hard on them- like removing 80-90% of the plant.

OCD / false beliefs lead to some odd behaviours. There are some things that can delay flower and cause a slower / larger autoflower. I'm not sure if that's necessarily 100% beneficial or not. I don't know how consistently it'd work. If it was consistent i guess it could be a useful tool of manipulation, but I'd simply ask the question, why not just grow a photoperiod, bwahahah? Whatever an autoflower can do, a photoperiod can do, too. You can simply flip a photoperiod to flower at the same time an autoflower does it on its own and you'll have a similar time frame from that point. Probably normal volatility of a flower phase length of every other marijuana plant. Autoflowers are not magic. they have some benefits primarily related to outdoor growing. They are the same in every way except how they enter flower phase. It is not a hormonal response to length of dark cycle. that's it. All the other stuff extrapolated is nonsense. e.g. who came up with the concept that autoflowers can't be potted up? I would argue that if you see "shock" after potting up you must have used your retard strength while doing it and molested the rootball in some easily avoidable way. In six years i've yet to see a plant be "shocked" from a transplant, bwahaha. Just doesn't happen with any level of competency that is easily learned/gained. How hard is it not to fuck up the rootball? LOL

Anyone can try anything, if it works is the question and if it is replaceable. I have accidentally topped a few autos from ruff handling with LST. One of them did just as good if not better then the other non topped plant but it was only 2 plants so not a great control group. Of the other times it has happened they did poorly. I have heard of some strains that veg out extra long before flipping and can tolerate stress very well. but at that point... just grow a photoperiod and control the flip to flower, if it goes past 7 weeks in veg you just wasting time indoors. For me autos are best outdoors as they finish up before the wet period/end of season in my area, thats when all the rot and mold sets in on photoperiod plants.

Some strains do well with a little training but Iv noticed a lot of people go too heavy on the training and clearly stunt their plants.The hand full of times Iv done them Iv left them and they're around 120-150g dry.My 2yr fling is over and I'm back to photo,lol.