Do nothing with autos? No cropping/LST/etc.... True?

So last night I saw someone mention in a thread (that I now cant find for the life of me) that with autos you just leave them alone. No cropping or LST at all? Is this correct?

BurghBudN00b said:

So last night I saw someone mention in a thread (that I now cant find for the life of me) that with autos you just leave them alone. No cropping or LST at all? Is this correct?

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I'm a beginner myself, but I've been reading various sources, and all seem to agree that you shouldn't use anything *but* LST. The reasoning being that the other types require damaging the plant (which requires time to recover) or time to grow new arms (SCRoG) whereas LST just spreads out the branches but doesn't eat up any of your ticking clock til flowering time.

Yeah I had planned on doing some light LST. Nothing crazy...

What strains are you growing? and under what kind of lights?

Vision NL under 600w hps.

No pinching, topping, FIMing, transplanting, cloning, supercropping, nothing that stresses or slows growth. LST is almost a must for a decent crop. Just lightly bend the stems when they're still young and flexible so light can get to all parts of your plant more evenly while maintaining a more broad and flat upper canopy.

Kevin the Great said:

No pinching, topping, FIMing, transplanting, cloning, supercropping, nothing that stresses or slows growth. LST is almost a must for a decent crop. Just lightly bend the stems when they're still young and flexible so light can get to all parts of your plant more evenly while maintaining a more broad and flat upper canopy.

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Thanks man! Appreciate the help!!!

LST all the way. Contrary to popular belief autos can be topped, just depends on strain by strain basis. I've ran autos I take to 90-100 days and have topped around 3rd week or so.Wouldn't recommend it til your comfortable growing autos.

Auto with no LST or topping etc example. Only 300w LED

420PyRoS said:

Auto with no LST or topping etc example. Only 300w LED

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Strain?

Crop king seeds - Candy Cane Auto

Type:Indoor / Outdoor
Growing:Easy - Moderate
Flowering Time:7 Weeks
Indica/Sativa:60% Indica, 30% Sativa,
10% Ruderalis
Effect:Long-lasting body Buzz
THC:Moderate - High
THC%:17.81%
CBD:0.1%
CBN:4.0%
Country:Spain
Yield:Up to 200 gr Indoors/100 gr out
Genetics:AK47 X Mango X White Widow

She's a buddin like crazy. Heres a pic from a few days ago... she's now frosting up the last couple days.
Can't say I'll get a lot as this is a first grow but at least you have an idea what it might look like without the LST, topping etc

I don't do anything to mine except maybe over do it a little on the light. I'm running an Optic Vero 250 for one plant.

Autoflowers do well with bamboo training and tomatoe cage people say not to transplant either but I think with vitb-1 dont seem to be effected. I havent grown any since last year

Don Geno said:

Autoflowers do well with bamboo training and tomatoe cage people say not to transplant either but I think with vitb-1 dont seem to be effected. I havent grown any since last year

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Sorry but what do you mean by vitb-1?