So the pruning thing I take away is that you’ll obviously will get more colas but will be smaller overall also there’s an advantage I believe in doing this in outdoors as well but I agree Trim or pluck the lower stuff that wouldn’t mount to much anyways unless you would like to use it for edibles and such .
Edit: as we all continue to get to know our plants better I believe it to to be more of a timing thing so we can get the best of any process we employ , this is where the fun comes in for me anyways.
So you need to go back years ago when you needed to hide your grow a lot of these methods were used to keep things low . And increase overall yield they all work and most of us have our own method . I just like letting them grow as big as possible when you didn’t need to hide . But now with all the new local laws you need to hide from neighbors view back to topping ?
Hey @Meesh, sorry, I wasn’t subscribed to your new thread. Whats wrong with me, lol… It wasn’t me that prunes like you mentioned. I try and take extra fans that are stifling the wind and sun but not much more these days. I’m trying to get used to the structures of most plants because I haven’t grown them.
When I was young I pruned a whole lot. This one grow in '96 I did in the Appalachians I had a plant in the fence line in my property and I started pruning. When I was finished it looked like a tornado came through and stripped every leaf off, lol… I freaked out and told myself I killed it. It was my first grow there and wasn’t sure when flowering would kick off.
As I licked my wounds and kicked myself figuratively all day every day. Well a few days later as I was waiting, hoping some leaves would grow back before they went to flower. Well It started flowering and buds came out everywhere. Much smaller but sort of like that pic Sam showed. I never had a plant flower so much.
I couldn’t tell you what I did but I just remember trimming till there was nothing tho trim, lol… I must have read it in High Times and obviously took it to the extreme.
A good example of what Iv seen this plant can do is in one of @argo945 thread his plant was destroyed by hail only to come back and produce a decent harvest from what I recall you have pics and post numbers buddy?
I remember the big hail storm he had last year or the one before. I think a plant does seem to come back with a real vigor after one of those incidents. It takes a while for them to recover but when they do they’re strong. I have a pretty bad one earlier Things are finally back to normal mostly.
Thinking about thinning and topping I took a walk to look at a big light dep high tunnel grow . Looks like a swarm of locust just went through . I guess that’s how the green house boy’s do it . The lower branches were stripped leaving just the tops . It was just done looked like a bunch of sticks with buds lol .
I have doubled the amount of water I’ve been giving the ground plants. Not because they are wilting, but I just think it will make them bigger. Luckily, it’s damn near impossible to over water the ground. I noticed a big difference when I upped the water in the regular flower beds. However, I have payed more attention to the cannabis with the hose all along, now I just upped the game. I can’t see how it could be a bad thing. Waiting for the sun to go down some, today is their aspirin foliar, keeping on the 3 week schedule. By the next time, they will probably be budding so I will switch to aspirin drenches instead. Last year I only followed this through veg. Gonna keep up the aspirin all through flower too this time. Can’t hurt.
Aspirin is salyclylic acid (however you spell it) it’s organic equivalent would be aloe or willow root. Salyclic acid strengthens their immune systems. Making them more disease and pest resistant. It works incredibly well in veggies. I’m just too cheap to buy food grade aloe powder, so it’s the one non-organic thing I use on the plants. A bottle of generic aspirin is 99 cents. lol
The new hose end sprayer is like god’s gift after a year’s worth of liquid fish drenches with the other one. No matter how much you rinse them out, that fish oil just gums everything up eventually. The aspirin foliar took me 3 minutes max just now. I love it when life is easier! Should have bought a new one like 3 months ago. I believe next week is a Cal-Mag drench.
I was just talking to Dad on the phone. The orange goji and cackleberry are gonna need a third trellis layer now. What is funny is he asked me about the earth magnet he taped to Bruce. Same with the aspirin foliars, when your plants are healthy as hell with very little bug presence and no disease it’s impossible to know if any of these things are really doing anything. I mean how do you really know? I said hey the magnet isn’t hurting the plant, don’t know if it’s helping either so what the heck, leave it on there. As a matter of fact, let’s tape them on more plants. lol I figure, why not? If the plants are happy, go for it, right?
O no, i dont do snails, when my son was little he found a snail one time with my mother next thing I know he had a pet snail they get smelly rather quickly not sure if it was him or the food I wanted no part of it if I remember correctly he had him for 6 months or so before I finally convinced them to let him go
