Yield enhancing technique?

[Hopeless One]

I selectively prune off leaves or when possible just reposition the leaf to get more light to a budding site. I was wondering if anyone else does this, as well as what other peoples feelings are when it comes to pruning healthy leaves so that a budding site isnt shaded.

 

[chronic50s]

i leave pruning until mid to late flowering, dont chop too much though!! better to just tuck most of the leaves you can or tie them down (lst) than chop a shitload out...just my knowledge though

 

[highallthetime]

right on. Tie down or use screen type sog/scrog ..

 

[Hopeless One]

Well thats what Ill do then. Thanks for the input.

 

[ooga booga]

I've heard of pulling out the middle fingers of the fan leaves. Purpose is obviously not to allow more light to penetrate deeper down, but instead to make it impossible for that plant to give you the finger.

 

[Hopeless One]

I've heard of pulling out the middle fingers of the fan leaves. Purpose is obviously not to allow more light to penetrate deeper down, but instead to make it impossible for that plant to give you the finger.

Thats a good one!

 

[stinkyattic]

I'd personally never trim any healthy fan leaf, no matter where it was on the plant.
I do, however, believe STRONGLY in the wholesale removal of any BRANCHES that are lame and spindly and bound to produce nothin' but popcorn. Sorry, I have no intention of producing 'baby dro' as I keep hearing it called, haha.
At the time of flower, I prune out my larger plants as if they are rose bushes- eliminate weak stems, anything that crosses or rubs, anything that grows into the center fo the plant, and anything that does not reach the canopy.
If the plant was flowered as a rooted clone, I just remove the scruff from low on the plant, leaving only the strong main stem and healthy bud sites up away from the risk of splashing.
Hope that helps.

 

[SoSincere]

day 1, 7, and 14 of bloom i trim off anything that isnt getting good light, i go crazy with the scissors. I dont trim anything after day 14. This is when dealing with sativa hybrids that stretch about 3x (ak).when i started using this technique i got my first lber (600 watts). I get way better results now than back when i only trimmed on day 1. I think i might try out stinkys idea of leaving the fan leaves on there.

not only is it better yields but pruning is easier due to less popcorn.

 

[Tony Danza]

I use a pretty basic lst technique where I just keep pulling the main trunk over until the sides catch up, usually 4-6 branches will make it to the canopy, which is usually when I flower. All the branches that don't make the canopy after a week of stretching get removed.

I like to leave the fan leaves on in all but two instances, in the early stages of lst I will clip the one fan leaf that always seems to block the light from hitting the main stalk, the other ones that I pull are the ones on the bottom 1-3 nodes that don't get any light and seem to block airflow from top of the coco, I like the base of my plants to stay fresh, so those leaves go too.

 

[JWP]

Flowering clones!
Take a clone from a plant at 3 weeks flower and put it under veg light. Out of the bud will come a lot of new shoots.

 

[SoSincere]

wow jwp, nice lil trick there. Looks like a good way to make quick mother plants

 

[ooga booga]

Flowering clones!
Take a clone from a plant at 3 weeks flower and put it under veg light. Out of the bud will come a lot of new shoots.

I somehow fail to see the difference. Why go through the trouble of taking a cut from a flowering mother to get more shoots via LST, when you can do that anyways with a normal cut?

 

[DangerP]

In my experience you do get a whole lot more branching from a revegged plant than you do a vegging one. The reason, I think, is that in flower the plant starts growing denser tops with much shorter internode length. Think about how many little branches there are in a fully flowered bud, and how close they are together. I really doubt a normal clone will put out anywhere near as much side growth right off the bat as JWP's last picture shows.

I just never like dealing with the time needed to reveg.

 

[JWP]

ooga booga, The LST in this case wasnt used for the normal reasons people would LST rather just to get even growth. It was only tied down for a few days. You cant see in the picture but in the middle were about 30 shoots that would have grown anyway but just been shorter. Count the branches? I challenge you to show me a picture of any LST'd plant throughout the history of growing with this many branches.

SoSincere,Perfect for a mother. You could easily take 150+ clones from this plant in one sitting.

DangerP, Your right and really you only need to add a couple of weeks extra to the planning time. The week or two of time allocated to rooting is also included in the reveg time. I get good roots in 7-10 days with the budget bubble cloner

I'v tried taking a regular clone and a flowering clone side by side just for my own tesing purposes. Time allocated to rooting and flower was 1 month from taking the cut. In that month the regular clone looks like a clear winner. But by the end of flower the flowering clone yeilded 3 times as much as the regular clone. This really is the best yield enhancing technique i have found. Any plant i feel may be a keeper goes through my flowering clone test

This plant pictured was heads G33Bx2 and i dont think you can tell from the leaves in the pic but the original plant was a pretty sativa leaning pheno. This is a great technique to get lots of branches and better light usage from sat dom plants aswell.

 

[Danksta408]

I somehow fail to see the difference. Why go through the trouble of taking a cut from a flowering mother to get more shoots via LST, when you can do that anyways with a normal cut?

Nice.......Ever had any plants hermie from doing this??

 

[bjorn.torske]

we are trying to prune off the leaves when the plant is in the late state of flowering from the same reason as you-more light to buds, less mould in the buds. but this year we left almost everything on mother nature, cos we are not able to take care of all our plants.