John Jacob
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High All!
The names John J, been sorta behind the scenes at RIU expanding my knowledge like many others. So I've been on and off (due to some moves) experimenting with different styles. So this time around I started reading Al B's hydro techniques and the every 2 week harvest and decided to implement some of my style with these.
The Question:
I understand that in a SOG you can clone and flower with no veg time. Most of the growth comes within the first 3-4 weeks of flowering then the little lady makes the switch to bud growth. So in the first 2-3 weeks of flower is a good time to prune the bottom 1/3 of the lady to get that nice lollipop bud on top. So when you prune I've researched and done in the past just snip off everything, branches and fan leaves. But, I also know that the fan leaves absorbs light, provides energy, etc etc. The bottom leaves are going to yellow and die off anyway as the flowering continues. So is there no benefit to pruning the bottom branches and leaving the fan leaves?? Or is it a waste of energy to have those extra leaves when that energy could be used for the remaining bud sites.
Any insight would be great!
sorry the lead up to the question is kinda lengthy but that was my thought process.
Peace
The names John J, been sorta behind the scenes at RIU expanding my knowledge like many others. So I've been on and off (due to some moves) experimenting with different styles. So this time around I started reading Al B's hydro techniques and the every 2 week harvest and decided to implement some of my style with these.
The Question:
I understand that in a SOG you can clone and flower with no veg time. Most of the growth comes within the first 3-4 weeks of flowering then the little lady makes the switch to bud growth. So in the first 2-3 weeks of flower is a good time to prune the bottom 1/3 of the lady to get that nice lollipop bud on top. So when you prune I've researched and done in the past just snip off everything, branches and fan leaves. But, I also know that the fan leaves absorbs light, provides energy, etc etc. The bottom leaves are going to yellow and die off anyway as the flowering continues. So is there no benefit to pruning the bottom branches and leaving the fan leaves?? Or is it a waste of energy to have those extra leaves when that energy could be used for the remaining bud sites.
Any insight would be great!
sorry the lead up to the question is kinda lengthy but that was my thought process.
Peace