What up! Sorry for the blurry canopy shot last update, I don't take 1 billion photos and find the best one like I should. I do however have a day 38 shot that came out ok
What I wanted to show today is the way I go about my clones.. top early and top often. I know what you're probably going to say, "you're slowing the growth of the plant down too much." Although that's true, I take my clones from plant's I'm about to flower. I wait till those clones are rooting out before I flip the bigger plants into flowering. At this point I have a little over 2 months to veg and if I grew out single cola plants my room wouldn't be able to handle the size of one plant, let alone 9 or 12.
Since I top the shit out of my plants before flowering (I stop a little before clones are taken) my clones are already topped. Once the clones get settled into their first pots and start to shoot out new growth I top those new shoots. I do this over and over till each plant has about 10-12 even nodes to work with.
Pro tip:
As you can see the right 2 nodes have been topped, I left the left 2 nodes to grow out a little further to catch up to the others before I top them, assuring an even canopy. If I let the left one go until they catch up, there will be a node left under the node that would be topped, I clean those off.