Remove new side shoots at the top of the canopy?

Removing anything now, including leaves, WILL reduce your potential yields. Plant is also showing signs of burning from over feeding...........ease up on the fertilizing!

Don't trim anything at the moment, just let her grow and apply a bit of LST to anything you think may cause you problems. Good luck.

Hey there that’s a really good question when I grew my 1st plants I cut so much stuff off expecting buds to grow from different places and thinking the plant would grow more. Pretty much when you see a plant start to make buds on the top of the plant and stop making new leaves out the top of the plant at that time your really not going to see much more vertical growth at least there won’t be more nodes going upwards the top parts of the each breach might keep growing taller but it will just be all the one big on top of each if you leave those things your taking about cutting they will turn into buds. I always like to say when your first growing you should really keep cutting things off the plant to a minimum just so you can see what happens in each cyle and how much a plant grows and when and when and what turns into bud sites. The less you cut away the more you will be able to see how the plant grows and in the future you can mold and manipulate that. The big nice plants you see pics of take planing you have to know what you want todo with the plant from the start so you can cut away what you need when you need and give the correct light when you need sometimes you gotta give less light to space out nodes or more light to squish them at times Good luck Plz plz don’t cut those bud sites off

Hey growmie, just checked your diary again, LST should be enough. I do it all the time, I keep training until about a week before harvest. Only thing: when you’re training, make sure you don’t touch the buds themselves. Just keep be gentle 🤞🍀♥️

overcrowding is a reason to thin somethng out, but if you do it too late in the process, it does reduce yield. Easy to avoid.. simply have a plant for your canopy... shoot for 3-4 colas per sq ft and lollipop before the buds start developing in earnest. This will mostly maximize yield while mostly eliminating larf.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how the plant functions. It sounds like it makes sense, but is very wrong. (bro-science nonsense like thinking 'flushing' a plant with water reduces mineral content in flower.. absolutely bullshit, lol. Plant doesn't have an excretion system. Existing knowledge was enough, but they even did some lab tests on flower material to prove to the science-deniers that it was not true) This is similar. Existing knowledge basically makes this hypothesis a total waste of time to test. Sugars produced by photosynthesis are technically more often used locally. But, it freely travels around the vascular tissue and any short-term concentration gradient in one area will go back to equilibrium shortly. It's part of how stuff travels around the vascular tissue. So, if the products of photosynthesis are ever-present at similar concentrations throughout the vascular tissue, exactly how imprtant is it that light hits near the growth you prefer? It isn't. Apical dominance is behind why resources are allocated to the taller parts of the plant not because that's where the light hits... maybe light is invovled in how apical dominance plays out? that sort of nuance isn't really necessary to answer this question but would be interesting to know. So, don't remove leaves to allow light through. Light traveling further from the source is signifcantly weaker the further out it is - spreads out quickly. So, you are sacrificing absorbing more light on a closer leaf to get weaker light on a lower leaf. This is not good math. The size of your canopy is your photsynthesis potential. If you can increase surface area, that's going to increase the amount of energy (sugar is the currency inside the plant for 'energy') produced from photosynthesis. This will impact yield. I've been intentionally leaving buds covered by leaves for the last 2 years just to show how retarded this bro science is. It doesn't impact the outcome of that bud compared to any other similar bud with similar dominance. It's just as dense and just as heavy in the end. This isn't proof, but if there was some correlation, something would be noticeable. This sort of cause and effect is not whimsical. if it is true, it'll happen each time... and i've yet to see it ever impact anything. This is just something repeated by people ad nauseum and then accepted as true with no evidence to support it.

Leave the new side shoots – they’re getting light and will develop good extra buds. At week 2 of flower with an autoflower, you don’t want to stress the plant by removing tops now. Focus instead on keeping the canopy open for airflow and light spread. Only remove heavily shaded fan leaves if needed, but otherwise let everything grow naturally from here.