Well, the harvest of my dreams has very little trimming involved in the end and would consist of nothing but top colas. lol Whether I’m gonna make that happen with my pruning or not, remains to be seen! lol Yes, new things really do cause anxiety. Next year I won’t be such a nervous Nelly, I sort of threw caution to the wind and all of my plants have become experiment plants instead of just Bruce. Maybe I’ll prune her even a little crazier and harder for comparison. Like I said, I get these crazy spurts of confidence and just go to town.
6 Likes
Running multiple methods is how you discover ‘new stuff’. Some work & some don’t. Then your brain is rolling around how to make the stuff that worked… work better! That’s automatic… you can’t turn that off… 
A fun journey!
Cheers
G
2 Likes
Perhaps a little cayenne and water sprayed selectively on a few fan leaves…May act as a bit of a deterrent…I love animals, but perhaps a little “reminder” is in order…with a very light concentration.
Just a thought…
2 Likes
Get the wee bugger a chew toy for when it visits…
Cheers
G
3 Likes
@Old-Ron So aside from fan leaves and some light defoliation, I believe you need to stop pruning now as they look to be past 2nd week of flower
@MrToast I have thought about what to use as a deterrent. I like that idea.
@Gpaw She has pretty much destroyed all the toys except one. She needs medication…lol
3 Likes
Looking at them afterwards i agree one hundered percent. I need to just grab my big bottle of LIFTA for them…and keep the grand dog away from them…
3 Likes
You can still go to town on the plants in veg. Up to 2 weeks of flower is what I’ve read to be the rule.
1 Like
This the one you mean @Meesh?
watched it the other day.
5 Likes
Thanks. I will watch it. I saw a couple of them, but not this one.
Yes! That is the one! @Old-Ron this is also the one I dropped on your page.
I have just made a video. I’m waiting for it to upload now to show you guys what I’ve been doing. It will be up shortly.
@MrToast haha! I got one of those industrial sized jars of cayenne pepper once from Costco thinking I would sprinkle it all over the backyard to deter my dog from digging. I put 2 giant jars all over the place and 2 mins later my pitbull went straight to it and took a big ole lick of it and sat there drooling and licking her lips for an hour. Then started trying to dig. lol
7 Likes
That is funny
1 Like
If we’re talking about seedlings, almost always. I like to give em a heavy wet/dry cycle.
With normal sized plants, and flowering plants, I literally never water until runoff, on purpose. My current soil mix holds too much, and it can get a little waterlogged.
2 Likes
Thank you! Yes. I feel like I’m usually only watering like the top 1/4 or 1/3 of the soil at any given time, if that makes sense. As even with good drainage, I feel like the bottom will always be wetter than the top. If I let the entire soil go dry, the plants would be dead and would have complained long before that point. If the plant were root bound, it would need water to runoff a few times a day I would think as the pot wouldn’t hold much water anymore. My point with this was, I think this is how newbies end up overwatering their plants.
4 Likes
So here is my pruning vid. I approached them as if they were tomato plants and I was cutting off the suckers
12 Likes
that vid is for indoor. From what I’ve read that bottom branch will do just fine as a cola for outdoor…but you may need to prop it separately if it won’t reach your support or tie it with some soft wire from above. your call I think on that one.
you need advice from some of the outdoor people though…I’d think you could top again if they aren’t flowering yet.
2 Likes
Meesh
Too funny! ROTFL…
Oh well, worth a try…Some puppies are just built tougher than others…
Hmmm…plan B…
3 Likes
It shouldn’t matter indoor or out. Plants are the same. I wasn’t planning to top anymore, just wondering if I should keep chopping secondary branches that come off the main stem and leave them at 3 nodes or leave them be at this point.
Without pruning, the outdoor plants would just be xmas tree shaped. The branches will keep forming secondary branches exponentially and will bud from every spot, but only the tops that are from the main stem would be colas, same with indoor.
4 Likes