I don't know how well autoflowering plants will take to pruning.
And when will the Referendum take place?
The expectation is that the referendum date would be somewhere close to the year end and be carried out on the same day as a general election which is yet to be announced. They will also at the same time hold a referendum on Euthanasia.
I have no experience whatsoever with Autos. I am aware of various differences that accepted wisdom says are important. The pruning, I too have read it is not good when done to an Auto, but recently I read on a site, Autoflower.net that many there claimed to have no problem mainlining or manifolding their plants. My own Quadlined plants were very minimumly cut. Accepted wisdom seems to say you have to grow out the plant to 5 or 6 nodes and then top above the 4th losing in the process what seems to be a lot of plant growth. I only grew them to the 4th and only to where the growth shoot of the 4th node was big enough to 'wiggle/waggle' back and forth to break off (about less than an inch), I carried out this single (micro) topping and grew out the 2nd and 3rd nodes, the 2nd node is the one that initially only produces a single 3 blade leaf. But this way a very minimum of the plant's growth is wasted, the 'micro topping' that is carried out then heals amazingly well compared to when topping on greater growth. Many times I hear that always the 1st and second nodes need to be pruned off, but I have found, at least to my eye, that the 2 node grew out very strongly, especially on 2-WW, as soon after it was micro topped a slug chomped into it's 3rd node growth shoot and I wasn't sure if that node's growth would survive, it slowed it initially and the 2nd node grew out correspondingly very strongly but after a while the 3rd node recovered from the slug attack to eventually become the dominant node. Both my Quadlined plants (2-WW & 3-WWG) appear to my eye to be looking vigorous and healthy, they don't appear stunted, or having impeded growth. I just have to keep them happy now!
It was from reading Light Addict's fluxing threads last year that caused me to change my topping timing from allowing the plant to grow out more to instead saving wasted growth by micro topping it. He also claimed he had no problem doing this with Autos. I think that if this approach is done with Autos it may make it work, whereas when allowing the plant to grow out so much only to prune it off like many people would do with a Photoperiod plant, then perhaps doing it like that has caused the accepted wisdom to be where Autos can't be pruned like that. I mean, that also makes sense to me, as the Auto is quick growing on a finite time line, so that traditional topping approach quite possibly would waste too much growth, time and recovery. I think if the Auto is a known very small sized strain then perhaps it would be too much to attempt, but if the Auto is known to grow to a reasonable size, then I can't see why it wouldn't work fine. But unless I read anything prior to that point that causes me to change my mind then I'll probably attempt to Quadline the Gorilla Glue (1-GGa). The only consideration against it that I currently have, is that I also wanted try to force one or two limbs of the plant to produce female pollen sacs, maybe there is a small reason there to do no pruning because of the time that changing the gender on these limbs could take. But right now, my plan is to micro top and Quadline it, and learn from the experience.
As an aside, right now, the air and sky outside has taken on a distinct 'orangery' tint, it is like looking thru a colored filter whether indoors or outdoors, it is all from the bushfire smoke that has drifted across the sea to NZ from Australia. I am sure my plants were hoping for a nice sunny day which it should have otherwise been. Even as I have been writing this the sky is covered in a dense thick orange plume of smoke, it has darkened a lot now, like a massive sunset, the air smells really dirty too, I have never seen it like this before. Must be quite terrifying in Australia now.
