Topping

I think I topped my plant too late for the space I'm working with. I am a first time grower inside. My question is should I flip to flowering light cycle soon to prevent over growth or do I have the option to put it outside at this point?

I have another plant that is about 3 weeks behind the bigger one, and I topped it at the same time. Since it is younger and hasn't spent as much time inside would that one stand a better chance moving outside?

NorthBud98 said:

I think I topped my plant too late for the space I'm working with. I am a first time grower inside. My question is should I flip to flowering light cycle soon to prevent over growth or do I have the option to put it outside at this point?

I have another plant that is about 3 weeks behind the bigger one, and I topped it at the same time. Since it is younger and hasn't spent as much time inside would that one stand a better chance moving outside?

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What size is your space?
How big is the plant currently?
Hard to tell without info and photos.

NorthBud98 said:

I think I topped my plant too late for the space I'm working with. I am a first time grower inside. My question is should I flip to flowering light cycle soon to prevent over growth or do I have the option to put it outside at this point?

I have another plant that is about 3 weeks behind the bigger one, and I topped it at the same time. Since it is younger and hasn't spent as much time inside would that one stand a better chance moving outside?

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you can do whatever you want lol is it appropriate is another question. is it a photo plant? give some more info, plus as the ppl says, picture means a thousand words

The space is 2ft by 3ft about 7ft tall. Haha was very cheap set up for my closet.

This is the younger plant, I topped it about a week ago. Does it usually take this long to grow new shoots?

first of all plants look stretched as hell, sec, i think youve trimmed the branches as well, and third, post a normal pic man, why this purple shit

Technically I don't think there really ever is a time that is too late for topping.

I just recently manifolded 2 plants that were on their 7th node. As you can see by the pictures they were lush and bushy and I was a monster to them chopping them down to their 3rd node and everything below except 2 main growths... but that's ok.

As long as your plants are mature enough to handle it (and yours are they are at least 6 nodes but I am blind and blurple makes me sick so I can't focus well on your pic) you can literally chop them in half and then some, and that's in fact a strategy that is employed.

The tradeoff is time, the more aggressively you top, or more tops you ... top, the longer it will take for the plant to recover and for it then regain all that lost growth. If you're worried about overgrowth in veg don't be, because you can be vicious and they will bounce right back as long as they are old enough +6 nodes i'd say, and only do this in veg.

I'm not saying to manifold like me, just using my current grow as an example that if you're worried your plants will overgrow your tent when you flower them you can top, train, manifold, etc. them down to whatever size you feel comfortable (I usually flip lights when they are half the height I have to spare).

I will try and show you pics in a few day's to show that it will almost look like nothing happened they fill in so fast.

The plant you think you topped to late- you can literally cut entire branches off it if you want in order to get it to match the size of the smaller one. Or put it outside.

guitarguy10 said:

If you're worried about overgrowth in veg don't be, because you can be vicious and they will bounce right back as long as they are old enough +6 nodes i'd say, and only do this in veg.

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What this guy said. Beat the fuck out of them and they will grow back stronger and better than ever.