More vertical growth?

Showyourwildwings

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Ok so i fimmed my plant a while back and am.now starting lollipopping or schwazzing. My colas are growing new branches coming to smaller colas id like to redirect the energy to causing the colas to get bigger instead of growing more branches off the colas.20170522_194343.jpg 20170525_153636.jpg
 
I would remove all of those little sucker branches from underneath first. To me it looks like you have done plenty to it. The only thing i would do at this point is let her finish. Any time you do anything to a plant you slow it done. The best way to speed up any kind of growth is to let her grow.
 

Showyourwildwings

Active Member
I would remove all of those little sucker branches from underneath first. To me it looks like you have done plenty to it. The only thing i would do at this point is let her finish. Any time you do anything to a plant you slow it done. The best way to speed up any kind of growth is to let her grow.
I dont need to grow faster i want to redirect the energy. When you fim it causes the plant to bush out and not grow as tall. Now im wanting those main colas to stretch and not grow any other leaves below the colas (if possible is what im curious about. Idk if it can be reversed after the initial fim)
 

Showyourwildwings

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So you had a big beautiful plant and now you have that.... interesting.
Yep those colas have doubled the amount of leaves and has inly grown more onto each cola creating more and more nodes while no energy is being directed to growing (everything below the canopy was tiny tootbpick sized stems with ugly looking leaves). Im going to continue her in veg a few more weeks at very least. And idk if your understanding what i been by reveg, i grew her all the way till harvest when i harvested, i left the lower 25% of leaves and swapped back to 24 hour lights on, suprisingly she was showing new growth in less than 4 days and now, 2 months later (also only used 150watts of cfl bulbs, now ive included a 175w mh sun system, which was added less than 2 weeks ago, set up plus the cfl's and shes tripled her average growth compared to the cfl lights by themselves.
 

Showyourwildwings

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Im not sure what the problem is? just put it into flower and move on with your day...
Im wanting to keep her in veg a while longer and see what comes from it with mild trimming as she grows small spurts down low.All the bigger sized branches thats been cut off was feom when i harvested i only trimmed the toothpick looking stems which was EVERYTHING below a few nodes
 

Showyourwildwings

Active Member
You cannot "reverse" the results of fimming. You could prune your lower and side branches, I suppose, and let the tops get taller.
Yeah tbatd what i did and will continue doing. Thats what i been curious about. Thagd be awesome if you could. Like 5 or 6 colas than somehow make only those colas take off. Oh well its working great by what ive already done to her, i also done some stem bending and broke 2 stems the other day anx just noticed it last night so i taped them up.
 

bigsteve

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Any clue on how to reverse the effects of fimming?
To work around a FIM job you would need to top her on the main cola right below where the FIM-inspired branches grow out of the main cola.

FIMming really is a hit-or-miss operation until you've been doing it a while. Different strains FIM different too in case you needed another frustration factor. Perhaps it would be a good idea to stick to topping. You might also try using pots that are wider than they are tall. That pot change would make up part of the benefits of FIming/topping you are looking for.

Good luck, BigSteve.
 
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