Colas are ready but the bottom is fluff...what do I do?

It looks like a jungle in here. What can I do? The tops are huge, branches are snapping, it looks wild but I am concerned about the bottoms. They are very fluffy and not ripe like the tops. I want to give the garden a buzz cut and even re-introduce nutrients or additives that will tighten up them. What is a good way to approach this? Another light? please....I would love to hear ideas. This is an out-of control scenario. HELP.

Chop whats ready, do some canopy control, let the rest ripen?

Whats the problem?

I need a chainsaw. They are flushed....should I feed them? My guess is that they could easily go 10 more days and my instinct is to feed them something to aid them in this shock. I am used to average sized uniform canopies this is just rainforest....I have lost access to plants. It's a lot of buds and I just was looking for suggestions beyond light.

Yes feed them....Flushing is a bunch of nonsense that makes literally NO SCIENTIFIC SENSE...

If you need a chainsaw to chop whats ready, use a chainsaw! And congrats!

I smoke the little whispy crappy buds first while I am waiting on the real buds to properly cure.
Also use it to give to "friends".

SnotBoogie said:

Yes feed them....Flushing is a bunch of nonsense that makes literally NO SCIENTIFIC SENSE... If you need a chainsaw to chop whats ready, use a chainsaw! And congrats!

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Its' not me flooding out the salts all at once like most people think. The plants get fed daily to runoff and I just dilute my nutrients and let the plants eat what is left. It's a guilty habit I suppose. Thanks for the advice.

Those little undeveloped buds near the bottom of the plant wont ever grow and swell up like the top colas. The plant puts its energy into growing the top buds as they have the best chance of being pollinated.

I dont think its worth cutting the tops off and leaving those to grow more. IME, they will never get close to the original tops.

Next time, prune lower branches early in flowering. This will allow the plant to use all of its energy producing quality tops/.

MYOB said:

Those little undeveloped buds near the bottom of the plant wont ever grow and swell up like the top colas. The plant puts its energy into growing the top buds as they have the best chance of being pollinated. I dont think its worth cutting the tops off and leaving those to grow more. IME, they will never get close to the original tops. Next time, prune lower branches early in flowering. This will allow the plant to use all of its energy producing quality tops/.

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This strain produces golf ball size nugs very far down the stem as well as large dense colas, I do not expect them to swell up much but they could use some light to get dense. There is too much potential to walk away. It is an old school OG and a lot of it. They are 5 feet tall. I am gonna see what I can do.

If you've got the time and room to spare go for it. I'd like to see the results.

balls-deep in that shit!

Cut what you want stick the rest outside.

Get on the bho bandwagon and use the lowers for production!
I make hash out of mine, those powerful extracts scare the sit outta me! Lol

^^ bho or hash is what i would use it for, Hell even make some butter

Yeah..straight bho material down there.

xmax said:

balls-deep in that shit!

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OP if you look at this picture from xmax look at the bottom of the plant. I was taught to take a ruler and chop off the bottom 1' to 1.5' of skirting. It never produces anything meaningful (I know this because I didn't listen), and it steals nutrient that could go to the main colas. So just get rid of them from whatever height you choose on down. For me when I run my 600 HPS for flower I remove about 18" but with my 1000 HPS I only have to remove the first 1'.

Oh and when I flower around their second week (after stretch when I see how tall they are going to be), is when I determine where to trim.
hth,

If you top+train(bend) there will be less bottom buds and less to chop off the bottom.
Also increased yield with most strains. Multiple Tops ftw

I've got a couple strains I can keep them ~ 18" tall x 24"+ wide and get pure dense nugs with ~4-8 tops and ~50-70 grams dry per plant. I never thought I'd get that much off of 2ft tall plants until I tried it.