Bud swelling? ? Does anyone do this?

Hey Hogmaster, are you talking about fimming? Or that video on bud swelling?

@bonnie1 @Hogmaster @Jmesser80 So this brings up another question that I had along the same lines. they say not to fimm or top until you have 4 or 5 true leaves. so when do the true leaves start? I know not to count the round leaf but after that there is 1 leaf then 3 leaves than 5 leaves. When do you start counting?

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The video on trimming

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A few weeks is when I do it 3-4 weeks

Start at the first true leaf with has 1 or the first after the round leaf

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You know I was confused about that too. That’s the way you count it, just like you stated. Think it’s ok after five leaves on sixth I guess. I’m going to go look at girls now, and sniff deeply, cause my girls smell good already, and that’s all I have right now, just a sniff of that great smell :joy:

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So counting the 1 leaf set, I have 5 sets of leaves with the 6th set coming out. Also Im going on 3 and a half weeks since sprout.

I’m on my first grow, but ive been doing that for yearsssss.
Seriously though someone please tell me this shizzle actually works…

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That’s why some of my leaves look eaten… big bits missing out of some of them and I always wondered why :smiley: healthy happy deformed leaves

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My Easter Babies sprouted April 16, so I fimmed two weeks ago, I think too early but just looked at girls and they are getting big, more new leaves and sprouts, so happy :grin: I must be doing something right. Just realized none of this is in my journal, charts etc. I’m going to do pics and tag you from my journal. I really hope pics come out right side up this time haha, have to turn iPhone sideways lol

That’s what I thought too McLovin, but my girls are getting big from fimming, and two times using little big bloom and gonna start big grow, idn but soon. :grin:

A pic will surely help but by the sounds of it I think you are ok.

You start at the 1st serrated leaf. Sounds like you are ready to fim (or top). :+1:

Correct. Although it could also mean something is eating your leafs if there are chunks taken out of them. Mine usually don’t have anything missing on them just a bit deformed.
Here is a pic from one of my plants that I fimmed. I circled the deformed leafs that occurred from the fimming process.

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Well I’ve recently tried to do the bud swelling though may have done it a little bit too early we shall see… there is about a 4-6weeks left for it to repair it self.

. After I did it I found out the technique works best about 2-3 weeks before harvest. So I’ll be interested in seeing if I demolished my yield or if it will recover and create some beautiful foxtails all round the inflicted damage. Muhhhahahhhh it’s frankenacience

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@Nugs I thought the last 2-3 weeks is when you stop cutting the buds.
From what I’ve seen on bud swelling you wait till you have a small bud at about week 2-3 of flower to top buds , then wait 7-10-14 days before cutting the tops of the bud again repeat until just before water flush. I don’t know I’ll go back and watch the video again.

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How do you do this I’m interested lol but I’m interested by everything and all these plants anyways haha

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@Wishingilivedina420state yeah to be honest I have no clue. I pinched just the top 1/8th of the buds. Though mine are only 2 weeks into flower. And seems there is a few different sources and styles of this technique but not with adequate documentation on the specifics. Budswelling / backbuilding

@Nugs and @Manny_FTGUTube check out my thread bud swelling test
I’ll tag y’all in . I think there is a video at the top of the thread if not go to utube and search bud swelling it’s the same video

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Can I get a tag @Wishingilivedina420state? Very interested.

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