That’s some nice growth in 6 days Brother and look super healthy. I grow autos as well and saw you mentioned defoliation similar to a photo. You nailed it on the fan leaves laying on top of each other and sweating, which eventually kills the leaves. Anyway I’ve been experimenting with Autos and the myths behind HST/LST and defoliation. I did a heavy defoliation similar to a photo defoliation flip to flower and they loved it, I usually pluck here and there throughout the grow on any leaves blocking lower bud sites with no problems. Nice job, you’re kill’n it 
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I didn’t mean to but I broke one of these main stalk about 5 nodes up and taped it up , did not seem to even phase it.
Another one snaped about the same place and I didn’t see it till next day so I just left it basically topped.
It did wilt for a few days but it definitely didn’t hurt it to bad.
I’ve been very selectively plucking fan leafs and they seems to be just fine with it…
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Adjusted some LST, raised light and dropped power back to 50%.
I tried 75% and the taller ones didn’t like it 
(I will get the app and adjust properly according to DLI, when I have time 
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Watered all with 3ml per gallon cal-mag last night and did a decent defoliation (good size handful of fan leafs) on the single Bruce Banner and I’m pretty sure it grew like 6 inches over night 
it most definitely was not bothered by it and seems to liked what I did.
The others shot up as well but I expected the BB to be sad for a day or 2 after I violated her last night 
But she seem to have like it 
Maybe nutes next water? They seem happy and as my first autos, they are definitely growing fast to me so idk if they are needed, kinda nice not worrying about run off so far. If I start introducing salts, that’s more work I don’t have time for .
I’d be interested to hear from someone with auto experience.
Is mine where they should be for age or can and should I start pushing them? (2 in dirt on 9-7 others 9-11) that’s a 4x6 tent with them in a 4x4 space if that helps give reference to size.
Also found an awsome placement for one my fans, the main fan was to powerful on the ground, on low it was whipping them around and they aren’t tall enough to benefit from the smaller fan on top yet.
So this was a perfect solution!
Can’t flip the plants so I flipped the fan
till they get bigger and I’ll flip it back over or not …
It now shakes them gently while still moving air above them nicely.
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First mild feed today with GH trio at about 1.2 EC.
Think I over watered one the Gorilla glue, it’s all turned up now🤦♂️.
I believe it’s got some weird genetic thing going on. It’s growing faster then the others, all others are in flower and it has shown sex in a couple of spots just barely early on just like the others… but it just doesn’t look right 
Are these mutations? I don’t think I’ve ever seen them grow out of the nodes like this
usually this is the exact spot a pre-flower would grow
But here’s all them just for the log 
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That does look a little different but I don’t see anything wrong it’s not mad at you or anything, I think it’s a wait n see
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Got a little issue going on with 2 of them. I thought it was the light and it still maybe. But I stuck the worst one in the corner not directly under the light over 24hrs ago and it hasn’t changed.
It’s been like this all week and I couldn’t tend to it till now. It has continued to grow well but today I noticed the leafs not only turned up but starting to show other signs, so I guess I got to do some troubleshooting…
Anyone that wants to assist feel free to do so
First set of pictures are the worst one. It’s in a 5gal fabric pot layered mix of perlite, foxfarm strawberry fields bottom, ocean forest middle, and happy frog top/center where first planted.
Second set is the other one. It’s in 5gal fabric pots of ocean forest and perlite only.
Last week both had a 1.2ec feeding of GH trio, bloom solution. This is the only feed they have ever had. I gave cal-mag twice to the first one since then and once to the 2nd one. I need to water the 2nd one today, watered the 1st one yesterday.
Temps are night 68f-72f day 75f-85f. 77-80 most of the time.
RH has not been stable it’s been 40%-68%.
I been struggling with photo flower closet and auto tent sharing same lung
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Both plants N/P tested depleted one has sufficient K the other is K depleted as well.
Not really surprised though as it’s time I want to give them a good feed but this one looking like it does made me step back and think to be sure…
But I’m going to give a good feed and I will take the 3 tallest one out and put them in a 3x3 so canopy will be more even in both tents. Hopefully that helps the leafs turning up.
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Been so busy at work haven’t been able to post.
But here’s some pictures for the log I guess, and some bonus pics of a unknown bag seed “photo period” starting to look tasty 
. Soon as they finish up I can finally start the swap to hydro. So excited 
The ILGM autos.
The unknown bag seed.
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I like your pruning and training style.
Not exactly mainlined/manifolded but close.
It appears you often go for more than 8 main colas.
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Mostly just trying keep it short and not hit the light. It would have only had 8 or so but the top 2 ended up being basically in a manifold position
What should have been 2 large colas turn into a bunch of mini colas it seems .
That’s amazing and worked out great
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So after turning the growers choice Roi-e720 up to 100% a couple days ago. I had to do so rearranging.
The heat difference it puts out from 75% to 100% is huge!
It’s barely been 65°f outside and my tent was up to 95! The lung got up to 90° and both my other grows spiked
Humidity got down to 25% where the window AC was running none stop and sucked all the moisture out of the room…
So I moved the short ones in the 3x3 and dropped the 300w lights down close, moved the taller ones under the Roi-e720 and turned it back to 75%.
I got a portable AC today and tomorrow I will add it to the big tent and put it back like it was…
The short ones are farther along and they was loving the 100%. But the heat was just to much for the entire lung
But here’s some more of my bad photography.
I sware they look good in real life 
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So this giant Gorilla glue finally decided to start throwing pistols .
I am kinda thinking that I may leave them in the tents their in now and I think I can put up a net and dang near fill up the 4x4 space with the 3 tallest ones. This GG has branches for days!
Idk what to do with the 1 Bruce Banner though
It’s not tall enough for the net and the 3x3 would be cramped with it in there so I going think on it. Probably won’t have time to do anything till tomorrow anyways.
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I was only able to get 2 of my 5 BBs to pop and all 5 of the GSCE and all 5 GG popped.
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I also have a weird genetic GG. The leaves have been growing weird since day one. Growing leaves in weird spots. Random numbers of fingers on it some leaves. It grew taller and faster than the rest, but it didn’t show sex until like a week after the rest. Also didn’t smell skunky like the rest did. It almost had no smell until week 4. It also doesn’t drink all of its water up like the rest do. I have been over watering it the past 2 times, but tonight I skipped its watering.
The Bruce Banners drink water like crazy!!
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Yeah the crazy GG of mine is definitely weird.
I’ve just decided it’s got to be genetics. Everything is in line, I’ve done soil sample after sample and spent a few hours searching it with a microscope trying to find bugs or something.
It has displayed as it’s super stressed from the very beginning. It doesn’t like being watered, it doesn’t seem to want to take up nutrients, (even though it’s growing like crazy the entire time ) it is super weak though, very wispy and bendy.
The only thing I found that I didn’t like, is it is dang near root bound. It’s absolutely packed with roots.
I know it not ideal to transplant autos but I kinda been thinking of sticking it in a bigger pot with some fresh soil and a good does of recharge soon as it gets here, hopefully tomorrow 
I can cut the bag off of it as to not disturb the roots much and place it in a 15-20 gal tub full of holes in the bottom 
But also has required alot less watering then the others and if you notice in my pictures it’s leafs completely go limp after I do water it.
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You could do that and see how it likes the bigger pot. Chalk it up to an experiment since it’s a weird one any ways lol
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