First Time Grower, Switching to Flowering, Need Advice

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Mtenda

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Hey All,

Let me first throw it out there that this is my first grow and have made a bunch of mistakes but thanks to a lot of help from the members here, I made it this far so thanks!

Here is what I'm dealing with now:
I'm 10 days into flowering and I have a very uneven canopy... I'm using a Flood and Drain table and originally I was going for a SOG grow but I used clones from a variety of mothers from 4 different strains. I struggled with the cloning as well so many of my clones made it onto the table at different times. As a result, I had to top a few of them to try and keep them level with the rest. Now I have this scrog/sog hybrid grow going which I know is less then optimal. Now that I'm almost 2 weeks into flowing, I have an uneven canopy. On top of that, my girls are growing extremely fast and are rapidly approaching the danger zone of the lights....

My question is, should I cut the top of some of the bigger plants with the intention of evening out my canopy? Or should I just let it go and see what happens? I know typically you don't want to start cutting plants after switching to 12/12 but I'm just worried that the shade will dramatically effect the surrounding plants and that maybe the tallest ones in the center might get burned by the light. I just cut down the legs of the table I'm growing on to reduce the height but any more cutting and its not going to drain properly... The ladies are under a 1000W HPS bulb... I just switched from a MH today. I left that one in there because I read it could potentially reduce the flowering stretch. I'm just starting to see the very tiny beginnings of the buds
forming so i figured it was time for the switch... I've included some pictures of my grow space. If you all could take a look and let me know what you think, I'd appreciate the feedback.

Thanks again for reading my post, Happy Growing.
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Diabolical666

Diabolical666

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It wont hurt them at all. The cut will just scab over and the energy will go to the new top. They wont miss a beat. I cut back any potential stretch ( I have 5 stretchy strains) all threw veg and 1st cpl wks of flower. They look nice and healthy, GJ
 
StinkBud

StinkBud

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Everything is fine bro! Eventually you will need to get a little more distance from the lights though. Just bend the tall stems over as much as you can. If they break don't freak out, that's called super-cropping.

How do you know if your plants are too close to the lights? Hold your hand over the canopy and leave it there for a minute. If the heat starts felling uncomfortable then your lights are too close. I can't see the reflector in the photos, you are running a air-cooled reflector, right?
 
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Mtenda

Member
StinkBud said:
Everything is fine bro! Eventually you will need to get a little more distance from the lights though. Just bend the tall stems over as much as you can. If they break don't freak out, that's called super-cropping.

How do you know if your plants are too close to the lights? Hold your hand over the canopy and leave it there for a minute. If the heat starts felling uncomfortable then your lights are too close. I can't see the reflector in the photos, you are running a air-cooled reflector, right?
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No, unfortunately I just have a stand alone reflector but its a small grow area and I have a couple 8" exhausts to keep the temps down. We'll see how much more they stretch - hopefully they slow down.
 
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