I Need Help. Is It Possible to Top Plants 30 Days into Flowering?

[Serapis]

The only wow factor here is your outright violation of the forum rules. Since you also advocate cutting of the main stem after 30 days of flowering, it's also obvious you have no cause to be giving out advice here. Are you now also fascinated with penis sizes of other male members here? Your made up quote would seem to suggest so.

Wow dude....................................

 

[cannawizard]

So i think i learned on here that topping a plant is when you like not snap but bend the top part of the plant and it only grows from the sidegrowth? (is this some what correct?)

So the reason im on here about this is because one of the girls shes about 4 1/2ft? 36 days into flower so she has a bigg ass nugg for like the first 5 inches its probally about 3 inchs around pretty. but all the leaves have died from the whole plant but there is about 10 stems? with bud growingand each stem has its patch of leafs but not fullsized ones?? like mini ones. so i was wondering if i could just top the top bud and let the side growth do its thing? is this possible tho? because alot of the (sweet leaf?) the like leafs comming outta the bud. is dying soo... but the hairs are half white half red so idk what would happen there but im not to experienced with any thing i just said to please i need some help. +rep of course. thx

(ps... this is my first so... bare with me...)

**IMHO.. do not 'top' your mj plants once they are in bloom(12/12).. you will only do more harm than good hope your first time is a good one, goodluck

 

[unity]

This is fucking idiotic, who in their right mind cuts the main kola 30days into flower and to top it off (no pun intended), gallops around on a self-righteous horse advocating such foolishness. (If you do that, save yourself the embracement and shut up about it)
If you have to cut your main cola because you were to stupid or inexperienced (all right lets be fair, maybe it just snug up on you) to control its size before it was out of control, don't go around bragging about it. You are wrong bro(s), and should not tear into people giving good advice. Plan a little, that would be good advice!
And btw, I'd rather tie the fucking thing sideways and under instead of cutting it off. Let's re-fresh what was said: "... I chop bud tops if their bigger than the other and I can't lower my reflector", if you can not see the stupidity in this sentence you cannot be helped. You are basically cutting your better performing buds so the runts can catch up, great logic!
Good luck with that, but the advice is still wrong!

I apologize for the profanity, but it had to be said.

 

[hoagtech]

I would bend it if my plant was made of taffy but its not and an 8 inch difference is huge if you could place your sealed rreflector directly on your plants. When i have lots of plants in a flood tray its hard to reroot and lean my plant. especially when your roots go through your aero buckets I dont think it would be easy without tearing them.
To be fair supercropping might work but I dont do that personally because im scared to and I dont believe it yet

 

[Beansly]

So i think i learned on here that topping a plant is when you like not snap but bend the top part of the plant and it only grows from the sidegrowth? (is this some what correct?)

So the reason im on here about this is because one of the girls shes about 4 1/2ft? 36 days into flower so she has a bigg ass nugg for like the first 5 inches its probally about 3 inchs around pretty. but all the leaves have died from the whole plant but there is about 10 stems? with bud growingand each stem has its patch of leafs but not fullsized ones?? like mini ones. so i was wondering if i could just top the top bud and let the side growth do its thing? is this possible tho? because alot of the (sweet leaf?) the like leafs comming outta the bud. is dying soo... but the hairs are half white half red so idk what would happen there but im not to experienced with any thing i just said to please i need some help. +rep of course. thx

(ps... this is my first so... bare with me...)

Topping or 'tipping' is where you cut the stem off totally. LST (low stress training) is where you bend the plant to get bigger side growth.
damn man, by the sound of it your plants not gonna make to the end either way...
but yeah you can cut the top off a plant without killing it, but it's not gonna grow into two tops and it's gonna cut into your yield big time since by then, your biggest bud will be the main. So yeah if you have to cut it, do it only to save the other plants in the room but not for any other reason. all the fan leaves dying probably aren't from the light being too close. most likely you got bigger problems. the only reason I would do it anymore is to even out a fucked canopy, but even then, I'd probably just supercrop it....
why don't you supercrop it? at least that way you wont lose the biggest bud on the plant.

I would bend it if my plant was made of taffy but its not and an 8 inch difference is huge if you could place your sealed rreflector directly on your plants. When i have lots of plants in a flood tray its hard to reroot and lean my plant. especially when your roots go through your aero buckets I dont think it would be easy without tearing them.
To be fair supercropping might work but I dont do that personally because im scared to and I dont believe it yet

you dont have to be afraid to supercrop. it's a lot better than completely removing the terminal bud. what a waste! you can't smoke it, you can't do anything with it. think of it this way, if you bend the stem and it breaks, then you get what you want either way.

 

[1oldgoat]

7'500 posts and this guy doesnt know coffee grounds are good for cannabis lol

They're not. They're good in compost.

 

[Mel O'Cheddar]

Topping or 'tipping' is where you cut the stem off totally

I was wondering if anybody was going to bring this up. I'm no weed wizard but I know *that*.

 

[Alex Kelly]

Glad this was cleared up everyone, more terrible poorly informed advice avoided.

 

[thafoot]

great thread. bravo. topping a plant 30 days into flower is like having a deer come and bite your main top off and leaving it for u to smoke on the gorund. u still get to smoke it, but the mother fucking top of your beautiful plant has been lopped off by some asshole. it obviously wont do better than if it didnt happen. but i do believe in the first post the OP had topping confused with LST.

 

[scroglodyte]

i don't flower for at least a week after any training/pruning. other than scroggin'