Bickey's making some crosses. and hoping to find the purple

[jakester]

I would only take leaves out if they are too squashed to be doing any good. If they're free and clear, let em breathe.

[bickeybammer]

Nice, it's all coming along nicely. :greenthumb:

That JH looks interesting. What do you clip? The main-stem fans?, or just random fans to open her up?

Hoping to see some nice purple coming in!

Lookin' good.

thanks evil! :hippy:
i take the main stem fans off after about 10 days of flowering to open more light to the bottom to eliminate undeveloped buds... i usually do it to all my plants.

and i am hoping to get some good purps with these low temps i have ... 68-75 with lights on and 58-65 with lights off :hippy:

nice couple bushes you got going there ..

i would really like to know why you are gonna trim some of the fans off..
from everything i have been able to gather they are one of the more important kinds of leaves on your gurl.. i am just wondering cause i got a few that bug me and i have been thinking about taking em off but dont wanna hurt the gurl.. ya know?
thanks
-MG

yeah i have read both views and ... some peeps do it some dont... i tend to trim them off so i can get more light to the buds

I dunno, I'd just as soon crop the bottom leaves and branches together. One, two, or three pairs. Let the top branches florish and the top fans catch the best light.

Gonna be awesome anyway.

Shov

i knew shov would show up! :hippy:.. how did you like your super silver haze shov? its one of my fav smokes so i was stoked to get some clones!! :stoned:


i will take off all the stuff at the bottom that doesnt look like it gunna develop ... not exactly like lollipopping but similar imp:

sorry bout the jack bickey
and thanks for the info shov. i was gonna chop some of the bottom fans that are blacking the bottom buds that are kinda wwell developed but not getting much light..
i will take pics at 6 and if you are on then check out my log and see which one i was talking bout..
again sorry bickey
-MG

no worries...:rastasmoke: this is a place to learn... no harm done llol :jointsmile:

I would only take leaves out if they are too squashed to be doing any good. If they're free and clear, let em breathe.

yo jake whats happening !!

i tend to tuck them as much as possible to allow the top of the shoots to get direct light... i only take off the BIG fans that come off the main stem and tuck and tie the others out of the way... i think that the plant waste energy on the big fan in flower so i get rid of them ... never to i take anything off during veg unless im topping or cloning

:stoned:

[bickeybammer]

i will take some detailed pics of what i take off whens its time soo people can know what exactly im talking about

[sarah louise]

50/50? ...most likely the skunk pheno... would make sense coming from a club, it's the highest yielding.

The only fans I remove are those that touch the medium. If you want to eliminate small pop corn buds remove the lowest growing tips but leave the associated fan leaves attached. The leaves on the meristem are the largest on the plant and contribute the most to the plants total energy production. They don't waste energy, they produce much more than they use.

Remember... the leaves catch the light that generates the sugars, that powers the flowering, that produces the buds, that you want to smoke. So hang on too as many leaves as possible.

[bickeybammer]

50/50? ...most likely the skunk pheno... would make sense coming from a club, it's the highest yielding.

The only fans I remove are those that touch the medium. If you want to eliminate small pop corn buds remove the lowest growing tips but leave the associated fan leaves attached. The leaves on the meristem are the largest on the plant and contribute the most to the plants total energy production. They don't waste energy, they produce much more than they use.

Remember... the leaves catch the light that generates the sugars, that powers the flowering, that produces the buds, that you want to smoke. So hang on too as many leaves as possible.

there are soooo many theories on taking leafs off or tucking them or letting them go its hard to say whats better for them... i have been experimenting with this throughout all my grows and compared plants.. yeilds and potency .. ive always gotten more yield with out lose of potency

here a good post ive read a couple times and it kinda explains everything

Trimming fan leaves a consensus part 1 - Marijuana Growing

[bickeybammer]

heres good example .. these are my purples erkles i grew about a year ago and did 12/12 straight from seed.. one of them i took off all the main fans.. the plant was taller.. yielded more.. also it had alot more side shoots they produced nice sized buds.. where the other grew one main cola... but she took about 2 weeks longer to finish... of course this could all depend on strain..

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the one on the furthest left is the ones i took the fans off of..
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[mainegrown]

damn that seems to be good proof.. i think that i will have to try when i get cloning.. seems to be the only good way to tell to me..
but it would only seem like a good idea if you have the head room.
if you could answer one question bickey.. how much more weight did you get and how big was your main cola??
-MG

[bickeybammer]

the ones i didnt trim were all around 28 grams + or - 1 or 2 and pretty much was all in the main cola.. where the one i trimmed was about 42 grams but the main cola was only like 4 or 5 grams... were the other the biggest main cola was around 20 grams...


how bout this i will take my biggest jack herer and my biggest super silver haze and not touch them at all.. besides continue to lst and tuck leaves and all the other i will do my normal thing .. and in the end i will see which ones yield more and if theres a difference in potency

ill do the same with the mendocino purps cross


:hippy::hippy::hippy:

[bickeybammer]

everything is going a little better then expected..:jointsmile: .. i am pretty much out of room already and it is getting hard to work in there.. took me a little over an hour to water everything then clean up then work on the girl .. :wtf:

anyways hoping to only get 2 or 3 females from the grape apes mendocino purps



light just turning on for my babies
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the grape apes mendocino purps.. looking to good
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my ssh that i will not trim any fans from
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lights at full blast... the back middle one is the jack im not touching
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jack herer i forgot which one this is ... maybe the one im not touching i dunno
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[bickeybammer]

finally got my filter up


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