My first autoflower - to prune or not to prune?

[greentest]

This is a dinafem haze auto cbd. It started budding about a 2 weeks ago and I've switched the nutes to bloom from grow. Should I prune all the large leaves off it like a bigger plant, or leave them alone? Just not sure since it's so small. Any advice?

 

[AZreefer]

This is a dinafem haze auto cbd. It started budding about a 2 weeks ago and I've switched the nutes to bloom from grow. Should I prune all the large leaves off it like a bigger plant, or leave them alone? Just not sure since it's so small. Any advice?

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[greentest]

Put up some pics for more accurate answers

 

[AZreefer]

@Galgrows

She can give you an answer with reasons!

 

[TheCroppeteer]

You going to leave it outdoors? I'd leave it either way.

 

[greentest]

You going to leave it outdoors? I'd leave it either way.

Yes it will stay outside, I'm moving it in the evening and morning to extend the sun cycle. I was cautious to prune with the small size of the plant. Seeing how others grew, I missed a lot of potential by letting it grow straight....

 

[TheCroppeteer]

Yes it will stay outside, I'm moving it in the evening and morning to extend the sun cycle. I was cautious to prune with the small size of the plant. Seeing how others grew, I missed a lot of potential by letting it grow straight....

Well, I was going to ask how exactly that thing ended up growing like that. You did prune it at some point earlier or it naturally got like that? Typically with autoflowers I've read (and agree) that it makes sense to do the pruning early on during vegetative stage. For some reason it doesn't seem to have a natural Christmas Tree type shape or if it does maybe I'm just confused by all the foilage.

 

[greentest]

Well, I was going to ask how exactly that thing ended up growing like that. You did prune it at some point earlier or it naturally got like that? Typically with autoflowers I've read (and agree) that it makes sense to do the pruning early on during vegetative stage. For some reason it doesn't seem to have a natural Christmas Tree type shape or if it does maybe I'm just confused by all the foilage.

That's it's natural shape. I've seen others that trained it to grow sideways, in the circle shape.of the pot... I'm committed to this way this time.

 

[TheCroppeteer]

That's it's natural shape. I've seen others that trained it to grow sideways, in the circle shape.of the pot... I'm committed to this way this time.

Well, I will pass this along since I just started doing it. Up to now, I've struggled to try to start off LST'ing and messed up my first try, so I've been doing the typical thing with my autoflowers which is to try to prune the heck out of it to get it to my liking (which was always a pain, I just didn't know any other way).

But, I'm in flowering stage with my current autoflowers after trying the experiment of simply topping after the 2nd node. I swear, I wish I had done this sooner. I'm never going back. I just top it at the fourth node and the result is basically as if I had LST'ed the thing perfectly and pruned/trimmed it the entire time to perfection except I didn't have to do any of that.

Two of them came out perfect in size and foilage, the third one still grew bigger than I had hoped (because of the space) but I have to do absolutely zero pruning to it. It's perfect.

I'd suggest looing that up. I'm going to try and find that forum I got the idea from but I think it's long gone.

 

[TheCroppeteer]

Well, I will pass this along since I just started doing it. Up to now, I've struggled to try to start off LST'ing and messed up my first try, so I've been doing the typical thing with my autoflowers which is to try to prune the heck out of it to get it to my liking (which was always a pain, I just didn't know any other way).

But, I'm in flowering stage with my current autoflowers after trying the experiment of simply topping after the 2nd node. I swear, I wish I had done this sooner. I'm never going back. I just top it at the fourth node and the result is basically as if I had LST'ed the thing perfectly and pruned/trimmed it the entire time to perfection except I didn't have to do any of that.

Two of them came out perfect in size and foilage, the third one still grew bigger than I had hoped (because of the space) but I have to do absolutely zero pruning to it. It's perfect.

I'd suggest looing that up. I'm going to try and find that forum I got the idea from but I think it's long gone.

I meant second node (I could even try 3rd, but I think it was the 2nd that I did and the best idea).

 

[greentest]

I'll let this one finish and try that with the next one.

 

[TheCroppeteer]

I'll let this one finish and try that with the next one.

Ok, just to be clear because I think I jacked up what I did. I waited until she was at three nodes, then I cut off that 3rd node and left her alone. She basically trains herself into four long colas. At least two out of three did this time. The third one went all over the place but still, I can look at her and say no need to prune. The leave to stem/bud ratio is perfect. She grew in such a way that she had just the right amount of leaves to allow perfect light penetration. Where, normally I've never seen that. They'd look like yours without fail and I'm staring at it looking like "I really should trim/prune this thing".

 

[Bigalmoby]

Most auto start to flower within 6- 8 weeks from what I have seen so far I couldn’t stop it under 18/6 they just started having that said I tried not to stress autos much just let them do what they we met to I might try some bending some but I was alway scared of stunting them knowing they will flower no matter what

 

[greentest]

Is this a problem?