Blue mystic - Week 6, need your advice here

Hey all, its been a while since my last grow but it seems like i learn a lot.
Some specs:
8 liter pot coco+per
250W dualspectrum light (small place)
feeding with Sensi bloom + bloombastic,
EC is about 1.5-1.6 (want to finish with 1.
she looks super healthy but yet i have some questions :

first, why she`s so bushy? do i need to cut some leaves around?
im thinking about harvest time and i want the flowers at the bottom
to get bigger, so i never done that but maybe i should only cut the
flowers at the top (the one`s that ready) and give the rest about
2 weeks more. any chance someone can explain how exactly
i should do it without hurting the rest of the buds.

thanks alot, and btw any other advice will be great.

JFK6 said:

first, why she`s so bushy? do i need to cut some leaves around?
im thinking about harvest time and i want the flowers at the bottom
to get bigger, so i never done that but maybe i should only cut the
flowers at the top (the one`s that ready) and give the rest about
2 weeks more. any chance someone can explain how exactly
i should do it without hurting the rest of the buds.

thanks alot, and btw any other advice will be great.

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It's bushy because cannabis needs leaves to promote photosynthesis and make big buds. No, you do not need to amputate parts of the plant. Yes, I can explain exactly how you should do it without hurting the rest of the buds:

Put.scissors.away.now.

Happy, healthy cannabis plants make the best buds.

so what do you say? just cut the whole plant when its ready?
without any thought about the small buds at the bottom?

thanks.

Yes. The small buds at the bottom will have their best chance at making big buds if the rest of the plant is kept as healthy and vigorous as possible. Look and listen to the plant and give it what it wants. Most basic nutrient regimens are okay but use them only until you get a grasp of how the cannabis plant grows and what it needs. Your expanding knowledge will lead you in the right direction. Have fun!

Thanks alot, ill let yu know how it worked for me

I had great results from defoliating my plant once 2 weeks Into flowering and also once at least a week before flower. My buds took off after doing this in flower. And my plant turned into the perfext bush after doing it during veg. Adds some time to veg im sure. And also light take away from budding for a few days during flower. But will make up for it after the new buds get a lot more ligt and the plants energy is directed more towards the buds. Can't over due it and only want to do it all at once during those times. This is just my opinion im sure others won't agree. I'm new and I've had good luck with doing this. Also super cropping has made these buds huge. 6 weeks flower also. Is that some cheese? Lol looks great and similar to mine

Your plant needs no trimming now tho. Not as bushy as mine is I over killed it on the lights. Enough light there for a 4x4 4 plant grow.

In our experience over many years, dozens of runs, hundreds and hundreds of units, and thousands of happy patients the best yields are realized when we do not defoliate and when we keep the plants as healthy and happy as possible. We don't subscribe to fads and internet wizardry. Can't really afford to screw up or use less than the most productive methods. Too much riding on each run. We don't grow in closets now but some of our members did back in the old days. And we do respect those who are just starting or who are growing on a smaller hobbyist scale. So if we can share a bit of hard-won knowledge and help others avoid falling into the latest "interwebz miracle technique" trap then well, it's good.

All flowers on a cannabis plant do not require direct light to grow into fat nuggets. They require a healthy, productive pant system with all it's parts working in harmony. If the "amputate parts to help the plant" theory were true then only flowers in direct light would grow big. Other flowers would barely grow at all. There would be no substantial flowers where the "light does not shine." Well, let's take a look.

The plants below were not defoliated at all, except to remove the odd leaf here and there that might have become damaged in some way. Probably count on one hand the leaves removed from a single plant over it's entire 12-14 week lifetime (a few weeks veg and a full 10 week run). As you might see the flowers on the absolutely lowest level are well-formed, dense and very usable. On this particular run we did not have a single gram of larf. Every flower was utilized. I could go back and retrieve pics from other runs but they would simply look the same.

Notice how there is very little light reaching the bottoms of these 6' tall Super Lemon Haze plants but the flowers are still there. And this is about week 7 or so with a few more weeks to go! If we had chopped her up in the interest of "getting more light to maximize the buds" we would have lost 15-20%+ of the overall yield. Imagine all these buds GONE. The result of plant amputation is less flowers, not more.