CatfishBillyYayYay
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400w HID Grows!!
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nvhak49
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Your plants a look pretty damn good, props
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BeastGrow
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Don't trim you leaves unless you want less yield. Even compltely shaded buds will develop fine as long as its fan leaves are getting light. If anything put more airflow on the plant.. the movement will uncovered shaded parts of the plant
East Coast
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https://www.rollitup.org/t/scientific-evidence-that-selective-defoliation-is-beneficial.825108/#post-10430671
I do think there is to much fan leaf on yours. When I grow an outdoor house plant, I trim that right back also - I have never seen adverse effects.
You have to admit also, 400w is not much light, so a trim will help light penetrate.
Notice how in my photo, I also have semi decent buds lower down.....well, read the article in the above link somewhere, apparently, this can be a bonus of trimming fan leaves - coincidence, or is there something here?
I do think there is to much fan leaf on yours. When I grow an outdoor house plant, I trim that right back also - I have never seen adverse effects.
You have to admit also, 400w is not much light, so a trim will help light penetrate.
Notice how in my photo, I also have semi decent buds lower down.....well, read the article in the above link somewhere, apparently, this can be a bonus of trimming fan leaves - coincidence, or is there something here?
BeastGrow
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I tried defoliating 2x and I feel like i robbed myself of buds both times compared to the many non defoliated plants I have had.
If you have parts of your plant that are so dark you can't even see color then you might consider defoliating.. I found defoliating really lowers overall energy absorption for smaller plants
I've tried both ways and found it to be counterproductive.
If you have parts of your plant that are so dark you can't even see color then you might consider defoliating.. I found defoliating really lowers overall energy absorption for smaller plants
CatfishBillyYayYay
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Thanks! This is our first grow to and the 400W sure seems like its doing enough for our babies.Your plants a look pretty damn good, props
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nvhak49
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Ya i might trim some of the really big leaves off of it and get rid of the the ones that r shading buds I'll do a little at a time tho and see how it goes.
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nvhak49
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Haha nice how old are those pics? What are you growing with now?
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horribleherk
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250-400w. switchable galaxy ballast r/p skywalker coco 2 gal. smart pots
srh88
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600
nvhak49
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Nice looking plants man, I'll do an update on my plant soon I just haven't been able to go over to the buddies and check it out its been a busy weekend I might try to today..
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horribleherk
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updated pics the end is near & theyre turning
nvhak49
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Your girls are looking awesome man. How many weeks are they into flowering? I'm in week 7. I went and checked on my plant t buds a filling out pretty nicely and the white hairs just started turning brown so I hope you few more weeks till I ready to harvest and I'll flush it for two weeks too b4 I harvest . I forgot to take pics but not much has changed since my Last pics. But I'll take pics when I check on it next.
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nvhak49
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Here's an up date of my plant from yesterday. I took a bunch of the larger fan leaves off to expose more of the buds I'm hoping they'll swell up from it. Some of the pistols on the tops are starting to brown and curl in and the trichs r still clear looked at them under my 60x loupe. So I'm guess 3 more weeks or so. This will be the Last week of nutes than I'll start flushing with pH'ed water. Any one else know how much longer I have till harvest?
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nvhak49
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I was wondering where you went haha. What happened to your plant you have flowering? I like the set up. You get you temp problem fixed?
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horribleherk
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may 19 will be 8 weeks im growing them in coco using 2 gal. smart pots flooding daily with gh 3-part nutes & addatives using the keep it simple schedule i plan on chopping next week