Topping into flowering

MrStickyScissors said:

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sticky i no a place that sells teens up to 2 ft to 3 ft beautiful leaves and PEST FREE!!!! u should do it u could flower any size plant u want and there cheap and on top of that
they have good strains!!

KUShSOurSMOKEr said:

sticky i no a place that sells teens up to 2 ft to 3 ft beautiful leaves and PEST FREE!!!! u should do it u could flower any size plant u want and there cheap and on top of that
they have good strains!!

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I only run 4 strains and went through at least 20 to find them. my plant number is to high to buy clones i just make them

hell yea i feel u brah

ok my plants are on 12/12 just saw pre flowers i topped and LST one is that bad

Thegawdson said:

ok my plants are on 12/12 just saw pre flowers i topped and LST one is that bad

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no its not bad. I would top them in veg tho then lst before flower and for the first 2 weeks of flower just keep tieing shit down

MrStickyScissors said:

no its not bad. I would top them in veg tho then lst before flower and for the first 2 weeks of flower just keep tieing shit down

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and i was wanting to control the Ph a little more im groing in foxfarms right now but i wanna switch to coco??

Thegawdson said:

and i was wanting to control the Ph a little more im groing in foxfarms right now but i wanna switch to coco??

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well with the fox farm you have domilite in the soil so it buffers the ph. ph shouldnt be a problem as long as you get it in the right ball park. sumtimes when you think your having a problem related to ph its really related to build up or over feeding. you could use coco if you want I personaly like roots organic

do NOT top in flowering it may cause you rplant to stress to much causing a femlae and you never know you might get more male parts then female

I think any topping needs to be done before the flip.

I run 4 plants to a light with 30 days(ish) veg in the big room.

They had 45days in the small room...under (2) 600's

I am a week from the flip and about to top these in the next couple of days.

I will simply FIM the top to encourage side branch stretching.

If you can spare a bedroom for a veg room...this was 3 gal lowpro hard pots.




I will pull 2 p's per 1k I hope...I did 1.85 p's with this strain and 9 pots per bulb

I think the cost of tieing my room up for the extra 30 days is gonna yeild me...across a year...more than 0 veg and 1 lb per 1k.


IMHO...you cant yeild 2 p's with zero veg.

I can run less than 50 plants under 12k. THAT is my main motivation. I am legal begal.

For me, myself, and I....that is invaluable.

Now if I can make those 12 give me 2 p's each....its worth 30 days veg.


30 days big room veg=a) 2p's/1k b) Legal

In my situation this was what I decided was smartest.....we all have different considerations though...

You don't want to top after flowering starts because of a hormone called Auxin. Auxin is what makes the main stalk grow because that is where most of the hormone is physically located. When topping, you want to give the plant time to redistribute the Auxin hormone into the two new stalks that become the "mains".

Nice lookin set up Buddy! I agree with ya completely.

I run a single plant per 600 and top a day or two before flower, this way the side branches "catch up, mostly" to the mains and you end up with a lady full of identical bud sites at, or close to the top of the canopy. Her footprint is about 30x30.


Now times that by 12 in a 10x20 room and your good to go

slump said:

You don't want to top after flowering starts because of a hormone called Auxin. Auxin is what makes the main stalk grow because that is where most of the hormone is physically located. When topping, you want to give the plant time to redistribute the Auxin hormone into the two new stalks that become the "mains".

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i think if anyone top into flowring... dont want STEMS.... just wants x2 buds... not x2 stems+branches...

I am coming to realize that once in flower they need to be stress free. Do all your cropping topping, fimming whatever in veg, then let those nugs grow freely in the flowering stage.

ya pretty much. but.. supercropping during the first two weeks to even out my canopy has always increased my yields. I just don't mess with them after the stretch is over. Also I give them a couple weeks to recover from topping before flipping into flower which helps also.

dont mess with stess''''

I have been topping my plants for years and the ones I don't that get to big I just snap them over. So topping does work on most strains of Indica best, and is best done at least 10 days before flower(I give them 2 weeks min.). The 10 days gives the plant time to transfer energy to the lower branches and adjust for no lead. I have found 2 king buds plus, replace the single bud. In most cases my plants will produce up to 5 king buds but on average they have 3 to 4. You can see from my pix the effects of proper topping. I sure like it. Now most of the time when I top I use it for a clone as the top grows roots the fastest of all parts of the plant.