PRUNING Plants that are regenerated, cloned and even grown from seed will need to be pruned at some point to encourage the plant to produce as much as possible and remain healthy. Pruning the lower limbs creates more air-flow under the plants in an indoor situation and creates cuttings for cloning. It also forces the plant effort to the top limbs that get the most light, maximizing yields. Plants that are regenerated need to have minor growth clipped so that the main regenerated growth will get all the plant energy. This means that once the plant has started to regenerate lots of growth, the lower limbs that will be shaded or are not robust should go. The growth must be thinned on top branches such that only the most robust growth is allowed to remain. Once nice aspect of regenerating plants is that some small buds left on the plant in anticipation of regeneration will not sprout new growth and may be collected for smoke. The plant may provide much smokable material if it is caught before all the old flowers dry up and die with the new vegatative growth occuring. Try to trim a regenerated plant twice. Once as it is starting to regenerate, collect any bud that is not sprouting with new growth and smoke it. Then later, prune again to take lower clippings to clone and thin the upper growth so that larger buds will be produced. If a regenerated plant is not pruned at all, the resulting plant is very stemmy, does not create large buds and the total yield will be significantly reduced.
i gaurentee that most people have a larger yields leaving that plant as is, appose to prunning...prunning gives you more bud sites, but smaller thinner buds...dont prune
Danno I think you may have pruning and topping confused. Pruning does help in many ways by reducing unwanted branches lower of the plant that will never build large buds and only rob the topmost buds from much needed energy. The higher the wattage bulb the lessthis is a factor, but for the lower wattage bulbs pruning can help make bigger buds where they have the light available to them. Pruning in my opinion should onloy be done with lower branches that don't recieve good light.
I have a 150 watt HPS. Is this the kind of light that you would want to prune with? If so when should I do so? (Edited by DuffMan at 8:22 am on June 20, 2005)
ahhhh haha my bad, i did get confused for a second...but yes i was talking about topping, but i agree with you on pruning bottom branches for getting energy were it is most required. Thanks pappy for the correction You can prune whenever you feel that those bottom nodes are getting no light. I like to wait after the first few weeks of stretching so i get an idea of how good the bud will be, if it doesnt reach my needs, i clip off the branch right where the main stem is. Remember to keep those fan leaves on the bottom, dont clip those of, just the branches. (Edited by Danno33 at 2:26 pm on June 20, 2005)
