First, your plants look really nice. Congrats on the job.
It’s hard for me to recommend anything on autos. I flat out mutilate some of my photos and they always bounce back. My run of autos produced some of the smallest plants I’d ever grown. Even the ones I didn’t mess with only grew a few feet.
Your plants are in early flower and the bud sites are clearly visible. Tuck in those big leaves and let the bud get full light. If you’ve got large leaves attached to the main stalk you can just remove them. You can move up the branch from the main stalk and start removing leaves attached to that branch. I would remove every leaf not attached to a bud site or not on a branch with a bud site. In fact, get in there and clean out the middle of the plant.
When learning new techniques or working with new genetics, it’s always a good idea to start small and be conservative. Pluck a few leaves, wait for recovery and then pluck a few more. The heavier you prune in a single session, the more stress that plant will undergo. Some genetics can take a lot of stress without too many negative consequences. Other genetics can be quite sensitive, causing stunting or self- pollination.
By removing leaves more regularly, you are touching each plant in the growing environment more often. Use this time to inspect your canopy and leaves for any signs of leaf discoloration, pests or diseases."
There’s a channel on YT that does a lot of autos. He’s also very hands on with his plants. A lot of pruning and grooming. Take a look at his channel and apply this to your next grow.
Like I said before, you should be proud of the work you’ve done. You could leave them as they are. Just make sure you have good airflow and circulation…
Thank you so much for all the kind words and the help. I ended up doing a bit of cutting on the big one. Here is an after picture. I should be watering this week and I will be taking out the cal mag.
I just watered all 3 and I’m starting to see some yellowing on the tips of the left one. On my bigger girl to the right I’ve noticed some orange color as well. The buds seem to be forming nicely though.
I still haven’t fed them with any nutrients just water great white and cal mag 2ml per gallon and each plant only takes about a gallon of water a piece. From searching they are saying it could be rust or nute lockout.
Your plants look pretty solid
I would suggest to watch the plants rather than the calendar to figure your harvest schedule.
Autos are their own thing. Photos you can pretty much set a watch for their own flower times and hit it pretty spot on. My last harvest was autos, three of the four were about a week over typical flower time listed and the last was almost three, but I wanted almost all cloudy trichomes.
Do you have a jewelry loupe to look at the trichomes? You’ll find a lot of folks start looking at trichs once a majority of the pistils have turned from white to darker color.When the trichomes get to the level of therapy you are looking for, start the chop process. You’re doing great! You’ve got a good system that works for you. Patience is gonna be the most important part of the grow now.
Thanks everyone for the help. I haven’t bought a loop yet but I will in the next week. I actually can smell the plants now when I go on to check them, up until this morning I couldent smell them without opening the tent.
The leaves are starting to look purple. I just didn’t think the Girl Scouts got purple leaves but they look beautiful. I just added a tower fan to the tent to help with the 3 plants.
Pistils are starting to mature.
