budelight Discovery Requires Experimentation



Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: At Home with the Hobbits Posts: 2,001









Mt Toaker - Thanks sharing your experience! Your preference coincides with my beliefs so its nice to hear it reaffirmed. Trimming is not natural, can be used to improve the shape and vigor of a plant, but if someone is overly aggressive in removing leaves, it can cripple if not kill the plant. After i get settled with my cab and strains. I hope to be able to provide a side-by-side-by-side to show people plants untrimmed, trimmed selectively and trimmed to the extreme (few of each for a larger sample size, ideally from clones of the same mother)



Superhoops - What do you have to say about doing the above mentioned removing of leaves?



RetroGrow - Please share the link! I totallyyyy understand where you are coming from, yet i am still curious. I like to believe that i can help/change/work-with the plant to shift resources from an area of low importance, to an area of higher importance! Keep the opinions coming.



paulo73 - Thanks for stopping by! Reassuring to know that I'm not alone with this dilemma. not that your asking but.....

my setup -

growing methods - If you mean the training method, i will be topping and LST by tying down branches.

growers skill - seriously questionable



burningfire - agree with the no touch in veg.... if you have to cause stress, do it to a more established plant. Thank you for chiming in!



OPT - Could you be a bit more vague?



No really. Please share what you mean. I agree that it depends on the strain but WHY does it and how do different plants show traits so we know if the plants we are growing are the right strains for this.





Cheers,

Budelight Interestingly enough... The poll at the top is split 50/50 with a total of 38 votes.- Thanks sharing your experience! Your preference coincides with my beliefs so its nice to hear it reaffirmed. Trimming is not natural, can be used to improve the shape and vigor of a plant, but if someone is overly aggressive in removing leaves, it can cripple if not kill the plant. After i get settled with my cab and strains. I hope to be able to provide a side-by-side-by-side to show people plants untrimmed, trimmed selectively and trimmed to the extreme (few of each for a larger sample size, ideally from clones of the same mother)- What do you have to say about doing the above mentioned removing of leaves?- Please share the link!I totallyyyy understand where you are coming from, yet i am still curious. I like to believe that i can help/change/work-with the plant to shift resources from an area of low importance, to an area of higher importance! Keep the opinions coming.- Thanks for stopping by! Reassuring to know that I'm not alone with this dilemma. not that your asking but.....my setup - NGB grow in this size box growing methods - If you mean the training method, i will be topping and LST by tying down branches.growers skill - seriously questionable- agree with the no touch in veg.... if you have to cause stress, do it to a more established plant. Thank you for chiming in!- Could you be a bit more vague?No really. Please share what you mean. I agree that it depends on the strain but WHY does it and how do different plants show traits so we know if the plants we are growing are the right strains for this.Cheers,Budelight