Can I cut lower branches off during flowing?

[JohnnyBravo]

My plant is 2 1/2 weeks into flowering and is about 4 feet tall and four feet wide.......I'm using a water farm top drip bucket with a 2 gallon pot...I'm worried that the Plant will become root bound (If not already).....Can I remove entire branches from the bottom of the plant (Lollipop) this far into flowering????

 

[grandprix8152000]

how big are the pots that there in?

 

[JohnnyBravo]

2 gallon pot filled with hydroton clay pellets

 

[mygirls]

yes she will pull out of it (shock)

 

[grandprix8152000]

they say that you need a gallon for every foot grown so your plants should be in 4 gallon pots but i dont know i could be wrong

 

[JohnnyBravo]

they say that you need a gallon for every foot grown so your plants should be in 4 gallon pots but i dont know i could be wrong

Ummm.....thats great and all....maybe you should re-read my question

 

[Conoclast]

I think you can lollipop them now, they'll just get stunted for a while from the shock, but it will pull out of it like mygirls said

 

[JohnnyBravo]

Bump.......

 

[greatdayn19]

dont fuck with it as far as cuting branches, it will interupt the flow of auxins and surely create a lesser product due to the shock of the hormone interuption!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If it pulls out of the pot easily it will be no problem to transplant it, just be careful not to disrupt the roots or anything else..........

 

[primeralives]

cutting lower branches druing flowering will make the plant use more energy on the buds, insted of wasting it on little branches...

chop them off

 

[MsMILFweed]

cutting lower branches druing flowering will make the plant use more energy on the buds, insted of wasting it on little branches...

chop them off

Yup, go ahead and chop the lower branches off.

You'll only mess up the auxin movement if you cut off the topmost/tallest bud.

 

[JohnnyBravo]

Can I remove all the branches at one time or should I space it out over a couple of days???

 

[MsMILFweed]

I'd space it out over a couple of days. You never want to remove more than a third of the plant at one time.

 

[VictorVIcious]

Al B fuct routinely trims the bottom one third of his plants off 2 weeks into flowering. VV

 

[blonddie07]

How about 70 days into flowering? can i chop the 1/3 of the bottom? the buds look sooooo weak at the bottom part.

 

[exzile]

yea im about were blonddie is and i have the same question. also is htere a special way to cut them off? maybe put cloning gel on it were it was cut.

And can i take the lower buds i cut off and use those as cloning and try to grow them bigger as cutting?

 

[greatdayn19]

your suppose to cut branches of prior to flowering. cutting of a whole branch will fuck up the levels of built up hormones and cause shock

 

[JohnnyBravo]

Thanks for all the replies....This is my first plant and First attempt at hydro....I can't get over how quickly this thing turned into a monster....It's drinking a 1 1/2 gallons of water a day.....

 

[VictorVIcious]

Thanks for all the replies....This is my first plant and First attempt at hydro....I can't get over how quickly this thing turned into a monster....It's drinking a 1 1/2 gallons of water a day.....

Hey Johnny, Garden Knowm takes his clones four weeks into flowering and there was a thread about this not real long ago. BUT, he was forcing flowering early, like under a foot of height, this is before it would have reached veggetative maturity. That coupled with the lower nigtrogen content of the bloom nutes make this a viable option. At four weeks of flowering they are mpore like two weeks into flowering as far as sexual maturity is concerned, they won't start showing sex until just about that time. I have some plants that have been in flowering for just a little less than a week and the males are already starting to show their sex.
I have taken clones from plants that were flowering for 8 weeks successfully, I did it with 40 of them at once. It took me about three months to get them back to vegging so I could put them in flowering. Can it be done, yes. Would it be quicker to order and plant seeds? yes. VV

 

[JohnnyBravo]

Hey Johnny, Garden Knowm takes his clones four weeks into flowering and there was a thread about this not real long ago. BUT, he was forcing flowering early, like under a foot of height, this is before it would have reached veggetative maturity. That coupled with the lower nigtrogen content of the bloom nutes make this a viable option. At four weeks of flowering they are mpore like two weeks into flowering as far as sexual maturity is concerned, they won't start showing sex until just about that time. I have some plants that have been in flowering for just a little less than a week and the males are already starting to show their sex.
I have taken clones from plants that were flowering for 8 weeks successfully, I did it with 40 of them at once. It took me about three months to get them back to vegging so I could put them in flowering. Can it be done, yes. Would it be quicker to order and plant seeds? yes. VV

Good info to know....I wont be cloning this plant...It is Bag seed and a practice run for the bubblicious seeds I bought from nirvana....Thanks again!!!