Flowering -Questions, Advice, Issues etc..

Being a first time grower, I"m taking notes as I go along.

- If I've got some bad leaves on a flowering plant, is it okay to trim them off?
I thought I heard somewhere that pruning is bad for a flowering plant or it will divert vital resources that normally go into making your bud good/potent etc.


Actually, that's the only question for right now.
But an observation:

- I'm 3 weeks into flower and I'm starting to see the small buds develping
but they're all at the top. So I took one plant and tied it down (I always try things with only one plant until I know it's ok). The point is to try and get
as much direct light along the length of the plant and on as many of the budding sites as possible right?


And in the 7 hours of light, the tip of the plant, which was pointed sideways,
is curved now now pointing up again. What a dramatic change in such little time!

 

Yes you should remove yellow or rapidly yellowing leaves, but too many, too early would indicate a nitrogen or phosphorus defeciency, calcium- could be quite a few things.
Id hit it with budswell and cal- mag plus if your this early in flowering and losing leaves.Maybe a shot of superthrive too.That should cover all of the above.

 

Bending a plant over exposes more bud sites on 1/2 of the plant only.
I like to wait until the leaves fall off by themselves, or fall off when touched.
You can use twist ties or pipe cleaners to rearrage fan leaves that are blocking light.

 

you mean like this

 

That is wild landrace columbian, who says ya can't grow native sativa indoor? I found this one very huge and unruly, but manageable in a SCROG.She has a full 8 more weeks of flowering to do.

 

those look so green and healthy! My buds are starting to look just like that.
My girls started off super-fast in veg state but now that the humidity has shot up (and I only get to vent the room during 6 hours of my light cycle) they've slowed down a lot. I heard this has something to do with the relative humidity where there's less plant transpiration which has something to do with slower growth.

About the calcium/phosphorous/whatever deficiency.. I don't suppose that miracle grow helps with any of that? Is there anything I can get at a hardware store (homehardware, canadian tire, grocery summer parking lot garden thing) nutrient wise
to help my plants? They're not doing horribly.. yet they're not looking as green as your plants pictured above.

 

If you trim some leaves then more resin will go to the ones that are there. Making less, but more potent marijuana I believe.

 

Sorry buxillafion, that's incorrect.
Leaves are food factories; they also store nutrients during veg that are expended during flowering.

 

Im just geussing. It sends more of something somewhere.

Thats what my friends says.

He is a nerd.

 

S,Ca,Fe,Mn,B,and Cu are considered fixed nutrients,meaning they cannot be borrowed from elsewhere witrhin the plant(i:e built into cell structure and these are what is needed to develope new leaf structure and deficiencies of these will always show first on new leaves


N,P,,K,Mg,Mo,and Zn are nutrients that are easily shuffled around within the plant from one place to another where needed for example if a soil is low in N the plant will use up N in lower/older leaves to supply where it is needed,typically newer growth and this in one of the reasons lower leaves yellow and begin dropping mid-late flower.

Older leaves are the factories that store and supply the shuffled nutrients to the newer growth should a soil deficiency occur.

 

Now there's a guy we can all learn something from......
Mine are on horsepoop,turkey manure, composted with leaves and grass and houshold trash. Winter the worms thrive in there, summer they go deeper.
I had to add gypsum, and ironite because it was there, and the plants needed it.
Im about to upgrade to guanos and pureblend, mosltly for fruiting (budswell)and getting them to grab soil (pureblend).
Im winging it, but that sativa is over 6 months old and health regardless of them spidermites i keep finding.
I'll spray soap every three days I am lazy when it comes to mites. Keep them under control is the main.