New Grower First ever grow, Northern Lights auto. Wish me luck!

Trimming by whatever name you call it is going to be something that you do by feel. It’s going to be something that you learn one plant at a time. My own personal opinion is that many people start to early. They here a general set of directions from an experienced grower to trim xxx branch in xxx day. Unfortunately it’s not that easy. You are going to see that certain strains will have different plant structures and that certain primary and secondary nodes act differently.

Things to look out for. Your first two dominant nodes that hopefully are at 90 degrees to each other are going to form the basic structure of you plant along with the main. Once my first and second nodes have enough leaf structure and are branching out(2-3 weeks) I begin to take the two dominant fans from the main stalk to slow it down and let more light into the lower nodes. You can then start two slowly open the plant up and allow those first two nodes to become the structure of the whole plant. As they grow I trim all the stems that come of those branches at 90 degrees to your floor. I leave all the ones that are parallel to the floor. The exception being the furthest one out. I’ll leav the top but take the bottom. As you are allowing the plant to grow and she enters stretch you’ll see her throw out these random shoots straight up from the center of the plant. It will be obvious that they have no chance and you’ll clip them.
My advice would be to go very slowly. The trimming of unwanted branches is not going to be the limiting factor in your first grow. I wouldn’t let over doing it be what ruins it. The most important thing to learn on your first grow will be patience. You really want to get to know how the plants grow before to much abuse. As far as fan leaves go you can take them a bit more liberally when they start to get crowded.

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Trimming by whatever name you call it is going to be something that you do by feel. It’s going to be something that you learn one plant at a time. My own personal opinion is that many people start to early. They here a general set of directions from an experienced grower to trim xxx branch in xxx day. Unfortunately it’s not that easy. You are going to see that certain strains will have different plant structures and that certain primary and secondary nodes act differently.

Things to look out for. Your first two dominant nodes that hopefully are at 90 degrees to each other are going to form the basic structure of you plant along with the main. Once my first and second nodes have enough leaf structure and are branching out(2-3 weeks) I begin to take the two dominant fans from the main stalk to slow it down and let more light into the lower nodes. You can then start two slowly open the plant up and allow those first two nodes to become the structure of the whole plant. As they grow I trim all the stems that come of those branches at 90 degrees to your floor. I leave all the ones that are parallel to the floor. The exception being the furthest one out. I’ll leav the top but take the bottom. As you are allowing the plant to grow and she enters stretch you’ll see her throw out these random shoots straight up from the center of the plant. It will be obvious that they have no chance and you’ll clip them.
My advice would be to go very slowly. The trimming of unwanted branches is not going to be the limiting factor in your first grow. I wouldn’t let over doing it be what ruins it. The most important thing to learn on your first grow will be patience. You really want to get to know how the plants grow before to much abuse. As far as fan leaves go you can take them a bit more liberally when they start to get crowded.

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Thanks, I have only being trimming fan leaves so far when they begin to cover the lower parts of the plants and the first two nodes pulled down give me a nice structure (1)

I'm at (3) now where the first offshoots from main nodes aren't getting much light and trying to occupy the same space so unless stretch kicks in during the next 10-15 days, they won't really get a chance to develop. I'm not going to rush into trimming tho :d5:

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Day 34: no water today or yesterday after 3 days in a row previously although it looks like it might be time in the next 12hrs or so.
No trimming either, just letting her do her thing right now. Really hoping for some stretch though before she starts flowering.



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Day 34: no water today or yesterday after 3 days in a row previously although it looks like it might be time in the next 12hrs or so.
No trimming either, just letting her do her thing right now. Really hoping for some stretch though before she starts flowering.



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