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If you think your plant is healthy enough you can top. If not, I would delay it until the plant improves or try again next time.

Ive had my Lumatek 600w bulb running now for about 15 hours, and I just now took some readings. The average output in F.C. for the Lumatek was 3715 F.C. at 18 inches high over 3 x 3 area. The ushio was 3778, so pretty damned close. The highest rated spot under the lamp maxed out at 7660 F.C...

Do those tabs even list a guaranteed analysis on the label anywhere? I looked at Nirvanas site, and saw no mention of that. Most likely, the tab is deficient in Nitrogen, which you need plenty of during flowering. Its a required element for the formation of Chlorophyll, and other vital...

CoreyB, Ive got an update for you. I just tested out my new Ushio 600w Super Hps-Opti Red in my Super Sun II. Results were really impressive. Average F.C. over a 3 x 3 foot grid was 3778 F.C. at 18 inches above the grid. Average F.C. over the same 3 x 3 foot grid at 21 inches was 3530. At...

Its unfortunate you are already in flower. You may have did alot of damage to your root system, and its not going to recover once flowering is in full effect. Inspect your roots if you can. If they are dingy white or brown, and dessicated/shriveled, you are probably fubar'd. Ive seen the damage...

I would say you've burned that plant pretty good, and yes excessive nutes in the root zone will stunt the hell out of your plants. I have a finicky Skunk Haze that requires lower nutes than her sister, and she was barely growing at all in the same soil until I flushed her out good. Id say your...

I just use scissors.

Those buds look nice and juicy. I hope you'll enjoy em immensely. I hope the move wasn't too much work. Theres nothing I hate worse than moving, or helping someone else move. I have the pleasure of the latter pretty soon. Maybe I should get medicate myself to make it more bearable haha.

I wish I could help you, but Im a strictly soil guy. You can check out the hydro forum here, maybe you'll find your answers there.

They are stretching some. You will need to lower your fluorescent bulb. I can't tell you how close as I dont know the wattage. Seedlings dont require high light levels, but drop it down a bit more until you notice the stretch stopping. Expect to make plenty of mistakes on your first grow, and...

Chad, just put them out of their misery and try again. They are far too gone. Even if any recovered, you should expect them to be badly stunted.

Its not a fan issue. Your plant is definitely under moisture stress. Its unable to uptake water for some reason. What are your watering habits? Have you watered recently? How much water did the plant receive?

Ive wondered about this before, which is why I contacted Bill Argo a few months back to ask about the possibility of overliming. Bill Argo has a great series called Understanding Plant Nutrition and he is the man to ask questions about media ph. This is what he wrote back to me: Will...

If your plant has not responded with growth a week after topping, then either you lack sufficient lighting, the plants were in poor health when you topped, or perhaps both. Ive never had topping stunt my plants, but Ive found plenty of other ways to stunt them along the way.

Unfortunately, I had switched over to a food that was crap, and missing alot of minors, and secondary majors. Problems started about two weeks after on these clones, so I think that was the likely culprit. Trying to avoid that mistake in the future. Read those labels folks. Thanks for replying.

It looks like you've removed the bottom 30%-40%. If the plant was going to be too tall to get any production that far down, it would have been best to just veg less time and ended up with a shorter more squat plant. Since you didn't intentionally lollipop them, then it doesn't apply in this...

Nice canopy, but why the lollipopping? All you have done is increased your veg time just to remove it later on.

It'd take me too long to post how to do it, but the pdf I linked to will discuss it. Its a great read, and worth one time.

Thanks for this thread CoreyB. You've put in alot of work. Im a user of Ushio bulbs, and they are quality bulbs. I actually need to buy another 600w bulb, and I think Ill pick up the Lumatek one and compare it to my unused Ushio bulbs. Ill use my F.C. meter to measure the output, and then...

It has plant growth retardants in it, so I would not use it in your case.