Pruning a Big plant small in order to Finish?

[dimondmyne]

I have a Big plant outside that has been flowering for 12+ weeks, the smaller buds on the plant are almost done but the large cola's still have a month. I've been cutting off the smaller buds so the large one's will finish faster.

So is it true that cutting cutting my plant smaller will cause it to finish faster? It makes since to me, less fruit to finish means it should finish faster right?

dimondmyne Reviewed by dimondmyne on 11-20-2009. Pruning a Big plant small in order to Finish? I have a Big plant outside that has been flowering for 12+ weeks, the smaller buds on the plant are almost done but the large cola's still have a month. I've been cutting off the smaller buds so the large one's will finish faster. So is it true that cutting cutting my plant smaller will cause it to finish faster? It makes since to me, less fruit to finish means it should finish faster right? Rating: 5

[Blaze21]

I don't know if cutting the small buds off will make it finish sooner, but it will cause the plant to direct more energy into those top colas, resulting in an increase in size and weight. If you stress out the plant real bad, then yeah, it will finish sooner, but this is probably not something you want to do.

[cannamanibus]

Besides, I just would'nt leave any open hole's where you shop your buds off at, It could lead to a quick disease of somesort. They have some stuff you put on the end of cut branches to seal them from getting disease, i would do that. I dont think it will finish any faster, Maybe a little bigger b/c of the redirected energy, depending on how much you chop, like Blaze21 says might actually be worse from shock.

[dimondmyne]

I think it does help because I use the same technique growing tomatoes. Everyone knows that if you keep a tomato plant to a single vine it will produce less tomatoes but they will ripen a week or two early. I don't know if it's true about canna though.