New Grower …How does it look?

[SMOKENOJOKE]

This is my first grow. I started my Candy Games #38 on 1-20-25 seed in soil. Can someone tell me if I’m cooking on the right track?

 

[Gmix]

Honestly if you’ve thick skin

Your defoliation probably lost you yield
That’s not really how scrog netting you may as well throw it away
You need more room
Slightly too much n

For 1st time it’s not bad mind
Enjoy the adventure

 

[SMOKENOJOKE]

Honestly if you’ve thick skin

Your defoliation probably lost you yield
That’s not really how scrog netting you may as well throw it away
You need more room
Slightly too much n

For 1st time it’s not bad mind
Enjoy the adventure

My grow looks great as of tdy. I’m following the recipe that came with my grow box. Thanks for the input but I’m definitely not throwing it away

 

[Gmix]

I get it’s your grow your proud of it & so you should be it’s doesn’t look bad at all

I wouldn’t say throw it away as said for your first time it looks good. If it was mine I wouldn’t throw it away

You asked a question I answered I wasn’t being offensive, sarcastic or anything else one iota

Maybe the way I replied I dunno

Good luck & enjoy the adventure

 

[SMOKENOJOKE]

I get it’s your grow your proud of it & so you should be

I wouldn’t say throw it away as said for your first time it looks good.

You asked a question I answered I wasn’t being offensive, sarcastic or anything else one iota

I’m with you 100%. Check it as of this sec and see if there’s any change

 

[SMOKENOJOKE]

I’m with you 100%. Check it as of this sec and see if there’s any change

 

[Gmix]

She’s putting it on
Should get a nice smoke from it

 

[SMOKENOJOKE]

She’s putting it on
Should get a nice smoke from it

I hope so. Do you have any tips

 

[Pariah]

I think the commenter was referring to tossing the Scrog, not the plant. In which case, I agree. Your netting is not arranged such that is helping your grow. regardless…it looks to me like a very healthy and happy baby. I, too would trim back some of the foliage to maximize bud size and density. Great work

 

[SMOKENOJOKE]

I think the commenter was referring to tossing the Scrog, not the plant. In which case, I agree. Your netting is not arranged such that is helping your grow. regardless…it looks to me like a very healthy and happy baby. I, too would trim back some of the foliage to maximize bud size and density. Great work

Thanks. This is a great forum. I need all of the help I can get

 

[Gmix]

Keep it aired well especially once those flowers start to thicken up into buds, personally I wouldn’t take any more of. Ask @Captspaulding Why it’s not beneficial he’ll break it down better than I can

Gota crash bud hope you put up a grow dairy or something

 

[SMOKENOJOKE]

Keep it aired well especially once those flowers start to thicken up into buds, personally I wouldn’t take any more of. Ask @Captspaulding Why it’s not beneficial he’ll break it down better than I can

Gota crash bud hope you put up a grow dairy or something

Great info..Thanks a lot!!!

 

[SMOKENOJOKE]

What’s suggested for stems that are getting too tall and might tough the light soon?

 

[Captspaulding]

So look man there’s a lot of stuff that I tried to really dispel online because there’s a lot of people that put out information on stuff that they’re not really in the position to be putting out there and unfortunately there’s people who don’t know any better that might say hey that’s the shit and then start sharing that information with their friends and then there’s snowballs into a pretty busted situation where there’s a bunch of people thinking they’re doing great, but they’re doing a large detriment to what their final product to turn out to be that being said Like G was saying I would approach defoliation on your plants with a very light hand because the more leaves that are on your plant OK the more that they can soak up vitamins from your lights they’re an essential thing and outside of that. It helps with your transpiration rate at night meaning it’s basically your plant sweating out all of the light it took in the previous day and translates into a healthy eating plant with roots that grow strong. It’s just an essential part of the plant so I never take anything off of the outer perimeter of any of my plants I always leave all of those leaves on there because they’re not covering any potential top sites. OK you only really want to take any leaves that are pointed inward towards the center mass of your plant that are covering possible tops. Other than that you really wanna leave everything else on there and when it comes down to it if you get a little bit too heavy handed with it it will suffer your yield and in this type of situation as long as you learn from any type of mistake that you make, and it’s not too terrible of a loss because you’re just going through the motions and it’s always gonna be a learning experience as long as you have the right head about it and there’s no better learning out there than hands-on you know don’t beat yourself up over it or anything because the plan is still gonna go ahead and yield you some pretty good looking herb it looks like if you have a situation where you can’t raise your light anymore, but your plant is getting super close to it. I always just super crop my stalks if they get that Wiley. in order to keep from any type of trichrome or plant material from getting burnt I’m gonna go ahead and post you a video that is a quick tutorial that I’ve made for past growers on how to super crop if you’re unsure of yourself on the explanation that I give in there just look it up and do a little bit of referencing yourself and if you’re still unsure after that, hit me up tomorrow I’m sick and shit right now I’m trying to rest and stuff so I’m not gonna be on that long, but I have no problem in helping you manage that it’s all about just making sure that you can expose as many nodes as possible to your light source and when you super crop a plant you might think that it doesn’t look good or whatever but just give it a few days and you’ll start to notice that the top will start turning up towards the light and it has a beneficial side to your yield as well because now instead of there being a vertical stock it’s now horizontal and all of those leaf spots. The nodes are now exposed to straight up awesome light that leaves were probably covering before. The application is super cropping is generally done to boost yield, but an indoor applications with some plants that are growing with vigor and getting tall fast, I like to use it as it means to move that stalk back into the majority of your lights, footprint, and your managing your space with it as well. I know with this video you’ll notice that I pinch and roll my fingers back-and-forth at the spot that I want to go ahead and have the bend all right what you’re doing is your crushing the intercell walls of that stalk don’t overdo that but pay attention. OK you don’t wanna break it down so much that it’s gonna be a problem use judgment, but don’t be scared to do it as well. Take your time. Sometimes you might need to apply the method a few times every other day in order to get it to really lay down at a 90° angle or find something that you can use to make a U-shaped weight you know you can find anything laying around that you can kind of put together to use as one and then you hang it on the stock to keep it at a 90° angle to catch what I’m saying Here’s the vid.

