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rikvasen
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A 600 watt is more efficient than a 900 or above wattage because of the heat. When you have outstanding air circulation, a 1000 watt woul be nice to have so you can put the 1000 watt light closer to the plants than you would normally. With the dpace you have, a 600 watt would be the maximum I would go for
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So, I was considering trimming off the large fan leaves that are blocking the lower sites. I dont want to shock it anymore at this stage, what are your thoughts on this technique? Shouldnt cause too much stress, right? Just folding the larger leaves and taking a bread twist tie to hold it like this:
Some people believe if you let those lower tops sit in shade they will stretch more to reach the light. Ive also been told not to defloiate until all vertical stretch has stopped
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well this is my first go, so I guess I will learn. I'm folding large fan leaves and shining CFL into lower areas. we shall see. she's also flowering very early from what I'm hearing. good? bad? either way it's going to give me meds, I'm cool with THAT. time to order more strains and find my fave.
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How big is this light? What wattage/brand?
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rikvasen
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Is that also an autoflower jimmy?ps. If you want to get more light to the bottom you can "trim" the leaves. No need the chop them right off. Just manicure the ends.
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Folding is fine. It'll get over it. Everything gonna be ok.
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bignugz420
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I.do something similar called ponytailing it is when you use plant ties to put upper leaves bunched together to allow lateral branches to be exposed
rikvasen
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I heared from velk tgat you can train auto's pretty well without stressing them too much. Topping, lollipopping fimming, low stress training. it all seemed to work. I topped my autoflower too and she has experienced no stress.
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The thing with training autos is timing. Their are a couple of good threads dedicated to topping and training autos.
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EricGreenery
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I prefer to tuck them big fan leaves, they hold tonnes of nutrients the plant needs, not just the photosynthesis. Being autos they could do with as much stress reduction as possible. From a personal perspective where I have trialled cutting fan leaves off on my current grow, the plant which had 3 fan leaves chopped off has been stunted for around 3 days now. Maybe I got unlucky, maybe this is natural - That's my own experience of clipping them fan leaves off.
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