SOG 88 plant when to lollipop ?

[Bait head]

Hi all I am currently running a sea of green style grow I have 88 big buhhda cheese cuttings in a Nft system running canna Aqua nutrients with 2400w of hps and mh lights above they have been in the system for exactly two weeks I vegged for 9 days and then flipped so they have been in flower for 5 days now and they are really taking off and standing on average 8-12 inches tall my question is I want them to be just one main cola plants as they are tightly packed in about 4 plants per square foot so I want to lollipop them to get rid of all the side branching and end up with just one cola but I am unsure as to when exactly to remove the lower branches and how much to remove I have added some pictures from yesterday so I hope some one can help me with this question preferbly someone with SOG experience thanks all

 

[Captain Plank-Eye]

I'd wait to day 1 week 3 once there's little prenugs.

 

[Bait head]

So you think as soon as they hit 3 weeks from light change or 3 weeks from the start being another week as they are two weeks old now thanks for the reply

 

[Captain Plank-Eye]

3 weeks from light change. Snip the buds off til you have your cola left, don't rip stems off or you can shock your plants.

 

[MoodyShoes]

Personally i rip stems off, but then i'm brutal with my plants. Literally anything under my screen that doesn't look up to much gets removed. Fans, stems, buds....everything. I do this at about 3-4 weeks from the flip, sometimes sooner depending on the strain.

 

[Bait head]

Ok I will do it 3 weeks from the flip do you not think it will be better for me to do it earlier as I have such a restricted space for each plant and I was thinking maybe they will then tend to grow just the single cola better I'm not really sure

 

[a mongo frog]

Ok I will do it 3 weeks from the flip do you not think it will be better for me to do it earlier as I have such a restricted space for each plant and I was thinking maybe they will then tend to grow just the single cola better I'm not really sure

I agree waiting till week 3 or day 21 that way you'll see exactly what your flowering sites are going to do. Take into account I've never grown in the style your doing having the amount of plants you do in that space, but thats what id do. Sick grow! Totally dig what your doing! Tell us what strain, looks like og clones.

 

[Bait head]

Thanks for all the replies guys I appreciate it I will defiantly wait till week 3 then go for the chop and a mongo frog its big buhhda blue cheese cuttings I have grown this a few times and absolutely love this stuff as I got all your attention May aswel say my other problem as you can see from the picture the bottom left part is a lot smaller it's the only one of the 4 lights that it is the small round tube air cooled hoods not the large 2 x 2 hoods I have on the other three do you really think that it would make that much of a difference also when do you suggest that I change all the bulbs to hps as it is half and half at the min thanks

 

[Bait head]

1 week into flower