Really nice pics, Unicorn! That cab looks full and frosty. I grow another style, all my grows are tree style, which entails a little more vegging. Sorry I can't show pics. Don't own a camera and even if I did, too damn computor illiterate to load and display them.
Imo, it depends on what style of growing you do, whether in soil or hydro and whether you use horizontal or vertical lighting.
I tree grow in soil with vertical lighting. Horizontal lighting will not get the bottom buds big at all in tree grows. You wind up with a ton of popcorn. If I grow AK-47 up to 16-18 inches and then flower, I only get a couple oz. IF I veg them to 36 inches before flower, I can triple the yield. My best yield off Ak-47 was some plants that I vegged for 10 weeks. They wound up over 6 feet and yielded 16 oz. I had an Afghan Bullrider next to it that yielded 18 oz.
It all depends on the space and time that you have. I like to use a modified or partial LST. At 2-3 weeks of veg, I will tie the top sideways and let 3-4 of the top branches grow until they are as tall as the main cola. Then I release it and let them veg another 5-6 weeks. This gives me several main colas.
I generally trim the bottom 20% of the plant at 2-3 weeks into flower, as those buds produced will be small, and I want the energy of the plant to go into the top and side colas. Some predominately sativa plants, like AK-47 and trainwreck, will form a lot of small branches in the interior of the plant, where they get little light, even using 1000 watters. Around the 4th week and beyond, i keep trimming these small, weak branches out of the interior.
Each person has his own way of growing. I couldn't do what I do with horizontal lights. I just wouldn't get the penetration that I do with 1000w verticals. By doing tree grows, I keep the plant numbers down, but that still is not going to help you much if the cops see a dozen 6' tall plants.
Guinapig recently got popped with one large plant in a 10 gal. pot, and the cops took all kinds of his shit. Last I heard, he hasn't been charged, but who knows. Even one plant in a non-medical state can get your ass in deep shit, regardless of yield.
Imo, it depends on what style of growing you do, whether in soil or hydro and whether you use horizontal or vertical lighting.
I tree grow in soil with vertical lighting. Horizontal lighting will not get the bottom buds big at all in tree grows. You wind up with a ton of popcorn. If I grow AK-47 up to 16-18 inches and then flower, I only get a couple oz. IF I veg them to 36 inches before flower, I can triple the yield. My best yield off Ak-47 was some plants that I vegged for 10 weeks. They wound up over 6 feet and yielded 16 oz. I had an Afghan Bullrider next to it that yielded 18 oz.
It all depends on the space and time that you have. I like to use a modified or partial LST. At 2-3 weeks of veg, I will tie the top sideways and let 3-4 of the top branches grow until they are as tall as the main cola. Then I release it and let them veg another 5-6 weeks. This gives me several main colas.
I generally trim the bottom 20% of the plant at 2-3 weeks into flower, as those buds produced will be small, and I want the energy of the plant to go into the top and side colas. Some predominately sativa plants, like AK-47 and trainwreck, will form a lot of small branches in the interior of the plant, where they get little light, even using 1000 watters. Around the 4th week and beyond, i keep trimming these small, weak branches out of the interior.
Each person has his own way of growing. I couldn't do what I do with horizontal lights. I just wouldn't get the penetration that I do with 1000w verticals. By doing tree grows, I keep the plant numbers down, but that still is not going to help you much if the cops see a dozen 6' tall plants.
Guinapig recently got popped with one large plant in a 10 gal. pot, and the cops took all kinds of his shit. Last I heard, he hasn't been charged, but who knows. Even one plant in a non-medical state can get your ass in deep shit, regardless of yield.
but right now i only have a 6 foot cab to work with..that will change in the future to probably a whole room.. hopefully then i might do something big like better boy.... BUT i agree its all about the green!!!!!!! money and weed lol
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