Maybe so, haven't grown autos in a couple years. Selective defol sure, but all out stripping I don't think will do autos any favors. I do selective defoliation for air flow and keeping pm at bay but I don't strip my plants.
Autos are on the clock so to speak. If you stress them you can't let them veg longer to let them come out of it, they keep trucking on their own time line.
I agree that they're on the clock but the only real thing that gets delayed is harvest time which might get set back by a week or two or three but they'll always finish. Yields can be greatly be effected but they will always finish no matter what.
That's interesting, I guess it makes sense that people are figuring autos out as time goes on. I was successful in the past toping autos, but not everytime. Sometimes it would stunt them and they wouldn't get much size.
From what I've learned after going through this thread is that any auto can be topped and fully recover as long as it's done before (or close to) day 21. Maybe your stunted autos were topped much later than day 21 or maybe it was before the genetics of autos came to be as 'predictable' as they are today. Either way, hopefully your plants that stunted weren't enough to put you off of topping autos forever.
I couldn't tell you the timing on it, it's been a few years. I topped a white widow xl back then that turned into a nice bush, pulled 7 zips off of it in my greenhouse. It was from female seeds, I sent them a pic and they used it for a while. That was my claim to fame lol
I'm a newbie too and I just started for autos what I'm going to do after reading your great information boys is I'm going to defoliate when the time comes only 2 let2go,and I'll report but today my seeds sprouted I just put them in soil.4 autos paper towel bag all four sprouted White Wedding and lemon kush
Welcome to the site. I did this as well, interested to hear your results.
33 hrs.nice tips out.76 deg,furnace closet.great advice,here.towel/bag.worked fast
4 sure Amazon got my 12hun.where do u post ur equip ur using,interested,in others.
You can start a grow journal or there’s also an introduction page for you to introduce yourself.
