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Ganjagrandaddy
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A great comment mate thank you very much for that. The girls you have up look good to work with too. Ideally beginning early can save a whole worry and energy for you next run with hitting them earlier, we get to stand back later. Not a major issue though as it looks like airflow will be excellent from them as is. If height isn't an issue and you have enough light to reach the whole lengths , then its just a case of keeping them apart as they fatten with buds. Long and thin could mean preparing support if the buds get fatties. The lowers are usually discarded in the bushier canopies to focus on the ones that are in light and not waste nutes. I think if you stripped the lowers , it would only offer a small boost to the other buds as rolling the dice and letting them finish could. If you decided to supercrop and widen the canopy to create a flatter canopy that given time , could become a bud sea. Any bud site after the bend would move from horizontal to vertical and try to become fed main bud in flowering. The plants use their chemical signals to alter where and who get the most energy and protection so any method used has to allow time for a reset/rejigging of these Auxins. With that in mind , if you chose a height for them all to be cropped over to , you could create a canopy and allow the lower growth to catch up before flipping as the horizontal sorts itself out too. With a strong bend repair , the horizontal will all head upward and create single buds along the branches bent and the lowers will form a more branched version of itself like a mini plant with a huge deformed limb going off to the side. The really low down 1st,2nd nodes would not be too useful but you would soon know if they needed removing.. Dont forget rhe stretch period will almost double them in size too so consider how they will look at finish. You could possibly hit problems if you do keep going upward. A question , how far was the light away from them , they are very lanky and thin for 50 days, assuming their autos mate ?. sativa leaning is a big difference but they look very tall. Any signs of white hairs at the joins of branches yet?.Hope all is well with you Dude!That was one of the most informative posts I’ve read. And that is saying a lot due to all the knowledge bombs dropped freely around this place. What would you do to these plants GG? They’ve been topped and should start flowering soon I would think. They are 50 days old or so. They are loving the nutes. Part of me says a good trim on the underside on the bottom. Maybe two nodes up? Then do a little chiropractor work?
Pardon the pic. They droopy because I just gave them a dose of neem oil spray and put them to bed. They definitely show how these plants like to grow up and how your training works. Good stuff.
NTH
