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

Phillip J Fry

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check out uncle bens thread, topping technique for two or four main colas, it is probably a sticky thread on here and easy to find and a good read..
I read that long ago. This seems to be completely different. They dont get more branches shooting up to make more colas they get 2 colas on one stick by the looks of it. I already supercropped the crap out of my plants and have plenty of bud sites. Having more on each branch is what im looking to do.
 

RawBudzski

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UB is talking about topping, Op is talking about something else, & myles seems to be talking about topping late such as right after the stretch in bloom. Which I cannot see being better than topping 2 weeks before bloom, I have topped a week after 12/12 switch & it produced two smaller colas instead of 1 large one.
 

Myles117

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exactly fry. its just topping but later on in the flowering so the plant is too far in to actually grow out new stems and just grows two "tops" of bud that morph together


not after stretch but 3/4 of the way through stretch. who says you cant top 2 weeks before flowerign and then do what i showed as well? thatd be awesome :D
 

max316420

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Here is 2 different ladies I was just fucking around with, 1 got topped around 3 weeks in after actually buds started showing and the other didn't get topped. Damn I wish I didn't get lazy and take pics of the finished product, you could clearly see the difference

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RawBudzski

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If done correctly @ the right time I could see this working out.
exactly fry. its just topping but later on in the flowering so the plant is too far in to actually grow out new stems and just grows two "tops" of bud that morph together
 

RawBudzski

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I am lost regarding the pix you posted. Are those already topped? or are those two pix before the fact.
 

max316420

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and I would say you don't need to take an inch off, i'm guessing even choppin a quarter inch would work. To be honest I have never measured on exactly how much was cut so I guesstimated it
 

max316420

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I am lost regarding the pix you posted. Are those already topped? or are those two pix before the fact.
Those were not topped yet when the pics were taken, I topped 1 of them after they had been flowering for around 3 weeks give or take.. I don't usually grow bushy plants cause veg time is too long. I was just kinda fucking around with these 2 ladies.. My dumbass shoulda taken pics at harvest
 

max316420

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In fact tomorrow night when I go to my office :wink: I will do a topping and take some pics so I can show you guys what I do and at what stage the plants are at so you guys can see exactly what I do
 

max316420

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View attachment 1777128View attachment 1777129 This is 3-4th week of bloom. How would you go about cutting these.
Just take ur sissors and hold them level and just cut like the top 1/2 - 1'' top off, they will slow down growth for a couple days and then explode. Take my word and at least try it on one of your ladies. I would do the one in the right hand pic. IMO right now at the stage your ladies are at, its perfect time. I just remembered I read about doing this about 8 years ago in an article in hightimes called supercropping. That's also where I learned about pinching stems to break the inner membrane to strengthen up stems and make them nice and fat. I'm to lazy and have way too many plants to do the pinching thing to all the stems but i sure as hell do the topping in flowering.
 

RawBudzski

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I am going to do it to two of each of those strains in the am. cutting 1 inch and 1/2 inch on other. :D Hoping for the best.
 

max316420

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If you have more then one plant and are kinda iffy about doing it, just try it on one plant. You'll thank me later lol
 

max316420

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I am going to do it to two of each of those strains in the am. cutting 1 inch and 1/2 inch on other. :D Hoping for the best.
Good luck dude, Honestly I don't think it matters how much you cut as long as some of it is cut. Now I'm going as far as to try topping every bud on the plant and see what happens
 

max316420

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here's the science behind topping.. when you cut off the main growth meristem, it redistributes the growth auxins to other parts of the plant, thus making the plant think that the new topped areas of the plant are now the main growth meristem, or atypical meristem if you will, and it will now concentrate the auxins, or growth hormones to the new tops, making them the new atypical meristems..
same thing holds true for lst and or supercropping.. once the atypical meristem is no longer higher than the rest of the plant, the plant forces the auxins into other branches, which makes for more main growth meristems, instead of the typical one that you usually get in untouched marijuana plants..
Now this is the type of shit I was talking about.... NICE!!!!
 

Kaptain Kron

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not the same as what were talking about here racer, uncle bens you top on the third node set if you did that when your plant was flowering youd chop the whole plant down lol but that is an EXCELLENT thread on topping early

check out uncle bens thread, topping technique for two or four main colas, it is probably a sticky thread on here and easy to find and a good read..
 

woodsmantoker

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The boost of growth you are all experiencing regardless of method, is contributed to the release of Auxin. The same can be seen in "low stress training" and SCROG without damage to recover from... GL

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