Harvesting tops first.

I have seen this done outdoors with good results but not indoors. I would be interested to see if it impacted yield enough to be worth the electricity.

I wet trim so I dim my lights around day 60 and start going at it starting with the tops.. Because there is quite a bit of work, it takes me awhile to do it anyways. For this reason I harvest tops first . But if your cutting the whole harvest down at once and have another batch ready to go... I think that the little bit of weight you might gain would be lost be the setback of having to wait the extra days.

won't you be flushing the crop then taking the tops and letting the rest grow on water alone or reintroduce nutes again, not sure.

Kevinrc10 said:

won't you be flushing the crop then taking the tops and letting the rest grow on water alone or reintroduce nutes again, not sure.

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Good question, but not everybody flushes and if you're growing in soil there's no point to flushing IMO.

rikdabrick said:

I guess the question you'll get to answer hopefully is whether it's worth it to set your next crop a week back for possibly 10% better yields and better looking lower and inner buds. It'll be interesting to see what you think is better.

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that is what it will come down too. if its 10 percent more that would be over a half a pound extra on my crop. I think that might be worth it

Kevinrc10 said:

won't you be flushing the crop then taking the tops and letting the rest grow on water alone or reintroduce nutes again, not sure.

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I don't flush

only thing I flush is the toilet

patrickkawi37 said:

I wet trim so I dim my lights around day 60 and start going at it starting with the tops.. Because there is quite a bit of work, it takes me awhile to do it anyways. For this reason I harvest tops first . But if your cutting the whole harvest down at once and have another batch ready to go... I think that the little bit of weight you might gain would be lost be the setback of having to wait the extra days.

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if its just a week extra to get 10 percent wich would be a half a pound it would be way worth it

but something tells me it would be longer than a week. but even 2 weeks for a half a pound. put it this way would you throw plant in right after harvest if you knew you could pull a half pound off it? its only cutting into veg time. theres ways around that.

MrStickyScissors said:

only thing I flush is the toilet

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Yeah and sometimes you don't even need to do that, "If it's yellow, it's mellow" ya know? Ha ha, jk..... kind of

MrStickyScissors said:

but something tells me it would be longer than a week. but even 2 weeks for a half a pound. put it this way would you throw plant in right after harvest if you knew you could pull a half pound off it? its only cutting into veg time. theres ways around that.

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You might be right, it might be closer to two. I usually cut my plants in 3 cuts. I cut the tops first and then probably about a week later the middle section and then probably close to a week later the bottom 3rd or so. I don't really time when I cut the plant after the first cut so I'm not really sure how long I let it go for, but it probably is close to two weeks for the bottom portion.

I took some pics today of the bottom section of one of my plants and some nug shots so you could see how they mature.

This is the bottom third of the plant.

These are some of the most inner bottom buds. Sorry for the finger



So you can see they mature up nicely and bulk up a bit with the extra time. The strain is Sky Walker OG x Pipeline, just FYI.

yeah I think thats the way to go. I wonder how dramatic the results will be inside

I'm curious to find out to and I don't even flower indoors. It just seems like a cool thing to find out.

for some reason i think it may be more of a dramatic result indoor just because the lowers are so much smaller

Yes i grow indoors hydro an do this from time to time, had a auto blue that lasted about a month clipping bud after bud.

Interested. Although, my drying room is my flower room so something would have to change. Like the idea of splitting up the task.

Wats everyone's thoughts on scrogging? Is it worth the extra work involved? Also is it only for a low number of plants or can I scrog 70 plants? I've got a space of about 3m wide and 11m long (see photo) is it even possible to do a scrog this big???

I normally use tomatoes cages/ cains to support my girls, but I'm thinking its time for a change and I like the idea of scrogging but it would mean u would have to attend the grow every other day to train them but I need to maximise yeild so any advice??

ianlfc1 said:

I normally use tomatoes cages/ cains to support my girls, but I'm thinking its time for a change and I like the idea of scrogging but it would mean u would have to attend the grow every other day to train them but I need to maximise yeild so any advice??

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The only reason someone would need to scrog 70 plants is for support. 70 plants will fill the canopy without the scrog.

why do you grow them so tall?