heheh, i wasn't gonna say anything since people seemed to assume they were only buds for a -good- reason ... but those girls were under a lot of stress, they had nutrient deficiencies and so i reset their bud growth with an intentional 3-day lights ON interuption, otherwise they would have finished but with very little actual weight. Not ideal, by any stretch, but they are finally starting to trichome out. The fan and lower leaves were lost from stress. All the other plants in that crop did well enough. I'm doing rez. changes every 2 weeks this time to avoid that problem. If you wait for the plants to "tell you" that they are hungry, some of them won't, they'll just stall in growth or flower and you'll have a hell of a time restarting them. 'Cuz when they are stressed enuf, it also triggers what i would call a 'suicide gene' - they just try to finish (die) as quickly as possible ... meaning they skip through whatever flower or trichome production they had planned or were capable of.
But i do thin the top 2/3 of the plants fan leaves at around week 5 for better light penetration and trichome production.
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