SOIL First try

[StokeBloke]

Morning, hope you're good. I've grown tomatoes before, but not weed, and my mate is saying I should remove the lower leaves already. If it was a tomatoe plant at this stage it would be too soon. Should I listen to my mate or wait a bit longer?

[Mr.furley]

That plant need all the leaves it has, don't take any.

[StokeBloke]

You've got some impressive results there.
I live in England and my Mrs is a bit prang about me having a proper set up so I'm basically just treating them like house plants. Will this make a drastic difference to the potential crop due lighting? It's late summer at the moment so they are getting approx 16 hours of natural light

[Mr.furley]

StokeBloke
Lighting is food for your plant, it is what will determine the size of your yield, it will determine how fast and large a plant will grow so your yield will be smaller in a "house plant" setting but it will yield.
I think it's a good learning experience for you this way you can get the kinks work out of the difference between tomato/tomahto and cannabis

https://www.growweedeasy.com/10-step-cannabis-grow-guide

Thank you for the complement I love growing my own and I'm proud of what I do.
Good luck.

[StokeBloke]

Cheers. I'll keep going then. My mate in the apartment above mine does have a lighting rig set up so if I think it looks like it's starting to fail I have that to fall back on. Thanks again for the advice

[StokeBloke]

Mr.furley that's what I thought, they need them to photosynthesis to get energy to grow more leaves so at this point it would be detrimental. I understand I need to do it later on with off shoots so I can keep the energy going to the branches that I want to bud. Do you think I'll go far wrong treating them the same as tomatoe plants or do I need to re-educate myself.

And thank you for your previous answer

[StokeBloke]

*tomato (don't know if it's spelt with an 'e' in America cause my iPhone changed it for some reason and it annoyed me so I needed to correct it. Sorry.

[Cali]

What let me check what’s this

[oldjarhead100]

hey stokebloke your girls are looking fine a couple of things I see from the picture, there is a huge learning curve with these plants so you've come to the right place, You will get 6 different ways of doing something just pick the one that sounds best to you , check out the tutorial section lots of good info there
Plants are really stretching -Low light,light to far away
Grow medium looks like there is no perlite of vermiculite to help roots breath
At some point you will need bigger pots I suggest fabric ,5 gallon work well

[StokeBloke]

Thanks for your advice