Topping During 12/12 | Is It Detrimental or Beneficial? | DapperDan

DabberDan

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accidentally topped my Exodus Kush during flower and she was full of fuckin seeds, I wouldn't risk it
Are you sure it the topping that hermmied your plant? There's a lot of factors that could have effected it and maybe the topping was what set it over the top? I mean, a bad environment, not enough circulation, bad genetics, too much heat, could have been effecting it.
 

Cpappa27

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If your gonna top em in flower id say do it in the first week. The plant will keep growing outwards and upwards for the first 1-3weeks of flower and this is the time time allow it to be slightly stressed.

However topping can take upto 5 days to recover in my experience, and fimming is usually much faster at recovering.

So id fim and do it fast.

Allow 4 nodes of height before eiva tho. Not sure how solid this advice is just going off my own experience.

Good luck bud, keep us posted.
Fimming takes much longer to heal and begin solid growth than topping, but gives you multiple colas not just 2.
 

Bricksquad2625

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Are you sure it the topping that hermmied your plant? There's a lot of factors that could have effected it and maybe the topping was what set it over the top? I mean, a bad environment, not enough circulation, bad genetics, too much heat, could have been effecting it.
none of my other plants exhibited any of the same symptoms, it was clearly because I accidentally took its fuckin head off 4 weeks into flower
 

Dannoo93

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Hey your not dabber dan im dabber dan....atleast thats my name at my dispensary and places known for my dabs :) and taking fatty ones....dont do any cutting of plant after a week into flip at latest and by that I mean pruning lower foliage only (lollipoping) if doing from seed id do a mom and start cloning off here and do clones into 12/12 after 1 week veg for well established roots in 1 gal pots. Depending on your lights also
Lots of factors man on best method
 

DabberDan

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Hey your not dabber dan im dabber dan....atleast thats my name at my dispensary and places known for my dabs :) and taking fatty ones....dont do any cutting of plant after a week into flip at latest and by that I mean pruning lower foliage only (lollipoping) if doing from seed id do a mom and start cloning off here and do clones into 12/12 after 1 week veg for well established roots in 1 gal pots. Depending on your lights also
Lots of factors man on best method
I have a small chamber that I could enclose and lightproof to make it a veg room but I'm curious to see how the plants respond to strict 12/12 lighting from seed with only one FIM and only low stress training. I've seen very mixed outcomes with 12/12 only grows as in some plants are short as shit while others stretch and produce one big bud. I'm hoping to reach a happy medium via scrogging to tame the lower leaves but still aim for a canopy of sorts lol
 

Dannoo93

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You dont get time to scrog anything you do during 12/12 is gonna stress it. Topping/fiming will cause lots of stress and possibly stunt it.
 

Dogenzengi

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seems to be tons of blanket answers when most questions are strain dependant.
I FMed all my tall growth the day I flip, last grow some of those tops ended with 4 distinct buds the size of my fist.
The strain is the variable then the other factors than come the blanket statements.
Bless,
DZ
 
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