A few newb questions about lollipopping and nutes in veg.

Hey guys,

Got 2 young clones I'm vegging at the moment. Had them for about a month. Growing in Soil with a T5 fluorescent light. Had some initial transplant shock at first but they've been super healthy and fast growers since then.

My first question is about nutrients. For the past month I've only been feeding my plants PH'd water no nutes or anything else. Should I start giving my vegging plants nutes or am I good to just use PH'd water? I want to grow these girls to be pretty big, clone, then kick them into flower after I get a good amount of clones so I can continue with future batches.

My second question is I have a lot of smaller foliage towards the bottom of the plants and I want to remove a bit. Are they too young for lollipopping/trimming of smaller leaves near the bottom? See picture attached and pay attention to all the smaller leaves towards the bottom of the plant. I don't want to get rid of all of it just a little bit of the excess fan leaves towards the bottom but I want to make sure I don't stress out my young clones.

Thanks for all the great tips and help as always!

Are you doing soil with organics or using chem fert? I'm doing organic nutes in soil, but I was told not to use ph up or down if you can help it, and to let the micro herd adjust the ph. I've been doing that the past 2 grows with the same soil and when I tested the runoff the few times I have It's always the same, no matter if the ph of the solution going in is 4 or 8, it still came out 6.
For the second part I say trim away. The sooner you can remove parts of the plant your not going to keep anyways, the better once they are heathly enough, and yours are. But don't go crazy. I do it gradually and constantly defoliate little by little.
But those are looking wonderful.
Another thing is that if you are planning on cloning them later, is to leave a few bottom branches that you can cut off later and use for your clones. Bottom branches clone better, but I forgot why.
Keep it up

PadawanWarrior said:

Are you doing soil with organics or using chem fert? I'm doing organic nutes in soil, but I was told not to use ph up or down if you can help it, and to let the micro herd adjust the ph. I've been doing that the past 2 grows with the same soil and when I tested the runoff the few times I have It's always the same, no matter if the ph of the solution going in is 4 or 8, it still came out 6.
For the second part I say trim away. The sooner you can remove parts of the plant your not going to keep anyways, the better once they are heathly enough, and yours are. But don't go crazy. I do it gradually and constantly defoliate little by little.
But those are looking wonderful.
Another thing is that if you are planning on cloning them later, is to leave a few bottom branches that you can cut off later and use for your clones. Bottom branches clone better, but I forgot why.
Keep it up

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I'm running soil with organics, no chem fertilizer. Great input on that I'll experiment with not using PH up or down.

Awesome thanks so much. I'll only be trimming the smaller leaves. I want to keep all the branches for cloning and LST.
Thanks for the input man! Glad you think they look good.

They look great. You may want to top them too. t5s don't give off much light the further away they get. I keep my t5s about 2 inches away for my veg tent. Glad too hear you plan on LST. Now I'm doing a mixture of mainlining, LST, and supercropping. And what type of organic nutes are you using?