Thanks for your time! Appreciate the in depth breakdown and diagram. Think I might move over some fan leaves to allow those eventual budsites more light to speed up growth on those lowers.
You're welcome. If your intent is to tuck the fan leaves, I think that would be a very gentle option. I am have been doing that with my Pineapple Express plant for now because I don't think it's ready for LST.
This is exactly what I was thinking. Just get them outta the way so those lower shoots get more light and stretch up a bit, hopefully to make it easier to LST. I was planning to start flowering in about 15-17 days from today.. I’ve currently got 8 potential colas.. you think anymore will pop up if I don’t top it again ? I’ve got about 2- 2.5 more feet of comfortable space before light distance would maybe be a factor. Considering it’s will double or triple in height during flower, I’d say 2 weeks more of veg is my max
My understanding is you're growing a Photoperiod cannabis strain. You can top those plants as many times as you want. The plant will always split off into two new branches. A couple of things I have read is to make sure you do it only when the plant is growing vigorously. And, I if you are going to top before flipping, it's best to allow the plant a few days to recover first.
I’ve had some explosive growth from the nodes and now those future bud sites are pretty long. Thinking they are long enough to begin loss stress training. Should I remove those large fan leaves or just tie them so they aren’t dipping into the soil?
When you LST, you are tying down branches only. Remember that Wonka Bars plant I showed you earlier? In that photo, it was actually missing many of the fan leaves the plant started with. The reason is because on my first LST attempt, I tried to tie down leaves. They simply ripped off after a while under the pressure.
Here is the first LST on my Pineapple Express and the 2nd pic is week 1 in flower after applying LST every 3 days since week 2 of Veg. It may have been sooner.
