My mother plant is getting too tall!

I want to trim her down, but I'm worried doing so will stress her into a hermie.

I'm running TGA Pandora's Box and I somehow(rookie mistakes) stressed my previous cycle to much, now I'm super hermie paranoid. I wasn't sweating it because I read this strain is "uber stable", now I'm picking seeds out with tweezers.

Also I'm now running a scrog for the first time and want to trim off growth under the trellis.

I'd appreciate any advise!
Beagle

Maybe the scrog situation is more urgent, I need to move these plants to the flowering room asap.

Thanks
Beagle

triming her down is ok ive hacked the hole top off a mother with no hermie, or you can lst it and tie the top over.

Let me clarify. Will cutting everything under the trellis cause the plants to hermie?

well thats cool to people lolly pop there plants to this is a method of trimming all branches and leaves from the halfway part of the
plant down works well and no hermie.

Beagle said:

Let me clarify. Will cutting everything under the trellis cause the plants to hermie?

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Where in the world is the trellis on a plant? What part are you talking about?

there is only one way to find out for sure.

My thoughts. If trimming it will make it hermie, why would you bother making it a mother plant? If it's stable genetics which TGA generally are then i'd just chop the fucker in half without an issue

plants can really only be stressed into hermie during flower, if your plant has already hermied before during the flower cycle, then your clone will be a hermie.. there is no way to make a hermie plant normal this is a genetic trait. also, there is no way to hermie a plant that is vegging.

Thanks for the reply.

I tried bending one of my last plants over and it broke in half(One of the rookie mistakes)....I thought that might have been the stress factor that caused it to hermie. Wouldn't cutting it in half cause the same stress or is cutting less stressful than breaking? I could have also just flowered too long.

nanners' are usually a sign of prolonged flower time.

Cannabis is a hardy ass motherfucker. If you have stable genetics you can basically do what you want to your plant and it will not hermie. I've a strain i keep, i snap it, tear things off it, forget to water, nute burn, you name it, never hermied because the genetics are solid. Personally i'd want to be abusing it to see just how hermie prone it might be, because as i say, if smackin ya plant is gonna throw some balls, fuck that for a mother plant, next strain

yup, time to toss it out and get a new one.

Medical Grade said:

plants can really only be stressed into hermie during flower, if your plant has already hermied before during the flower cycle, then your clone will be a hermie.. there is no way to make a hermie plant normal this is a genetic trait. also, there is no way to hermie a plant that is vegging.

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If there is no way to hermie a plant in veg than I'll stop worrying. Thanks. Also, after I cut everything under the trellis(Chicken wire for the scrog), should I let the plants veg more, or is it ok to put them into flower immediately after?

a break is more stressful then a clean cut. this of it this way, would you rather have your arm ripped off or have it done quick and clean by a doctor? I'm super hermie-paranoid as well. Though if you're still vegging, you can pretty much hack away (responsably).

now trellis makes sense, thanks for clarifying that.

you should veg untill your scrog is 3/4 of the way full, because when you switch it is going to stretch and fill up the last 1/4 quickly

Medical Grade said:

you should veg untill your scrog is 3/4 of the way full, because when you switch it is going to stretch and fill up the last 1/4 quickly

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It's there right now, I'm just wondering if I need to give the plant time to heal after hacking everything under the trellis off, or if it's good to go after the cutting session?

Didn't have the patience to read everyone's posts.

Here is what you want, sorry if it's been answered.

Your mother is too big:
Simple, pick a size, make an invisible and imaginary limit.
Everything outside of the limit becomes clones.
If you have a 3 foot branch, divide it into several clones, and all the lower chunks will simply become pre-topped clones.

They either root or not, but in your opinion you just need them gone.

If she herms, hopefully one of your clones will be stable.

Honestly you "almost" messed up on the first cycle, so good job saving her, use your instincts.


As for the ScRog:
Cut off any weak growth under the screen, if it were me I'd leave any leaf that I could, and cut off any branches.
But I've never ScRog'd before. So I wouldn't know if leaves are beneficial under the screen.

She shouldn't herm, if she does then Subcool would know better than any of us.
It's his work, ask him what she does and doesn't like.

Good luck!

I just cut the mother down to size. Already had clones in the machine, but I might cut a couple more just in-case they all don't make it.

I've also cut all the bud sites under the trellis, leaving behind the big fan leafs.

Thank you everyone for your wisdom, and for relieving my stress over plant stress.
I plus repped everyone if your into that sort of thing.

Beagle