Pics of My Multi Headed Girls

Usernamewastaken

Usernamewastaken

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My first plants/ grow / training... Whatcha think?


Chem Dog
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purple diesel
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Because they are dense bushes, there were quite a few bud sites that were buried in the dense foliage. As a result they weren't ripening. As such, I opened the bush up by removing all fan leaves. i did this only for the last 10 days..
 
Thanks for putting my mind at ease Sampras and glad... I'm going broke since I kicked my pharmy meds, a zip a week is expensive but worth it... I feel like myself again... Even my wife commented how I am more like the man she fell in love with since I kicked my pharmy meds.
 
Z/wk cannastar levels. even half that amount, wld tend to keep me on the property instead of the freeway. serious aches heh..
 
I think some of you are looking at an optical illusion. Those plants are not very big. They probably have 2 oz or less each on them.

The negative effect of stripping your leaves the last 10 days is yield. You thought you were gonna increase it, instead you stopped bud production. If you don't want that larf in the middle, strip it in the first 3 weeks of flowering, don't strip the light catchers for your big nugs right at the end...
 
Usernamewastaken said:
What would you surmise the negative effect to be?
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Your leaves are where photosynthesis happens (where the plant uses all the water, light, nutes and co2 that you feed it to make its own food). When you remove a plants ability to produce food you've also pretty much stopped its growth.
 
It's always interesting to read the differing opinions on growing techniques. The buddy I got my clones from also removes his fans the last 7-10 days. He is running the same genes off the same mother and his girls seem to do real well.

in regard to leaves and photosynthesis. Dont sugar leaves also catch light and thus contribute to the photosynthesis process?

do buds really plump in the last 7 days? I didnt really expect to increase yeild. I was just hoping to make the bud sites that were buried in foliage have more light and thus better quality buds. Again, I didn't think in the last week things bulked up much... A seasoned grower from this site is the only person that has seen my garden. His estimate was 3 oz per....fingers crossed

Doesn't it take energy to keep the fan leaves alive? Wouldn't that energy be best used for taking care of the bud sites?

so many conflicting opinions... Seems there is no "right" way.

while the girls are not tall, they are little bushes with 8-12 main shoots each.
 
Never take any one person's advice as gospel, that goes for your friend and myself. I highly suggest you start doing lots of experimentation on your future grows with side by side comparisons. I personally have tried all sorts of different training and leaf removal techniques and learned a lot in the process. There are a lot of smart people on these forums but there are a lot more idiots, always challenge anyones advice with real world experiments.

Yes, the sugar leaves are still producing food for the plant to grow but their surface area is no where near as large as the big fan leaves. They cannot produce nearly as much food/energy for further growth as the large fan leaves.

Does it take energy to keep fan leaves alive? Where do you think that energy comes from? That's like trying to lighten up a race car to make it faster by removing its engine and gas tank.

How long exactly have these plants been flowering for? Its really tough to judge but they don't look to be that close to being ready to harvest to me, but that could just be due to the fact I'm looking at these pics on my small cell phone screen and can't see much detail.
 
Flowering for 8 weeks. The pics here are 10 days before harvest. Trichs are either cloudy or amber, no clear. Last I checked, 2 days ago, there were a handful of amber trichs per each scope shot.
 
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