can you over super crop?

scubatc

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Can you super crop your plant to much? I currently have 6 plants and have been super cropping 2-3 branches on each plant about every two days for the last wekk and a half. So far my plants seem to be doing amazing and have thick stalks and are growing tons of leaves. Just wondering if you can super crop too much?
 

2supra4u

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if you do too many at one time it coudl stunt growth for a bit

as long as you only do a little bit each time it should be fine, you can tell cuz it will stop vigorous growth
 

scubatc

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I just started to break the main stalk, before that I have been breaking right after nodes and so far it seems to be working great. I was just wondering if in the long run there were any down sides to doing this so often?
 

st0wner

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the only down side is the plant has to use some energy to heal its self so i guess it wouldnt be usful in flowering? idk just speculating
 

canefan

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The biggest problem you will run into is air and light penetration. You more than likely will end up pruning some of the inner growth later to keep air flowing freely through the plant. Mostly it will come down to your growing conditions and light source, along with some trail and error.
Good Luck
 
In my opinion you can never supercrop to much, in fact I do it every 4 days all the way up until 2 weeks into flower, think of it like this. If I gave u a scale, a pencil and a flat peice off wood and asked you using either the pencil or the flat peice of wood and your body weight which do you think you can apply pressure and get more weight from??... A tall pencil where all the weight is distributed down the center or the flat wood you can stand on and apply your full body weighed evenly all over the wood. It's called barring surface par.
The same goes for your plant, an like I said I supercrop 2weeks into flower. I start supercropping the first week after my clones take root and supercrop every 4 days and after every node growth, this makes your plant distribute the growth energy evenly and completely eliminates all the subsided energy you would get if you were to jus grow your striaght up.
This dramatically increases your yeild! I myself average 10oz a plant indoor. And I only use 2000w for each one of my tables.
also a few other things...
if you wanna or are gonna try this I reccommend fimming or topping your plant before you start the supercropping, lollipop the first day of flower, and on day 7 and day 14 of flower hit your plants with some dutch master reserve, which is concentrated cannabis female hormones, this helps with the stress of supercropping and stops the hermi of your plant if it was thinking of doing so. I have yet in 7 years to have a hermi. hope this helped!!
Happy gardening!! Best of luck to all!!
 

Jogro

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Depends what exactly you mean by 'supercropping', but yes, it is possible to bend/break stems to the point where you're diminishing yield. Plants do need to heal after being stressed, you know.
 
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Depends what exactly you mean by 'supercropping', but yes, it is possible to bend/break stems to the point where you're diminishing yield. Plants do need to heal after being stressed, you know.
Im sorry but I have to strongly disagree with you, while supercropping does stress your plant. It's an advanced technique that if done correctly can double sometimes triple your yield. Like I said in my post above yours. I average 10oz a plant indoors, An those are my indicas. Id say it really depends on ur growing knowledge when it comes to supercropping and yea it prob can lower your yield but only if done incorrectly. [/FONT]
 
Yes eventually you can bend your branches too much to the point of the plants not being able to circulate fluids.I recommend taking the bending slowly everyday until you can get into your desired bend without putting too much pressure. First post on here :)
 

bigv1976

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I supercrop twice. I snap the main stem and then a couple weeks later after the branching has started I massacre them and pinch every branch on the plant. Then I dont touch them again.
 

JOKable25

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Im sorry but I have to strongly disagree with you, while supercropping does stress your plant. It's an advanced technique that if done correctly can double sometimes triple your yield. Like I said in my post above yours. I average 10oz a plant indoors, An those are my indicas. Id say it really depends on ur growing knowledge when it comes to supercropping and yea it prob can lower your yield but only if done incorrectly.
i agree. for sure if you super crop late in flowering, it might not have time to recover while producing bud. I think you should do it mainly during veg.
 
Ill tell you what I super cropped all 30 on my plants and they EXPLODED with new growth, this method is powerful. I had also noticed that the stems that were more (cracked, snaped, or heavily bent) did MUCH MUCH better than those that were just simply and softly bent over. seems like the stress to the main stem with more damage sent the energy outward by a tone.
 
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