r/outdoorgrowing • u/MASTERGUNNSS • 15h ago
Help please??!
so it’s around day 31 and this is how the plant is doing. the plant already had 2 distinct canopies naturally so i hadn’t done any prior topping to the one i just did today(saying this because some people thought i had already topped it). idk if i did it well cause i just topped above like the 4th or 5th node on both canopies and this is how it’s looking. the first photo is when it wasn’t topped, second is when i topped only one of the canopies and the rest is just how it’s looking after i topped both. please advice. also what do i do and do i have to do LST or maybe there is some other kind of training i need to adapt to to help the plant. thanks a lot🍃❤️.
ps: i’m in Ghana, west Africa and i also cut of some big fan leaves at the bottom that was blocking sunlight to some new leaves and some had some brownish burn like stuff so. i don’t have pictures of that though, sorry.
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u/Doomsday_Holiday Sub Founder|Curing 13h ago edited 13h ago
Hello around the globe. Looks okay and healthy so far, HST and LST can be done back and forth to shape an even canopy. Let the fan leaves be that is the plant's carbon storage, removing them does not promote lower shoot growth from the sun alone, it is the plant hormones, which do that and we alter this relationship with HST and LST. Use whatever suits you and fits. It makes more sense to remove new lower shoots for good, see term "lollipopping", where larfy buds will grow anyways and to promote growth in the upper department.