My first grow

Deaner,

That is a beutiful sight.

What I did at this point in my last grow was a do heavy pruning and remove all the large fan leaves. This allows light the get to the lower buds and promotes growth of the budlets. The plant will look kind of naked when done but will quickly rebound with new leaves in days. Then trim any leaves that grow directly over a bud only.

I will go back in my log and get a pic of what my plants looked like after pruning and post it for you.

Here are the pics of my plants at the start of week 4. As you can see I left the top 4 sets of fan leaves on all the colas except the ones over the center of the plant, I also left some of the outer fan leaves. The main reason for the pruning is to get light to the as many buds as possiable.

Then in the other pic I removed all the under growth to get good air flow and all the small branches that will amount to nothing, I do this so the plant won't waste energy on growing small buds only the main buds.

Can't get the pics to attach will post next, have to reboot:)

One other thing was when I pruned the lower branches I cloaned them and ended up with 36 very healthy plants.

ooops first is wrong pic but results of this pruning.

Hopefully this is the correct pic.

here a few pics of some leaves that I think got munched on. some of the leaves are curling at the tips like in the photo. Thanks for the advice on pruning i did a little this morning, trying to get rid of the undergrowth that is making watering hard. I've heard both sides of the pruning the leaves argument, but you obviously know yer shit so I will do some more pruning. The other pics are my new ones the big ones are a week out of the dirt, the little sprouts are only a couple days out. The question marked ones are big bud, the satori has me excited, the article in high times about mandala confirms my suspision that they carry the right seeds for my needs. Thanks JG for taking the time to help me so much.

mylar diamond sheeting>foil hands down

nice grow :thumbsup:

:edit: is that foil?

its one of those emergency blankets, mylar i think, i hate the shit, the tape comes off, the mylar tears, ive spent so much tme trying to keep that thing on the walls. I wanna upgrade to the nice stuff when cash permits. eventually will line the whole closet with some good 2 mil mylar or something better, never heard of mylar diamond sheeting, is that the thick, kinda insulated kind? 97% reflective it says at the grow shop, but its expensive! like 100 bucks to line my whole closet.

heres a comparison of my trimmed smaller plant next to my tallest, a couple bud close ups and an overall shot

its starting to look crowded in there. I assume its better to have them pushed a little into each other and the wall, then out of the sun, not touching? Am I right? Other than that they just keep growing and flowerering, looking yummy. I got some really great local stuff, wow, ive been in the wow shit for a few weeks, a little dry spell, and bam! :jointsmile::stoned:

veg room has been relocated, very nice, so much light and mylar, its like a tanning bed. Got exhaust for the flower room, 250 cfm sucking from the hood of my light. Got a couple in veg I'm eyeing for moms, hard when you don't know whats what as far as sex. My veg room is so nice, I can grow 8 all the way to harvest in there if I want but they will only be making 8 weeks or so before they hit the flower box, will get pics posted tommorow, tommorow is day one of no weed til harvest, gotta take a break so I can go back to being normal for a while, decrease my tolerance a bit. Fuck me, I hate it, but it's the way it's gotta be. Least my veggin room is really nice, they are getting lst'd and fimmed and topped and I'm just learning and experimentin on stuff, gonna be some beauties in there, just hopefully a good portion of girls.. This is my last time being stoned for a while unless i land in some cash or someone hooks a brutha up,if not then fuck em when my girls get harvested.