Kill few plants/lollipopp/do nothing (cramped space)

Don Gin and Ton said:

don't beat yourself up it could be a lot worse.

9 days in 12/12 is not too late to switch back?!?!?1 just throwin it out there...

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Yea you're right, its just more fun to poke fun of myself. Right now I'm on a schedule before I leave out of town for holiday time and can't really revert back to vegging, same reason why cloning and having a mother plant is very feasible right now. Vacation was planned a long time ago.

keep em all bro... that doesnt look to cramped at all tbh .. this is cramped lol

well I am interested to see how the plants keep progressing over the next few days. Many of the plants with bud sites covered by leaves which are now getting light have showed pistol growth on them over night. The two "lollipopped" plants I still think will have very slow growth because I basically killed them by taking so many fan leaves off, other plants are so bad. If I look at my plants from the top down it looks good especially with all those light green bud sites present knowing that almost half that are there getting full light aren't even visible in the picture, but at the same time you cant see where all my plants are bear for like 2-3 inches with no fan leaves, just stem, lol. What do you guys think about these sides buds? Everyone talks about popcorn bud, but if the bud site is getting full/direct light will it still create the popcorn bud? I would think the bud would just be smaller overall because of the stem thickness and what not but not necessarily worse quality. what do you guys think? In about 3 days I am going to prune one last time, but this will only be bud sites that I missed yesterday that are completely covered and have no hope of getting light. Only 2 plants really need this done. One has about 12 bud sites directly getting light so I would rather not waste even more energy on these lower ones.

ya it looks like you have plenty of space in there....if you get to worried about space i had an issue with overgrown plants in a small grow box....over time i tied em down to the point where they were horizontal with the pot they were growing in....that way u can align them in rows next to each other an all the buds will grow up to the light even an youll get a even canopy....that way u wont have to worry about dropping cfls down for lower light cuz all the bud sites will bend up towards the light all even like.....

Dr.G said:

ya it looks like you have plenty of space in there....if you get to worried about space i had an issue with overgrown plants in a small grow box....over time i tied em down to the point where they were horizontal with the pot they were growing in....that way u can align them in rows next to each other an all the buds will grow up to the light even an youll get a even canopy....that way u wont have to worry about dropping cfls down for lower light cuz all the bud sites will bend up towards the light all even like.....

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I already dealt with the space issue in there. Two plants were "lollipopped" which in the end was me taking almost all fan leaves off... the rest of the plants were pruned, some waay too much leaving 3 inch bare spots on the stem where there were lots of fan leaves coming out of. So what you see is after I dealt with the space, none of those bud sites you see were visible or getting any light. The canopy was incredibly dense not allowing much light under.\

I think you are talking about lst? if so thats what I plan on doing next time. I'll have 4 5 gal pots in there and lst in a circular fashion around the pot until they are filled then switch the flowering. no more issues on this or worrying about uneven height with plants and best light distance. This time around I just didnt have enough time for a good lst because I wanted to harvest before I am gone for vacation shortly after this batches harvest.

hey widow how did u lollipop..

dgk4life said:

hey widow how did u lollipop..

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to be honest it wasn't a true lollipop, I mainly took a lot of the very large fan leaves off towards the bottom on two plants and left the smaller ones left. I took too man off on two on the whole plant and will see how they go. other then that I didn't have a specific strategy, just kinda made room I needed.

i was gonna say cause when u lollipop u cut off the bottom growth of the plant at least half way up but dont remove any fan leaves

ill someone produce a lollipoping tutorial one of these days