plant training 101

[jjsunderground]

what do you guys think of the way i have trimmed my plant. is it good to go with the lower stems? i will be flowering all these plants sometime in early february. thanks. peace!

[Wise Man]

Did you trimm all those plants?.

The first pic looks like you took abit to much off.1/4 bottom growth is recommended,and cutting off branches that young will induce stress.Its better to trim a bit,then to much.

Why did you trim anyway?

[Blunted]

I agree, they look like palm trees. Inducing stress in early stages can help promote males possibly, perhaps wait till a later stage. Or you could just Lst and make use of even the lowest bud sites, or prune them late so your plant spends energy elsewhere.

[jjsunderground]

heres an upddated pic of my three month old plant.

[Blunted]

yeah looks nice, member more leaves means more photosynthesis! I see ya topped her, did she come around quickly?

[Wise Man]

Looks pretty small for 3 months:cool:

[jjsunderground]

yeah looks nice, member more leaves means more photosynthesis! I see ya topped her, did she come around quickly?

took her about 2 1/2 weeks. i only kept the very first set of stems. when i cut her it had 7 sets of branches. i topped the top three. and cut the remaining six lower branches and left the first set. still waitng on the clones to root. its DAY 11. thanks.

[jjsunderground]

Looks pretty small for 3 months:cool:


this lady got the thickness :peace:

[jjsunderground]

this girl is ready to flower! check out the great budding sites. first set of limbs training. peace!

[tom-tom]

are u restricted in space for ur grow ,,im kind of new to triming plants but im just wonderin why the plants are so small for 3 months ,they are very healthy lookin tho but it would seem like if it just grew out for 3 months it would be huge by now and ud have a hole lot of bud sites so im curious as to why the trim job,,and dont get me wrong it looks good im just curious if ur grow space is limited

[jjsunderground]

its small and robust because i grew it for two months under a 65 watt fluorex bulb.4,500 lumens. the plants stay short and use all the light energy when they are close to intense light. this is why there so small. my grow space is limited though because of growth heighth and pot size. tall plants and short plants are hard to give = light. you have to stack em up and stuff, that *****.after all these plants are done flowering im gonna start a FEM grow organic with passion # 1 from www.kindseed.com.


i was just impressed with how well my plant turned out. now i have two great main stems with awesome bud sites.

i have a new light also a 110 watt 10,00 lumen grow fluoro. its working much better than the fluorex 65 watt.

the symbol is something im working on. its a protection symbol derived of all the power numbers of the marijuana leaf. 1 3 5 7 9 11. this is the rough draft. peace!

[Mutt]

:holysheep: dude can you make the print a lil smaller...Way too big for me to read. Givin me a headache. :holysheep:

[jjsunderground]

i plan to cut my plant again. i wont be able to flower till feb. so im gonna train my oldest again. heres a pic of where ill cut. peace!

[jjsunderground]

im lovin it.

[jjsunderground]

here she is. should have four branches but my cat ate one. now she only has three. im not sure if it will correct itself or not. its gonna be a while before i can flower so im training her.

[Ekoostik_Hookah]

dude i used to draw that Symbol all the time when i was in school.
how does it have nething to do with MJ?


Oh i see you only used the numbers of a MJ leaf...thats cool

[jjsunderground]

trying to keep some symetry with the trimmin. the plant is ready to flower now!, and i cant flower for another month and a half. the branches are super close nodes. so i let it grow out and trim. ill have to probably trim two more times before i get my light to flower. this is fun. peace!

[jjsunderground]

dude i used to draw that Symbol all the time when i was in school.
how does it have nething to do with MJ?


i described below what the geometry can be used for protection power health. its just some creativity. thats cool that youve drawn that because ive never met eny one who draws this way. and hows amsterdam by the way? peace hookah

[jjsunderground]

gonna try to flower all three branches when the time comes arround. i had to trim som foliage off to open up some space..i know its bad to cut fan leaves, but i only had to sacrifice two..so its going good. peace!

[jjsunderground]

you can see better in this picture how i trained it.

feeding her a mix of 10-2-2.

under 24 hour veg for five months. continuing for another month and a half.

my strain: medicino

over all the plant looks flippin great.

[jjsunderground]

heres a closer look at the plants main branches. when i flower i will stop cutting off all the small branches. thank you. peace.

[jjsunderground]

plant is looking great

[jjsunderground]

my plants doin a little dance for us. reach for the light my people! peace.

[jjsunderground]

had to get my plants closer to the light. didnt like the way they were stretchin. trimmed up molly. missed a couple, ill get them after this post. can you see the stems i missed. probably not. haha. its always gonna be sour grapes with you boy, til you get right with jesus. peace!

[jjsunderground]

this is the most current trim, it wont grow out for about five days. then i can determine what to do next. i have them growing outwards of eachother. i keep all fan leaves possible and tryto get them all growing away from eachother. check out the purple comin through on the stems.

