Personally I trim off all those little popcorn buds early in flowering. Not enough there and a PITA to trim up. Removing them early in the game allows the energy that would be wasted by the plant trying to grow them go to the top colas and you'll get a much better ROI from those.
I usually crop the tops first then lower the lights and let decent sized lower buds/colas ripen and fatten up for another 10 days or so before finishing off the plants.
I get the science of pruning larf for upper buds which I did do, but with such a big 3gal coco pot being ran so well during veg/stretch (auto flower) that it just has a lot to spurt out.
I scrogged perfectly meaning the lights cannot raise any further and the tops are supper uniform, 50+ of them and prejected to only grow 2-4 inches into shortest distance allowed from light with 4 inches being around chop anyway, lights dimmed.
But I still have a good 3 inches of shaded buds/bottom rest of the main colas that still grow as if light was hitting it. This run really helped see that the happier the plant, the more it wants to give.
I am photo shy and like to limit posts of active grows, in short, there are way better sites to see than what I posted with size comparison, larf yea but with some love it has some impressive last minute shwank to give. edit: or shwag or shag idk lol bottom tier.
I read those are the buds you smoke while rest cures all the way. Next time I would opt for a wider canopy for better light penetration.
This grow taught me that hormones are just as responsible for fattening of buds, the biggest are on the weaker spots of light ppfd map. They follow a general flowering schedule and just gives you what it gives you genetically or ppfd used.
Cheap 800-1000 ppfd china aftermarket light, cannot immagine my buds under a 2200ppfd vpar. Have yet to learn fimming but really, I feel like it does it by itself, probably a photo period tactic for my next scrog if it is even needed.
I create colas at will, the nodes are destined to give you a cola. I posted a thread that time answered which is that you can only break the vertical dominance and make as many 2 size shape variang colas or perfect fimming for 4x the size.
To my knowledge that is only putting colas as close as possible which I can do naturally. Please school me where I am wrong, that is my current philosophy. Sorry for the book, just making sure I am getting things down.
That is what it looks like underneath. I probably would not have this if the canopy was allowed to open up .5 feet all around. Prune suckers at end of stretch and then again in late flower in the same area as shown in photo.
I agree simply because I prefer to have all my watts in the main light and it grows overall spontaneously, my real question on the mentioned thread was can the colas get smaller the more you make them, I concluded not if you are giving it energy overall to convert.
