Trimming and defoliations is an important technique that can help in keeping your cannabis plant as healthy as possible. If done correctly, trimming can give the harvest from your cannabis plant a significant boost. However, many growers do not know the importance of trimming during flowering stage.
The simple answer is trimming induces the growth of new branches. More branches mean a much higher harvest.
Why Trimming Matters
Like many growers, you may have concluded that pruning can help you achieve a greater harvest. In as much as pruning can help you in getting higher yield, if not done correctly, it can seriously hamper the growth of your cannabis plants leading to a massive loss.
Trimming (also known as Pruning) and defoliation involves removing some amount of foliage during different stages of the life cycle of your plant. If done wrongly at a delicate time, it could lead to severe consequences. One of such sensitive times of carrying out trimming or pruning is during the flowering phase of the plant’s life cycle.
I would not advise against any pruning or trimming once your Cannabis plant starts to flower. Although you may do away with a few dead leaves here and there or those under-productive branches and still end up with a good result as a whole, the idea of pruning during flowering is not good.
Trimming Boosts Harvest
At the flowering stage, the plant experiences rapid growth, and any significant pruning at this stage will lead to plant shock. Although defoliation is still effective, it should only be done in the first period of flowering.
Trimming is one of the most popular and easiest ways to boost harvest. Many Gardeners do some amount of pruning to keep their cannabis plants neat and tidy. For others, it could be because it is the best way to deal with the plants as they can sometimes grow out of hand and become challenging to deal with.
The Benefits of Trimming
There are little risks associated with trimming, it has a lot of benefits to individual plants; including Hemp.
Trimming helps the size of your plant small, all the while maximizing its production but opening bud sites to receive enough light. This is especially important in situations where the number of plants you can have is limited. In other words, with pruning, you can enjoy maximum yield from fewer plants.
If done right, you can make your valuable marijuana more valuable. Despite all the benefits of pruning, it is essential to know that I do not advise beginners to practice it on their plants. This is because having experience and a plan is essential. Pruning of marijuana is a delicate process and could inevitably lead to a whole lot of loss and damage if it is not done correctly. Therefore, I advise that if you do not have any knowledge of pruning, then its best to not prune at all.
Pruning is not a necessity; most seasoned growers don’t bother with pruning. Despite this, I know for sure that a moderate and controlled pruning has massive benefits. You can have a more significant and healthier-looking harvest if you prune.
The Basics of Trimming
Cannabis Pruning simply involves the mechanism of cutting or clipping pieces or parts of the plant. Pruning is just the same as grooming. In the life cycle of a marijuana plant, a specific amount of leaves will die. Pruning simply removes these dead leaves at a faster pace preventing the plant from wasting resources of these dead parts. The leaves die slowly, so helping the plants get rid of them enables it to divert its resources on the other vital parts.
The process of doing away with already dead parts of the plants through defoliation and trimming is comparable to the removal of dead tissue from human wounds. It enables sunlight to get to those smaller leaves.
Also, when you trim, you enable the plant to focus its energy on another crucial aspect of its growth, such as the healthy leaves present or the new sprouting leaves. By doing so, your plants grow faster, producing more chlorophyll. With careful pruning, there is a more efficient use of resources by your plant. Thus it becomes larger and healthier, providing a better harvest.
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