Is there any thing I can do to save them?
- Thread starter Lil Ducka
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Seamaiden
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You guys who are talking about stressing plants by some trimming... can you back up your claims of stress? It's not like it's trying to mend a broken bone, plants get nibbled on in nature all the time. They've evolved to heal up the wound and push growth where they can. What he doesn't want to do is cut into harvest, but at this point don't you think it's better if he gets what remains of the root system to support a slightly less dense mass of foliage (or get some of that trimmed stuff to take as clones, just in case he can't get the plants themselves going)? I'm not talking about completely defoliating, just some judicious trimming, which also keeps entry sites for disease to a minimum as well as providing options should the first method not work out so well. 
That's how I see it, anyway, compared to any other plant I've grown.
That's how I see it, anyway, compared to any other plant I've grown.
Picasso345
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Seamaiden, I agree with everything you wrote, my worried was that the OP doesn't have the knowledge to tell between an irreparably damaged leaf and a leaf that will be fine in a day. You know how plants can spring back - sometimes surprisingly so! Why not wait a day or two is what I was thinking and he'll most definitely see what needs to go then - no guessing needed.You guys who are talking about stressing plants by some trimming... can you back up your claims of stress? It's not like it's trying to mend a broken bone, plants get nibbled on in nature all the time. They've evolved to heal up the wound and push growth where they can. What he doesn't want to do is cut into harvest, but at this point don't you think it's better if he gets what remains of the root system to support a slightly less dense mass of foliage (or get some of that trimmed stuff to take as clones, just in case he can't get the plants themselves going)? I'm not talking about completely defoliating, just some judicious trimming, which also keeps entry sites for disease to a minimum as well as providing options should the first method not work out so well.
That's how I see it, anyway, compared to any other plant I've grown.
Sometimes the words rookie and "judicious trimming" don't go together so well, lol.
Seamaiden
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I've gotcha, Picasso, I see what you're saying. My post was more directed at the people who seem to really believe that any trimming is too stressful for Mary to tolerate. But, when I think upon it, that doesn't quite make sense. And, when I think upon it in relation to the other plants I've grown, it makes even less sense. No extreme is good, that's for sure.
I'm curious as to whether or not those plants came back. I lost a HELL of a lot of plants this summer to heat, and it happens really fast.
I'm curious as to whether or not those plants came back. I lost a HELL of a lot of plants this summer to heat, and it happens really fast.
Lil Ducka
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Bad news, they're lookin worse 
. they're gettin pale and most of the leafs are completely dry and shriveled. any tips? Its been close to 2 days now. Any chance they could bounce back? If they are dead or about to be dead is there anything I can do with them? trash?, clone?, Hash(I dont think they were old enough to have much THC though)?
. they're gettin pale and most of the leafs are completely dry and shriveled. any tips? Its been close to 2 days now. Any chance they could bounce back? If they are dead or about to be dead is there anything I can do with them? trash?, clone?, Hash(I dont think they were old enough to have much THC though)?