MHippie
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I see a lot of questions about FIM'ng and defoliating. So I thought I'd post an example of what happens when I get 6 - 10 nodes up on a vegging plant. This pic is of a 5 week old plant that was REALLY bushy from top to bottom. It is Humboldt Seed Company's strain called Squirt. So to get this beast under control the following was done:
1) FIM'd the top growth shoot.
2) Defoliated all Fan Leaves
3) Removed the bottom 1/3 nodes.
1 - Everyone knows what the good old FIM is about. All we are doing is slowing top growth while encouraging the plant's effort to focus on the bottom branches.
2 - There are a number of different schools of thought on this. In the outdoors, fan leaves are used to store goodies for the plant to get it through dry and nutrient weak issues in the soil. When we control the environment of the plant, the fan leaves are something they don't need for backup storage. That's my school of thought. You will have others who believe the fan leaves create energy, etc. However, when you remove them, the growth that happens to what remains is astounding in some strains. Other fans start to develop to take the place of what was removed. But the bud sites and side shoots show much more rapid increases in size and speed of the grow imo.
3) Bottom 1/3 nodes is so old school and so worth it to me. Again, it's about pushing the plant to develop in only specific areas that will produce big bud in a compact space.
Hope this helps some of you newer growers out there :)
1) FIM'd the top growth shoot.
2) Defoliated all Fan Leaves
3) Removed the bottom 1/3 nodes.
1 - Everyone knows what the good old FIM is about. All we are doing is slowing top growth while encouraging the plant's effort to focus on the bottom branches.
2 - There are a number of different schools of thought on this. In the outdoors, fan leaves are used to store goodies for the plant to get it through dry and nutrient weak issues in the soil. When we control the environment of the plant, the fan leaves are something they don't need for backup storage. That's my school of thought. You will have others who believe the fan leaves create energy, etc. However, when you remove them, the growth that happens to what remains is astounding in some strains. Other fans start to develop to take the place of what was removed. But the bud sites and side shoots show much more rapid increases in size and speed of the grow imo.
3) Bottom 1/3 nodes is so old school and so worth it to me. Again, it's about pushing the plant to develop in only specific areas that will produce big bud in a compact space.
Hope this helps some of you newer growers out there :)
