Is it too late to lollipop 2 weeks into flowering?

Hey all! I’ve started my first grow and am ambivalent on whether or not it’s a good thing to lollipop my plants at this stage (about two weeks into flower). I’ve read that it’s bad and I’ve read that it’s ok. Anyone care to weigh in?

It's better to do it before you flip, but should be fine as long as you don't over do it. If they're healthy they can tolerate a lot. However, it may take a little longer for them to finish flowering if they get stressed out. It would be better if we could see pics of the plant your talking about.

PadawanWarrior said:

It's better to do it before you flip, but should be fine as long as you don't over do it. If they're healthy they can tolerate a lot. However, it may take a little longer for them to finish flowering if they get stressed out. It would be better if we could see pics of the plant your talking about.

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Fair enough! My lights are due to come back on soon and I’ll snap a photo!

Here they are....12 Critical Kush under 1000 watt hps

Personally after flip I would leave them as long as you are getting good air flow. But there are many ways to skin a cat

Clean them up.. Wasting energy makin popcorn, then keep them clean as they regenerate.

looks good man. but i'm also a little confused on one issue, how much undergrowth do you remove when lollipopping plants? any general rule to follow like measurements in the height of undergrowth to remove based on pot sizes or does the 3 lowest node removal still applies?

I would go ahead and prune. Those low branches can cause a lot of problems.

Ya I would prune too, if they take a little longer to finish flowering atleast you'll have way less airy buds to deal with later.

Snip snip all the water leaves they will come back

What is a water leaf?don't listen to people that tell you to strip your plants,little buds go in the hash bin.

NO

Go ahead and lollypop. Next time, don't lollygag.


To others asking. Lollypopping and what to remove?

As a rule of thumb - for me - I take everything in a "cone" shape from the bottom up to about the last 4 or so top branch's. This includes taking the bottom branch's that do not come out and have clean light exposure to their mains. Lower branch's that do remain are trimmed up to the last 3 or 4 sub branch's on those. Basically the "mains" of that branch only.

If your not staking the mains out, exposing more interior. Remove branch's that are growing back to the inside of the plant structure. Even with staking/Training to open up the interior. I take most of those growing back in, out.

It can be done that you have a plant with heavy topping and a lot of "mains". These can be cropped up to the last cpl of branch's at the to[ and you simply grow out some massive buds.

About the same can be done for SCROG but, your doing a much shorter plant with much more training.

Yeah, everything under the screen, and keep good air flow under as well

RoDDin said:

looks good man. but i'm also a little confused on one issue, how much undergrowth do you remove when lollipopping plants? any general rule to follow like measurements in the height of undergrowth to remove based on pot sizes or does the 3 lowest node removal still applies?

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I grow my plants to about 2ft before I flip and any branch I don’t remove completely is stripped at least 6-12 niches from the main stem.