Oh yeah, this last week was nuts!
Photos from last Wednesday January 24th:
Growth was taking off mid-week and so I decided to run an experiment. Topped one, bent one and left one…
Strawberry cheese topped normally.
Pinot Noir x Galaxy Brain had the most vigorous growth so I’m leaving that one on its own.
Canna Cheese x Galaxy Brain bent using a Budtrainer clip.
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Now for some bad news… I F’d up…
The Canna cheese plant wanted to resist and fight back. She pushed right through this little clip in half a day. I should have listened to her and taken off the clip…
Unfortunately, I tried to reposition the clip and was too rough on her. She was so fragile! Hard to believe seeing how strong she was growing…
Lesson #1, don’t be as rough on autos as you can be on photoperiod plants.
Guess she’s topped now… 
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Weekend update, here is what they look like now:
Pinot, growing like a champ!
Strawberry Cheese, doing well however not as vigorous in the side node growth…
Canna Cheese recovering from my oopsie…
I’m beginning to think its best to just leave autos alone… 
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Man they’ve taken off quick! I’m a few weeks behind you, closer to a month, and I’m super antsy for my auto gals to all take off like this!
Had temps dip down to like 58-59 for a night or 2 and I thought everything was dead or super stunted so I resoaked and planted more seeds, now I have 7 plants instead of 4 bc I’m superrrrr bad about culling plants, I’ll just leave them in a small container and see what they do since they’re autos 
Planted 1 in a beer can for shits
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A beer can(na) bonsai… awesome idea!
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I don’t usually top autos, but certainly have. I typically to a lot of bending and tying down, but only if they are stretchers. Some grow like a foot tall single cola so obviously, you’d be wasting your time messing with something like that. Great grow though, they look beautiful!
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OMG I absolutely love that! I hope it turns out well!
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Thanks! I’ll keep any updates in my first auto grow thread 
Cheers to your gals looking happy and healthy!
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I typically start “messing with” mine when they get to the size of your pinot x in that picture. Then I may remove the top sets of fan leaves, which both stops them from shading the side shoots and reduces the energy they are receiving for growth since a lot of it comes from those leaves.
I do often bend mine over, and they do just like yours and turn right around again. Got to add multiple points of hold down. I use kebab / bbq skewers, which is kind of weird I think, but works well for me.
I also supercrop. They bend right back, but not in the squashed spot 
They’ll slow a little bit from anything you do other than bending.
Sometimes I wait quite a bit longer to train them. There is less chance of snapping, and they really don’t seem to mind. I’ll think to myself that I just want to let them grow, but then if they start in on making a monster single cola I’ve got to intervene. I’m not set up for those.
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I’ve come to the same conclusion, the same way. 
True!
I’m leaving them alone now anyway, it’s nice seeing those single fat colas too. 
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May have some signs of flowering beginning to show. They are currently 36 days from emergence, does that sound normal for autos?
Strawberry Cheese
Pinot noir x Galaxy Brain
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@FalcoBlack .yes usually 3-4week average flower stage starts… It looks real good so far… Great work buddy
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They are looking good 
You will got some nice buds in this fabric pots
Dont go to heavy on ferts and it will be good
Peace out
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