Did I overdo it with this girl?

Hello all, I feeling a bit nervous as I started with 2 feminized diesels and now only have one. Sadly, one plant went hermi in week 2 of flower so it had to go.
Anyway, I may have gotten a little too overzealous training this plant. I bent and tied down, super cropped and lollipopped over and over. I’m now wondering if I over did things as many of the “tops” are spindly to say the least.
I flipped on 1/9 and saw the first real budlets starting to form on about 1/15, so as of today it’s only been flowering for 2 full weeks. But to me it doesn’t look like they are hitting on all cylinders…..
Full disclosure, the plant has been snipped and tucked and moved about continuously…..it shouldn’t be messed with anymore and can finally get some peace and quiet.
What do you think? I’m totally fine with lots of solid smaller nuggets instead of a couple of huge donkey d!ck$……I just hope I didn’t overdo it trying to get them.
thanks all

Looking good to me.

Looks good. If anything I see more lollipoping that can and probably should be done.

Yeah….I’m not really showing any glaring problems and have been a little too “handsy” with it, so I’m guessing if it can be left alone, with no more training, defoliation, etc., it should do its thing.
It’s getting plenty of light and I think I’m dialed in on the feeding & watering. I’ll let u know how she turns out.

Wizzlebiz said:

Looks good. If anything I see more lollipoping that can and probably should be done.

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I left a skirt of big fan leaves on purpose. I guess my thinking is they serve as a nutrient reserve. I’ve taken off almost every bud site that isn’t getting direct light or is tightly connected to one that is.
Like I said, I’ve done more to this plant than I have ever before and she probably needs some idle time.
But I’m always up for considering advice and now is no different.
I thought about removing some of the skinnier branches that only have one single flower on top, but decided to leave everything that was getting light.

As stated
Trim off those lower leaves and avoid future issues
You don’t need a leaf reservoir if you feed it well

Buds are stacking up - looks pretty uniform.
Your lighting can also impact flower formation , speaking of primary lighting not that feint panel to side ( which barely would be of help ) .

Minor cleanup - underside - removing microgrowth ( suckers ) will keep those little areas from stealing food. As they will never add to end harvest.

Plant looks pretty good to me at canopy.

Budzbuddha said:

Buds are stacking up - looks pretty uniform.
Your lighting can also impact flower formation , speaking of primary lighting not that feint panel to side ( which barely would be of help ) .

Minor cleanup - underside - removing microgrowth ( suckers ) will keep those little areas from stealing food. As they will never add to end harvest.

Plant looks pretty good to me at canopy.

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My bro-in law gave me those 2 side lights…..he was really proud to contribute to my effort. I don’t know squat about lights really so I hung them and figured they would hurt, plus it made my bro in law feel good.
I did try to measure their output with my Photone app and it was practically nothing.
The app is relatively accurate and my main light (1x HLG 320xl r-spec) is right around 900ppfd at a 16” canopy height. I put the meter 2” from the sidelight and it was only registering 350ppfd.
It’s probably a waste of electricity even running them.

Bullmark said:

My bro-in law gave me those 2 side lights…..he was really proud to contribute to my effort. I don’t know squat about lights really so I hung them and figured they would hurt, plus it made my bro in law feel good.
I did try to measure their output with my Photone app and it was practically nothing.
The app is relatively accurate and my main light (1x HLG 320xl r-spec) is right around 900ppfd at a 16” canopy height. I put the meter 2” from the sidelight and it was only registering 350ppfd.
It’s probably a waste of electricity even running them.

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Plus he's an in law, fuck em.

Bullmark said:

My bro-in law gave me those 2 side lights…..he was really proud to contribute to my effort. I don’t know squat about lights really so I hung them and figured they would hurt, plus it made my bro in law feel good.
I did try to measure their output with my Photone app and it was practically nothing.
The app is relatively accurate and my main light (1x HLG 320xl r-spec) is right around 900ppfd at a 16” canopy height. I put the meter 2” from the sidelight and it was only registering 350ppfd.
It’s probably a waste of electricity even running them.

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A phone app isn't likely to pick up the light off.those LEDs. Use a par meter if you'd like accurate measurements. A phone app can't and won't give you an accurate reading. More like 'the best it can do'. If I'm trying to measure specific values I'd like to have the proper equipment to get said reading. It's like saying well my grow area is 25 hotdogs long x 10 hotdogs wide. I don't have a tape measure so I'm just using hotdogs instead
Then doing math on a ridiculous number that doesn't make sense anyways
{25hotdogsx10hotdogs} - {square root of pork x 3.14}, x 6 = a number that doesn't mean shit.

Jjgrow420 said:

A phone app isn't likely to pick up the light off.those LEDs. Use a par meter if you'd like accurate measurements. A phone app can't and won't give you an accurate reading. More like 'the best it can do'. If I'm trying to measure specific values I'd like to have the proper equipment to get said reading. It's like saying well my grow area is 25 hotdogs long x 10 hotdogs wide. I don't have a tape measure so I'm just using hotdogs instead
Then doing math on a ridiculous number that doesn't make sense anyways
{25hotdogsx10hotdogs} - {square root of pork x 3.14}, x 6 = a number that doesn't mean shit.

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I agree the phone apps can vary wildly. I have the PAR or PPFD chart from my light manufacturer showing the supposed levels at various distances. I tested the phone app and it was way off…..reading too high. With the phone app you have to place a strip of white paper over the top of the phone as a diffuser for the ppfd to read. I played around with the thickness of the paper until I found an option that lined the phone app readings up with the manufacturer’s output chart. So I figure it’s pretty close but I don’t really use it for anything other than messing around.