spannerhead
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I'm based in the UK so restrict myself to 8 plants total to keep me under the 9 plant 'personal use' category if I get caught. So my aim is to maximize the yield from 8 plants.
I have a space 10 x 8 feet that I have divided up into two areas, one smaller for vegging. I have made two home built RDWC systems using 4 and 5 gallon buckets. so I have 4 vegging and 4 flowering at any one time. The vegging ones are under Plantphotonics LED panels, the flowering ones I've just bought two new and very sexy DimLux 600w HPS lights and the Maxi controller, with temp, humidity, and IR sensor camera.
Up till now using a different lighting set up (LEDS over flowering, CFLS's over vegging) I've been getting around 22-26oz from 4 plants. I've been doing this for about a year and after suffering with high humidty and mold I've invested in the new DimLux set-up and moved the LEDs to vegging.
So my question is on trimming for maximum yield. I don't scrog though I have done this before in a small tent setup. So what I do at the moment is pinch the top of the plant out when I get about 8-10 branches, then start to trim out the bottom leaves that don't get much light, then I cut out all the new side shoots on the 8-10 stems as they start to appear. I vegg the plants for the same time it takes the ones switched to flowering to finish (so I crack new seeds as I'm cropping) which is about 8-9 weeks on average. This usually gives me plants that are about 2 foot high before they get moved over to flowering.
Once they are flowering I tend to trim off bottom leaves to allow as much air flow as possible, and cut any weak thin stems that don't look like they are going to reach the top of the canopy. I don't super crop or do any bending of branches as I find the space I have is already filled by the plants as is. I know I should be getting a better yield but have struggled with maintaining good environmental conditions, hence investing in new lights with a much better controller.
If anyone can suggest better trimming or anything else really to help get the absolute max out of the plants. I use top quality fertilizers, root accelerator, and budding liquid already.
I have a space 10 x 8 feet that I have divided up into two areas, one smaller for vegging. I have made two home built RDWC systems using 4 and 5 gallon buckets. so I have 4 vegging and 4 flowering at any one time. The vegging ones are under Plantphotonics LED panels, the flowering ones I've just bought two new and very sexy DimLux 600w HPS lights and the Maxi controller, with temp, humidity, and IR sensor camera.
Up till now using a different lighting set up (LEDS over flowering, CFLS's over vegging) I've been getting around 22-26oz from 4 plants. I've been doing this for about a year and after suffering with high humidty and mold I've invested in the new DimLux set-up and moved the LEDs to vegging.
So my question is on trimming for maximum yield. I don't scrog though I have done this before in a small tent setup. So what I do at the moment is pinch the top of the plant out when I get about 8-10 branches, then start to trim out the bottom leaves that don't get much light, then I cut out all the new side shoots on the 8-10 stems as they start to appear. I vegg the plants for the same time it takes the ones switched to flowering to finish (so I crack new seeds as I'm cropping) which is about 8-9 weeks on average. This usually gives me plants that are about 2 foot high before they get moved over to flowering.
Once they are flowering I tend to trim off bottom leaves to allow as much air flow as possible, and cut any weak thin stems that don't look like they are going to reach the top of the canopy. I don't super crop or do any bending of branches as I find the space I have is already filled by the plants as is. I know I should be getting a better yield but have struggled with maintaining good environmental conditions, hence investing in new lights with a much better controller.
If anyone can suggest better trimming or anything else really to help get the absolute max out of the plants. I use top quality fertilizers, root accelerator, and budding liquid already.
