Wait, I only just got a light with that capability, how does that allow them to stretch more?
Lower light makes the plants reach more to get more light. It doesn't increase yield by the way it just stretches the plants which they'll do on their own when you switch to flowering. All your doing is saving electricity and making your plants work harder to stay healthy. Genetics determine their density and the less dense plant will suffer from lack of light as the bushy one will take most of the light.
In this instance the op should defoliate the dense plant by removing the leafs that aren't receiving light, for example the leafs on the bottom.
Ideally you should scrog the plants to achieve more bud sites if you're looking to increase yield. Meaning tuck the taller branches under that net he's using. Weed is an apical dominant plant meaning if you pull a branch down the side shoots will become main "tops". Google for more info.
Taller plants do not equal more weed.
Source - grown weed for years commercially.
Everyone has their own approach, you’re not entirely wrong, but you also aren’t correct either. I want the plant to stretch to fill out the tent fully, partly so it doesn’t get chocked out by the other ones.
The less dense plant wouldn’t suffer, and the bushy one won’t take the light that’s not touching it. Both would stretch more to fill out the canopy. Also genes only do so much, site conditions, watering frequency, nute strength, etc. can all lead to different expressions in the same “genes” ie clones. Even clones can have different phenotypes.
Defoliating the bottom would be counter productive and useless, the plants 6” tall with the light 30” away, the lower leafs are getting marginally less light due to the inverse square law.
Plant was trellised yesterday, will be “scrogged” for a week before flipping.
Most are topped as well, so atypical dominance was broken already.
Taller plants can be layed over making a sudo scrog that’s immediately flowered. There’s a thousand ways to grow this plant, no one person should claim they have the correct way to do it.
The plant would stretch out faster filling out the canopy so I can flip to flower sooner.
