wow I am fo sho along fo the ride.
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166w Rubbermaid Bonanza purple style
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padawan
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nice dank harvest should cure nicely for a 
christmas, well done. 
padawan
Member
you got me thinking mr tony. I might try a experiment with a couple since i have a few that i think are the same pheno type. So it would be a good comparison test. Thanks for the link.
I trimmed my first grow like that and got a pretty good yield. I always trim the bottom up because the cfls light dosnt really go that far and to help circulation. But it just seems like the ongoing debate. Some swear by it. Some swear against it. Id like to see some side by sides. BUt i havent found any of those yet. You?
I trimmed my first grow like that and got a pretty good yield. I always trim the bottom up because the cfls light dosnt really go that far and to help circulation. But it just seems like the ongoing debate. Some swear by it. Some swear against it. Id like to see some side by sides. BUt i havent found any of those yet. You?
colonelcrackers
Active member
I SCRoG in my Tub, so I let all the fans below the screen start to yellow and remove them. You're doing it SOG style, so you have 2 schools of thought, you can either let them grow au naturale, or you can lollipop them, in other words, remove anything below 12" from the light, as the light past 1ft from the CFLs diminishes 4x for every foot past the light source (inverse of squares law, I believe.) Make sure you don't remove the fans that are above 1ft, because as you said before, they are the "solar panels" for your plants, converting light and sugars to energy for the plant.
So if you are considering doing a test, I would run the ones you have as they are now, clone them, and then do a proper test of the theory. (Just because they look like the same pheno, don't make it so. You want to be able to smoke-test all the current plants and pick your fave.) Run 4 clones lollipopped, and 4 clones regular and see what they net you. Try to use 4 very similar clones for each group so that you have some type of measureable equality. In other words, don't use 2 scragglers and 2 beasts for each style, try to get 4 very similarly rooted and vegged clones for both styles. Take more clones than you will need, then break them up into groups and discard the ones that don't make the cut. That's my 2cents, YMMV.
Great results on your last grow btw, Padawan.
padawan
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Ive already done a little lollipop action to theses plants. I removed the lower branches of growth to keep them from overgrowing each other. I like the results so far. Yeah the inverse square law is why im considering this at all.
BUt at the same time it seems like wasted energy to cut something that has already been developed and is needed for survival and growth of the plant
BUt at the same time it seems like wasted energy to cut something that has already been developed and is needed for survival and growth of the plant
