Can I use supercrop method when already flowering?
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Haha honestly I Have zero experience But I am willing to learn from mistakes or from success
do you have Any knowledge about supercropping? Can you help me with Any advice?
Cyrus420
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Super-cropping can be done a few weeks into flowering those this can slow down the production of your buds. Super-cropping is best done in late veg a week or so before the flip as this gives the plant optimal time to grow and recover. Honestly if you're this far into flowering it's a little late to be thinking about training your plant.
Cyrus420
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Here is some advice: Google "super cropping" and read everything you can. Don't take direct advice from any one grower on here including myself. We all have different ideas about what is right and wrong in growing and the only way you're ever going to learn is to read and try things for yourself.Haha honestly I Have zero experience But I am willing to learn from mistakes or from success
Cyrus420
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Super cropping is used to help lower branches stretch and become even with the canopy. It's used as an alternative to LST or can be used in combination with. So what would super cropping in the last week of flower do? Nothing but hurt your plant man. All training should been done in veg and early flower, messing with your plant too much towards the end is just asking for bad juju.
So supercropping is not advised ok... So its better to stick with LST
Thanks mate
much appreciated
Hessam
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I have to disagree! Super cropping doesn't affect flowering and can even speed up bud/resin production, especially in late bloom! I don't know if you've ever done supercropping or not, but it takes less than 3 days for my plants to fully recover from super cropping. But if you hurt the outside tissue or accidentally break the stem, it can take longer.
aspire2grow
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i wouldnt supercrop in flower at all as ur just slowing things down in the final stages i class my veg time as training time get things ready for the big flower i try not to stress my plants at all in flower as it can produce hermies but at worst if it didnt hermie all ull probs do is put another 2 weeks at least on ur plant and the supercrop will probably not give much back at that stage if it aint broke dont fix it lol i see a lot of mixed feedback on it but in fairness i cant understand why ud waste alot of time and effort on a plant to do that in its final stages unless u end up with serious height issues
Hessam
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I super cropped three of my plants just 5 days ago, 3 weeks into flowering, and they are exploding with new bud sites! Plants create even bigger knuckles when super cropped in bloom! 
If you know how to super crop without damaging the outside tissue, then do that whenever you want and update us with results. 
If you know how to super crop without damaging the outside tissue, then do that whenever you want and update us with results.
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aspire2grow
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does make for an interesting topic i did it in veg and it worked out just fine surly tho if u have a well vegged plant ud have the sites already and wouldnt need to do this in flower but would love to see a comparison between 2 done at different times looks like a few bagseed experiments gonna be happening lol
Hessam
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Let me ask you a question. Have you actually done super cropping in bloom?
I Have two ak-47s and I messed it up by letting them grow freely for too long so also used organic fertilizer in the form of briquettes and mixed it in the soil so they became very big in no Time... But becouse of my limitation to space I had to start LST very agressively cuz ak's are known to double the veg size in flowering and they were already bigger than one meter in height before I started 12/12... I know I messed up by letting them grow freely for too long But still... I try to keep them within the limitations... I Just asked about supercropping becouse I think it would be easier than LST becouse a do not know How to tie stems around without breaking them will post some pictures in few minutes how I improvise...
will post some pictures in few minutes how I improvise...
Cyrus420
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Yes I've done super cropping. The point of the method is to create an even canopy for your plant. Doing so late in flower will have little effect on your plant because it's using it's energy to grow buds then. Super cropping is fine before the stretch but I've never do it after as it serves no purpose by that point.
Cyrus420
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You know super cropping is breaking the inside of a stem essentially right?I Have two ak-47s and I messed it up by letting them grow freely for too long so also used organic fertilizer in the form of briquettes and mixed it in the soil so they became very big in no Time... But becouse of my limitation to space I had to start LST very agressively cuz ak's are known to double the veg size in flowering and they were already bigger than one meter in height before I started 12/12... I know I messed up by letting them grow freely for too long But still... I try to keep them within the limitations... I Just asked about supercropping becouse I think it would be easier than LST becouse a do not know How to tie stems around without breaking them
I know it is breaking its inside haha didnt mean to break stems like the incredible hulk haha I Just thought that it would be easier for me to break the stem at one point and that doing that will enable me to rotate the stem easier becouse it wont be so woody if you know what I mean... I dont know how to tell you what I mean becouse of language limitations of mine haha not a very english person in us balkans
Dr. Who
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No it won't slow it down - In fact, it will speed it up a tad! The "cracked" or "Pinched" stem causes MORE flows to that branch! The increased metabolic rate does not "stop" at the damage! It works the for whole branch!
You've got more learn'in to do little buddy!
TOTAL BULLSHIT! Where the fuck do you newbies get this shit?