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millerman543
millerman543started grow question 17 hours ago
I’m usually ending up with a good amount of larf and under developed bud it’s not a ton but it’s not really smokable and also a lot of foxtailing as shown. Is this because my light isn’t strong enough it’s 300w panel in a 2 x 4 and I’m doing sea of green. 6 plants atm
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question 3 hours ago
Too many plants/over crowded. Try growing 2 plants next time and use LST............they will probably out yield your current set up.
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WhiteEdge
WhiteEdgeanswered grow question 5 hours ago
Probably you have thick canopy for that light. Try to prune and defoliate girls more to have better light penetration on lower branches. I will prune and lollipop lower buds that's in shade. It will promote more A type off buds in upper canopy. Its better to have 10-20% less yield with more premium buds on them
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001100010010011110
001100010010011110answered grow question 14 hours ago
You'll get familiar with how deep you can expect good buds -- if you overcrowd your space it won't go as deep. Once familiar, it can help you lollipop near beginning of flower to avoid vast majority of larf. E.g. any lower side branching at day 10-14 after flip is probably not going to produce anything worthwhile for me, your mileage may vary. Also, removing this stuff after buds are well-formed probably isn't going to 'redistribute resources' anywhere and you're just cutting off a portion of yield - albiet larfy. Genetics are a fairly big factor too... some plants produce awesome buds much deeper than others. I never try to eliminate larf... i just prune off the stuff i am nearly 100% certain will be some trash buds at harvest. Cutting this stuff off before it forms the buds (bunches of fluffy why hairs) amounts to a guess. Other things make for obvious larf -- low on plant and/or a side-branch is not going to draw many resources (apical dominance is the cause, not light directly hitting buds). The 'sugar' produced by photosynthesis (ATP) is highly mobie and is allocated based on apical dominance. Don't remove leaves so that light hits lower buds. This is not going to help. Leaves are solar panels, storage units, manufacturing plants and lungs... do not remove them without a good reason. Light penetration is more offten a poor reason to do so. those leaves provide so much more than what little benefit is gained from light hitting flower... flower that has 1/100th of the chlorphyll, lol. photosynthisis isn't magic. Flower material has a fraction of the photosynthetic potential of the top leaf surface. larf is great for extracts. Look into making ice-water hash, for examlpe. You can fresh-freeze what you cut off at harvest and let it pile up in freezer until enough warrants a hash-making event. think of it this way... The energy provided to your garden area dictates yield (simplified). If you have too many mouths on the plant (overcrowded) that potential flower mass gets spread out more without any gain to yield and you get smaller buds and larger proportion of larf - it adds up roughly to the same mass, but obvioulsy not optimal as far as maximizing quality nugs. There's a point where more colas per area does not help yield at all and going beyond that point only causes a higher percentage of larf. Stick to about 3 colas per sq ft and you will avoid this as well as automatically getting "good enough" light penetration without any effort or thought. cocoforcannabis has a "to defoliate or not" article that explains this more eloquently than i care to. There other guides and articles are rock solid too... leas bro-science i've found compared to any marijuana site i've been on. they are mostly filled with nonsense and conjecture... cocoforcannabis makes a real effort to avoid that nonsense. Unless it is an incredibly inefficient light, 300w should be fine for 8 sq ft of photoperiods (12 hour operation being the factor that matters). If it is a high efficacy light, you may even need to dim it 5-15% for 12 hour operaion. With autoflowers, you may only need 60-70% power with 18 hours of operation (or for photoperiods still in vege phase on 18h operation). So, i doubt your light is cause for excess larf.
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Legendaryseedthumb
Legendaryseedthumbanswered grow question 16 hours ago
They looks perfect and will be Percocet with a little fix 💪🏽💯
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Legendaryseedthumb
Legendaryseedthumbanswered grow question 16 hours ago
Foxtail comes when it’s to hot or if they are to close to the light or maybe to much light! I would give them a defoliation and try to raise ur lamp a little bit if you can. And everything will be alright 😃😃😃😃
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DaddyPrime2
DaddyPrime2answered grow question 17 hours ago
try defoliation. the light isnt penetrating any further than the tops. you can also try lollipopping all of the larf and direct all of the plants energy to the tops. but anything below your canopy isnt going to develop much you could also try leaf tucking earlier in flower to increase penetration if you're wanting to continue doing sea of green. or if youre willing to switch up growing process, youcan start training them so that more bud sites are recieving more light. another option would be less plants but thats also changing your growing style. either defoliate selectively to let more light penetrate further down or lollipopping the larf. in one of the pics, you can see the dark increase and thats basically as far as the light is penetrating and i would bet, thats where the larf starts. increasing light power may help too but to only a certain extent. your top buds look superior so you're doing it right. also i thought the point of SOG was for alot of nice top buds with smaller plants crammed together. this is bound to happen unless you defoliate or do something to get the light to those parts of the plants
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Tweak
Tweakanswered grow question 17 hours ago
Lower buds no exposed to bright light will never grow tight and large like the tops of colas; some people trim them off during flower for the plant to put more energy into the tops. I keep them on the plant and make bubble hash with it and the trim. Personally I press the hash then to make rosin or you can use the hash as is or add it to your bowl/bong/joint.
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