Bubba Kush (Barney's Farm)

Pruned the girls this week. Been training her under the net nicely for a bit and decided that it was time to give her a haircut. On day 51 I stripped most of lower fan leaves and branches. I want to increase airflow and light to the bottom of the canopy while at the same time removing node sites that take up energy during flower. The idea is to put as much energy into the top buds so every bud you get is high quality instead of having crappy airy buds develop at the bottom. I'm a bit confused on the best way to defoliate/prune/lollipop so I like to do a bit of experimentation. This time around I left a few big fan leaves at the bottom. This will restrict airflow a bit but will allow me to diagnose problems with the plant as I feel most problems show on the lower leaves first. Most of the foliage below the canopy is gone though which puts me in a bit of a pickle because I didn't take off too many of the fan leaves at the top of the canopy. This prevents light from getting to future budsites which kind of sucks but to mitigate the shade I've been tucking those leaves under the net. I took two clones of each cultivar just for fun and also just in case the bubba or grape turn out to be 10/10. You can see on day 51 I've cut clones and placed them into the humidity dome. No clonex or anything fancy like that so hopefully they both root properly. After her lollipop and defoliation I fed her some dry amendments. The recommendation is 1-2tbsp per gallon of medium for both All Purpose and Kelp meal but I fed her about half of that and plan to do that every 2 weeks from now on. Will add Seabird Guano starting in flower. I've just changed the light cycle today to 12/12. Excited to see them stretch, but also worried I didn't take enough leaves and branches off. Will probably do another round of defoliation/lollipopping after week 1 and week 2 of flower. I think I've made a mistake by growing them too big, but we will see going into flower 😁.