do u prune it?

can any one tell me what effect pruning some leafs would have on this plant. it says in the jorge corventes bible your not meant to do it but i have seen the best plants look like theyve been pruned.
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i have found that it is not really necessary to prune very much. a less stressful way to get air and space to the plant is by tying branches down and out with some string. this will spread out the folliage.

If you are going to trim, do it sparingly and all at once, dont trim a little today, a little tomorrow, a little the next day. only take fan leaves from the bottom that are not getting uch light and are constricting air flow below the plant. also, it helps to ater the plant with superthrive when you are stressing the plant.

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i have found that it is not really necessary to prune very much. a less stressful way to get air and space to the plant is by tying branches down and out with some string. this will spread out the folliage.

If you are going to trim, do it sparingly and all at once, dont trim a little today, a little tomorrow, a little the next day. only take fan leaves from the bottom that are not getting uch light and are constricting air flow below the plant. also, it helps to ater the plant with superthrive when you are stressing the plant.

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I would say the opposite of what your saying.
Do not take all the leaves at once as this can shock the plant,trim a lil bit there a lil bit here over a period of weeks,never all at once.

I always trim my plants in this way and have done for years,they never seem to mind in fact i just end up with fairly leafless lumps of bud which is exactly what i want.

Your plant looks like it has to much leaf and has been heavily topped but if your not going to bother with getting a lot more light on the plant then i don't know if it would be beneficial to you to take leafs away as this wont help the plant unless you provide some kind of hid light source.
This is my own example of what to expect from a trimmed plant that is under a hid light source


And as you can see here it was once very leafy and over a period of many weeks i have removed leaves that shaded areas that i didnt want them to.
Go easy on the plant and remove only 4-5 a day.
This plant has had leaves removed from it since it was about 3 weeks old.

im just about done with my first complete seed to bud grow and, i trimmed alot, maybe more then i should have. but then again, it doesnt seem to affect my bud at all, if anything the light penetrates and helps the buds grow, i heard somewhere that the fan leaves shade is where somthing happens or somthing....yea brains not availabe for use right now, toooo stoned, good luck tho with watever you do!!

nat, i think we are talking about the same thing. his plant is still in veg so most of the leaves are still needed (or are not going to effect yield in a negative way). i was trying to explain to just take a few leaves from the bottom at the time for all the reasons i stated above.

again, take the leaves one day, let it adjudt a few days, then take more another time if you still need to.

They are looking pretty healthy. Nice job!
My preference is to prune, top and tie down but i usually start much earlier in the grow.

Well if you can end with 4 giant ass colas like that, Id say keep doin what you do.....Id much rather have those than the smaller BS buds, obviously.
I always worry my plants will die when I cut them, maybe Im paranoid. Always seems to be OK though.

Yeah it looks topped. Prune a few a everyday so more light can get in there. You don't really need a flat canopy at the top of the plant, just enough to cover the stems up and absorb some light. The bottom of the tree needs light too. Early on vegging, I used low stress test and actually tied the plant down to the side of the flower pot and tied it down and around the brim. You can flower with it down like that and have buds grow upwards, or you can let it go like I did and in return I got basically a bent plant which was same heighth but smaller because of bends, sturdier branches from being stressed it forced the plant to heal itself and grow thicker stems to hold big buds later on. But pruning is definitely needed often but not too much to shock it.

ye u defienately want to prune, nut not all at once.. you wil shok your plant... i prune and end up with instead of the upside pyramid look to the plant i geth the old fashioned christmas tree look. it looks liek shyt u'd put in commercial o summn..

hahaha, my girlfried wants me to grow her a plant in the shape of a christmas tree so she can decorate it and shit...... too late this year, but i think next holiday season that would be a fun undertaking.....she was asking if i'd let her put lights and stuff on it and i said yes, then she asked if she could have a star on top...i told her the star is already on top...that cola of chronic! what better star could there be.

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........i told her the star is already on top...that cola of chronic! what better star could there be.

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thats funny...that would be really cool.....now there's a thought....have everyone over for Christmas dinner...and dessert is on the tree!

tahoe58 said:

thats funny...that would be really cool.....now there's a thought....have everyone over for Christmas dinner...and dessert is on the tree!

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That's what im saying.....get everyone in the christmas spirit...

lol.. there can't be a betta strat then that... has multiple purposes other then watching for a couple days n putting it away for 360 more days..