New grower. Was trying to train white widow, and main stalk bent, but only only one side is damaged. I’ve had trouble training the top from the beginning because I was afraid to break it. It got too tall and had to try something. Should this be okay?
Congratulations. You’ve just done your first supercrop. She will be fine.
No worries I’ve done worse than that.
Welcome to the community
welcome to the community
Welcome to the forum @Live420 ,
As mentioned its called “Supercropping”
A technique to bend the stems to keep the plant from getting too tall, or to keep it evenly flat under the light. It has the advantage of causing the buds along the stem to grow upwards toward the light. Many of us do it on purpose. The plant will be just fine. Try to keep the other conditions in the grow area consistent so as not to stress the plant any further. Autos don’t handle stress well sometimes.
Good looking plant I must say.
Welcome to the community and congratulations on your first super crop
Now you dont have to learn how to supercrop!! Self taught!! Welcome to the community.
Welcome and congrats on learning the supercrop technique holistically. I’d do a little reading up on low-stress techniques if autos are the way you roll. That way you don’t get to the place where you need a more aggressive solution, where accidents may be more likely. There are a panoply of expert opinions here and most seem to agree that stressing autos is not ideal and often not really necessary if management starts early.
Quick edit: those of you who do treat autos and photos the same, don’t eviscerate me too bad 
I sometimes tie the top down during veg and it bends over like this. I keep it tied until the other top pass it up. Then I untie it. Looking good! 
Perfect super cropping 
I top all my plants auto’s included. I defoliant the whole time. And when there slow growing I will even FIM them after topping if I haven’t seen a lot of growth since the top. Auto’s are WAY MORE RESILIENT than people would think. All the plants i top or tie down seem to love it. I feel even high stress training is less likely to do damage than environmental swings and crazy nutrition regimens. I feel If the environment is dialed in you can beat them up pretty good and they won’t show a lot of negative effects.
Why? I wouldn’t even do this to my photos
Defoliate leaves as needed to open up light to other bud sites. With a big one just before the flip and then about 3 weeks in. I’ve had great success with topping my plants compared to going natural.
The reason I’m hard on them is because I had a purple punch auto that was lagging so far behind the rest I was almost going to call guido to take care of it! But instead I just starting beating it up! Topped it once And it grew out just one set of new leaves! So I fimmed it! It was still way behind the rest. After the fim it stayed the same size for about 3-4 days then it just blew up! Ended up being one of best plants I had. It was definitely behind the rest. But when it got going it caught up and even passed a couple of the others! Since then I treat them like sh1t! And they love it! For all the defol and HST I do. That’s the only stress they get. My environment is dam near perfect, I water like clockwork and don’t over feed. I feel like last 3 are more likely to cause you problems then HST training does. 
I top my autos on day 21, tie some branches, pull leaves here and there and let it do it’s thing. Same with photos
If you asked 10 good growers, there method for cultivating cannabis. You would most likely get 10 different answers. And 10 different ways to grow good weed! That’s what’s awesome about weed they don’t call it that because it’s hard to grow!!! It just hard to grow quality weed!
when I first joined the forum I would see some peoples answers to certain questions and I would think that’s completely wrong. And I still do think that some times! Lol…. But one thing that this endeavor has taught me so far. Is that there’s a million different ways to do things. Some are much better than others! But everyone has “THIER” way. And that’s what I love. Is learning new things daily! Different perspectives and different ways of operating. Have a great day y’all! @Bluntsmoke
