Let me get the resident expert on autos in coco to help you: @Not2SureYet grows some of the best autos I’ve seen.
You could start some LST and tuck leaves under side branches but timing for anything more aggressive is critical or you’ll stall the plant. Let him weigh in and hopefully fine tune your grow.
You are doing great. Before I go to far. The most important thing I can tell you since this is all fresh in you mind to to detail every thing you did to get this started from day one. It may seem easy to replicate. But after a few months some details get a little fuzzy. Yours took off like my very first grow did. And I am still fighting to get back to starting that well again.
Now, as you may have noticed. I doubt you are seeing pre flowers yet. I wouldn’t expect you to see them till at least the end of week 5. You get a little longer veg time in coco as to soil. I would either turn your light down some or raise it. That things is super tight node wise. I know so strains are like that naturally. But I haven’t seen any GG like that. Since you are using Jacks. I upped my epsom salt to 1.4 per gallon and it has kept me from seeing the mag deficiency you showed above. If you wanted. You could stat trimming a few of the larger fan leaves near the bottom for a little room to feed. I do a feed, feed, water my self. If I don’t. My run off ppms will shoot well over 2,000 in a week. You could top of fim. But as tight as that looks to be. I am not sure it would benefit you much. It will not be long before you may want to thin that out a little. I have done 2 plants that were short and fat like that. Both did good.
You are on the right track and have a lot of good people here keeping an eye on you.
I’ll up my epsom salt, appreciate the tip! I’ve also raised my light a bit to get a little more stretching.
I did remove a couple of the fan leaves from the first node. How aggressive should I get with defoliation? Part of me wants to get rid of the big fan leaves from the bottom 2-3 nodes as well as the little sucker branches coming off some of the larger branches. Is it too early to start doing that now?
That may be why yours is so tight. I run a 18/6 my self. I use the lights to help control my stretch. I try to work them so they are where I want by the time they hit my scrog. I would not worry about taking any more off the bottom till you are finished with your pre flower. The white pistols you see there are showing you she is a girl. You will see white hairs starting up top on the bud site area once you hit preflower. I would say you still have a little more time before she shows she is ready to flower
Alright folks, we’re 30 days out of the ground and moving right along. We’ve started to flower. I switched the light cycle to 20/4. We’ve seen a decent amount of stretching since then. I’m in a 2x2x4 and am guessing this girl will push to the top of this tent. Is it worth it to consider super cropping, or even just tying down the top cola? 75 F / 45 RH @Nicky@Not2SureYet
If that is the only one in there. I would be super cropping the main top since it doesn’t look like you topped it. I just super cropped my C&C in 5 places in mid flower because of height issues.You are right to worry. Looking at the space you have left to work with. That will be in the light quick. @Nicky got a hold of a taller 2x4 than we get here. I am guessing yours here is a 5’ or 6’ one. I just grew a photo I flipped at 5 weeks and it grew with in a few inches of my light in a 80" tent. And that was with the light at the top of the tent. My filter is out side the tent. You can easily spread the side branches some. Each of these super cropped branches grew big colas still. This picture below is the one I just did. So you have the option of waiting till you know it will need super cropped. You can see I was farther into flower than you are right now.
I use safety pins on the sides of the pots to use as anchor points. And then pull the branches down as needed. You can start easy and pull them down a little more over time if you need. Basically you open her up as @Nicky said. Once you are at a point where you are cleaning up leaves. You will get light to all the buds better
So lollipop is the process of removing the bottom half of the canopy.
Defoilation is the fan leafs above that.
Then remove the sicker branches thst are tiny and those buds steal energy from your actual branches