Hello all, my very mature plants, aged 11 and 10 weeks, have just made the switch to flower about a week ago, and I am using this intermediary time to gather more info about flowering plants. I haven’t made any major adjustments yet. Medium is FFOF, nutes are FF trio, haven’t used Tiger Bloom yet. pH for one is 6.2 and the other has been stuck at around 5.6 and doesn’t want to budge for some reason, but the plant is happily thriving. I use nutes when ppm fall under 1300, around every 2-3 waterings now. Humidity fluctuates from low 50s to high 60s, but I have a dehumidifier coming in the mail tomorrow to fix that. Temps are 70-75° F. Using two SF1000s lights for power. Strains are random bag seeds, but I’m PRETTY SURE they’re Boston Runtz. I feel I need to do some pruning but have no clue where to start on my bigger plant. Any advice at all, even small suspicions, are greatly appreciated and noted. Thanks in advance y’all
Plants look good I would suggest reading up on lollipoping it’s clearing the bout 1/3 of your plants so you don’t get wasted energy into popcorn buds plus helps with air movement and pest control. Other than that from what I can tell plants look good ![]()
Will do, thanks for the response!
Plants look very happy , Take into consideration plants can double in size after flip. Good luck ![]()
If they get that large, they’re due for a better tent anyways. They’re in duct taped cardboard with no supports or anything. It’s super flimsy and I feel like a crackhead every time I see it. I’m either going to invent in an actual 4x4 tent or make another cardboard box with wood support.
So there are many ways to skin a cat. I always recommend removing the bottom 3rd or half of the plant. And topping or super cropping. If your after yield these are beneficial moves.
I’m mainly referring to the first plant pictured. The other one looks nice and bushy.
Or you can obviously just keep doing your thing, keep it easy and let ‘em fly! Nice work. Look healthy and happy, and that’s the harder part of growing. ![]()
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Thanks for the good reply, I’ll give her a trim probably tomorrow and follow this pic. I didn’t top her on purpose so I can get a feel of how a natural marijuana plant grows
No problem with letting her run, but side by side with a shorter plant is gonna be hard to dial in your lights. In one space you generally want to commit to one way or another unless you intending on putting the other up on a booster. I can guarantee you right now with appropriate lighting the one you topped will yield more.
The plants are roughly the same height. They’re also only a little over 2 feet tall, but will probably grow a foot or so during the flower period. I’m running a Gelato 41 plant that’s about 3-4 weeks right now in the same tent, but the lighting is staying just about proportionate to each other, so that’s good. I feel that it’s too late to top the plant, but tomorrow they will get some serious pruning and defoliation. My topped plant still had a lot of sucker branches littered in the middle, and it’s super congested. I’ve been super scared of mold bc of my humidity and how dense it is, but I bought a new fan and a dehumidifier, so that takes care of that (sort of)
I’d only say my other plant is larger in mass, not height
I understand, but more than likely most the energy is going to be focused into that main cola and leave everything else behind. Time will tell. And I know all about dense canopies. You got this!
Just was throwing in my 2¢
do your thing ![]()
Your two cents is valuable. I’m just not too concerned about yields on that plant, this is my first grow so I wanted one for yields, and one for the experience. I tried to keep it as OG as possible, besides some lower and/or dying leaves. Plus I do want to have one huge cola, just once for the experience lol. Other plant was topped once and accidentally fimmed once, so she still has a central cola but other strong main colas
Slightly pictured here, it moved upright over time
I understand totally! But yielding well on one means an even canopy. And equal light coverage. IF you end up with one tall cola the rest of the buds developing could be receiving less than optimal light, unless you don’t mind burning the top one a bit. Which I did here to benefit the “average canopy.”
I tried doing once a long time ago. If it wasn’t for the tall cola everything else would have been better off
granted these were the only 2 autos I’ve ever ran. Both were trained the one on the right was topped. The only time I’ve done this.
I see what you mean. Is it possible to supercrop during flower? I haven’t had any problems with that cola, it’s actually quite shorter than some of the others in the bunch. After chopping, I’ll probably throw on some garden ties to even out the canopy. I would just SCROG but I move the plants around too much to do that
Well the plants pictured aren’t in flower yet. You might be experiencing transition, which usually lasts 2 to 3 weeks after flip. when pistils cluster that’s when it is actually considered flower. This is also when most stretching takes place.
But to answer your question, no, there isn’t anything wrong with supercropping during EARLY flower. ![]()
I’m not trying to push you any certain direction, I promise. Do what you are comfortable with.
I’m just saying it could happen in that matter. And if you want to focus on a main cola on that one and yield on the other, just make sure you have a way to boost up plants if they need it. To get an even-ish light spread. Light distance and intensity matter.
I’d also suggest flushing before flower actually hits as in flower the demand for nutrients are most readily available for the plant between 6.5-6.8 and you may start experiencing problems if you aren’t in range and they will be more detrimental and problematic to fix at that time then they would be now.
Good advice. For about a month now I’ve been feeding the bushy plant with water pHed to 6.5 to even 6.8 to try and balance but the pH always comes out 5.6. I’ve recalibrated my pH pen and everything and always get the same results. A flush is definitely due, I’m just unsure of how to properly do it
That’s a pretty low runoff ph, a flush is pretty much exactly what you have been doing to get your runoff ph, you just water to get more runoff to wash away buildups in the soil.
Sounds simple enough, thank you
Did some pruning and defoliation according to your advice, and look how pretty the plant is now!! only problem is, you aren’t supposed to put a dress on a man
an hour of careful trimming and a good healthy watering of some nutes just to find balls directly after
She’s so droopy from being in my dark kitchen all day. It’ll make a beautiful house plant for a few days @Low
Oh no! So sorry it’s a male… I wouldn’t keep it anywhere near another female