[jjsunderground]

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[Dr.Dro]

Hey JJ your plant is looking good man:D
Hopefully we see some buds forming soon:aok:
Dro:cool2:

[newgreenthumb]

Looking good but at this stage they should be a lot taller and thicker. IMHO please stop chopping on them so much. Especially during the 4th week of veg pruning can cause a lot of stress and you are losing valuable bud sites and every time you cut you are slowing down the plant because it has to recover from the stress and might either give you hermies or males. Some plants take anywhere from 2-10 days on average to recover. This is the best advice to give you. Good luck! :farm:

[jjsunderground]

Looking good but at this stage they should be a lot taller and thicker. IMHO please stop chopping on them so much. Especially during the 4th week of veg pruning can cause a lot of stress and you are losing valuable bud sites and every time you cut you are slowing down the plant because it has to recover from the stress and might either give you hermies or males. Some plants take anywhere from 2-10 days on average to recover. This is the best advice to give you. Good luck! :farm:

im not chopping them up man...im pruning them. big dif. as far as stressing the plant..ive noticed that as soon as i cut its back two days later. training for three dense buds. the plant is over five months old by the way. peace.

[Puff- The Magic Dragon]

I don't understand what you are trying to accomplish. If you are just experimenting, that's one thing.

Do you know why stress causes a plant to turn hermie? If so, stop reading. If not, well, I'll tell ya...Cannabis has an almost unparalleled "instinct" to continue its species. If it senses that conditions are such that it may die, it releases a hormone that causes part of the plant to become male (and vice versa) so that it can pollinate itself in order to reproduce.

There are many types of stress that can induce the change and different strains are more and/or less resistant to different types of stress.

Don't be surprised if your girls grow balls.

That said, I love experimentation!!! I hope it turns out OK.

[jjsunderground]

i made a little report about how im pruning. you can read along in the pictures. thanks.

[jjsunderground]

I don't understand what you are trying to accomplish. If you are just experimenting, that's one thing.

Do you know why stress causes a plant to turn hermie? If so, stop reading. If not, well, I'll tell ya...Cannabis has an almost unparalleled "instinct" to continue its species. If it senses that conditions are such that it may die, it releases a hormone that causes part of the plant to become male (and vice versa) so that it can pollinate itself in order to reproduce.

There are many types of stress that can induce the change and different strains are more and/or less resistant to different types of stress.

Don't be surprised if your girls grow balls.

That said, I love experimentation!!! I hope it turns out OK.



that is a lovely piece of advice. thank you much. this is new to me but most def makes sense. aphrodite right. peace.

[jjsunderground]

well man..i think you hit the nail on the head with this one. i saw pollens sacks developing tonight. on ******* day 1 of 2008 i see male traits! this is 6 months work! oh well..wont start another grow til i move to NC. im gonna give the bush away.

i even named this plant after someone. dang. well this is what he looks like now. peace out!

[Blunted]

6 months of work?! and it turns out to be male? I'm pretty sure your plant would have shown sex a lot earlier, are you sure you dont mean 6 weeks?

[jjsunderground]

6 months of work?! and it turns out to be male? I'm pretty sure your plant would have shown sex a lot earlier, are you sure you dont mean 6 weeks?

no man..this plant is six months old...ive posted threads about why it didnt show sex sooner..som say because of how much i was training it.

[Blunted]

well I admire your persistance, I prolly would have quit growing if I grew a male for 6 months. GL in future projects, look into lst perhaps

[newgreenthumb]

But you chewed my head off for offering that same advice, chopping & pruning may sound different but its the same thing. "Some people don't believe fat meats greasy" and all I was trying to do is help. Hope things go well for you and happy new year! :48:

[gangalama]

wow thats a kick in the pollen sack!!! Buddy next time leave it alone right up until its big enough to take a viable cutting, take it, root it, put it on 12 on 12 off. Apparantly u dont even need to root the cutting first, but I`ve not tried it so I wont recommend it.

[speero_m]

i cant believe i waisted my time watching you destroy this beautiful plant....and all the advice given still you continued on cutting and cutting and prunning....man i dont know waht to say....but dont do that again for gods sake..or if u do and want to experiment....save pics and post it if it works....good luck

[I'ma Joker Midnight Toker]

I guess his plant found Jesus... :)

[Ekoostik_Hookah]

Wow dude, a very sad ending.

i really dont know where you were going with that grow; or why you thought it was ok to cut the plant as much as you did.

That plant could of been a female for sure, but all that rediculous ammounts of stress you put it through, it was going to turn male for sure....or hermi that is.

When you moving to NC..? i might live there

[trillions of atoms]

if you pinch off a producing shoot it will only come back one or twice more if your lucky and then will never grow there agian. if you cut to much on them they will never develop a sex if it comes to that point. i did an expirement where i kept plucking producing shoots at the nodes and the top and it ended up staying in a growth stage where it got bigger n bigger till it just died with only the existing leaves on the plant.

i would be selective when trimming shoots.

[fishcabo]

six months seems like along time to snip around at least to me. In five months my outside ww churned out 32 oz. Guess I was lucky. Good luck next time.

[peruvian skunk]

enjoy your balls cheers and next time try to open your ears and listen to what greater minds are telling you

[jjsunderground]

ok peeps...no more cuttin up the plants. the reason i trimmed this one so much was because i had no flowering light and had to keep the plant sizable until i could get one. well i never did and it turned out to be male anyways so **** it!