when your plant gets healthy enough, what i mean by healthy is that your plant has at LEAST 2-3 pairs of large healthy leaves, then in this case u look for the BABy start of the new growth of incoming leaves and take CLEAN scissors and snip the entire tip tip top off. what this will do is cause your plant to develop multiple new tops and become bushier and more productive, it does set your growth back by about 2 days tho. use the link in my signature to see how mine turned out outside and after i correctly "topped" them, they got multiple bushy new tops. as for nutes, they are something worht dropping a few bucks on the web for. although widow says that his friend doesnt use nutes nd get results so if u want to gamble go ahead. btw how did you secure ur plant in the tree?