Question 1

Why is Pruning Important?

Accepted Answer

Pruning is essential for a grower because it ensures that all the excesses are cut off and resources of a plant are utilized in a proper manner towards the growth of the plant. Pruning helps trim down the size of a plant and makes sure that all the portions that stay get better access to resources and produce higher yields. Pruning also makes sure that plants get better access to sunlight and can therefore grow well. While it is not a process that you ‘must’ do as a marijuana grower, it is a process that should be done in order to get better yields.rn

Question 2

What to look for in a pruning shear?

Accepted Answer

The best pruning shears need to be durable. This is one of the most basic requirements for getting a shear. Shears need to last long and should not break down while using them to prune your plants. The size and the weight of the shears also matter. Usually, people prefer using shears which are in proportion to their plants - i.e. large pruning shears for large plants and small pruning shears for small plants. Moreover, it also depends upon how big your hands are and whether you are a left-handed person or a right-handed person. Your pruning shears should also be easy to clean and easy to manage.

Question 3

Which is easier for beginners: Fimming vs Topping?

Accepted Answer

Topping is a method which is generally considered easy for beginners as it involves simple steps where you have to simply prune the plant from the top. It does not need you to make cuts at points where it might be possible to cause permanent damage to the plant. Fimming, on the other hand, needs you to know exactly what you are doing and hence you need to be very careful because fimming will almost always result in damage to the plants but it heals over time. If done wrong, fimming might end up reducing your yields rather than increasing them.

Question 4

When should you prune your marijuana plant?

Accepted Answer

Pruning is something that is usually done multiple times over a plant’s life cycle. Especially when you consider the marijuana plant, you need to ensure that you are pruning it only after the second week. However, you must also ensure that you stop all pruning work after the plant reaches the second week of the flowering stage. Indica plants would require you to wait three weeks before you start cutting them while the sativa strain is good to be pruned from the second week. Plants need at least three to four days to recover before you begin to re-prune them so take care of that as well.

Question 5

What to do with the pruned leaves?

Accepted Answer

The portions of the marijuana plant that are pruned off won’t really be of much use to you. This statement is especially true for the first three months of the plant’s life cycle. Beyond three months some leaves might be smokable. These leaves will carry some traces of THC but there’s a good chance that you will not get a kick out of it as the ‘high’ that you experience after smoking these leaves will be much weaker compared to what you would typically expect off marijuana. You can also make butter or oil out of these leaves.

Question 6

Can pruning increase yield?

Accepted Answer

Yes, the biggest benefit of pruning is that it can increase your yield. Pruning can lead to an Texcesses and extra parts of the plants are chopped off and it allows for more branches and new buds to develop, which leads to more buds. With the extra parts gone, the resources will be allocated to the existing portions in a better manner. Furthermore by restricting the vertical growth you grow the plant outwards, thereby increasing the surface area where sunlight can help boost the plant’s yields and growth.rn

Question 7

What is lollipopping your plants?

Accepted Answer

While fimming vs topping is the primary debate when it comes to pruning your plant, there’s also a third technique - lollipopping. You can consider it as almost the reverse of what topping is. Instead of removing some of the upper portions of the plants, lollipopping is basically removing the lower portions of your plants so that the buds on the top can develop in a better manner. The idea behind lollipopping is that it will ensure that the lower portions, which are over-shaded, are removed. These aren’t high-yield areas anyway as the light that they receive is limited. This also leads to the plants developing bigger colas.

Question 8

What are some effects of over-pruning?

Accepted Answer

Excess of anything is bad and the same applies to the pruning process. While under-pruned plants are not good and not suitable for the growth of marijuana plants, over-pruned plants can also be quite dangerous because that would lead to portions being chopped off prematurely and if you prune it too much you’d be left with far too few branches and therefore it will lead to a far lesser yield as well.

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