Closet Doms in Water.... An Ad Hoc Log of Black Dominas in DWC Hydro

[Opie Yutts]

I have a shitload of fan leaves covering bud sites

For me, when their about this far along, I've noticed that you just need to tuck nearly all the fan leaves, because for each one you push down you find a shoot or two.

[MVP]

For me, when their about this far along, I've noticed that you just need to tuck nearly all the fan leaves, because for each one you push down you find a shoot or two.

What is your advice on removing fans leaves at this point? I have tucked all that are able to tuck under the screen, but there are a few (large) ones that are still shading cuz they won't stay pushed below the canopy...

[Opie Yutts]

Just cut em off. I hate to do that, especially on the nice big healthy ones. You just know they're bringing in lots of nice sugars and stuff to make the plant strong. I think it's more important though, that shoots you care about get direct light. In this last grow I got to the point where I just did not have anywhere to physically put the fan leaves, so I had no choice but to cut them off or let them shade buds. The latter aint happening.

Cutting or pinching them off is a very last resort for me, but it must be done sometimes. First I will try bending them out of the way instead of tucking them underneath. If you pinch them gently, or roll the stem between your fingers while pressing gently (causing slight damage), sometimes you can get them to bend out of the way somewhere and keep growing that direction for the most part.

Also sometimes you can cut the leaves in half or third to solve the problem.

[SnSstealth]

MVP...nice scrog, im interested in trying that this crop, opie i hate cutting em too man, i try cutting smaller leaves in 3rds to save fan leaves, but you gotta do.......good lucj with the ladies MVP

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[Weedhound]

Like your new avatar Opie.

MVP...theyre going mad in there. I'd worry about going in one day and not coming back out......

[MVP]

Last night was Day 20 of 12/12, and I did a lot of tucking fan leaves and repositioning of bud sites to get them as much direct light as possible. Over the last 2 days they drank down a couple of gallons of water, causing the PPM to rise about 100 points. I topped off the nutes with RO water and a light nute solution of Bloom, CalMag, and EJ MicroBlast to bring PPM to approx 1200 and PH to 6.1.

Here are a couple of before and after shots to check out:

BEFORE
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AFTER
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I also arrived at the conclusion that it was about time to cut back on tucking and repositioning fan leaves and bud sites, I dropped a quick message to a friend that is more experienced, and he confirmed my gut feel on this decision. Hell, I've never SCROGGED before so if anyone else has different opinions I would like to hear them.

At any rate, here is the best pic I could get late last night showing how the buds are starting to develop. Color is a little off since I had to have the CFL's on to get the closeup. They are greener but that damn upper screen makes it hard to get any kind of picture...

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[Weedhound]

What made you decide that in the first place....to stop doing it as you said?

[MVP]

What made you decide that in the first place....to stop doing it as you said?

My gut feeling was that after approx 3 weeks they would be ready to flower on their own. The MK clones that I am flowering are about 2 weeks ahead of the Dominas and I noticed that their vertical growth slowed at the 2-3 week mark. I used that as a barometer for the Dominas.

What I will be doing is letting the colas grow and fatten up, and selectively tucking or removing fan leaves when they are shading bud sites. Up until this point I was tucking the entire canopy 2-3x per week. Now I will just tuck or remove the most problematic fan leaves - dealing with them on a case by case basis rather than the whole canopy on a scheduled basis...

[Weedhound]

So do you think he scrogging has slowed down your flowering period at all?

[Opie Yutts]

My gut feeling was that after approx 3 weeks they would be ready to flower on their own. The MK clones that I am flowering are about 2 weeks ahead of the Dominas and I noticed that their vertical growth slowed at the 2-3 week mark. I used that as a barometer for the Dominas.

What I will be doing is letting the colas grow and fatten up, and selectively tucking or removing fan leaves when they are shading bud sites. Up until this point I was tucking the entire canopy 2-3x per week. Now I will just tuck or remove the most problematic fan leaves - dealing with them on a case by case basis rather than the whole canopy on a scheduled basis...

MVP, that sounds about right in my book. After 2 or 3 weeks into flowering it's usually time to leave them be, and only move or remove the offending leaves as they shade buds. At that point the goal should have been to fill in the entire screen, but if it's not filled in, you gotta just leave them alone mostly.