Well Nosh, congrats on the female find. Now we need some branching.
From what I understand by topping the plant you force the hormones down and the plant produces more branches to make up for it. People also do this to control the height. Thats what I would do. I dont know but getting some cfls closer to the ares you want the branches will probaly help.
As far as the bottom growth. It should be removed anyway. That will never amount to anything and it just sucks the juice out of the plant. Thats why they are called suckers. You may as well try and clone it. Get some practice. Hell I was over a buds house helping him out. We were cleaning up his grow and took lower cuttings. I told him to toss a few in a glass of water and give them some light maybe they will grow. Well they did. It took a while but now he has three more small females.
Its better to use the right stuff but hey its a weed right?
From what I understand by topping the plant you force the hormones down and the plant produces more branches to make up for it. People also do this to control the height. Thats what I would do. I dont know but getting some cfls closer to the ares you want the branches will probaly help.
As far as the bottom growth. It should be removed anyway. That will never amount to anything and it just sucks the juice out of the plant. Thats why they are called suckers. You may as well try and clone it. Get some practice. Hell I was over a buds house helping him out. We were cleaning up his grow and took lower cuttings. I told him to toss a few in a glass of water and give them some light maybe they will grow. Well they did. It took a while but now he has three more small females.
Its better to use the right stuff but hey its a weed right?