Thanks for the advise, it's pretty much on track with what I was thinking. I've been in the mindset of letting them do what they do and don't do any messing around with them.
Thanks - I appreciate that!
Yeah I totally understand what your saying the process of photosynthesis is only possible by light, the leaves use the energy of the light to convert nutrients into a suger the plant can use to eat but if by removing some bigger shade leaves you will be letting more light into some of the lower leaves its a bit of a debatable topic like you said
Thanks - I have been educating myself constantly and following the advice you gave me a few months back (don't overthink it) and it seems to work.
I'm sold on the aero cloners. I switched to peat plugs (root riot) and it added an extra week on to the time it took to get a good root mass. The downside to the aero cloners is that if you lose electricity you could wipe out an entire batch of clones. If you aren't in a hurry to get clones, then the peat root plugs are cheaper and work fine. I have a perpetual garden so I need rooted clones ready in a 2 week range so the aero cloner is my go to.
I was thinking of getting or making an aero-cloner and some clonex - do you use a clone solution or just RO? Also, are you saying you use the peat plugs with the aero cloner? While I'm buggin you, what lighting do you use?
I dip my cuts in to aloe gel, then straight in to the cloner. I add a little bit of silica (Pro-Tekt) to the reservoir too. No, I don't use the peat plugs with the cloner. That's an either/or deal. For lights I just have them under a 4 bulb incandescent ballast.
Hell yeah good idea nice looking plant!! Been topped once?
I can't wrap my head around how you had less of a yield by removing shade leaves? As all you would be doing is focussing more energy into the flowers and roots rather then sustaining bigger leaves? Topping works so well because you get multiple heads but it also spreads the plant letting precious light into the lower leaves can't understand how removing 10/15 bigger leaves to allow light acsess to 40-50 lower leaves can effect your yield negatively? I have always had much greater sucsess by prunning
Why do you think that the fan leaves use more energy than they collect, or think 3x the amount of smaller leaves farther away from your light source are more efficient at collecting energy than those 10-15?
Yes but how can removing some of the shade leaves effect it negatively? There are always leaves being shaded directly below them and many more then the 1 big leaf? So your surface area for catching light is greater by removing leaves before flowering you are promoting new growth in the plant and it will focus that energy into growing flowers if flowering has begun rather then into producing more foliage as the root system is already established to maintain the growth on plant so pruning is only going to make it put more energy into growth rather then just maintaining leaves topping and stream lining is extremely effective and you are removing in some cases a lot more foliage then just a few shade leaves prunning should be done on any plant not just cannabis it promotes new and stronger growth
Because those smaller leaves are farther away from the light and are collecting less energy. Those lower leaves at best have the same amount of surface area as the upper leaves.
They are directly under the shade leaves tho? And you basing you 'theory' on indoor grows dosent seem logical with outdoor grows and natural sunlight, I have tried many different grows and prunning plants early in growth I.e topping, main steaming etc increase yields a lot more I just can't see removing some shade leaves effecting the flower production negatively in anyway
Stanly is 100% correct. Stop thinking about buds and focus on the soil and leaves. You want healthy soil and as many green healthy leaves as possible. Marijuana is not concerned with bud production, its concerned with pollen collection. The outermost of the plant also has the highest amount of growth hormones so of course the buds will be larger. Stop cuttin leaves off and you will see what we are saying
