Captspaulding said:

It’s almost criminal how much the nutrient dominos fall that way. It drives me crazy when I see a well intentioned grower, (bc they care a lot) story throwing all the nutrients at it created a surplus of madness in The root zone,
Which 9/10 the medium is over saturated now too. So it ends up being a double lockout from mineral overdose and zero air in the medium suffocating the root, that generally when you see some one start an auto In a 5 gallon, and end up deficient the moment they hit veg because there is so much water in the medium. That the roots can’t penetrate the saturated bottom 3/4 of the pot and eat, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen people chop, and them got to remove the root ball, and whoa looky here, that’s really wet dirt, with zero roots!

Not to mention the plants size never exponentially increased, not even I. The stretch.


It grinds my gears for the situation.
Not mad at a proactive grower
It’s more about the “throw everything at the wall” information overloads.
A lot of the time alot of the deficiencies look like other deficiencies or combinations of them, but stage of growth micro climate and general acumen all dictate the game .


I hate tailspins.
Nowadays it’s crazy how alot of the time, alls that needs to I happen is a output adjustment On a lamp

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Bdubs said:

If it were my plant and I had topped it, I would have removed the bottom 1 maybe even 2 sets of shoots and strip it down below. But that’s me.

My last run I found that the lowest ones were the most flimsy late in flower (I kept 5 lower nodes I think), had a hard time reaching canopy with the others and they had the most lower, small, less developed buds - I improperly pruned the lowest shoots and I should have gone harder on those shoots when pruning to attempt to have them catch up better. I wish I chopped at least the lowest shoots, I feel I wasted energy to the rest of the plant to push stretchy lower nodes that only stacked nodes super close to end of stretch.

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