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Did i prune and defoliate to much

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Just wondering if i did to much off pruning and defoliating my plants here some befor and after pictures my plants are in day 8 flowering stage
 

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Not too much but absolute worse time for a heavy prune/defol. You maybe stunt their growth(stretch) with that now.
Next time perform it at least 3 days before flip.
 
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Redneckx said:
Not too much but absolute worse time for a heavy prune/defol. You maybe stunt their growth(stretch) with that now.
Next time perform it at least 3 days before flip.
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I don't defol in flower until week 3, I let them go through the stretch first.
 
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I don't defol in flower until week 3, I let them go through the stretch first.
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They look great though, really healthy and lots of bud sites
 
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Redneckx said:
Not too much but absolute worse time for a heavy prune/defol. You maybe stunt their growth(stretch) with that now.
Next time perform it at least 3 days before flip.
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They look great though, really healthy and lots of bud sites
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thanks i feel so guilty after reading your comments xD i hope i did not stunt anything
 
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thanks i feel so guilty after reading your comments xD i hope i did not stunt anything
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No Dude, you'll be fine but yeah it wasn't optimal timing. Live and learn. They're going to bush out regardless
 
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thanks i feel so guilty after reading your comments xD i hope i did not stunt anything
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Sorry was a little rough with my words :(
It wasn't ment to hurt your feelings.

What I love about autoflowers is, that you will end up with something.. but yield can be much less then expected, there can be seeds in it, the plant is super short or just look like trash the whole grow.
My record on a stunted auto was 2g's
In generell even doing them bad, they'll start budding sometime and y end up with some buds, if the impact was not too crucial.

Wouldn't say that in your case the plant is stunted but there is a possibility and slowed growth is for sure.
The Buds will show up soon and y'll get some good nuggets out of your beautys.
 
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Yeah I think my record was 3g! It was one of my first autos and i light burned the top and it resulted in one puny nugget. I used to grow a shit ton of autos. Some can't take even a minor hiccup during that first 3 weeks without showing signs of stunting. I tried every method (topping\super crop etc.) and for me just basic LST was as effective or moreso than any high stress
 
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Sorry was a little rough with my words :(
It wasn't ment to hurt your feelings.

What I love about autoflowers is, that you will end up with something.. but yield can be much less then expected, there can be seeds in it, the plant is super short or just look like trash the whole grow.
My record on a stunted auto was 2g's
In generell even doing them bad, they'll start budding sometime and y end up with some buds, if the impact was not too crucial.

Wouldn't say that in your case the plant is stunted but there is a possibility and slowed growth is for sure.
The Buds will show up soon and y'll get some good nuggets out of your beautys.
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my girls are not auto btw. But i will from now on only pruning 3 day befor 12/12 and after 3 weeks into flower thanks for this information!
 
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No Dude, you'll be fine but yeah it wasn't optimal timing. Live and learn. They're going to bush out regardless
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i should have asked here befor starting to do my own thing. You guys are level 1000 thank you guys
 
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my girls are not auto btw. But i will from now on only pruning 3 day befor 12/12 and after 3 weeks into flower thanks for this information!
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I just opened the tent and i saw this the leafs went back up and everything looks good
 

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They look great.
 
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Yeah I think my record was 3g! It was one of my first autos and i light burned the top and it resulted in one puny nugget. I used to grow a shit ton of autos. Some can't take even a minor hiccup during that first 3 weeks without showing signs of stunting. I tried every method (topping\super crop etc.) and for me just basic LST was as effective or moreso than any high stress
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Haha yeah it was one of my first plants too..left it in the tent to see what happen to her.
Same conclusion I take from flexing around with autos, but still like them.
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I just opened the tent and i saw this the leafs went back up and everything looks good
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Damn, looks pretty neat. Don't see any stunted growth. They like that haircut
Keep on rockin'
 
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Redneckx said:
Not too much but absolute worse time for a heavy prune/defol. You maybe stunt their growth(stretch) with that now.
Next time perform it at least 3 days before flip.
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I didn't prune enough, now I'm 6 weeks into flower and my girls are very dense because I just staked the because they were falling over.
 
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Hi I’m new here and don’t know if I’m posting in right page/article.. my plants look really sick 6 days ago they looked like the most Healthy plants I’ve ever had but I had to move them to bigger tent and now they look terrible the temps and humidity are basically exactly the same. They were under a xxl t5 and now they are under adjustawatt 720 led on 25%I’m growing in bio bizz soil with bio grow and alg a mic ph around 6.9-7.2 every feed I can’t work out what’s going wrong. They basically looked noticeably different over night and gradually over 5-6 days look awful any help or input would be greatly appreciated
 
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Hi I’m new here and don’t know if I’m posting in right page/article.. my plants look really sick 6 days ago they looked like the most Healthy plants I’ve ever had but I had to move them to bigger tent and now they look terrible the temps and humidity are basically exactly the same. They were under a xxl t5 and now they are under adjustawatt 720 led on 25%I’m growing in bio bizz soil with bio grow and alg a mic ph around 6.9-7.2 every feed I can’t work out what’s going wrong. They basically looked noticeably different over night and gradually over 5-6 days look awful any help or input would be greatly appreciated
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Hey, you have to open a new thread and add some pics.
 
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