when to crop

allateup

Member
Hey y'all my plants finaly stop droping leaves, Yea. But now that she has gotten so tall and lost a lot of her starter sets of leaves, should I crop her? I have been using the banzai method recently to fix the leaves falling off, cuz she wasn't getting enuff light to the bottom cus of the canopy of leaves. So now that problem is fixed. Id like to see her bush out like she once was. but what is the proper size, and method to crop? Should I also cut clones now too? Or will that cause to much stress? Ill upload new pics after lights out in 3 hours. Tell me what u think.
 

riddleme

Well-Known Member
leaves do not fall off because they are not getting light

and I have no idea what you mean by crop???
 

allateup

Member
Ok firstoff don't type on ur tablet when ur gf is high and ur zong is right next to u... ok well I had this whole thing typed out but it got lost so let's do this again lols. I have made many a mistake, like having my plant falloff the roof, under watering for weeks, using small lights, no nutes, to wrong nutes. But as for right now id like advice on topping, or cropping. And some cloning advice. Its light cycle ended 30mins ago ill go upload a pick or too.
 

allateup

Member
ok there are some of her just now her leaves dont always stay curled up like that i have the light rather close on the top and when the light is on she gets all up on it. the yellowing in the tips has been a problem aswell as some of my leaves had been falling off but i went out and got some nutes. there not good nore will i be using them for the rest of the grow but i dont have a plant store in my area so i have to order shit. but as for now i am running with :
2 - 6500k cfls on a 18/6 cycle
using sphagnum/soil mixture
using organic vegtable fert.

so any advice is always welcome this is afer all still my first grow and if you read the story and look at all the pics from what happened in the begining and look at her now i think i am doing good lols.
 

allateup

Member
Well I repoted her today and feed her aswell. the shitty organic merical grow fert I got, she took 6 cups of fert and a cup of reg water. The new pot I put her in is actually a small bucket I drilled holes in. She also took 90% of a 8lb bag of peatmoss to fill the bucket. She is packed down tight, and straight in the pot. so hopefuly she will start to improve now that she has more room, and more foods. Ill post some more pics tomarrow after the lights go out.

But if anyone has anymore tips on cloning or topping let me know and when a good time to do both is.
 

DoinIt2Gether

Active Member
Hey, just got ur pm, so here I am. Umm, it is way to late for you to top them, but you could lst them still. Just drill some holes around the top of the pot and tie your side branches down with twine. This way more light penetrates the whole plant. I am plannin on doin it to my WW mother in the next couple of days.
 

allateup

Member
Yeah I had been doing that, I think I refer to it as the bonzai method lols. I had a good portion of the lower branches tied down for just over a week or so. But since I just changed pots I didn't redo the string. So u think that would ferther help her out to tie her back down? D thanks for the quick response. Ill toss ups some new pics here in about a hour when the lights are off.
 
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