End of Week 5 Flowering pics
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medicalmiss
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Are you supposed to clip off the leaves towards the bottom? I have good growth on top but there are a few leaves that look pretty sad towards the bottom. Do I clip those?
Awesome plant!!!
Awesome plant!!!
TheGardenMan
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Nice grow, What strain is it. What type of lighter..etc 
Ser0 Products
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wtf? mine looks like complete shit compared 2 yours at week 5... im just gonna say mine is week 4 now lol.
Muffy D
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Nice grow, What strain is it. What type of lighter..etc
These are strawberry cough, and one is afghani. I used a 400W hps. Check my journal if you want to know more...
Muffy D
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Its a technique people use to focus all the energy of the plant on the main colas. You are supposed to clip off all the little branches off the bottom and just leave the main ones. You leave the fan leaves, but eventually they will yellow and die, its perfectly natural. You can pull slightly on a leaf and if it comes right off then its ok.
If you look closely at the stem of the plant, you can see where I cut off branches. I have a 8 plants, and I did this technique to a couple of them and they are by far waaaaaaaaay better than the ones I left alone.
Muffy D
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I hope yours look like this too. These are the best plants I have, the others (Aghganis) are yellowing really bad and have about half as much buds as the others. Im looking at about an oz from the coughs, and about 1/4-1/2 oz from the afghanis. Just think if all 8 were coughs...that would be a 1/2 lb. It makes my head tingle just thinking about it. Yet I still have 4-5 weeks to go...
Muffy D
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it could just be your strain....I have other plants that look like shit too.
Ser0 Products
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haha, i hope so.... i need to order seeds for my next grow!!!
tahoe58
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I am interesting in this trimminf process......take a lookat my journal...I pose this question about the unkemp bush versus your approach.
https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/33444-tahoes-doing-stepping-up-plate-78.html
My plants are at Day 48 from sprout....and the largest most developed is Day 29 flower. I would sincerely appreciate your feedback in this regard. Cheers and walk on man!
https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/33444-tahoes-doing-stepping-up-plate-78.html
My plants are at Day 48 from sprout....and the largest most developed is Day 29 flower. I would sincerely appreciate your feedback in this regard. Cheers and walk on man!
billybob88
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makes me all googaley cause i just flipped my 8 strawberry cough girls into flowering 3 days ago.. giggidy giggidy gooo!
Muffy D
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I am interesting in this trimminf process......take a lookat my journal...I pose this question about the unkemp bush versus your approach.
https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/33444-tahoes-doing-stepping-up-plate-78.html
My plants are at Day 48 from sprout....and the largest most developed is Day 29 flower. I would sincerely appreciate your feedback in this regard. Cheers and walk on man!
In my experience I can strongly say that trimming increases yield and space. I have a couple plants that I didnt trim what so ever and they are doing horrible compared to my others that I trimmed. My untrimmed plants are turning yellow really bad, maybe due to the fact that they have 3x the vegetation than the trimmed ones. This excess vegetation is creating the demand for nitrogen, which is in short supply when flowering. Also the untrimmed plants have like 30 fluffy and thin bud sites, while the ones I trimmed have 1-5 huge dense spears. It is heartbreaking to chop branches off your babies, but as you can see, they end up producing fat juicy nugs.
The colas in the back are 3 fingers thick (hold your fingers up and imagine), and the ones in the front are small and underdeveloped. They also have all kinds of tiny branches below the canopy that arent getting any light and havent changed in 3 weeks.
You can see the yellowing of the ones in the front (Untrimmed), compared to the ones in the back. You can also see all the tiny bud sites on the yellow ones. (They arent THAT yellow, baaaaaaaad picture)
Muffy D
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You wont be dissappointed, and the smell.....OH THE SMELL!!!! Its fucking delicious. It smells like strawberries and fresh orange peels. Its also a strong and easy plant to grow and it appears to produce a lot of product.
aeroponics
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when did you trim?? and how many branches do you leave at the top? I wish i would have i have 30 little bud sites like you at week 4
Muffy D
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Well, the "experts" say afghani takes 8 weeks, and strawberry cough takes 9, but I cant imagine the coughs getting any bigger. My plants are already tipping over. The afghanis are still are covered in young white pistols, while the coughs are ambering a little bit and are covered in trichomes. So to answer your question,....as long as I need to?
Muffy D
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I trimmed just before flowering, and the most recent trim was a few days ago. If I see a little baby branch with preflowers, I chop it. Now all the energy those little flowers would have taken to grow will go to make a nice fat cola somewhere else on the plant. I have beating myself up for not trimming all of plants, but I had to experiment and find out for myself. I suggest you do the same. Just trim one and see what happens. As for the number of branches to leave....that depends on the size of the branches. The coughs all had huge branches that were equal in size so I left 5-6 and just cut everything smaller off. The afghani branches were all different sizes so I would just pick the 1-4 strongest and thickest and cut the rest. As far as I can tell, Bigger/thicker branches=Bigger/thicker nugs.