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Double-Pruning for Consistency: How Two Well-Timed Cuts Boost Yield and Cannabinoid Uniformity
There’s a difference between shaping a plant and shaping a result. In commercial cultivation, pruning involves a bit of chemistry management to achieve your desired ends. The humble act of cutting a plant twice, just a few days apart, can mean the difference between a harvest that passes testing—and one that gets remediated.Let’s talk about double pruning.What is it?Double pruning is exactly what it sounds like: two intentional cuts during early vegetative growth. The first comes about 10–12 days post-transplant, after …
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Pruning Techniques for Cannabis Plants
Pruning selectively removes unnecessary foliage, redirecting the plant’s energy into producing larger, denser, higher-quality buds. It also improves plant morphology, resulting in a better microclimate by increasing light exposure and air circulation around the plant.Cannabis exhibits monopodial growth, meaning it develops a single main stem that grows vertically, and because it is apically dominant,[1] the main stem inhibits the growth of lateral shoots. Pruning the main stem relieves the plant of apical dominance, triggering hormonal changes—specifically, changes in auxin and …
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