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Hello all, I am 10 days into flowering and need to do some serious trimming, just looking for opinions or i deas on where I even start. Also i seem to have nute burn should i back off the nutes slightly, or keep it going? (see pic).
Any help would be great
Wow, that's a real nice bush you got goin there!! lol... Looks like you're def going to have some issues with them getting burned on the side-lights if you don't trim them back...duh..thus the reason for this thread, right? =) I'd start just by trimming anything on the sides that is close to the lights and then just start inside the plant and work your way out, thinning it so you can see into the middle without having to push bush aside - take out the smaller sized fan leaves first and leave the bigger ones if you can (tuck them down so the buds aren't completely covered by foliage). At this point in flowering, I wouldn't be too concerned about nute burn by looks of that leaf - maybe change your nute schedule to use nutes every other watering and watch for it getting worse or better... hope that helps. Cheers!
you def should check my grow. Too bad you cant follow the discussion I just had over the last week about this very thing. I ended up pruning, you'll have to make up your own mind.
The reason they are stretching is because you turned to 12/12 that happens anyway, right? But I'm also seeing stalks like I have on mine which arent natural and that's because most of your vegetation is competing for space. Look close and you will find lanky ass stems shooting all the way from the bottom right the fuck through the middle of your plant. Then they like spread out and cause lower down branches to have to do the same. Pretty soon your left with a ton of unhealthy vegetation. I would suggest you leave the tops alone but cut some of the lower stems and vegetation out. Do it when the lights are on and watch the way your light hits the canopy on the plant. All that growth lower down not getting light, is gonna need to growth long lanky stalks to compete for light. Chop it now so that your plant doesn't waste energy preparing to grow to a size you will never let it get too. Your doing a lot of that vegetation a favor anyway. Once it's starts to not get enough light the lower stuff begins to turn yellow or white if it's newer growth without light.
Lot's of people would say leave it, but after hearing from some pretty knowledgeable people on the subject I went ahead and pruned.
The real question is why it happened. Either too many plants, not enough light or a light leak causes stretching like that. I'm looking at the inside of the plant at all those long stems.
What's the over head light? Surely those T12's aren't the only light.
Your plant looks great. Having those little burnt tips is ok... that means she has as much as she can take at the time. Alot of people use that sign to know thats enough nutes.
You seem to be doing everything right so far...
To trim or not to trim. Ive done both. The trimming of the lower branches like prodaytrader mentioned seemed to work the best for me. Try searching for the lollipop technique. Just dont take off too many of the big fan leaves from the colas... Its best to bend them out of the way so that light can penetrate better.
What is your vertical space in the grow room like? By the looks of it that plant is going to be very large since it was vegged so long. Some strains can double in size or more after you switch to 12/12. :stoned:
Well today is 2 weeks into flower and she is 36" tall I have about 2 vertical feet to spare, i did end up trimming and so happy she turned out to be female:) the 1st pic is after the the trim and the rest are from today at 14 days. I will be cuttin close with vertical space but so far so good.
Sorry! forgot to upload pics:stoned:
Shes looking good, keep it up!
Thanks for the encouragement. GTOD have u ever seen slayer live?