I love growing broad-leaf cannabis because of the shape! You narrow leaf guys with your tall lanky plants đ the equator called, they want their 12 week flowering times back!
Nah I'm just kidding. Excellent work as always my dude, are you growing the same variety?
The two lanky shits are the ones that were fasciating last grow (clones) the dense broad leaf is 2x Durban poison.
Iâm seriously contemplating removing them since the seeds took off so well. I could always delay flowering for another week to make them stretch more.
Wait, I only just got a light with that capability, how does that allow them to stretch more?
Lower light makes the plants reach more to get more light. It doesn't increase yield by the way it just stretches the plants which they'll do on their own when you switch to flowering. All your doing is saving electricity and making your plants work harder to stay healthy. Genetics determine their density and the less dense plant will suffer from lack of light as the bushy one will take most of the light.
In this instance the op should defoliate the dense plant by removing the leafs that aren't receiving light, for example the leafs on the bottom.
Ideally you should scrog the plants to achieve more bud sites if you're looking to increase yield. Meaning tuck the taller branches under that net he's using. Weed is an apical dominant plant meaning if you pull a branch down the side shoots will become main "tops". Google for more info.
Taller plants do not equal more weed.
Source - grown weed for years commercially.
Everyone has their own approach, youâre not entirely wrong, but you also arenât correct either. I want the plant to stretch to fill out the tent fully, partly so it doesnât get chocked out by the other ones.
The less dense plant wouldnât suffer, and the bushy one wonât take the light thatâs not touching it. Both would stretch more to fill out the canopy. Also genes only do so much, site conditions, watering frequency, nute strength, etc. can all lead to different expressions in the same âgenesâ ie clones. Even clones can have different phenotypes.
Defoliating the bottom would be counter productive and useless, the plants 6â tall with the light 30â away, the lower leafs are getting marginally less light due to the inverse square law.
Plant was trellised yesterday, will be âscroggedâ for a week before flipping.
Most are topped as well, so atypical dominance was broken already.
Taller plants can be layed over making a sudo scrog thatâs immediately flowered. Thereâs a thousand ways to grow this plant, no one person should claim they have the correct way to do it.
The plant would stretch out faster filling out the canopy so I can flip to flower sooner.
