Looking for your opinions on what I should do with these ladies. I topped them at the 6th node and have been taking off all the inner branches. You can sort of see where I have chopped off the inner branches. Soon I'll spread the pots out more and let them grow out a bit more then in a couple weeks I'm gonna flip them to flower. My question is what other training should I do with them? Should I keep taking off more inner branches as they grow or should I leave it? My concern is if I leave them they will grow too many branches. What would you do? Further info Wanting a nice even canopy and will put up a scrog net soon. Growing square1 genetics. Cheers!
they will disagree and but leave them be. the bottom branches are budsites too. you just have to expose them to the light... spread them carefully and train them to "sprawl" to where the light is hitting those areas.
You have some nice looking plants. Unless you're really experienced I'd just leave the alone and get a good crop. The more you try to do to make your grow better the more likely you are to screw it up.
Thanks for your input mate. I will spread them with trellis and leave them. Shouldn't be an issue if a few more branches grow and flowering is soon now anyway
Thanks mate, it's my first living soil grow and loving it. This is my third indoor grow so not a tonne of experience. I heard square1 genetics have dense lower buds. With your guys input I'm thinking I'll leave them. If I'm vegging only for another two weeks then there shouldn't be too many more branches in that time. Cheers!
Thanks for response man. Did you do anything in particular to create even canopy? I've been taking off some top leaves that are covering up lower branches so hopefully they are come up to a similar height
Nice looking plants. An enthusiastic trim job?, perhaps. They will fill in. Yes for lst or other training. Don't cut any more now, wait & see if needed now it does not IMO. If I am not taking clones I don't trim as much as said you may not want to remove bud sites, but I do lollipop them & defoliate a few leaves here & there almost daily.
Thanks man! What do you mean by trimming? Yeah I will be defoliating more as it goes along for sure. Some of these phenols are lanky like photo and some are super squat and too bushy for my liking
I go with my feelings/instinct about trim & defoliate, right or wrong it shouldn't kill a plant, it's a live & learn thing.
I think your right on track to flip in a couple weeks then weave your scrog net. I usually flip around 70 % full canopy but im going to fill in more this time then if I have too much growth im planning to trim some of the weaker branches
Looking real good and I think you're on track to do some manipulation. I believe in plant manipulation 100% . No matter what anybody says plant manipulation in any species of plant. Us humans have domesticated plants for millenniums. we have domesticated our cannabis plant too. Just like corn apples peaches pears tomatoes cucumbers you name it it's all domesticated correct? We manipulated all these species of plants now all of them. there's not one that's not manipulated somehow. We consume them, we eat them we smoke them we press them and make them into oils and cosmetics and elixirs herbal supplements you name it we've done it and we're still doing and creating more right? I'm a master manipulator. I don't do indoors so much now as I do outdoor. But manipulation is my passion. Some examples of work that I could load up on this site. I love doing outdoor. And again I don't give two s**** about what anybody on this site this forum or this thread can say about manipulation... But just Leave them them alone??? Absolutely Not... Manipulation pruning, lst, est, hst, super cropping, manifolding, scrug net, sea of green, and there's still some more techniques that are proven to produce larger better buds and yields. Growweedeasy.com it's got some great editorials on manipulation techniques... Good luck and happy growing
Ah yeah i probably could've laid off the trimming, atleast I know what not to do next time. Definitely learning along the way
Yeah I think I will do the same, can't hurt to push veg time more and see what makes the cut. Might even wait til 85% of canopy is filled up, just to experiment
You are already wall to wall buds, So bending wont add much. If it were me I would remove the first three nodes on each plant. You'll be cutting off some yield, but if you don't remove the lower branches you'll be smoking a lot of lower quality bud.