What up Dude, Scotty, Guru, and the DGC. I am currently on day 43 of flower and I have lollipoped quite a bit already but I feel like I still have a lot of little popcorn nugs that’s are talking energy from the tops. A little bit about my grow even though it’s not relevant to the question. I’m in a 4×8 tent with 2 hlg 550s. Feeding floraflex line with full tilt and Recharge. Everything looking good I think I just don’t like these little nugs. So is it too late to cut them off? Will i stress the hell out of them and cause negative reaction? Thanks for your help love the show guys! ✌️✌️
This late in the game it’s hard to say. Removing some of those lowers would probably be good, but it might be too late for the plant to fully redirect its energy into other parts of the plant.
I would treat this as a learning experience and try to focus on training and shaping your canopy in early flower next run.
Those plants look like they were vegged too long and got really leggy. Looks like you’ve been trying to clean up the canopy which is good, but you also could have avoided a lot of that work by flipping to flower earlier.
Bonus advice-
Your pots look too small. Increase your pot size and give your plants more roots to support that big canopy. This will also help make your plants less tall and leggy.
And also… please do me a favor and get that power strip and electrical stuff off your floor. Keeping electrical stuff safely secured ABOVE waist level helps make sure it doesn’t get wet and greatly reduces the risk of fire and other scary stuff happening.🔌⚡️💧🔥💥🤷
Solid advice from Soup, he da man 🙂
I like to keep anything 18″ or less from the canopy. Based on light penetration from your light, you may get some decent popcorn nugs at the lower levels. I grow in a similar manner, where I clean everything off up to a certain point, but then I just let it thrive.
Coach said I could pick at the undercarriage all I want. So I do. I do not have larfy buds to trim or toss. I don’t know if it helps but I enjoy it. I enjoy it more than I would trimming or tossing the sucker out.
Thanks everyone. Would letting the lower nugs go a week or 2 longer then my tops have any effect of bulking up the lowers? Or won’t it help much because there won’t be any nutrients left after the flush