Tightly packed plants 9 days in flowering. Solution?

Helmut79

Helmut79

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If it's 9 days in flowering and I have a little problem with plants taking too much room, would it be a good idea to trim off all fan leaves? They are very bushy.

Isn't it yet too late for lollipopping and trimming? I feel it really needs to get done.
 
CriticalCheeze

CriticalCheeze

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Helmut79 said:
If it's 9 days in flowering and I have a little problem with plants taking too much room, would it be a good idea to trim off all fan leaves? They are very bushy.

Isn't it yet too late for lollipopping and trimming? I feel it really needs to get done.
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Anyway you can put a SCROG in?
 
CriticalCheeze

CriticalCheeze

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Yeah you don't want to cut too many leaves off right now, only a couple weeks before harvest you can take some off, or in veg. Too late to supercrop so i would LST or scrog it. If the very bottom branches are really small and underneath all the other foliage and not doing much. I take the whole branch in that case. But i would do it now if you do. Anytime in flower should be avoided but if you really have to for the room you can.
 
Helmut79

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Helmut79

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I'm not sure how to do SCROG. I'd better use lots of garden tape and hold them down at even height. That's what I've been doing anyway.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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CriticalCheeze said:
Yeah you don't want to cut too many leaves off right now, only a couple weeks before harvest you can take some off, or in veg. Too late to supercrop so i would LST or scrog it. If the very bottom branches are really small and underneath all the other foliage and not doing much. I take the whole branch in that case. But i would do it now if you do. Anytime in flower should be avoided but if you really have to for the room you can.
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STRAIGHT BULLSHIT.

I regularly train, trim and clean up my plants through day 21 of bloom, even later for long finishing sativas.

Remove larf now and terminal buds will get much bigger.

@Helmut79 you have four options;
1. Do nothing and settle for stringy crap
2. Trim up and get decent nugs
3. Cull some to give the rest room
4. Create more blooming space to spread them out.

Options 2,3 and 4 can be done together.

Good luck!
 
CriticalCheeze

CriticalCheeze

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ttystikk said:
STRAIGHT BULLSHIT.

I regularly train, trim and clean up my plants through day 21 of bloom, even later for long finishing sativas.

Remove larf now and terminal buds will get much bigger.

@Helmut79 you have four options;
1. Do nothing and settle for stringy crap
2. Trim up and get decent nugs
3. Cull some to give the rest room
4. Create more blooming space to spread them out.

Options 2,3 and 4 can be done together.

Good luck!
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That is your opinion. Didn't know there was only 1 way to grow. lmao do nothing and get stringy crap? you dont even know how his plants look or what he is using for lights etc.. People like you make me laugh. Myself and many growers i know have left plants un trained and never got "stringy crap" hahahaha. Go "flush" your plants.
 
Bbcchance

Bbcchance

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Ttystikk is right you still have time to trim and bend, i trim branches in early flower, even with a lollipop tons of little suckers pop up during stretch and dont need to be there so i chop em off. You could also harvest in sections, take the finished upper side and leave the lower section to ripen further, hows that for late pruning?
 
CriticalCheeze

CriticalCheeze

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Bbcchance said:
Ttystikk is right you still have time to trim and bend, i trim branches in early flower, even with a lollipop tons of little suckers pop up during stretch and dont need to be there so i chop em off. You could also harvest in sections, take the finished upper side and leave the lower section to ripen further, hows that for late pruning?
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That is staggering a harvest. Not pruning.
 
CriticalCheeze

CriticalCheeze

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Trimming larf and hidden foliage is 1 thing. Pruning all the time throughout flower is another. This topic is on the same page as "flushing" It is a 2 sided opinion and each side calls the other wrong. So in the end.. do as you please..
 
Cyrus420

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Don't trim and just do your best to LST them to expose light to your Fan Leaves. You don't need to expose your buds to light FAN LEAFS ABSORB ENERGY NOT BUDS.

So don't trim, LST as best you can, otherwise let em grow.
 
upinthesticks

upinthesticks

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ttystikk said:
STRAIGHT BULLSHIT.

I regularly train, trim and clean up my plants through day 21 of bloom, even later for long finishing sativas.
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I dont mean to split hairs here, but know some look at it different, and Im in this time frame - you figure 21 days from flip or onset of flower? I contemplated hard last night whether I was too late to trim up the bottom larfy shit. Im 12 days since buds formed. Thanks!
 
CriticalCheeze

CriticalCheeze

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Cyrus420 said:
Don't trim and just do your best to LST them to expose light to your Fan Leaves. You don't need to expose your buds to light FAN LEAFS ABSORB ENERGY NOT BUDS.

So don't trim, LST as best you can, otherwise let em grow.
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Exactly why i advise people who ask not to trim leaves....
 
Bbcchance

Bbcchance

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A little clarification, im NOT saying trim the lower leaves, what i personally do is trim small sucker branches that pop up during and after the stretch phase of flower, if i trim any leaves i only trim off the upper leaves that are larger to allow light to penetrate deeper into the plant to utilise the lower leaves allowing light to reach those, eliminating one solar panel to use another
 
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