What would YOU do?

She's so short, wide, and dense at 4 weeks of veg, what would experienced growers do going forward?

She looks good! Depends on your goals with her. I would defoliate the bottom a bit more, put up a trellis net and begin training using that to create a super wide canopy.

LST open up that canopy more let some light in

Done. Thanks.
Took off 12 fans (some with 9 leaves) which were blocking light from young tops or blocked from light themselves.
At what point would it be suggested to switch to flower and is it recommended to continue to train the canopy for scrog during stretch?

Syncromesh said:

Done. Thanks.
Took off 12 fans (some with 9 leaves) which were blocking light from young tops or blocked from light themselves.
At what point would it be suggested to switch to flower and is it recommended to continue to train the canopy for scrog during stretch? View attachment 4504667View attachment 4504668

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Once your plant is mature meaning you can see the sex of the plant you are ready to go in flower whenever you choose. Expect a 2x or 3x stretch, if you don’t have much space then definitely go into flower sooner than later

For future defoliation, you can try removing some of the inner-facing fan leaves that are blocking light to bud sites. I'm currently dealing with a small bushy plant and this method has made it a lot easier to manage in terms of what to remove and what not to remove. Not to mention it makes it a lot easier to find a spot to tie on to when doing LST. Doing so creates kind of a bowl shape where the outer edges are full of older growth and the center is full of newer growth. Kind of like this..