Fewer colas or many or too many?

Earlyriser76 said:

Is there a number of tops that is optimal or can you ever have too many tops?

The reason I ask.

I LST'd several plants and have 10-15 tops per plant now. Should I continue to LST and make more tops or remove some (use them for clones) and just leave only 4 or 5 tops OR should I just try to grow the 10-15 per plant?

I'm am looking for the most dried flower at the end of the day so whatever method produces that, it's what I want.

1. You can never have too many tops
2. 4-5 colas produce more bud weight than 10-15 tops
3. Try to grow 10-15 tops per plant

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BeastGrow said:

i find some strains throw balls in the shaded inner growth if you grow them too dense.. i prefer to grow them untrained and just take clones from the lowers.

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weedenhanced said:

U grow untrained ? What strains throw theses ball

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Earlyriser76 said:

Let's take a look at what I have and see what you guys suggest.

First, I have a 3' x 2' x 5' tent and I have 8 plants about 30 days old of 12/12 from seed. I lst'd them about 4 days ago from these pictures.

There isn't much room in between the plants I still have a long way go as I don't have pistils yet. FS c99 and Deli seeds Queen Mother are the strains.

I don't see anyway to light them other than the top once these plants grow together but for now I have some CFL sidelighting going on.

I may not have to do any thing other than try to keep them growing straight up and not being too close together. (This is the first time LSTing and not sure how bushy those branches will be once they get taller.)

Each 4" pot has about 10-15 bud sites. No clones have been taken yet which I'm about ready to do but after that, I'm not sure how to plan to train.

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