Ok, I am wondering what would you do with this mess I made. I took a great nightingale photo and decided to try mainlining her. Things went great at first. well, ok. I know I messed up and topped this to many times in a super short period of time. I thought she would stretch out of it. But so far she isn’t.
Buried under there are 8 bud sites that are very close together. I don’t mind loosing this plant. As long as I learn from it. Which I had. Now, would you try and swipe a couple clones from this and start over. or try to grow it out. My fear is the buds will be growing pretty tightly together since it is growing so dense. it is now in the flower tent under a 3K QB next to another flowering plant. Light is a 265w. Not helping to get it to stretch I know.
So, and advise would be welcome as to how you would proceed if this was yours. @mattybear, @myfriendis410, @macgyver_stoner, @Bogleg, @covertgrower, @hoppiefrog, @missiles
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@xgx13xgx, I was advised to wait till the 3rd week of flower before trimming. So that is what I have went by. it was basically so the stretch would be about finished and you would know what you had to work with, and were not trimming of potential bud sites. So For my self. I have been following that. I have trimmed a little of the top earlier though. I just did some on my Brain killer because she is filling in quick.
Rule of thumb is “the earlier, the better” when it comes to defoliating into flower.
But I have still taken leaves in week 5 and 6 and then stripped almost all the fan leaves off in week 8 in preparation for harvest.
I would say your fine to defoliate whatever you need @xgx13xgx but just start making it good practice from now on to try and “shape” the plant through training and defoliation in veg to the best of your ability and minimize it in flower.
You can prune anytime in veg. The plant will create new fan leaves and bud sites. I would agree with @macgyver_stoner about opening up sites that are blocked and the plant should take off. It could just be in a little shock from getting topped a bunch in a short period of time and come out of it once recovered. Don’t trash it yet brother
I took some clones the other day but reversing from bloom to veg idk I did some trimming in the last 2 weeks of veg and they still blew up lol thx for the advise first grow is going well all things considered though
Thanks every one. I was hoping the verdict would be to keep the NG. I will keep feeding her light till she gets with the program It looks like I will be trimming a little more on the BK tonight then. I had always tried not to touch the fan leaves. Altho, When I was chopping a lot of the caramel I did. They seemed to grow back as fast as I could cut them. I may do a little under her since it is just as thick as on top.
Need some help my sour diesel isn’t taking for cloning so I’m starting from seed again last time I did they grew upside down what do I do if that happens again let it go and it will fix itself or use tweezers and flip it? Cause I think I lost my trainwreck doing that last time
If you used a rapid rooter with a cut down the side. You could open it up to see how it is doing. And it would be easy to remove her and point it in the right direction if need be. Odds are it will do just fine this time.