It’s a balancing act. Trying to get energy to the flowers rather than fan leaves, but also leaving enough fan leaves for the energy. I remove fan leaves below the screen not getting much light and some of the larger fan leaves shading bud sites. All others stay on.
It's definitely a technique that takes some time to get used to -- especially if you are DIY'ing your own SIPs, that can add time to the learning curve because you have to design it with a broader fundamental understanding of the paradigm. I've seen a few home made sips where the plants are droopy and look like they're being over-watered, and I've built wicks so large that they over-saturated my soil. After a few grows I think I have them working well enough.
Dude if you are all sand would you consider something like this?
Thanks for sharing! I am a big fan of hugelkultur....I happen to be converting our family large garden & orchard into a permaculture hugelkultur!!! Unfortunatly I live an hour north in town with a small lot. I like the idea of being able to move these beds.
I really had to allow myself to go "outside of my comfort zone" on this grow, especially early on,, I would read the mainling instructions and look the plant and say to myself, Ok there Goes!! Wake Snip Chop,, and well it worked , i was able to get 5 weeks of veg time in, almost doubling my veg time and the plants were sturdy'er and have thicker stems than my previous grows,, No larf, no popcorn, just tops, and the mainlining kept them short,, so it all fits in my space,, I did leave more leaves on than nug buckets did once i had them in thier shapes, the lower fans that are left are yellowing out, and some more leafs will come out as i pass week 7,, mostly because i am fearful of any mold or bud rot, just want to have some circulation,,
Yeah I dont know if I will be able to do all that cutting but maybe after seeing your results it will be easier (-;
the whole time in the early going i set myself at ease,, knowing that if i killed them,, or hurt them horribly,, all i had to do was go back over to the state legal store and buy some more cheap clones ,, hahahha,, the joys of legal growing
Sadly I do not have that option but hopefully will have some moms going by then (planning on trying to take some clones from my current ladies in veg before flipping to flower) and can re clone if needed lol
i remember the days i used to grow in So Cal during ROnald Regan days,, and his war on drugs,, it was spooky scary,, i feel i was really underestimating what Hard Time would have been like,, its a relief to not be under that strain,, its partly why i went thru 30 years of prohibition ,, things would have been so much better if MJ was legal across the board,, my and booze were a bad combination
its good you have space to dedicate to a MOM,,, keep yourself in constant supply
Yeah hopefully I will have a veg flower mom and drying room all set up soon, I have the mom room im using from veg atm, i need to light proof between what I am using for my flower room now and what I want to be my veg area (right now im using it as a secondary light proof room basically. long term goals lol
Actually, that was one of the pair of Jack Herer clones. One clone I picked up had a nice form, but the other one was too tall and had too much space between the nodes, and I ended out cutting the little thing almost in half. I was really worried that it might get shocked and never be the same or maybe take a long time to recover, but in the end it was a much stronger plant than the other, with much thicker main branches. That's just one experience so it's totally anecdotal, but it made an impression on me.
Yeah, the larger plants may crowd out the smaller ones. Once the larger ones stretch they can maybe fill up that open space?
