New Grower 2nd grow, mephistos 6 plants

Agreed I tuck or tie mine about everyday you will be surprised how much growth you will see after tucking the right leaf! Your girls are looking great btw. I’m running 6 auto ultimates myself right now trust me when I say tuck away with that limited space get the branches high before they crowd.
Thanks for the feedback guys, some nice growth the last few days and I did some tucking and more training now we’re looking at a pretty even plane of green and colas :biggrin:
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I’ve switched on one of the cobs to give more light. Should I do some defoliation before the stretch and flowering?
 
Thanks for the feedback guys, some nice growth the last few days and I did some tucking and more training now we’re looking at a pretty even plane of green and colas :biggrin:
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I’ve switched on one of the cobs to give more light. Should I do some defoliation before the stretch and flowering?
I would only defoliate where buds are not getting light.
 
Agreed on defoliation only if the bud site can not get light. Other than that, keep those leaves there until again you will need to clear stuff out more for bud sites.
 
Got it, it’s okay if the leaves touch or stack on each other? I’m just afraid of getting wet spots or blocked airflow
 
If you have good airflow around the plants and proper RH you will be fine. Those leaves are photosynthesizing and that means more dope!!!:vibe:

We like more dope dude,...no really though, only defoliate right now when bud sites are being blocked, but that means the lower sites as well. Get the light to them somehow or lollipop them off. No sense in continuing to grow anything that won't give you buds later.:smokeit:
 
If you have good airflow around the plants and proper RH you will be fine. Those leaves are photosynthesizing and that means more dope!!!:vibe:

We like more dope dude,...no really though, only defoliate right now when bud sites are being blocked, but that means the lower sites as well. Get the light to them somehow or lollipop them off. No sense in continuing to grow anything that won't give you buds later.:smokeit:
Planning on lolipopping them off, made the mistake of leaving lower growth last time and got lots of airy and underdeveloped buds. When would you suggest doing so? I probably want to do it before giving them a chance to grow bigger
 
Lollipopping is always done in the second week of flower before the buds add any really weight once the stretch is completely over. That is the best time to do it. Some people do it one week earlier. Up to you. If you don't think the bud can get light during the grow and won't stretch into position, it is best to chop them. In your case, with so much green in that space, you should definitely lollipop heavily and then the upper canopy buds will increase in size!
 
You can run paper clips through the cloth pots as anchors to use pipe cleaners or wire to help train the girls if you like. That was a solution I used when I ran cloth pots a few years back.
 
Those pipe cleaners are great! Easy for manipulating branches and stems where you want them. I poke holes in top of the pots and anchor down the main stalk with them. I’ll update with some pics soon
 
Hey guys, hope everyone had an awesome New Years! I had a nice little reunion with old friends and got to try some really tasty smooth crumble:woohoo:

We’re currently a little over a week of flowering on day 41, here’s how the tents looking at the moment
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I know I know.. it’s looking like a jungle in there right now but I’ve been selectively defoliating if they aren’t able to be tucked, lots of the lower buds do actually get some bit of light you can’t really tell in the photos. I didn’t want to defoliate too much yet because the newer bud sites hadn’t fully developed leaves yet and didn’t want to risk slowing the growth. I experimented with a node and snipped one of the fan leafs and the next day the bud site that still had its fan leaf was defitely way more developed.
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I’m going to lolipop them hopefully next week if the stretch is over and also do a bigger round of defoliation, maybe then I can see my tent floor again :crying: if anyone has anymore feedback or advice on this I’d love to hear it!

Temp and humidity have been pretty stable, I’ve been keeping it an average of 72F and 52% rh. I’ve been trying to keep the humidity a little lower because I’m deathly afraid of getting WPM :nono:
again. So far these girls have been taking my improved feeding schedule like champs! I just pushed it up to 1000 ppms or 2.0 EC and haven’t had any signs of nute stress or burning unlike last grow my gorilla glues capped at around 700 ppms and burned every time I tried to push higher. I’ll be slowly dropping the N week by week as they push further into flower.
Hope everyone has a great weekend and smoke a fat one for me! :smoking:
 
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