Know the strain(s), doesn’t look like cannabis at all anymore right 
Nice ornamental for in the garden 
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Hi, day 33 and I’ve been busy tinkering with my plants.
I started yesterday with my largest girl, the SOS Blue. I put a few stakes in to hold out and separate the mid to lower stems…
She’s just about to start flowering. Here’s her main cola tip….
Next, I did the same to the Red Tropicana Cookies, and took a few of the lower large fan leaves off as well, to let the light through….
I’ll remove the large fans mid way up when the stems that they supply get a bit longer.
Then I thought about what @SAWNEY-BEAN was saying about doing some LST on the White G3 in an attempt to slow down the veg period.
I usually use a bit of soft wire to pull down a branch and hook the wire into one of the holes in the side of the airpot, like you might see at the front of the pot in the picture above.
I remember seeing @Hope2grow or someone else using some special hooks to do their training, so I 3D printed some for myself, and got to work on the White G3, pulling down all the lower stems, and taking a few of the larger fans off….
I put the red ones in yesterday, and this morning I adjusted a few and added the blue ones….
I haven’t done anything with her top part, not sure what yet, but I might supercrop the main stem once the lower section gets more established.
This is what the top looks like…
@DOA mate, what advice would you give at this point? Do you see what I mean about the funky leaves on her!
Just to finish, I did the same with Kalakta…
She’s much like the Red Tropicana Cookies, in that there’s a lot of bush downstairs, and I’ll probably do a defoliation once the stems all get a bit bigger.
There you go then, just a quick update, see you soon!
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Supercrop the white main stem mate that will help too. 
Everything looking tickity boo.
Do you reckon I should do it now or wait a few days… I want to give the lower canopy the best chance before I crowd it out with that huge main stem, but I also want that main cola tip to be well chunky at the end!
See how the ties go for a few days mate 
You can pop “crack” the main stem just below a set of nodes closer to the other branches height.
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Yeah the leaves are a little funky, you could splay her out and super crop her, I’m sure she’d like it. You’ll struggle keeping the canopy level though without a net or frame. Once the pistols have shown your on a time schedule, you’ve 3-4 days to supercrop before the stems become a little hard. The other option is to give her a good defoilation and use your printed hooks to open her up with a bit of supper cropping under the main nodes. Wait until she starts flowering, the kolas this lady throws up should be on Mt.Krushmore.
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Wow, thanks @DOA and @SAWNEY-BEAN for your advice, nothing like getting it straight from the horse’s mouth.
I went to water them today and decided to give them a bit of defoliation lower down just so I could feed them easier…. ended up doing major surgery on the White G3…..
Yeah, so after a few adjustments of the LST pegs and some leaf trimming, I set about working out which direction I should get the main stem to fall when I supercrop it.
I do the squeeze, roll and bend technique to supercrop, and secured the stem to a stake.
I then attached a small cane to the main stake so that I could train the shoots from the supercropped main stem.
Here it looks from above…
and from the front…
I’m looking forward to seeing how this all goes.
Finally I removed leaves from the other three. The SOS Blue is a bit on the tall side, so I might supercrop her main stem as well.
Here they are, clockwise from top left: Red Tropicana Cookies, SOS Blue, White G3 and Kalakta.
Thanks and see you next time!
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That’s what we are talking 
You can always add a box or crate to lift up the smaller plants to even out the canopy.
Awesomemaximus dude .
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She’s going to like that, in a few weeks she’ll be a monster 
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…. oooo, spanky time 
… looking bent proper TT!
All are shaping up nicely mate, I really like the SOSBlue’s squat but open frame in particular…
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