1st grow explains a lot to me about your anxiousness and anxiety.
So the really yellow ones on the bottom of #1 are probably ready or almost ready to come of gently by hand. When they start to droop they are definitely ready to come off. When they come of gently by hand do so.
So until we go into Boom anything is recoverable and your plants are not that bad off. However there is a lot to learn and it is futile to try and learn everything at once. So we might go into bloom early just to get you through your first grow...but not yet.
So as for training...the best way to train a plant is to push it over from one side...not tie it in a loop. It you look at my pot there you see that I have cut the string long enough to go all the way up and back then I duct tape it to the outside of the pot. In this way I am pulling on it from one side and the other is exposed so it doesn't strangle the branch.
The second thing I like to do is have vertical lines not angled ones. Those have some angle but for the most part the branches are long enough to be pulled over and the line is vertical to the edge of the pot. When the branches get that long you can do that.
The one you topped we would only look at the bottom branches which are probably not long enough yet.
the #2 also looks a bit tall for the girth and I probably would have topped it but you can train it too and it will be fine. That one you can take and make a good line going straight down to the pot. Make sure the line is sitting between nodes not damaging a node or branch and just go slow and you will be fine.don't use the line to bend the branch. use your hand over a borad area and wehn in posiion loop the line and hold it in position while you tape it.
If it is brittle and breaks it will be fine anyways and it will heal but that would happen only if you waited too long to do it and it was dry which it is not.
training wont hurt anything so if you want to go gang busters go for it just go easy and slow and be gentile and make the lines vertical if possible. Basically you want the line to not loose position as the branch keeps growing and vertical lines are the best for that.
We will do some training and then let them come back a bit and then start bloom if everything stays healthy.
About 2 weeks later that one above looked like this (but it is an auto fem)
And a few days ago it is the one on the left
So the really yellow ones on the bottom of #1 are probably ready or almost ready to come of gently by hand. When they start to droop they are definitely ready to come off. When they come of gently by hand do so.
So until we go into Boom anything is recoverable and your plants are not that bad off. However there is a lot to learn and it is futile to try and learn everything at once. So we might go into bloom early just to get you through your first grow...but not yet.
So as for training...the best way to train a plant is to push it over from one side...not tie it in a loop. It you look at my pot there you see that I have cut the string long enough to go all the way up and back then I duct tape it to the outside of the pot. In this way I am pulling on it from one side and the other is exposed so it doesn't strangle the branch.
The second thing I like to do is have vertical lines not angled ones. Those have some angle but for the most part the branches are long enough to be pulled over and the line is vertical to the edge of the pot. When the branches get that long you can do that.
The one you topped we would only look at the bottom branches which are probably not long enough yet.
the #2 also looks a bit tall for the girth and I probably would have topped it but you can train it too and it will be fine. That one you can take and make a good line going straight down to the pot. Make sure the line is sitting between nodes not damaging a node or branch and just go slow and you will be fine.don't use the line to bend the branch. use your hand over a borad area and wehn in posiion loop the line and hold it in position while you tape it.
If it is brittle and breaks it will be fine anyways and it will heal but that would happen only if you waited too long to do it and it was dry which it is not.
training wont hurt anything so if you want to go gang busters go for it just go easy and slow and be gentile and make the lines vertical if possible. Basically you want the line to not loose position as the branch keeps growing and vertical lines are the best for that.
We will do some training and then let them come back a bit and then start bloom if everything stays healthy.
About 2 weeks later that one above looked like this (but it is an auto fem)
And a few days ago it is the one on the left
