after they preflower, i'll get the best two femes....(i hope that there will be atleast two females)
Hey Cheetah,
You know me, I'm newb as hell, but after re-reading this I have some thoughts/questions.
In my grow, one of my plants seemed to be out growing the other in height (both turned out to be females.) But then after about a month and a half, the shorter plant actually out grew the taller in height. I thought then that people should be careful about culling plants based on how tall their plants are growing early on, because if I had done that, I may have missed out on the 3 footer I have going (while the other one is only 2 feet.)
But now that I have the plants budding, the shorter one has the same number of buds in a smaller area, meaning that more buds are getting a lot more light than the taller one as the light falls off drastically towards the bottom of the plant. So the one that grew the most at first (but then stayed short) may well be the biggest producer, but I can't tell yet. I'm going to make sure to keep the two plants buds seperate so I can tell which one out performed the other.
But this experience (along with Al B. Fuct's monster thread on getting a crop every two weeks) has convinced me that probably short plants are the way to go. You get more buds closer to the light and so far from what I can tell so far, bigger buds. Al B. Fuct intentionally keeps his plants short (0 days vegging) AND he only keeps the main cola cutting off every other branch and bud (SOG style) so that all of the buds are nice and close to the light without any fan leaves to shade lower buds, which even under the best scenarios, are kinda junky anyways. He said that with Sogging, the plants focus all of the energy on the cola (which they mostly do anyways) and you get the same amount of weed if not more because the cola bud grows bigger and denser.
I just wanted to get your thoughts on this (since you've been through a harvest.) What were your bottom buds like? What is your criteria going to be when selecting the 'best' two femmes?