Doubleds would you please inform me about how you train your plants, if possible I would like to know your pruning/bending/scrog technique and schedule.
For example I trim away everything at the bottom of my plants at the end of the 1st week, and then go through everything again at the end of the 3rd week. And usually start bending and training plants around the 4th week, but in my application I am doing organic soil. I am getting ready to take the plunge into hydro and would like to know as much as possible.
Also are you following your nutrient schedule that is posted in this forum for this crop too?
I also would like an exact answer from DD's on his techniques in these areas. Since he wasn't around when I stared my MPB and everything I read said don't pluck leafs all the way to "Now is the time clen the shit out of them..." meaning trim up the underneath a bunch.
Well I did my own experimenting and find that for me any clean up of the undergrowth, and i'm talking
any amount of trimming up, i did every thing from taking a baseball sized clump from the middle all the way up to about a basket ball sized chunk and in between. In every case I found that the trimmed up plants yielded at least a 1/4 Lb less. So no more trimming for me.
On to training and bending.... Just finished a crop that I did bend the plant out a bit on an inner tomato cage and this was my lowest yields in the MPB's. It seemed to stress out my plants so much that the node spacing almost doubled from normal growth and every plant had weak stems and even with an outer cage buds still had to be tied up that in the past wouldn't have even bent branches. Nutrient Schedule was the same as when I achieved 3.7 Lbs on a plant with 3 sides of light. So I wont do that again.
Now Im set on the Idea of let the plant grow no trimming, no bending. The system here is all about stress free conditions the entire life of the plant. Clone into a 6" cube so there is no transplant shock, Have the 6" cube transplanted into the system before it becomes root locked in the 6" cube to again avoid slowing of growth and then shock on transplant, then the sealed environment and all other aspects of your room should create a stress free place for your plants to flourish