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ElectricPineapple

ElectricPineapple

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oh daaamn. so i could get four cola's the size of one? ive read UB's topping thread. will re read before topping. i thought it just put the energy used for that one cola, and distribute it to the 4. so does this effect the lower bud sites? i want to make sure before i top. height is not an issue and might not be. my plants are only about 7-8 inches tall but pretty bushy. how tall should i top at it if i want it to finish at around 4 feet? i want my fems to finish at 5-5 1/2 feet. actually let me rephrase that, how tall will they grow after i top them? also if i topped and grew it to 3 feet, would it yield as much or more than if it wasnt topped and had one cola but was 5 feet? and chaos, my apologies for hijacking the thread for a sec.

pine
 
potpimp

potpimp

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EP, it does redistribute the growth to the 4 main ones and you get at least twice (looks to me like 4X) as much bud. Uncle Ben also goes into something, either in that thread or another, that I've never heard of anywhere else - "second harvest". It's absolutely brilliant. He chops the main colas, leaving the rest of the plant in tact. That allows a lot more light to penetrate the plant. About 2 weeks later he chops the rest of the plant. He says he increases his yield by about 25% by doing that! So topping to get the 4 main colas gives the greatest yield of any method I've ever seen.

The only criteria that matters to get 4 main colas is that you top it just above the second true node. The branches must be opposing, the bottom nodes branches going east-west and the upper nodes branches going north-south, so to speak. He had a pic of one of his plants growing up past the light; it didn't have a problem with that.

I'm not sure there is a way to actually predict how tall they will grow when you top; you get what you get. I think it mostly depends on the genetics of the plant. I've got autoflowers going right now; they take 60 days from seed to finish and they don't get over about 2' tall. I've also got Super Silver Haze, a full season sativa that grows really tall; this is going to be an outdoor grow for me.
 
Subtlechaos

Subtlechaos

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ElectricPineapple said:
oh daaamn. so i could get four cola's the size of one? ive read UB's topping thread. will re read before topping. i thought it just put the energy used for that one cola, and distribute it to the 4. so does this effect the lower bud sites? i want to make sure before i top. height is not an issue and might not be. my plants are only about 7-8 inches tall but pretty bushy. how tall should i top at it if i want it to finish at around 4 feet? i want my fems to finish at 5-5 1/2 feet. actually let me rephrase that, how tall will they grow after i top them? also if i topped and grew it to 3 feet, would it yield as much or more than if it wasnt topped and had one cola but was 5 feet? and chaos, my apologies for hijacking the thread for a sec.

pine
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Nobody will get upset with you for hijacking my threads. As long as your asking questions, I'm learning right along with you, brother. And that(of course) is why we're here. Hell, thank you for helping me learn
This is my second grow. On my last one, I did a simple topping one week into flowering, for two main colas...

Will definitely check that out potpimp. Your proving to be a handy guy to have around...
 
ElectricPineapple

ElectricPineapple

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oh ok pot pimp. so i have two super lemon haze's right now that are seedlings. check out my grow in my sig. so if i top those then they can still get tall. i want them to get to like 5 feet. and my Kaya 47. the rest around 4 feet. theres kind of a reasoning by this. but im definitely going to top now, i think i will do one SLH adn not the other to compare yields. same genetics, same growing conditions. when i harvest and get wet and dry weights ill start a thread. and i did read UB's thread that had the second harvest and planned on doing that. i have a cabinet so the lower bud sight wont get a whole lotta light. haha good thing Subtle. im always down for learning.

pine
 
Subtlechaos

Subtlechaos

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Goin' to look for hairs, and get some pics of the ladies tonight. Gonna' be late, tho. I got em' on a reverse photoperiod.(Day is night. Night is day) I did this to help balance the temp in the room. It'll really come in handy this May and June, when it's hot out. The lights come on at 10pm. Expect pics by 11pm(US-CST), if y'all still are on, then.bongsmilie

My lights are actually on right now. They're getting ready to turn off in about 45 minutes. It's too fuckin early, and way too cold to get my lazy ass in the car, and go to the farm, sooo....... yep... tonight.
 
Subtlechaos

Subtlechaos

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donkey.420 said:
damn man! hurry up lol. plants don't understand lazy now get off that girl and get to work! lmfao
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No, sir. Go to weather.com, and check the weather for my area. It's fuckin cold, man. we got more snow, yesterday, and the day before. It was weird, man. St.Patricks day, it was 70 degrees, and I was BBQing with my buddies, in my back yard... Two days later it was fuckin' snowing again!

Must be nice to live in the warm part of the country!:cuss:
 
svchop889

svchop889

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Fucking snow man shit came across you and hit me, only accumulated 1'', though more than that came down. Its all melting now bloody soggy mess. almos had to shoot a cop yesterday.
 
svchop889

svchop889

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ElectricPineapple said:
haha i know. it lasted one day and is already half melted. now its all muddy. haha what did the cop do
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he came to my house to talk to me apparently one of my ''friends'' decided they would steal some bikes from a store in town, I guess he thought it would be cool to drop my name and say I knew something about it. He is lucky I haven't decided to cut out his damn tongue good thing he knows nothing of whats in my closet or you probably wouldn't be reading this right now. Fucked up part is I was tending to my plants at the time, just got done cutting clones then my dog starts going nuts. Moral of the story tell absolutely no one and keep a dog, there excellent for a heads up.
 
ElectricPineapple

ElectricPineapple

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daaamn. i woulda shit a brick. haha ya. i try not to associate myself with sketchy people that steal stuff. just for that reason. if they get in trouble and decide to drop my name cuz i smoke or some shit. ya id kill the guy that ratted on you. what a prick.
 
svchop889

svchop889

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ElectricPineapple said:
daaamn. i woulda shit a brick. haha ya. I try not to associate myself with sketchy people that steal stuff. just for that reason. if they get in trouble and decide to drop my name cuz i smoke or some shit. ya id kill the guy that ratted on you. what a prick.
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I about did poop myself. but some people aren't even worth the price of a bullet, I'll let someone or something else take care of it, karma is a bitch.
 
ElectricPineapple

ElectricPineapple

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haha well i load my own shells and ammunition for hunting and target shooting so i make them real cheap... REAL cheap. so they are pretty expendable. which i think your "friend" is pretty expendable also. hahaha.
 
Subtlechaos

Subtlechaos

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svchop889 said:
I about did poop myself. but some people aren't even worth the price of a bullet, I'll let someone or something else take care of it, karma is a bitch.
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Well said! That's exactly what I was gettin' ready to post. There's a few people that are only alive because of my genuine good nature. I could sit here and talk for days about the patheticness of bitches that cant help but fuckin talk, cause they got no backbone to do time.

Let karma burn his ass. Everywhere he goes, he'll wonder if sum1s gonna' find out he's a punk.

If you feel too much heat, dump this grow, and go post bond for Agg Batt. But if I were you, I'd mind my business. Let bitches be bitches, and tend to those girls. Speaking of... How they comin around?
 
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