Scroggers advice please. First week of flower

[greentomatoes2025]

This is something im a few grows into and still trying to figure out for my situation : ) i was just out in the garage trimming some my plants that hermed and are early. Im thinking between strain and a good trim job one can find a happy medium. But at the same time i hear you on the buds! I think if you start heavy on the trimming out first in your growing venture you can maximaize over time the lower sites on subsequent runs. I’ve done it backwards and have slowly started moving my way up and taking more of that stuff off! all further runs are going to be getting a pretty heavy defol, but i want to make concentrates also so the littles all go to that

run with what will achieve YOUR desired end results : )

thank you! the garden has been a work in progress, its finally starting to pay off (its a hobby and things grow a bit and we all have fun with it) someday we’ll have some land to really grow a proper garden (we dont get a lot of sun here).

Yeah next time I'm going to be aiming for some larger or longer concentrated bud sites. Exercise a bit of discipline in trimming lower larf earlier!

Photo update.. 1 more week of nutes and then flush! Pretty sure these trichs are milky now right?

 

[greentomatoes2025]

One of the ways I've been able to reduce larf without having to do a lot of trimming is to train the plants low.

When I spread them out on my scrog net, I usually only leave around 6" of space between the net and the soil line. Just enough to be able to get in there if I have to but exposing the lower bud sites so that I get large enough flowers to make it worth it.

When I transplant into their final pots I'll add a FlorFlex watering plate so that when the net fills and my access is limited as far as getting water to the media I can use the watering plates as part of my irrigation system so that I don't have to mess around trying to get under the canopy to water.

This sounds like something I'd like to do next round (low training).

Are these the plates you are referring to? I see Floraflex offer a couple of options.. right now I'm using a halo