Quote Originally Posted by bigsby
I'm not sure of this but my understanding it that pruning in general is not desirable as it removes bud sites. This is especially true once you move into flower.

You want to get some feedback on those LEDs. Once you've identified the ones you intend to buy post the specs up here with a link so that someone more knowledgeable than I can comment.
Well pruning causes density. Now I'm not 100% on this, but this is what I've understood about pruning (again, if it's wrong, someone let me know and post the correct information):

What you're essentially doing is forcing the plant to grow nodes that will turn into two branches of leaves (which as you know, is where the budsites base at) plus the mainstem that will continue to sprout. Thus, you do this every few inches and slowly decrease the inch amount as it grows taller so it condenses slowly to the top (basically you're forcing the bud sites to be smaller, but closer together = more of them). So what you do is let the lower half of the plant fully expand, and prune for the top half of the plant to condense it to fit into a tighter area (which a 3'-3.5' squeezed to a 2.5' shouldn't be too bad, so I would have to grow the plants about 1'10"-2' and then prune for the rest of the veg cycle which will hopefully land me at about 2.5').

Also you can trim leaves leaving only a little bit of the leaf left on the branch (yeah...figure that statement out), and two more branches will branch out from the base of that leave's branch (I know this works because I've done it on the three small plants I have going now and that's exactly what happened). Basically what you're doing with this is (likewise trimming the mainstem) forcing nutrients to the site so that it forces growth.

And as far as LEDs go, thank the gods of weed for khyberkitsune.

Quote Originally Posted by khyberkitsune
Just remember that you need blue for bulk production. The typical UFOs with the poor ratio of blue light versus red (usually 10% blue vs 90% red) will woefully underperform. Find panels with at least 20% blue for both veg and flowering rooms.
I was actually thinking about that...so if I'm going for at least 20% blue, should I go with the 7red:2blue ratio one? Because I do believe they sell them in that ratio. And will two of those UFO's (90w) be able to cover 10 plants or will I need larger ones? I think I saw someone who said that they grew 5 with a UFO beautifully, so I just went off of that.
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