Is this enough room for flower?

RamblinEvilMushroom · Oct 7, 2021

I'm gonna be honest, I was caught off guard by how quickly these plants grow, and I was kinda thinking that only one or two seeds would actually germinate, or maybe I'd see some male preflowers and know which plants to cull. So now I have 4 plants in a 4 x 1.5 x 5 space under an attempt at a scrog net, and the canopy looks like it's already overflowing. I just took some cuttings from a few plants earlier today, so I'm not sure if it's a bad idea to flip right now.

Should I be worried with how crowded it is?

LJ00 · Oct 7, 2021

Definitely scrog those girls to control their height, I’d recommend cutting off anything thats not on your canopy completely after the flower stretch not before.

LJ00 · Oct 7, 2021

Also putting your plants in flower for 3-5 days and then taking them out will show your their sex organ and they go back with no stress, saves you growing males!

RamblinEvilMushroom · Oct 7, 2021

LJ00 said:
Definitely scrog those girls to control their height, I’d recommend cutting off anything thats not on your canopy completely after the flower stretch not before.

you can barely see the net underneath all the foliage, but I've already tried scrogging them lmao, the only solution I can think of is another net, slightly higher, but that's a lot more tucking that requires access to the other side of the room, which I don't have. I'll definitely wait until they're done stretching to fully defoliate.

Here's a pic from about a week and a half ago. I honestly wanted to flower them right then, but I would've been out of town when they were ready for harvest, so I decided to top a few times and wait another 2 weeks, just in case.

LJ00 said:
Also putting your plants in flower for 3-5 days and then taking them out will show your their sex organ and they go back with no stress, saves you growing males!

I'll for sure keep this in mind next time I grow regular seeds! I'm 90% sure all these plants are females. All of the plants started preflowering not too long ago, and every plant has pistils growing out of some of their preflowers.

drsaltzman · Oct 7, 2021

Flip.
That’s too many plants for that space.
You don’t need them any bigger.
You’ll get a nice haul.
Lookin good.

LJ00 · Oct 7, 2021

RamblinEvilMushroom said:
you can barely see the net underneath all the foliage, but I've already tried scrogging them lmao, the only solution I can think of is another net, slightly higher, but that's a lot more tucking that requires access to the other side of the room, which I don't have. I'll definitely wait until they're done stretching to fully defoliate.

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Here's a pic from about a week and a half ago. I honestly wanted to flower them right then, but I would've been out of town when they were ready for harvest, so I decided to top a few times and wait another 2 weeks, just in case.

I'll for sure keep this in mind next time I grow regular seeds! I'm 90% sure all these plants are females. All of the plants started preflowering not too long ago, and every plant has pistils growing out of some of their preflowers.

Yes i typically add 2 nets if im gonna scrog, a 6'' gap and a 3.5'' above helps keep everything spaced out and light will come through nice, id just encourage top growth after their flower stretch and chop anything low down away from main light

drsaltzman · Oct 7, 2021

Here’s my current 2x4 with two plants in 3 gallon felt pots.

RamblinEvilMushroom · Oct 8, 2021

drsaltzman said:
Flip.
That’s too many plants for that space.
You don’t need them any bigger.
You’ll get a nice haul.
Lookin good.

I went ahead and flipped last night, tomorrow's day 2 of 12/12. Maybe I'm going crazy but they already look different after just one longer night.

LJ00 said:
Yes i typically add 2 nets if im gonna scrog, a 6'' gap and a 3.5'' above helps keep everything spaced out and light will come through nice, id just encourage top growth after their flower stretch and chop anything low down away from main light

I might have to invest in an actual net instead of making one myself wtf

After I defoliate the lower third, I was thinking about also pinching leaves that shade bud sites above the canopy. I've read some grow journals that had good results with it.

drsaltzman said:
Here’s my current 2x4 with two plants in 3 gallon felt pots.

Gorgeous plants!!

LJ00 · Oct 9, 2021

RamblinEvilMushroom said:
I went ahead and flipped last night, tomorrow's day 2 of 12/12. Maybe I'm going crazy but they already look different after just one longer night.

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I might have to invest in an actual net instead of making one myself wtf

definitely do it, i made the first few myself and later found nets that would fit my tent, if you find an elastic one that you can reuse make sure to wash it between grows

Blakevanderstarren@gmail. · Oct 9, 2021

The best nets are made yourself by buying 3.5in trellis netting on amazon and cutting out the space you need. You can get like 30 ft for 20$. Those elastic ones are too thick IMO. These are my strawberry pie autos with that amazon netting.

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