They are getting too big..... help

HydroJ2010

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Ha, ok then you need to chop them in half. When are your days going 12/12? Be a few months away won’t it? Or are you close to the equator?
I’m in the UK, so yea maybe I have sometime to wait! Oh lord! They say easy sativa is ‘semi auto’ so I’m hoping they get themselves started. Time to get the loppers out.
 

HydroJ2010

Active Member
It won’t be so bad if you do some LST with them. Once you break the apical dominance (pruning back the main stem and LST will do this) the plant will start equally dispersing the growth to all the nodes instead of focusing on mainly the main stem.
Ok that’s great, I will do some more reading up on LST and get chopping later on today, is there a best time of day to do this as I read somewhere that it’s better to cut in the dark (I will still be able to see lol) as something goes back to the roots and isn’t in the top of the plant? (Hope I haven’t read a load of BS)
 

TreeFarmerCharlie

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Ok that’s great, I will do some more reading up on LST and get chopping later on today, is there a best time of day to do this as I read somewhere that it’s better to cut in the dark (I will still be able to see lol) as something goes back to the roots and isn’t in the top of the plant? (Hope I haven’t read a load of BS)
I don’t know if it makes much of a difference, to be honest. I’ve always pruned my plants early in the day (shorty after the lights come on) and have never noticed any issues doing it at that time.
 

TreeFarmerCharlie

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Nice one, I will put some pics up once I have given them a good chop, it actually feels a little sad chopping them, if only my greenhouse was another 2m taller haha.
You’ll get past that feeling after a few grows. I used to get nervous pruning my plants but it’s pretty hard to screw it up while they are in veg.
 
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