some help please?

anyway I started growing my plant on the first day of spring (after I germinated of course) I promptly moved it outdoors near my backdoor to allow it to soak up morning light and moisture without getting wilted. Its now near ending june and my plant is nearly 5 1/2 feet tall and 4 feet wide cause my dad made me top it off wrong... I wanted to know if it was safe to top my plant as often as I felt necessary to make it bushier and bigger. at most I want to achieve 8 tops per branch. Also I was wondering if it would cause ventilation problems ect if it became too bushy? I have so many questions but I'll keep them related as time goes. heres a early spring pic of my plant. Its nearly quadrupled in size since then, I would take a pic of it right now, but I lost my camera. they're rather droopy in that pic because I had transplanted them when they where strong enough to stay outside in the colder early spring. I used a natural blend of powdered egg shells four tea spoons of used tea bags small chunks of pumice and organic potting soil+red clay. The clay wasn't anything I could have avoided cause its pretty much all over the land I live on.
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smallclosetgrowr

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u can keep topping branches aslong as u dont go nuts, and u wanna make sure your not to close to flowering .try tying the top branches down below the other branches...this will redirect hormones and change the leader branches =more bushyness
 

dannyboy602

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Pruning doesn't really give you more yield. It only redistributes energy into more or less flowers. And in the end you'll end up with about the same yield but it will just be smaller nuggies rather than colas as long as your forearm.
 
thanks, another problem i was having was drooping after I transplanted again to a larger pot due to white flys aphids and hey look at me I'm a weed plant size reasons. I'm keeping my plant unfront of my door to soak up natural light its already been a couple days after the transplant. watered it promptly and made sure it was dark when I moved it but it still seems to be drooping a great deal the leaves are hanging in a 90 degree angle downward. The fan leaves are about an inch and a half from the stem to the leaf and each leaf is about the size of my hand, so I'm wondering if thats normal as well. before transplanting I could actually watch the plant slowly move throughout the day like rising in the morning and falling at night. Anyway thanks for helping out rather promptly. OH! I found a neat trick to keep the pesky bugs away. If you have any bushes around your house look for a some baby praying mantis, they're very good at tending plants and keeping pretty much any bug out of it including bee's who would pollinate any females. My mantis never leaves my plant, probably cause its green and instinctively wishes to blend in then again I do keep it inside now.
 

dannyboy602

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I have a special affection for mantis. It is a blueblood among peasants.
Wilting. Ok hopefully you didn't disturb the rootball too much when you transplanted and you're keeping the plant in something like dappled shade. You know...some light filtering down through a tree and giving your plant some nice sun but not enough to shock it.
You're also watering every couple days I'm assuming. And watering thoroughly. Move the plant into full sun. During the mornings continuing until about noon. Then move it back into dappled shade. Do this for a few days then slowly increase full sun exposure until you can finally leave it in full sun most of the day. I say most of the day because it is potted and not planted in the ground, which would be optimum.
You might lose a couple leaves. But when the plant acclimates you will see incredible growth and it will quickly make up for any lost time.
 
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