Pruning?

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Weed-noob

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First time grower and I'm asking myself. Is pruning worth it? Or is it just one of those myth like "flushing" the fertilizer out of the plant...

I'm 2 weeks into flower, when should I consider pruning my plant if it's worth it. Is this plant going to have a lot of weight to her judging by all the tops by lst'ing and topping.

Sorry for the Hps lighting! IMG_0348.JPG
 
No biggy ...you need a control point

you not the plant

FIM/trim next grow

so you can make an on the spot disission

perhaps to late this grow

good luck
 
vostok said:
No biggy ...you need a control point

you not the plant

FIM/trim next grow

so you can make an on the spot disission

perhaps to late this grow

good luck
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I need a control point? I don't understand... To late this grow!? You're saying it's to late to prune?
 
You never want to remove more than 30% of a plants leaves in a single session, it will cause huge amounts of stress. Also leaves are solar panels that will eventually have their energy pulled into the nodes to help produce abundant flowers,so you really want to leave as many as possible daily tucking is what I prefer unless it's blocking multiple sites. you could larf the underside and remove small branches and flowers that appear noticeably loser. This will focus growth towards the main branches and give you a better overall grade of flowers. I usually larf after the stretch, with that said It all comes down to you
with superficial lighting you definitely should prune in my opinion, helps maximize yields, creating that blanket of flowers, with a program of lst,supercropping, and fiming
 
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Weed-noob said:
First time grower and I'm asking myself. Is pruning worth it? Or is it just one of those myth like "flushing" the fertilizer out of the plant...

I'm 2 weeks into flower, when should I consider pruning my plant if it's worth it. Is this plant going to have a lot of weight to her judging by all the tops by lst'ing and topping.

Sorry for the Hps lighting! View attachment 3917808
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I'm not a believer in the heavy pruning thing. I've got two in flower right now, and one was pruned pretty heavy in early veg, the other wasn't. We'll see in a few more weeks what the difference is.

I just selectively prune any undergrowth that's not healthy.

http://imgur.com/a/Ivl71
 
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The leaves are there for a reason. Cutting them off isn't gonna increase anything but the amount of stem visible. It's a simple relationship between bud and leaf called sink and source. Leaves need light the bud sites don't. A bud's job is to make seed not food. the leaves have chloroplasts needed for photosynthesis, the stomata that allow gas exchange and transiration to take place. If removing leaves at the top of the plant to allow light to reach the bottom sounds good, look up inverse square law of light to see how rapidly the strength of the light diminishes in a very short distance. OP your plant looks great full and healthy don't fuck it up by hacking the shit out of it.
 
KryptoBud said:
The leaves are there for a reason. Cutting them off isn't gonna increase anything but the amount of stem visible. It's a simple relationship between bud and leaf called sink and source. Leaves need light the bud sites don't. A bud's job is to make seed not food. the leaves have chloroplasts needed for photosynthesis, the stomata that allow gas exchange and transiration to take place. If removing leaves at the top of the plant to allow light to reach the bottom sounds good, look up inverse square law of light to see how rapidly the strength of the light diminishes in a very short distance. OP your plant looks great full and healthy don't fuck it up by hacking the shit out of it.
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Great info Thanks!
 
nfhiggs said:
I'm not a believer in the heavy pruning thing. I've got two in flower right now, and one was pruned pretty heavy in early veg, the other wasn't. We'll see in a few more weeks what the difference is.

I just selectively prune any undergrowth that's not healthy.

http://imgur.com/a/Ivl71
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I do have yellow leaves at the bottom, I hear it's normal during flower, I'll remove them tomorrow during lights on, thanks!
 
KryptoBud said:
The leaves are there for a reason. Cutting them off isn't gonna increase anything but the amount of stem visible. It's a simple relationship between bud and leaf called sink and source. Leaves need light the bud sites don't. A bud's job is to make seed not food. the leaves have chloroplasts needed for photosynthesis, the stomata that allow gas exchange and transiration to take place. If removing leaves at the top of the plant to allow light to reach the bottom sounds good, look up inverse square law of light to see how rapidly the strength of the light diminishes in a very short distance. OP your plant looks great full and healthy don't fuck it up by hacking the shit out of it.
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While I generally agree with this, I would point out that the inverse square law really only applies to a 360 degree radiator, not a light source that is focused by reflectors and/or lenses. The tighter the light is focused, the less it falls off over distance. A precisely focused laser for instance, does not appreciably fall off at all, even over miles.
 
I don't know how lasers work or know about focusing light into a beam in a grow room. My understanding of this is if you double the distance between the light and the plant you have 1/4 the intensity. Triple the distance you have 1/9 the intensity. quadruple it you'd have 1/16 the intensity and so on. Intensity drops from the distance of the bulb to the plant squared. Is that incorrect?
 
KryptoBud said:
I don't know how lasers work or know about focusing light into a beam in a grow room. My understanding of this is if you double the distance between the light and the plant you have 1/4 the intensity. Triple the distance you have 1/9 the intensity. quadruple it you'd have 1/16 the intensity and so on. Intensity drops from the distance of the bulb to the plant squared. Is that incorrect?
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again - the inverse square law applies to a 360 radiator. When you have ANY kind of focusing, whether a reflector or lens, it simply does not apply. The more "parallel" the spread is, the less it drops off.
 
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