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Cutting off smaller branches ?
Mel_Macallanstarted grow question 4y ago
My auto is in first week of flowering. I been doing LST, to keep her from growing taller. There are two branches that don't look extremely promising, and I am considering to snip them off to give the other budsights a better chance. What is ur opinion? I'll try to attach some pic
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Elgaranswered grow question 4y ago
I would advise you to let her be. I grow only autos and a thing that I’ve learnt is that if you stress them this much (cutting hole branches), they turn out smaller and in longer time. Good luck! 😊
Organomananswered grow question 4y ago
I would leave it just as it is, she is a fairly small plant and has invested a lot of energy already to grow those branches.
If you are really unhappy with the smaller branches, you could remove them without causing too many adverse affects, but small buds are better than no buds!
Removing the smaller branches will not make the other flowers grow any larger than what they are genetically programmed to be.
Hope this helps,.... Organoman.
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Mel_Macallananswered grow question 4y ago
Couldn't upload more pics, bit i will add them in my grow diary. Thank you as always for ur advise :) happy growing everyone :)
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