Jack Herer Blue Crack White Fire Cherry Pie#4 Cherry Pie#5 Harbor side Spent about three months LST’ing topping and fimm’ing these six beautiful healthy plants. They are four days into flower with two screens about 12” apart,one at 24” and the second is at 36”. The canopy is 5 feet square and 3 feet tall at this time. I may add one or two additional screens as needed for support as I’m not sure about the characteristics of these strains. I’m new to outdoor(not indoor) and have read tons on trimming vs leaving the under canopy. Any advice to trim or not to trim is welcome at this time. Thanx GC Oci
Given that you're using a screen, I would personally trim everything under. It's different if you grow taller plants or don't top. The branches with good sun exposure always grow longer and thicker, so those are the "chosen" branches the plant will put the most juice into. All the other flimsy branches from the lower 1/3 of the plant I cut off. Then I thin the middles. Nice balance of yield and quality. Looking good in here friend, plants look healthy - jealous of your 200Gs! Sent from my SM-J700T using Tapatalk
Thanx PoiBoy79 for your kind words. I’m just not completely convinced trimming really makes outdoor plant main colas grow bigger,indoor I know is yes. Not one sign of leaf bites or black hats yet! We shall see,I believe I choose the worst time of year for outdoor yield,cold,wet and lower lighting. First NT grow is also the least productive. So far so good!
So you have all the girls in this one 200 g pot ? Mmm Are the roots separated by a dividers or are you allowing them to inner tangle. As Poiboy said trimming all that low crap off the bottum will give your plants a lot of benefits and increase your quality yield. Looks good though I'll be waching to see how it go's Good luck n happy growing sent sitting in my garden
No need to partition a#200. As I said,I’m not 100% convinced removing inner branches has anything to do with higher yield on main colas. With outdoor I have maximum photosynthesis and the highest guality notill soil with a solid IPM. If I am correct and main colas don’t suffer I will be left with a shit ton of larf which would make a good deal of dry ice hash. Being outdoor it gets great airflow and my PM IPM is done with a 1949 and a very special fine mist brass head which gets deep into all the areas well. Maybe I’ll slowly start trimming the deep interior of three and leave three as a test,problem is I’m not sure of the standard yield each of these new strains produce and two are sativa dominant.
I don't think trimming off weak branches increases overall yield, it might increase the size of the remaining buds a tad, I do it because it increases the relative quality of the overall harvest. This is because I grow for quality flowers and could give a shit about larf and hash making. If I did grow for hash/extracts I wouldn't trim a thing. Sent from my SM-J700T using Tapatalk
Yes and any small tiny branches that will not produce. This allows the plant to provide nutrition to the more desirable buds sites sent sitting in my garden
You've got 6 plants going in one 200 gallon Smartpot? They came from Harborside? I'm guessing you're in California, SF bay area. If you set 1 plant in one 200 gallon Smartpot and let it grow a full season ( start in spring, harvest in fall) You'd be pulling close to 4 pounds off one plant.
Yes One is called “Harborside” and it’s unreleased as of yet. These 6 have been vegging now for 3 months (some light assist) now being left alone to flower,they are clones. My plan is to grow one from seed from this April till October but I’m considering just adding another 6 in February (14 weeks old) and just flowering those,not sure till I see what these will do.
Just remove all fan leaves on some mango tech shit lol Maybe just leave a few on top like that every thing in the middle gets swipe with buds too Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum