So I'm in week 2 of flower (day 11), and things are generally looking good! Out of 9 plants, I had only 3 females:/ but my largest plant by far is a female so I'm expecting great things from her. She's a gorilla cookies, and is now about 40 inches tall. My concern is that I haven't lollypopped enough and if I need to cut some more off at the bottom. She's got a pretty large canopy, but I've got 3 450w LEDs on her (and 2 other smaller plants.) The bottom leaves look a tad droopy, but the color is great and they look healthy. Should I cut some more of her bottom leaves off?
Canopy too thick, more lollypopping?
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Emilya Green
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once you are in flower it is time to stop chopping on your plant... they can deal with this stuff in veg, but trying to do that in flower is going to make her react in ways you will not like.
vyserage
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Although i do agree with Emilya, i actually had no choice but to chop leaves last night from my plants. There is very little stunt when in hydro, maybe a day of recovery or stalling but in soil its i think like 3 days recovery. You can do it if you absolutely have to but its usually avoided as much as possible. This is why people do a heavy defoliation before flipping and again after day 21 in flowering (because thats when generally the stretching is done and its safer to chop some leaves off). Do keep in mind no more new leaves are growing so everything you chop is gone for good.
If you are going to chop, i recommend from top down, not from bottom up. You want the light to reach down into the plant where light is being blocked from the top upper leaves (leave the first couple sets of fan leafs at the very top though). Your plant looks to be mostly okay and not too bad at all, you can safely wait until day 21
This was my problem last night lol, i defoliated and am on day 10 in flowering. Probably took a good 40 leaves or more per plant.
If you are going to chop, i recommend from top down, not from bottom up. You want the light to reach down into the plant where light is being blocked from the top upper leaves (leave the first couple sets of fan leafs at the very top though). Your plant looks to be mostly okay and not too bad at all, you can safely wait until day 21
This was my problem last night lol, i defoliated and am on day 10 in flowering. Probably took a good 40 leaves or more per plant.
Emilya Green
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what a jungle!
vyserage
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i know -.- im not entirely sure what to expect because they are so compact and i cant pull it open anymore lol. After day 21 i think ill just go through and start chopping off lowest tiny limbs and just have the plant focus on upper/mid buds sites.
Emilya Green
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me thinks you wont veg quite so long next time
vyserage
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lol ya i figured that out real quick after the fact
Emilya Green
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These are going to be some thirsty girls in flower... bet they take a gallon a day each
vyserage
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last 3 nights has been 2g refill, 2 1/2, 2 1/2 lol. Should be going up from there soon.
Emilya Green
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very good! its going to be fun seeing what you can get them to take... you are going to get some yield!
vyserage
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heres to hoping! haha. I'll be glad if i can reproduce the 2 pounds like i got from last hydro grow.
Emilya Green
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how many bud sites did you end up with?
vyserage
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oh god i would get lost counting
I topped each plant for 8 main cola's and a good amount of lower branches just shot up to canopy while i was still learning my lights distance haha.
pontiacman
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I feel ya. I'm watering every other day a gallon or more.....lol. 10 plants