 

[Captspaulding]

And the scrog.
The main intention with one of those
It’s all about creating what I like to explain to people as a inverted cascade
I like to put mine on top of a plant right when I’m gonna go ahead and flip to flower because you never really know exactly how a plant is gonna grow in veg before you’ve had an opportunity to do it yourself and this is all gotta be relative to the size of your grow area
As your plant stretches in flower, that’s when you’re gonna wanna start pulling stocks away from the center of the plant and trying to get them to the farthest point of your net and as your stocks turn up to the light and grow through the scrog itself, that’s when you start pulling them back through it and putting them even farther to the edge of your net
When applying this methodology, you have to go to the bottom of your stock on your plant. I like to tell everybody to get you some zip strips and reinforce the spot on the trunk of your plant. That is gonna take the most stress from you spreading it apart because you do it too much and it will start to actually split the stock open, which isn’t a big deal. Your plant will still live. You’d be shocked if you look at the one pic that I posted here you can see that I split mine, so I grabbed it, stuck it back together and zip stripped it. I got a little too heavy handed but as you can see it didn’t really matter. These plants are incredibly vigorous, but it’s something that you don’t wanna have happen. I have been around the block a few times, so I know what you need to do in order to avoid that but hey man, we all make mistakes from time to time and as long as you catch it in time, it’s not that big of a deal It’s just I would rather that novice growers don’t go through that heart check, I’m showing this as a reference point to know that if it does happen in the midst of view applying the methodology that not all is lostbut Reinforce it with a few zip strips just to ensure that it doesn’t and if you apply this, you can get a little bit more aggressive in opening up your plant and spreading it across your net, but that’s the name of the game and when you’re pulling these tall stocks all the way to the outside of your net all of those lower nodes or leaf sets are now open to the light It’s about making as many of those leaf sets or nodes exposed to increase yield it looks to me like you installed your net way too early

 

[Gmix]

Really gave some good information there @Captspaulding awesome stuff. I’ll have too look in your dairy I haven’t seen your recent grow

 

[SMOKENOJOKE]

And the scrog.
The main intention with one of those
It’s all about creating what I like to explain to people as a inverted cascade
I like to put mine on top of a plant right when I’m gonna go ahead and flip to flower because you never really know exactly how a plant is gonna grow in veg before you’ve had an opportunity to do it yourself and this is all gotta be relative to the size of your grow area
As your plant stretches in flower, that’s when you’re gonna wanna start pulling stocks away from the center of the plant and trying to get them to the farthest point of your net and as your stocks turn up to the light and grow through the scrog itself, that’s when you start pulling them back through it and putting them even farther to the edge of your net
When applying this methodology, you have to go to the bottom of your stock on your plant. I like to tell everybody to get you some zip strips and reinforce the spot on the trunk of your plant. That is gonna take the most stress from you spreading it apart because you do it too much and it will start to actually split the stock open, which isn’t a big deal. Your plant will still live. You’d be shocked if you look at the one pic that I posted here you can see that I split mine, so I grabbed it, stuck it back together and zip stripped it. I got a little too heavy handed but as you can see it didn’t really matter. These plants are incredibly vigorous, but it’s something that you don’t wanna have happen. I have been around the block a few times, so I know what you need to do in order to avoid that but hey man, we all make mistakes from time to time and as long as you catch it in time, it’s not that big of a deal It’s just I would rather that novice growers don’t go through that heart check, I’m showing this as a reference point to know that if it does happen in the midst of view applying the methodology that not all is lostbut Reinforce it with a few zip strips just to ensure that it doesn’t and if you apply this, you can get a little bit more aggressive in opening up your plant and spreading it across your net, but that’s the name of the game and when you’re pulling these tall stocks all the way to the outside of your net all of those lower nodes or leaf sets are now open to the light It’s about making as many of those leaf sets or nodes exposed to increase yield it looks to me like you installed your net way too early

YOUR PLANTS LOOKS GREAT MAN!!!!!!!

 

[Pariah]

Wow….a seriously impressive canopy. I can only aspire to shaping my Indica girls accordingly. Well done!