Quote Originally Posted by AllforMe
Wow thats alot of plant at week 2!! They look good finn, as far as the stretch, the 40/60 phenomenon is in effect. They spend 40% of flowering time stretching, and 60% in late flower. Most 8 week strains stretch for 22-25 days. Imagine if you didn't have the scrog! If you don't trim the undergrowth it will waste hormones and energy that would otherwise have gone to the canopy. Just go down and clean off the stems, pinch off all lower bud sites, and trim all leaves that don't get light. Don't remove too much in 1 shot. Do 1/2 of what you want to remove per plant, then in 2 or 3 days do the rest. I do it all at once and never have a problem. With the amount of foliage you got there I doubt you'll be able to remove enough to stunt them. Just do it now before it gets too far into budding. it's the perfect time! There is alot of yellowing growth in there that you may want to get rid of. WHile scrog is unnatural, once you do it you change the growth pattern and there is just way too much floiage that will get no light and then thats where problems will start, you got 6 more weeks of that dying foliage just getting buried then rotting! I will say you made the absolute most out of that limited space tho! Next time start budding much earlier and you'll be ok! No matter what those will put out some nice yield with all that light on such an even canopy!
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I'm pretty sure this will stop stretching upwards after this week, at least going by my pictures from the last grow.

I have also been picking off leaves that were already about to fall off (there are some yellow leaves in the pics, but they are still attached firmly to the plant). I'm still debating whether to start chopping all of the growth under the screen. Yeah, it makes sense to me, but this is also a heavy hermie strain, and I don't want to stress it anymore than I already have. Well, the more I think about it, I will probably start picking off the bottom stuff little by little. The problem really isn't with the growth underneath the screen, but rather around the screen, where I tuck all of the fan leaves...