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I am going to Chop this mother way the fuck back.

I've done two much smaller versions successfully.

This is a 3 month old Blueberry mother
Seed > rw cube > 4inch rw block > into a one gal pot with a 5050mix of clay balls and perlite...

Terrible fucking decision. The rw aND hydroton mix dry at totally different rates. Causing a shit storm of problems.

Ive cut my white widow and green crack at the rw cube. Cutting the whole root ball off. When I did this, I also cut off 2/3 of the vegetation and topped all of the main branches.


Now.. My question is... This Blueberry is at least twice as big and much more rigid. I'm scared it may not bounce back as well.


In the picture you can see the branch tops are ready to clone and the center is the next batch. But I want to cut it all back to just the center, new, small growth......


Please give me some confidence that this might work.

Also I've been going very low on the nutes, it's on the edge of deficiency and once a week it got a kelp foliar feed, and today I foliar fed and dumped the rest in the pot. Over the roots. And give them low dose bloom nutes.

Tomorrow I will Chop and aero clone as many clones as possible...

Should I leave a top or two or am I safe to weed whack?


Thankyou.
 
Also. Maybe 10 days ago I cut probably a grocerie bag of foliage and clones off this mother... I stripped the middle and you can see the new growth all in the middle
 
If your asking if the plant will survive being essentially brutally bonsai

Imo yes it will .. might piss it off but as long as you leave some vegitation. It will do what you want.

I had a spring time harvest and i threw my root balls outside in the compost pile they where just a STALK at the end of summer a few had revegged into great plants lmao
I broughf em in and flowed em again :) not advised due to pests but they where fine.

And i didnt want to waste that free sun veg lol:)
 
Cold$moke said:
If your asking if the plant will survive being essentially brutally bonsai

Imo yes it will .. might piss it off but as long as you leave some vegitation. It will do what you want.

I had a spring time harvest and i threw my root balls outside in the compost pile they where just a STALK at the end of summer a few had revegged into great plants lmao
I broughf em in and flowed em again :) not advised due to pests but they where fine.

And i didnt want to waste that free sun veg lol:)
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Man I've done it twice with the young plants and it worked haha figured stiffer older plants might be more finicky. But yeah that's great, thanks for the boost. It's really insane what damage they can take eh :)
 
Plants are tough for the most part
It will think it has been eaten.

And regrow back especially if you leave those baby shoots on there.

Its like when your budding and you keep getting nodes trying to grow out of the big old stalk :)
 
Cold$moke said:
Plants are tough for the most part
It will think it has been eaten.

And regrow back especially if you leave those baby shoots on there.

Its when your budding and you keep getting nodes trying to grow out of the big old stalk :)
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The stalks are hollow. Do you just use duct tape?
 
You can tape em or leave them (can be an entry for disease ) but they should dry them selves out and pinch off .

Id cut it a bit longer then you want so it doesnt shrivel anywhere near the new growth.

Then after you got green wood again from the new growth you could tidy them up but id just leave it
 
Cold$moke said:
You can tape em or leave them (can be an entry for disease ) but they should dry them selves out and pinch off .

Id cut it a bit longer then you want so it doesnt shrivel anywhere near the new growth.

Then after you got green wood again from the new growth you could tidy them up but id just leave it
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Excellent. Thank you. Results in the morning ;)
 
projectinfo said:
Also. Maybe 10 days ago I cut probably a grocerie bag of foliage and clones off this mother... I stripped the middle and you can see the new growth all in the middle
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Think of your roots as a battery system, it stores sugars and all kinds of essentials when available. When you chop the plant above ground, the roots will resupply the new growth. However if you do this too often, the roots don't get a chance to recharge....
 
Cold$moke said:
You can tape em or leave them (can be an entry for disease ) but they should dry them selves out and pinch off .

Id cut it a bit longer then you want so it doesnt shrivel anywhere near the new growth.

Then after you got green wood again from the new growth you could tidy them up but id just leave it
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Always prune as close as you can get to the last node you're keeping. If you leave too much past it the plant will try to abort it and it will get the plant version of gangrene (mold). I've seen it happen with big outdoor plants that weren't pruned right.
 
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SchmoeJoe said:
Always prime as close as you can get to the last node you're keeping. If you leave too much past it the plant will try to abort it and it will get the plant version of gangrene (mold). I've seen it happen with big outdoor plants that weren't pruned right.
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What do you mean prime, trim?

Cut just below the lowest node I'm keeping.

will do :) I cut in 9 hours. IL post results
 
Also where he wants to cut there isnt really a node just a trunk lol....

This is why i say to leave it long is because it needs to wither and dryup.... dont want that at the base of the green growth imo....
 
Cold$moke said:
Also where he wants to cut there isnt really a node just a trunk lol....

This is why i say to leave it long is because it needs to wither and dryup.... dont want that at the base of the green growth imo....
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I've done years of landscaping, orchard work, small scale veggie farming, park maintenance. This is a standard practice with all pruning. Make your cut as close as you can to the last node you're keeping.
 
SchmoeJoe said:
I've done years of landscaping, orchard work, small scale veggie farming, park maintenance. This is a standard practice with all pruning. Make your cut as close as you can to the last node you're keeping.
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Well your much more qaulified then me ive only grown for 15 years

I know i have done it with no ill effects
Mabey im just lucky
 
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