Removing Lower Bud sites during flower?

[rosinhood666]

Hey dudes! I'm day 28 of flower on my chemdog that goes 11-12 weeks flower. How much of the lower bud sites should I remove? I have heard to only leave the top 3-5 bud sites on each branch but wasn't sure if that would be removing too much of the lowers. Thanks!

 

[touringfunkband]

You can do whatever you like. If you have the room, and don't mind dealing with all those little buds come harvest time, just leave them alone and let them do their thing. If you've gotten over the honeymoon phase of growing and are sick of manicuring all those little buds, then I wouldn't wait much longer to start lollipoping those ladies.

 

[Brother Nature]

You'll find a lot of people have a lot of different methods, some will work for you some wont. Personally, when I'm running 10-12 week strains, I try not to trim anything off the plant after the stretch is done in the flowering phase as with the strains I grow quality and quantity diminish when they're stressed in flower. Since moving to quantum board style LEDs, in veg I take every shoot and leaf that won't receive maximum light and shape my plants to a floor covering canopy in the 2-3 weeks before I introduce them to the flower room. My thoughts are that anything that receives light will use it and my end goal is to have next to no light under the canopy in the floor of my tents so that everything is absorbed by the plant, be it by the bud sites or the leaves.

 

[Growenhaft]

Hey dudes! I'm day 28 of flower on my chemdog

if you want big buds, let the scissors rust.

I wouldn't take anything away anymore. that will all be finished.
You are about to halfway your total flowering days.

as the removal can have a rather detrimental effect. it is a myth that every bud taken from below grows back in the mass at the top. it can just as easily happen to you that the buds of your treated plant swell less thickly than if you had not removed anything.

Much of what is done today as light stress training to increase yield has exactly the opposite effect.

they have more plants. collect your own experiences. Take whatever you want from half of the plants. leave the other half alone ... you will see which half delivers the better result.

I bet the untreated.

if you want to train your plants successfully you have to keep time windows. Very few do that and that costs profit potential and quality.

 

[Creeperpark]

You need add more wattage if possible or add a side light to give the buds more light.

 

[St. Phatty]

If you don't want to manicure it, you could remove the bud.

Or just put the popcorn buds & plant bottoms in a shopping bag,
and drop it off near a local homeless encampment.

 

[SpideyManDan]

Its not the end of the world. Your plant has some height so its a little different, but mine has some nice swelling calyxes on the areas where people would consider them "popcorn" buds. Id say when you go to harvest, chop the top areas off first and leave some of the smaller buds to grow a little more before you cut the entire thing down. Of course this is if you can. I know i have plants ready to go into flower so extra time is not something i personally have.

 

[JKD]

I remove lower buds in the manner you have described - leaving top 4 or 5 sites only. I only do this for the first 2 or 3 weeks of flower, then I leave them alone. I do it because I hate manicuring with a passion, and I find this method makes that faster and easier. Personally, I will happily take a yield trade off if it means less time trimming.

Just thinking about trimming is giving me the shits…