Uncle Ben's Topping Technique to Get 2 or 4 Main Colas

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Kite High

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Situation420 said:
That is what i would rather have rather than have to cut out all the inner growth that otherwise would leave me with a lot of little poofy and airy nugs instead of my nice dense colas i get by pruning that away. I leave all the leaves on the stems that i am keeping, I never take those off, I only remove offshoots from the main stems that never amount to anything. Do you use light movers? I think this is what is causing my overgrowth inside my plants and that is why you guys dont get that problem.
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Yes the overhead cmh are each on an intellidrive
 
Kite High

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I probably wouldn't see it as overgrowth.
1. Put sufficient light below the canopy
2. I put fans blowing up from the floor between each plant as well as minisplit ac, dehumidifier and co2 supplementation as it is totally sealed 5x5x9 height rooms. My 20# tanks average 50 days between changes that how well they are sealed.
 
Situation420

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Kite High said:
I probably wouldn't see it as overgrowth.
1. Put sufficient light below the canopy
2. I put fans blowing up from the floor between each plant as well as minisplit ac, dehumidifier and co2 supplementation as it is totally sealed 5x5x9 height rooms. My 20# tanks average 50 days between changes that how well they are sealed.
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Nice, my tanks only last about 2 n a half weeks, but I also have a 15' x 8' x 7' room . I gotta figure out how to put light below the canopy because the canopy is already so dense. I got the AC, and a dehumidifier isn't needed because the AC is such an efficient Dehumidifier itself.
 
hyroot

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You have that backwards. Ive done my own side by side several times over the years. More and larger leaves always have a larger yield...there was even a side by side thread in the led section a few months back. Defoliation lost.... its mostly strain dependent. 9 out of 10 strains will yield more with leaves. But sometimes there that ones strain that goes against the grain. Its common sense. Plants use leaves to store energy. Chorolphyll absorbs Various wave lengths of light with different pigments on the leaf. With out stomatas / leaves plants cant absorb light and exchange o2 and co2. Nice try beating a dead horse. You are so wrong ....

Outdated info..... you mean plants have not been growing for millions of years...
 
PJ Diaz

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hyroot said:
You have that backwards. Ive done my own side by side several times over the years. More leaf's always have a larger yield... nice try though. Get your facts straight.
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I've done side by sides as well and in my experience it doesn't really make a huge difference one way or the other if done properly and results are of course strain dependent. Really depends mostly on your environment.
 
Julius Caesar

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Cut all the branches off and see if that increases your yield. Maybe you will get one big cola. Hurr duh derp!



Extreme defoliation is a no no. I tried it on my current grow and stunted the shit out of them and now they are taking forever to finish. Listen to Jorge. It's science!

[video=youtube;xYq7CuVpAeo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYq7CuVpAeo[/video]

 
Situation420

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Totally agree and have been experimenting with it myself. I found that there are times when you can defoliate the leaves and promote growth, and times when you remove leaves and it stunts growth. I also found that topping at the wrong time can also lead to a decrease in harvest, yet doing it correctly, increases your harvest size. It's a matter of knowing when, where, and what to do.
 
Uncle Ben

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Situation420 said:
I found that there are times when you can defoliate the leaves and promote growth,....
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Who you trying to convince? It's botanically impossible to promote growth when you remove the very unit that promotes it....ya hard headed retard.

Stupid is as stupid does.....with every new crop of know-it-all noobs.

UB
 
clydefrog

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i topped sunday night and my first node buds are still not taking off yet...the shoots from the second node are doing quite well but nothing from below...did i do something wrong?
 
Kite High

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Situation420 said:
Nice, my tanks only last about 2 n a half weeks, but I also have a 15' x 8' x 7' room . I gotta figure out how to put light below the canopy because the canopy is already so dense. I got the AC, and a dehumidifier isn't needed because the AC is such an efficient Dehumidifier itself.
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during lights out the dehumid and ac work together. Just the ac does not control the rh well enough for my tastes. I like to run 30% or less during flower. Ac will handle it with the lights on but does not run enough in the dark without the heat from the dehumidifier in my rooms.
 
Situation420

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Kite High said:
during lights out the dehumid and ac work together. Just the ac does not control the rh well enough for my tastes. I like to run 30% or less during flower. Ac will handle it with the lights on but does not run enough in the dark without the heat from the dehumidifier in my rooms.
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Alright, new question, can you take the water that your dehumidifier takes from he air and add it to your rez, or is that toxic or possibly contaminated with metals
 
Uncle Ben

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clydefrog said:
i topped sunday night and my first node buds are still not taking off yet...the shoots from the second node are doing quite well but nothing from below...did i do something wrong?
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You may have a problem with plant vigor then again it may just be the way the plant is playing games with its hormones. I'm sure given a little time the 1st node output will come.
 
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