New Grower Trimming during flowering, so many opinions???

[Bromeo]

@Jim Dandy. One could do a side by side using a consistent strain like lowryder2 or ss#1. Trim one and tuck the other.

 

[Dominas999]

Gonna have to disagree bro but as you know, different folks and all that lol, here's a pic of my current girl which I've been trimming fan leaves off since the 3rd or maybe the fourth set had appeared to get all the bud sites to raise up. LST without the string lol. Still trimming during flowering as well to allow the light to the buds

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Bud Heads threads are another great example of plants benefiting from early trimming to promote growth.

I do agree though, some will handle it better than others. Just a game of trial and error

:smokebuds:

So really its down to circumstances and whether the grower feels if it will benefit the plant? As said before this is my first grow and this time have opted for the tuck method and seems to be working great, I get more light to the bud sites but also keep most the surface area of the fan leaf in reat light for photosynthesis..

 

[Mr Piggy]

Bud Heads threads are another great example of plants benefiting from early trimming to promote growth.

No, they aren't. He never grew any other style or did any comparison grows so for all we know he was growing them well but stunting them. Without peer reviewed studies that have a proper control, results are pointless.

 

[Mr Piggy]

If you guys want to do a comparison study you can't just use two plants, especially with phenotype variation in autos. I would grow a minimum of six plants for both early flower defoliation and six natural before I would even begin to consider the results valid. You need large numbers for studies, a few won't cut it.

 

[Bromeo]

Trimming like this should be considered intermediate to advanced techniques and treated as such. Its not for beginers.

 

[Captain Howdy]

No, they aren't. He never grew any other style or did any comparison grows so for all we know he was growing them well but stunting them. Without peer reviewed studies that have a proper control, results are pointless.

That's a very good point lol, I blame my current fuzzy head for all the shitty posts recently, my PH has dropped to 5.6, that's my excuse anyways. My apologies to all who have had to read such tripe
Impulse head is in full effect with Sir Logic having fraked off on holiday

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[Bromeo]

Rival man I don't think there was any reason to delete a post. We learn from everything on here bro. We learn from experimentation too. Shit as fast as autos are advancing in ten years trimming and topping might be the new norm. We might look back at the and say "remember when we couldn't trim em". :smokebuds::group::karma Cloud:

 

[Epic Genetics]

omg another trimming thread , oh joy

lol at the new norm

i could have and almost did make a long reply here , but had second thoughts

ill leave it at this,,,,,, for about 2 decades of an approx 4 decade growing i defoliated , back then we had poor lighting (comercial tube flourescents) and we thought we were doing the right thing

jump ahead 2 decades , being told to not defoliate and why , then experiencing the best results in 20+ years of growing , watching the buds swell like never before in thier final couple/few weeks

that is why i get so passionate about this topic some 20 years or so later

peace :Cool:

 

[Dominas999]

Thanks for your advice Bob, better taken from experience :smokebuds:

 

[spiderkamenetzki]

What happens when you get small, squat autos that have too much leaf mass? I had one Vertigo plant with an immense central cola that had so many leaves (that I did not trim, under advice) that as a result contracted bud rot in the aforementioned immense cola, because the air literally could not circulate underneath the foliage and around the bottom of the cola. I'm kicking myself that I didn't trim away some leaves to help get some air down there.