That screen filled out just right. It will be fun when those little cola fingers start sticking up.
I am really watching this as there is no way to trim up a scrog like we have been told we need to trim with LEDs.
Is there none? I have
I remove SO many fan leaves!!!!
I used to be ridiculously nervous / scared /
sceptical about removing leaves and other lower nodes, but now I have to throw all that out the window.. and I'm glad I did!! If you saw my plants after a day of hacking, just before I send em into flower, then the next day... your jaw would drop. It's unexpected and non-conventional, I agree, but once I started this.. I found I couldn't stop after seeing the results.
As long as you don't over extend the use (range) of your light, you can maximize the footprint. This scrog is in a 2.5' x 2.5' space, and has a 360w (actual draw) cob LED fixture. I'm probably maximizing the footprint right now.
Oooo very exciting, that canopy will look amazing when it's bud city. Have you got a couple of fans to blow air around your buds, you don't want mouldy nugs. Much mojo for you.
There's 2 fans at the bottom pointed straight up through the plant. They dance
Also, if you'd have seen these each time before and after my defoliation, you'd really understand my reasoning for cutting so many fan leaves off. The first solid year of my growing.. I basically left the plants alone, beyond some general LSTing. Now-a-days I stick it to em!! I chop, slap, tickle, stake down, tie down, whip, nae nae, and fiddle my plants. But honestly, if I didn't remove some of these fan leaves, they would be entirely shadowing the nodes below them, and this isn't very good with LED's. HPS will "splash" the room with a crazy amount of light (most wasted, mind you) and you get a better "around" penetration type of thing.. not sure what I'm trying to say here. But basically, with LED's you want to reduce shading.
Thanks for checking in Stone!