I just identified my first plant as female, and I decided to trim it up This was Before I trimmed It: Let Me Know what you think , and if it looks correct.
Aye Carrumba! Now thats just disturbin. Dont even say what posesed you to do this plantslaughter. You took a basicly healthy lookin plant and cut it up to the point that it might not even make it. If it dose, your yields will be greatly diminished. With the kind of mutilation that plant has suffered, that poor thing just might up an die. That sweet li'l girl in the bottom pic didnt need any trimmin at all. Whatnthehell did ya do that for? For future referance, -dont do that anymore! Even if a plant needs to be trimed to fit into her grow aria, you should never take off more than 1/3 of the vegetation at one time. It looks like you mightta LEFT 1/3 on. See if you can pick up a good book on general Herb cultivation. Jorge Cervantez is prety knowledgable and writes some great books. Try readin up on Herb horticulture so youl know how to properly care for your plants. Sory for the slightly acidic post but them pics are just disturbin!
looks like its ready to transplant to a bigger pot man! i could be wrong though, i have been outta the game for a few years since i moved into an apt.
Im with Canni.......what in the hell made you trim it back that FAR? The plant was fine before a lil bushy n' full..........now its a skeleton.......time to pop another bean i suppose.
Shit lol Well, It hasnt even begun flowering, its only like a month or so old, So i figured if i took off what wouldnt flower, it would cause the flowers to get more growth.. Obviously I was wrong.
this makes baby cheech cry. seriously, though, you never want to prune off more than 1/3 at any given time unless it's a total emergency. the lower leaves, while they shade the stem, are the biggest and most developed, and provide the most food to the plant. So you just took your baby off the buffet and put her on weight watchers. with what you've done, my suggestion would be to get a long box, lay her down, and bury the stems, so you can get branches and roots coming up at every node, and reclaim some of what you carved off. leave the leaves exposed, of course, so the girl can get light, and keep her watered, but not so soggy that her stem rots. It's about all you can really do with her anymore. No offense, and I can understand your reasoning, but the flowers/buds will get bigger independent of how much light the buds get. It depends on the leaves. I don't think you've killed her, but I think you've set her back a good long way. how it works is kinda like low stress training, as in if you lay her down, and nip off the 'very tip' (no MORE than a half inch, just to get rid of that growing tip) of each branch, it'll remove the axion source (the chemical that tells the plan that 'THAT' branch is the tallest tip. It'll start sending out side shoots, and with her laying down, she'll send down roots, and send up basically, for all intents and purposes, clones. It's called 'layering', and it works with a lot of herbaceous plants, like weed, tomatoes, etc. I'd tell you to go ahead and carve her up for clones, but you stripped most all the leaves off the lower branches, so you'd really be limited in the number of clones you could get from her now, so that's a no-go.
