Should I cut my girls back?

Most people trim bushes that have been trained. Your plant is pretty thin to begin with. You may benefit from removing a few bigger leaves blocking lower budsites but there just isn’t much to defoliate here

 

There doesn't seem to be anything to trim. I'm not sure what your reason for trimming would be, but if you do I suggest not much considering your plant is in flower. Next grow you might want to consider training so you can best utilize your light - one tall cola doesn't get it indoors.

 

She looks healthy, just not gonna yield much. Research training techniques to maximize yield for next grow.

 

Learning to train your plant is good advice and definitely necessary for bigger yields. However, if you're not providing enough light, all the training in the world isn't going to help your yield much. What do you have above your girl there?

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I respectfully disagree. Granted, more light will increase yield, but creating an even canopy will increase the yield quite a bit as well regardless of the light. It will give the OP the most yield possible with the light he/she has.

 

You're right, of course. Training will increase the number of colas but not the quality, really. I should have been more clarifying. The light will be a limiting factor, though to how developed those buds will be. Quality is diminished. Not as dense and not as big of buds will be produced.

 

There’s nothing to trim, you might want to bend her over, tie her down, lower lights, let her GROW️looks good don’t hurt it


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I've never found quality to be diminished by topping and training and I've grown the same strains straight up and ScroGed many times.

You can flop tops over in flower no problem and I've done that many times too. Just roll the stem between your fingers until it gets soft for a couple inches worth and let it fall over. If anything that top cola gets even bigger than it would if left standing and the smaller colas on the side branches get larger too.

Then you can get the light down lower tho you can put smaller plants on something to get them closer to the light as well.

 

Sorry how far along is she? How far is light from plant️


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They look fine tho I think the buds are a little small for 30 days flowering. Is that 30 days since the flip or 30 days since flowers started? I count from the flip myself.

If the tall plant is the one with CBD the buds look normal. I've got some CBD crosses and the yields are way lower than any regular plants I grow. My OTTO#1 girl has pathetic yields but I'll be using her to make some crosses with some of my old faves to try to get CBD versions of them.

What are you feeding your plants? Any bloom booster and if so when did you use it? I feed mine some Big Bud a week before I flip to 12/12 to "prime the pump" so to say and it seems to get buds popping good by a week after the flip. By the end of the stretch they are golf ball sized on top.

I wouldn't be removing any leaves. They are your plants solar panels and make food to feed the shaded buds which grow fine in the shade if they get lots of food. There's not an overabundance of leaves there as it is.

Overall I'd say you've done a pretty good job of growing those girls.

 

I'd do it right were I drew the line or maybe the space above that. You want to pinch the stem between your thumb and first two fingers and roll while crushing it so you can feel the stem crush a bit. Hold the upper part with your other hand while you do that and try to get that whole section of stem between the nodes soft before letting it fall over easy. Could even do the space above as well so it has a couple bends. Don't freak if the stem splits open a bit as that happens most often. After a few days the tops will start turning up again and those buds just below the bend will fill out a lot more as will the side branch buds. Not pretty but very effective and no more worries about height issues as you're over the stretch and the only height gain will be from bud stacking.


The first time I did a top like that was by accident and it freaked me out. That was almost 20 years ago and I've done it on purpose dozens of times since with never a regret. Cannabis is one tough plant.

Just make sure you get the stem soft and mushy feeling for a good inch or two before letting it bend over and it'll be fine.