Quote Originally Posted by jashbery
dear herbie - thanks for the info and pics! i've only done three grows, so i'm wondering if you can expand a bit...it looks like you pruned many, if not most, of the side branches....my dream would be -- given that i have a very small space to grow no more than 3-4 plants -- to prune off practically everything except the main cola and maybe 2-4 side branches near the top...do you do this? (it looks like you do). if you do this, at what point during flowering do you do this...you suggested around the middle of the flowering period, so I'm guessing 4 weeks in? and finally, do you cut near the base of the main stem?

looks like you prune off a whole lot of plant material. do you dry it out and make butter / oil or something out of it?
best
jash
Thanks, glad you got something out of it. The reason why I trim in about the middle of the flower period ( 4 weeks or so) if because that's when I can see where the flowers are coming out. At that point I remove the ones I know are not going to develop into feasible material. I can tell by size, location, and stem thickness whether it will materialize or not. So I cut those in favor of upper flowers.

I think that MJ yields best from 4 total colas ultimately. And you can see from the end results it works well. The pic at harvest is a plant that suffered a HUGE Mg deficiency and almost died. I revived her and lost a bit of time, but she's going to yield over a pound dry.

No, I don't actually save and reuse that material, although I guess I should bubble hash it.