Trim leaves in veg

josh5794

josh5794

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20” to close for those lights they need to be a good meter away at this stage buddy and yes 7 10 days water you will see a vast improvement. So for now I’d say lights up and no water for a bit should get u back on track mate
 
carsunltd32

carsunltd32

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josh5794 said:
20” to close for those lights they need to be a good meter away at this stage buddy and yes 7 10 days water you will see a vast improvement. So for now I’d say lights up and no water for a bit should get u back on track mate
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I’ll give it a shot. Watered 2 days ago so I’ll wait another 4 days and check. Also I’ll raise the lights
 
josh5794

josh5794

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Both those things lights and water I would address ASAP keep the pics coming and can keep the advice coming it’s all a learning curve but that’s the fun bit
 
carsunltd32

carsunltd32

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Thanks for all the help guys. Not the easiest thing to balance everything but since this is the first run I know there is much I have to learn
 
carsunltd32

carsunltd32

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Did some trimming of the lower leaves last night. Most of them had rust spots anyway, figured I would let more light and air hit the plants since the lower parts were being blocked. I only took like 10% of the lower fan leaves. Was this a bad idea or will it actually help promote growth.

Today will be 3 days since last watering, the pots feel really light. Should I continue to wait till they start wilting or should I water them tonight or tomorrow morning ?
 

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Herb & Suds

Herb & Suds

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carsunltd32 said:
Did some trimming of the lower leaves last night. Most of them had rust spots anyway, figured I would let more light and air hit the plants since the lower parts were being blocked. I only took like 10% of the lower fan leaves. Was this a bad idea or will it actually help promote growth.

Today will be 3 days since last watering, the pots feel really light. Should I continue to wait till they start wilting or should I water them tonight or tomorrow morning ?
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Plants absorb light thru leaves not thru buds
More leaves stronger plant growth
 
carsunltd32

carsunltd32

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Herb & Suds said:
Damaged is brown and down
A mistake just leaves them discolored but still pulling in light
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Well too late now. This is the first run and I’m not expecting miracles. Just more testing and experimenting to get things right (hopefully) or wrong.

I appreciate all of the advice so I can get better as time goes on and I get more experience.
 
INF Flux

INF Flux

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A lot of us "lollipop" our plants as a matter of sop. Removing lower leaves that aren't getting much light anyways should be fine.
There's two schools of thought on this. Precious solar panels, and hedge trimming. I tend to lean towards the side of aggressively trimming and training the plants. As with all things, there are good and bad ways to go about doing that. I learned by watching others and judging the effect of what they were doing before trying things out on a test plant or two.
 
1fuckface

1fuckface

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carsunltd32 said:
I’m on my first grow and so far things haven’t gone too badly. I water the ladies with deionized water and made a bit of a mistake. Since deionization takes out all of the minerals in the water I should have supplemented with cal-mag. Well I didn’t do that and after about 4 weeks growth came to a halt and a couple leaves got the calcium deficiency rust spots. That was a few days ago and after a foliar spraying and watering with cal-mag things seem to be going back to normal. Growth has started back up and the plants in general look much happier.

My question is should I trim off those darker older leaves to give light to the newer and non rusty growth?
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you CAN'T beat real 100% free
rain water.
 
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