I had some plants with some long arms like you have. A friend came over and tied a couple of them down. Some plants bend easily, others might take a few days to train it correctly. I found the side buds converted to top buds. Your Christmas Tree shape will have maybe 5 tops after pruning, this way I had over
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Right on. That training looks great. Yield should be excellent!
I’m not at all trying to maximize my yield, though. I’m just trying to ensure I get 3 different strains to finish in a 2x4x7 tent with high quality, no contamination issues, and low risk of failure. I decided not to train this time before I started the run.
My approach this time is intentionally low stress on the plants, and to utilize the copious vertical space in the tent to allow the plants to spread out and up. That’s why I only topped once, and pruned to encourage lateral growth, but did not train horizontally as well. This way, with a little bit of regular pruning, there’s lots of air flowing all through what is actually a very crowded, small grow tent in a high RH location. My focus is on preventing mold/botrytis which are both problems here, as well as pm which is a known issue with the CH strain, and keeping the fem plants from herming out from stress.
I definitely overdid it with too long a veg though, as the CH & SK plants did get about 6” taller than I was planning. Next time will be less veg time, for sure...
