Growing marijuana seeds at home are really easy and anyone can do it following few tips. But often people come across same problem while growing marijuana seeds and that is the branch shooting into two from the point where the stem and leaf joins together. This uncontrollable growth is not good for marijuana seeds and can easily be taken care of by pruning.
Pruning is a good way to control such problems and at the same time it does not affect the plant as well. Young marijuana seeds should not be pruned. One has to wait for the vegetation stage of the marijuana seeds to begin before starting off with pruning.
The growing tips of the marijuana seeds have the best potency and the kind of smoke they produce after 3 months is amazing. During the development of marijuana seeds, one can easily prune it anytime but it has to be kept in mind that just like overdoing of anything is bad, similarly pruning excessively would also not be too good for marijuana seeds. Make a strategy on how and when to prune your marijuana seeds at different stages of their growth.
It takes the plant some time to recover from the loss of growing tip and thus that much time should be provided for it to grow. Growth largely depends upon the environment marijuana seeds are provided with and also to the climatic conditions. The seeds need at least 8 hours of sunlight which portray largely how good or bad the growth would be. Also what quality of marijuana seeds you have cultivated, also helps in determining the end results.
Pruning should always be done during the early development stages and once the vegetative stage starts ending. This may also be done once the flowering starts taking place. All new nodes should not be pruned. Instead it is recommended to prune the third node that develops. For pruning even the scissors should not be too big.
While flowering if you will prune your female buds, the harvest will go down tremendously. In case you have cannabis indica, don’t prune too much as it does not require pruning as much as cannabis sativa requires. Always the tallest branch should be pruned. This way the rest of the branches get enough space to grow. All the dying leaves should also be removed but remember that healthy leaves need to stay back.
