- Thread starter
- #2,021
I top my photos and use HST rather rather any LST practices. I do defol, trim, prune, and shape which is something I just started doing with this set of girls you are looking at now. This particular journal had auto seeds as you saw in the SAFARI that I topped and they hermied. I almost lost everyone, luckily only the autos hermied-both Gelato and my Big Jack Widow-my photos were spared. I am convinced it is genetics or the topping that did it cause I never top my autos and I did this time. Moving forward I don't see me topping anything other than my photos anymoreThank you Krissi. I'm wanting to see your Topping, Training & Defol, habits as I think I go overboard on all 3.
I have gotten much more brazen with defol, being sure the clean up the bottoms well and the center line. I always start at the bottom and look up, I trim the inside until I see that light coming down through the canopy to the lowest branches. I find it easier to manage what I defol that way. Then I go to the top and and get the strays I couldn't reach from the bottom
I think that is a common problem, growers try to do too much with their plants when they don't really need it. I hope you can get the gist of what I do between the two journals you are on now of mine.
I swear by these pots Buds. They did my veggie garden so well I decided to use them on my cannabis and it was a game changerI'm going to buy or make some of the 5 gal. self wicking pots to try one out for myself. My buddy uses them & has rapid growth.
I don't think topping or training is the only thing that affects yields because like I said, I don't train much at all..autos untrained 4.5-5+ ounces. Imho it is the life you give them leading up to and including their flowering time that increases harvest potential more than anything else.But he just lets everything grow natural without any topping or training so he gets big plants with small yields.
I'm thinking they stretch because he isn't letting them get enough light distributed and they want it so they go looking for it which puts energy into that instead of putting the effort into bud development, they stretch instead. Defol was something I was scared to do at first. I didn't want to trim a leaf but after seeing that I can basically grow plants with equal colas by shedding some light in there, I haven't looked back. @deltadubie helped me with G as she was really the first good defol I did on a photoperiod. Looking back, I would have had so much more larf and popcorn buds if I didn't take his advice.They stretch too much so no really big colas for him.
Hope that my learning experiences on here help you learn new techniques as well. I have had nothing but great harvests since October and I credit it to utilizing all the tricks I have learned here while also figuring out which ones weren't for me