FIM - What Forms New Stalks?

Let's say we FIM a plant, which basically takes this:

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and turns it into this:

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right?

So now what happens?

Is it that the FIM makes the new growth which you FIMmed turn into 4 (or 5 or 6) at the FIM site?

OR

Is it that FIMming essentially kills the main stalk's top growth altogether, forcing the lower branches to begin to be the new stalks, each with their own new top/growth??

??

wtf is that shit dude no know know wtf ur talkin about from those diagrams. this is all you need hope that helps if done correctly it should create 4 new grow shoots rather than topping which creates 2

thats pretty much what dude just said. he got it right bro

Yeah that is what I did but the outer 2 were so big already so I left them and FIM'd just the innermost three you see in that pic - hope that's ok. It was a thick enough part that I could see this spot where it looks like a solid topping but it's really just fimmed. So what's left is the big outer two (plus tons of sub leaves down below on the plant) and the innermost three are all cut, so the innermost leaf pair is like 50% cut and the stalk was snubbed. It was a very clean cut. Horizontal, not angled.

I am just wondering where to watch for growth. Is it in those 4 that were part of the actual cutting?

OR is it from the ones at the bottom (of his pic) which are already big but not main stalks and aren't forming new growth just getting longer.

just give it time, you'll know if you did it right

either way you cant hurt the plant really, its all about experimenting