I'd like to get the Scientific Perspective on this...

Well I've been thinkin about this for a while and would like to get the down low on it. I've been topping my flowering ladies for as long as I can remember, and I've never actually thought of why it works so well. Now I'm sure someone is gonna tell me that topping doesn't work but from what I have seen over the years it does. But I would like to know why the plant does what it does after being topped. You know the geeky break down of what causes what in the innards of the plant. I've always done it cause it works but know I would like to know why it works. Another thing I have always just done and never really though about why and how it affects the plant is cutting of all bottom foliage at the beginning stages of flowering. Call me old (which i'm only 33) but I guess it's called "lollipopping". To all you growers with your ph'ds THANKS IN ADVANCED.

No ok i can tell you all that tree information is irrelevant. What the man was looking for is why does Cannabis specifically have better flower bud yield after topping and the answer is in the hormones. The answer is actually in another thread the uncle bens topping one- It's right at the top of the advanced cultivation forum. It explains it fairly scientifically as well as the way to do it.
That tree stuff talked about has no relevance to pot because it was talking about ornamental tree's for a start. It even mentioned topping them being a 'hazard' which is ridiculous for weed.

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the reason and purpose of why topping and super cropping are used and even exist are to direct the floural hormones that tell the plant to grow, by cutting off and trimming parts of plant you can direct where the nutrients you give them goes, for example

we top to make plants stop growing up as fast, and instead more side ways or bushy.

we supercrop by breaking some tissue on a plant having it heal back as a node and form another leaf array.

leafs are the solar paneled generators of your plant but they also take nutrients to live and can block light during flowering, we trim them before flowering to focus hormonal growth in the flowers,and allow light, because when you take off parts of the plant above the soil you still have the root mass that could have supported the relieved vegitation and so it directs its new undivided attention to the rest of the plant which means they get bigger faster

Actually what I was talking about was topping about an inch of the buds (usually just the cola) after about 3-4 weeks of flowering, why the plant reacts to it. You know the biology part of it

max316420 said:

Actually what I was talking about was topping about an inch of the buds (usually just the cola) after about 3-4 weeks of flowering, why the plant reacts to it. You know the biology part of it

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never heard of this but im subbed

Guess I'm gonna have to start doing some research... I just wanna know if chemicals in the plants are released, if the plant stops intaking food while recovering, you know all the good shit that will help improve yields. I have only ever done it to the cola but I'm thinking of trying it on a few ladies where I chop off the top inch of every decent size bud. The thing I wanna know most is does the plant stop photosynthesizing during this period, and should food be cut down or more added. I should have payed attention more in biology when i was in high school lol

ask myles he might know he did it by accident with his t5's and got a gnarls nug off of it, i didnt think it was possible never knew you could top halfway through flower and not lose yeild but pictures say otherwise and apparently max here does too. I wanna know this as well.

O hell no, they explode when you top them... I'll dig out some pics. But i have topped to early and it makes the plant stretch like its revegging and postpones flowering for a bit but if you do it like 3-4 weeks in then flowering only slows for a few days then they explode with growth.. I will NEVER not top my ladies

I just did a test plant of some Mk ultra to see it's likes and dislikes before I do a bunch of them and I cannot wait to top some and see how the react. Only did one test plant now so didn't wanna risk it but damn skippy I'll be doing it to the majority of them next grow

P.s. mk ultra is one pretty ass plant, very unique smell and appearance. Must be the kush heritage. I have never smoked kush before and am pretty excited about it. Now i'm gonna grow a shitload of it

Topping is most effective when given proper time to heal & allow new growth before flowering, If you are talking about cutting your plants buds during bloom I do not see any benefit to that. Why not just lolly pop by cutting the lower branches the first two weeks of bloom, instead of chopping it half way in.

oh man your going ot FUCKING LOVE THAT SHIT. I LOVE MKultra its one of my favorites, tastes sagey peppery and god damn does it have that indica medical high im searching for couch lock insomnia pain killing appetite inducing dankness that i can actually still function on if i so choose. i need to get me some seeds of it badly white russian is wonderful too. Never grown an idica before huh? or Kush so to speak i guess? Have fun man they eat lots and pack on the dense weight

No ive only grown indica dominant strains but never anything with kush in it

ya I thought it was gonna be a male but she turned out a she and to the above poster, topping your plants in flowering WILL increase your yield and I know this for a 200% FACT

waiting on pics

oh i see sir, im still searching for original KUSH you know when we were younger s1 would say i got kush your all whats kush they say its just kush man better than chronic never had that taste since high school still searching for the just straight kush.

and those bitch's are solid lol

200% fact is 100% false. Those appear to be 1-2ft plants i could be wrong, cutting into the buds of a 4-5ft plant half way into bloom will only prolong the time it will take to finish imo. lollypopping still seems like a more logical route to improving yield.