420 fast buds ak-47??

[Alucard]

I'm not the best grower out there and rarely hit 6 ounces on a autoflower plant. Having 5 autoflowers weighing 6 ounces each would stuff my 3x3 but would still fit. I think your gonna have a hard time filling a 4x8 with only 5 auto's. However, some guys do pull off some monster auto's.

just to give you a visual reference, this is what 6 ounce plants look like. The pots are 3 gal @ 12 inches wide (both fastbuds btw)
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Those look amazing what training did you do and when did you do it?? I’ve noticed a lot of out of flower pictures look like that very symmetrical when looking Adam at that angle

 

[The Iconoclast]

I 4 way lst to fill out my space but it takes a few weeks for them to bounce back from topping, but if you say they respond well I try to do this with them.

I added an important caveat, which is that plants need to be in top condition especially the roots. Looking at those photos above you have a good space to work. Looking at the plants the first thing I notice is that the branches are not forming bulbous lower branch nodes, they have a look more of soil than hydro. I think you could get better results with a modification to your hydro set up.

I also notice that you do not appear to have a plan or an evolving plan as to how to prune, it may take a while but you have to trust your plants and your set up and prune branches that experience tells you will underperform. Pruning evolves with the grow. Personally I don't try to bend branches too sideways because most of the action happens on top and you're only releasing weak branches, sometime my grows can look a bit like that but that's only because as the grow progresses and I gradually thin out the plant, I create more space to pull it apart, later on you can bend them even more, but most of this extreme bending happened late not early.

 

[MesaBoogie]

Those look amazing what training did you do and when did you do it?? I’ve noticed a lot of out of flower pictures look like that very symmetrical when looking Adam at that angle

hey thanks ! I'm usually pretty happy with my plant structure. And it's super easy. I usually just top the plant around day 16-21. Then just lots of leaf tucking. You might have to do a bit of LST a week or so after toping just to open it up and even things out a bit.

Here's a pic that sorta shows how I LST after toping. I just use some skewers and some hot glue to make lil nubs on them to attach some pipe cleaners. They work great for holding back leaves or branches.

 

[Alucard]

I added an important caveat, which is that plants need to be in top condition especially the roots. Looking at those photos above you have a good space to work. Looking at the plants the first thing I notice is that the branches are not forming bulbous lower branch nodes, they have a look more of soil than hydro. I think you could get better results with a modification to your hydro set up.

I also notice that you do not appear to have a plan or an evolving plan as to how to prune, it may take a while but you have to trust your plants and your set up and prune branches that experience tells you will underperform. Pruning evolves with the grow. Personally I don't try to bend branches too sideways because most of the action happens on top and you're only releasing weak branches, sometime my grows can look a bit like that but that's only because as the grow progresses and I gradually thin out the plant, I create more space to pull it apart, later on you can bend them even more, but most of this extreme bending happened late not early.

When that picture was taken I was just starting to feed twice a day up until that point it was once a day so I was treating the Coco like soil which is probably why I had a little bit slower growth. As far as pruning goes I no longer prune underneath that light. that grill was a test run to see with that new light can do. after seeing the results, I no longer prune U deer that light…. that light was 20 inches away from the top, the canopy is 39 inches deep and I had bud less than an inch away from the top of my Coco that was rockhard solid, that’s the first plant I’ve ever harvested in my life that didn’t have any bull crap on it that I tossed in the green dragon bin. During flower. That canopy was thiiiiiiiiiick so not only did that light have to push through 20 inches of open air, it had to push through 39 inches of tropical rainforest to reach the bottom of that plant…I pulled 780 g exactly off of that one plant not one bud was larf, it was all solid and I am very picky about what makes it in my bud jars. I don’t know why it’s able to penetrate deeper and any other light I’ve used including 1000w hid and hlg, but if I had to guess I’d say it was the three-way spectrum control mixed with the far red and the new 3.75 µmol efficiency rating v2 Samsung chips. Hear she was 2 ish weeks before chop

 

[Alucard]

I added an important caveat, which is that plants need to be in top condition especially the roots. Looking at those photos above you have a good space to work. Looking at the plants the first thing I notice is that the branches are not forming bulbous lower branch nodes, they have a look more of soil than hydro. I think you could get better results with a modification to your hydro set up.

I also notice that you do not appear to have a plan or an evolving plan as to how to prune, it may take a while but you have to trust your plants and your set up and prune branches that experience tells you will underperform. Pruning evolves with the grow. Personally I don't try to bend branches too sideways because most of the action happens on top and you're only releasing weak branches, sometime my grows can look a bit like that but that's only because as the grow progresses and I gradually thin out the plant, I create more space to pull it apart, later on you can bend them even more, but most of this extreme bending happened late not early.

In your defense lol….Iv never had an indica pheno under that light so In all honesty i doubt I’d get that penetration on a bushy indica on that light…but who knows lol….. I’ll find out soon when I pop these autos