Plant Maintenance
In about one or two weeks into flower, once initial spurt is gone, I like to prune bottom leaves and branches with scissors. I cut off branches or leaves which wouldn’t reach top canopy and would stay in shadow. Basically my goal is to have bottom 15-25 cm of height just plain stems (no leaves) so you can feel fresh air flowing across the stems. This will help in final bloom phase to prevent from bud mold. You can see the process of trimming bottoms on the photo (IMG9028). Sometimes it is also last opportunity to make cuttings in case you don’t have own separate mother room. There is massive amount of side branching which you can turn into clones for other projects. These side branches wouldn’t make it into light to form reasonable flowers anyway.
See photo below for process of pruning bottom branches and leaves and making cuttings:
Resulting plants should look like this:
You can read about my cloning method here.