What if you do NOT top you plants?

[jpill]

I can agree with that statement.

 

[Suiteness]

can you top a plant then put right into flower? or should you top and wait a bit? thanks for all the advice

 

[T.H.Cammo]

I am growing some purple trainwreck and have already topped a couple but I am going to do a little experiment and not top several others and see if the yield is really any different. Any info anyone has on this subject would be appreciated. Thanks.

Topping (or not topping) has very little to do with the yield, at best - and a whole lot to do with maximizing the use of your space and equiptment. In other words, it's just another choice you have to make on how you want to grow.
There is no "Magic Bullet" that will increase your yield significantly! A healthy plant has the ability to produce "X amount" of yield. If you want to increase your yield, the only thing you need to be concerned with is growing the healthiest plants possible - that way they can live up to thier potential. Wether a plant has 1 humongus cola, or 2 (or 4) smaller ones, doesn't really change the yield - it just makes the math more complicated!
If you don't remember anything else, remember this - "Nothing is free!". As the number of colas on a plant increases - the size of those colas decreases in an equal ratio (keeping the yield approximately the same).

 

[jpill]

can you top a plant then put right into flower? or should you top and wait a bit? thanks for all the advice

I would personally wait 4-7 days. That's just my opinion.