Pruning and clones?

Fatjoe

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You won't stress it. I remove leaf whenever I want to. I've never had any problems. To me it encouraging growth from down below..win win There is rarely a day I don't remove a few leaves. Leaves are important so common sense removal is needed...not the Charlie Brown Xmas tree method.
 

Fatjoe

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I honestly don't think manipulating a plant causes bad stress. Be it leaf removal or bending to damage the plant always bounces back stronger.

I did this to a Critical Kush at 3wks into flower. Crushed every secondary branch outward and left the main intact. That's some heavy stress in flower. She turned out fat n sexy..lol
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olie24

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week one I did a heavy prune on half the tent for shits and giggles other half I didn’t touch till yesterday pruned all big fan leafs
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Week 3 no pruning till yesterday only big fan leafs
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FmSwayze

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week one I did a heavy prune on half the tent for shits and giggles other half I didn’t touch till yesterday pruned all big fan leafs
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Week 3 no pruning till yesterday only big fan leafs
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Looking great! I think it's practice and pheno/strain dependent. Do you keep a journal?

Question: are you glad you waited or should you have done both at the same time?
 

olie24

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Looking great! I think it's practice and pheno/strain dependent. Do you keep a journal?

Question: are you glad you waited or should you have done both at the same time?
all 6 plants are runtz punch from herbie seed bank. Plants that I pruned first week look like buds are a lot bigger but only time will tell lol. I kinda regret not pruning them at the same time. No i don’t have a journal lol.
 

FmSwayze

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all 6 plants are runtz punch from herbie seed bank. Plants that I pruned first week look like buds are a lot bigger but only time will tell lol. I kinda regret not pruning them at the same time. No i don’t have a journal lol.
Get you a notepad calendar from staples for Journaling. Same here, I staggered mine and wish I would have done them both same week. Good stuff man, they look great!
 

Fatjoe

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Nice job cleaning them up. I like how you've got them thinned out well. I really need to learn this myself. I screen plants every grow and struggle with thinning plants. My screens are usually a mass blanket of buds with mini towers poking through the blanket. Like this...IMG_20240920_181706605.jpg
Ya see how packed in there they are? Yeah, looks cool but I'm thinking they may benefit with more spacing between buds. Something to work on in the future I guess.

From below these buds are so packed in you can't even see light from below. I try to clean it out a little for airflow but it's damn near impossible at this point.
 
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