Dont cut back your leaves. Train your plant with the help of a screen or a net. The only thing this guys right about is saying that top fuels right, cause he is.
What pic did you look at? That is about as pure Indica as you can get, yeah it's a cross but with another Indica. As with LA Confidential and other pure Indica's of the same plant structure. You DO need to prune back the large heavy stem leaves and some of the others surrounding the buds at around 5-6 weeks into flower so the light gets to the buds to aid in their bulking and ripening in an EVEN manor!
Further more, That "baby" plant is at least a month old. That's 4 weeks in case you have trouble with math. At that point he should begin full strength (or close to it at least) nutes as the type of plant he's running not only can take it, It will help it's veg growth to speed up a tad. Not to mention he is NOT burning them! (He maybe is close but I sure DON'T see any sign's of it being bad enough to have to reverse it. I mean do you see any loss of color or necropsy in his leaves?) It has a CalMag def.!!
If 70F is not the mean of the plants temp range what is? The higher the temp, especially in flower slows the plants growth. Temps over 85F approach the point where the plant will almost go dormant! Also, high temps in flower promote HERMING! and slow ripening down! Cooler temps at the late stages of flower PROMOTE a timely quality finish! So attempting to hold 70F with a drop in temp at night of up to 10 Deg. IS the best "target" area for ambient temp.!
The 30% add back system is an old rule of thumb I like to give out to "newbies" to get them going in an easy way to understand and learn from....Your res. PPM's are going to rise naturally and adding back at full strength will begin to burn them with overfeeding. While adding back plain water will work. a lot of people here want to try and "push" their plant as much as they can and ask how to ALL the time. This IS a safer way to apply a "full" power feeding tactic that's easy to do, all the while keeping in place the complete "dump and replace" that should occur with all hydro applications, at least every other week. This method helps to get that done in a timely manor!
I'll bet I'm old enough to be your grandfather and I've been doing this for over 30 years. Now I'm NOT saying I'm the best, and I'll be learning more about everything in life till I die. But I try and help those who ask with advise from experience. Maybe it's not how some others may do it. But it DOES work, and promotes learning at the same time.
I don't mind if you disagree with what I suggest.
But if you want to troll someone, I suggest you find some one else to pick on. Because what you've said here shows you're level of expertise IS lacking.
