General queestions for first time grower: 2 autos, day 22

[calvindk]

Hello everyone

22 days ago i started my first grow in a new spiderfarmer 60x60 tent i bought.

General info:
I water them when the first 2-3cm of soil is dry
I switch between clean water and water with fertilizer.
I keep the light 40cm away from the plant at all times.
One plant (stain X-Beast) is 23cm tall, the other plant (strain Apple Crack) is 21cm tall (ive treated then identically)
FYI trying to get the humidity up a bit using a wet cloth and spraying the tents sides.

Ive been in contact with the seed supplier once and he gave me some advice (this was a week ago).
Instead of classic LST he recommended using the ponytail method

My questions are
1. Do they plants look good for day 22? i remember the supplier saying they were a bit small when i talked with them (day 14).
2. How often do i perform the ponytail method? do you recommend another method?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Galgrows]

Welcome to the Farm and your plants are looking good at this stage and age. Pardon me as i had to go and lookup what a ponytail training method was, i'm in the USA and still call it LST but i don't "twist" the main stem as the seed producer told you to do. I don't twist autos like you can do to photoperiods which are tougher on the punishment we experienced growers give them.

It's not bad advise that seller told you but twisting may stress and decrese the size of the plant in that area. I would just bend it without twisting it. Or for your first time grow i'd just leave them grow natural and just remove later as they flower some of the largest fan leaves blocking bud sites. This could start shortly sometimes as early as 30 days from seed. If they are short and shorter spaced nodes it could be tricky to do the LST and chance of snapping off a branch is high. Autos don't recover after trauma like photoperiods. Good luck and come on back with further questions.

 

[calvindk]

Welcome to the Farm and your plants are looking good at this stage and age. Pardon me as i had to go and lookup what a ponytail training method was, i'm in the USA and still call it LST but i don't "twist" the main stem as the seed producer told you to do. I don't twist autos like you can do to photoperiods which are tougher on the punishment we experienced growers give them.

It's not bad advise that seller told you but twisting may stress and decrese the size of the plant in that area. I would just bend it without twisting it. Or for your first time grow i'd just leave them grow natural and just remove later as they flower some of the largest fan leaves blocking bud sites. This could start shortly sometimes as early as 30 days from seed. If they are short and shorter spaced nodes it could be tricky to do the LST and chance of snapping off a branch is high. Autos don't recover after trauma like photoperiods. Good luck and come on back with further questions.

Thank you so much for the insight!
Yes i didnt know what ponytailing was until he told me
I will stay away from classic LST (bending the stems), just to avoid stressing thr autos too much.