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so it was my first time lollipoping plants and I was a little hesitant on doing but I went ahead and gave it a shot. Hope I did it right and didn’t take too much off

 
Posted : July 11, 2021 12:05 am
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Looks good to me mate, i maye have taken more tbf 😉 You'd be surprised how much you can take off and they will be fine

I got a big lolly popping session coming in about a week. I take off anything below 3 nodes on each branch, unless it has grown into a decent shoot of its own. Ill make a video when i do it Smile

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Posted : July 11, 2021 12:13 am
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@pollinatedhi looks preety good, I dont lollipop so much as i used to but i do tend to clean up the lower 1/3 of the plant and keep it clean so plenty of airflow can pass around and over the medium. I am also running a lot more auto flowers so I tend to leave them alone other than light defol and lst anyway. But those look good, not too much off and they look healthy good work!  

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That looks like a real good start. You can keep at it so she won't even notice. I do this thing where I defoliate around day 21+/- and then day 45+/- of flower for the autos that I do. Can't say that it helps or hurts but they usually get pretty hair around those times. Take it easy.            peace

 
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@pollinatedhi the first lollipop can be a little nerve wracking I’ll admit. You want to eliminate larf and popcorn buds but at the same time you don’t want to loose an opportunity for a larger harvest. You have a good beginning and everyone does it differently but take a good look at where you stopped the lollipop. When you harvest, if there is popcorn buds and larf above that point, next time go a little higher. Over the course of the next couple grows you can fine tune your lollipop technique for tighter and frostier buds.

Similar to Macky, I am more aggressive with this procedure. Because I grow in small tents I take off 40-60% of the canopy at lollipop. It sounds crazy aggressive but one week later the plant is set up perfectly for nice solid buds and I get good air flow through the canopy too.

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@monkeydo So when your lollipoping are you basicly trying to take all the small buds away so its just big colas left, and remove all the smaller branches underneeth.

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@stootie Yes, in a nutshell that’s it. In Veg I do my best to get as level of a canopy as possible before I flip to flower. After the plant has finished stretch and is forming real flowers, not just a few random pistils, you pick a spot on the plant that you want your buds to start forming. Everything below that spot is removed and all the blooming energy will be focused on the buds you left that hopefully are now in good light and airflow. With some practice and trial error you learn what spot works best for you to reduce/eliminate the larf and increase overall harvest weight and quality. As Macky hinted at, it’s usually a bit higher than you think as first. I just did a lollipop on my autos and the before, after, and a week later pics are in my autoflower diary. The whole lollipop thing was hard for me to get my head around before I joined Percy’s. Some of the OG around here showed me the way and I’ve not looked back.

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@monkeydo Yea I saw the pics in your diary the other day, infact it could be your pics thaty have triggered me to think about doing some lollipoping myself.haha

My first grow the plants werent topped or anything and the buds were all so small I just couldnt understand the whole lollipoping thing, but after watching my ghost train plants this run it makes far more sense, they were both topped and been under the aray, so the buds are far bigger this time, it makes all the small branches at the bottom look totaly out of place along side the big buds.

and most of the buds on my first plants looked like popcorn which didnt help.lol I'll maybe have to do a bit of reading up on the subject and give it a go sometime too. thanks for the info Monkey   cheers bro Wink  

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Posted : July 11, 2021 9:14 pm
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I'll be coming up to this stage in a few weeks so this has helped me loads thanks chaps

 
Posted : July 11, 2021 10:27 pm
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