Plant took off this weekend...

VincenzioVonHook

VincenzioVonHook

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Smokinggun said:
Hey Tangoroo, looking great!

Somebody please correct me if I’m wrong but it looks to me like maybe you topped in the wrong spot. Whenever I top, I always remove as little of the plant as possible, as in just a top of new growth. Then, at the spot that was topped the plant branches in two directions with new growth. Any top on any end of branch that gets this cut will sprout into two branches. To me this makes more sense as I’m not chopping half of the plant off like you did. Look at this pic of the cut that I would have made marked in blue, maybe even a tad bit higher than where I marked it right below the new growth. When I top like this I usually only top twice, once like I marked the pic and then the second time I top in two highest spots of new growth.

Hope this helps and again if I’m wrong somebody please chime in and set me straight.View attachment 4958817
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Someone mentioned above. It helps provide a healthy and developed root stock if you let it grow a few nodes and then top a few down. There is a risk of stunting if topped too early with an undeveloped root stock sometimes.
I usually wait until the fourth/fifth node comes through and then top after the second, and then top the first set of branches a week later as I'm an abusive bastard.

This poor auto was grown to node 5 at day 21, topped back to three and then topped on each topped branch a few days later.
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euphoria526

euphoria526

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Yes, especially photos, if you wait till the 5-7th node to top it will bounce back quicker then topping too soon. Only downside is maybe some lost time recovering. In coco it didn’t even take a week for me to go back to normal growth
 
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