Uncle Ben's Topping Technique to Get 2 or 4 Main Colas
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Uncle Ben
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Looks like they're jest itchin' fer a good haircut to me.
Life Goes On
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Yes Uncle Bens technique will not only keep the overall height of your plants down but it will also give you a nice even canopy within your grow room for more efficient use of your lights as the light will be able to penetrate further into the canopy of your plants. Also you say that you think your plants are more on the Sativa side? I'm thinking they are more on the Indica side as 1 to 1.4 meters for a Sativa is rather short. Also the plants in your picture have some pretty stout and fat fan leaves which is typical of Indica Dominant strains whereas Sativa's typically have long skinny fan leaves. Do you know what strain you are growing?
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UB
i have a few questions.
recently i sprouted a whorled phyllotaxy(when there are three petioles at each node)
and i was wondering,
have you ever gotten one?
if you have, did it turn out male? because i heard someone saying that every one that he got turned out to be male.
and finally if you were to top it using this method, would you get 6 tops?
in other words, on a whorlled phyllotaxy, are there three dormant budsites at each node?
thanks a mill for any feedback
i have a few questions.
recently i sprouted a whorled phyllotaxy(when there are three petioles at each node)
and i was wondering,
have you ever gotten one?
if you have, did it turn out male? because i heard someone saying that every one that he got turned out to be male.
and finally if you were to top it using this method, would you get 6 tops?
in other words, on a whorlled phyllotaxy, are there three dormant budsites at each node?
thanks a mill for any feedback
Uncle Ben
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No.........................
lefreq
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hey ub hows it growin, u should drop by my journal sometime you have become a part of it already and even i am starting to feel the near blinding rage you get when someone says "so where do i cut" lol
Some bloke commented on my grow saying " i just uncle ben'd my babies at 4th/5th node really looking forward to that even canopy that you have"
2ND NOOOOOODDDDDDDEEEEEEE!!!!!!
Some bloke commented on my grow saying " i just uncle ben'd my babies at 4th/5th node really looking forward to that even canopy that you have"
2ND NOOOOOODDDDDDDEEEEEEE!!!!!!
withoutAchance
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2nd from top or bottom???
DaveCoulier
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If your plant has not responded with growth a week after topping, then either you lack sufficient lighting, the plants were in poor health when you topped, or perhaps both. Ive never had topping stunt my plants, but Ive found plenty of other ways to stunt them along the way.
Uncle Ben
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Strange posts. READ the first page newcomers, and vets, kindly don't enable (respond to) lazy posters especially those with one post as more than likely you've been sucked into a rhetorical question from someone that has never grown a plant before. I find alot of that here.
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UB
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UB
reefcouple
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I love your 4 node topping tip!! Much appreciated! I'm concerned that I would cut in the wrong place. Are you saying the bottom node doesn't count? Sorry if you've answered this question already, the thread is pretty lengthy and I'm kinda lazy right now. Would I cut above the 3rd node counting the bottom node? (2nd node not counting the bottom node)?
Thanks again, and sorry if you've gone over this a few times already..
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EDIT: oooops,I just saw ya call out the lazy ones (myself included), I will do a little back tracking..
Thanks again, and sorry if you've gone over this a few times already..
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EDIT: oooops,I just saw ya call out the lazy ones (myself included), I will do a little back tracking..
9867mike777
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I think there is an advantage to topping some plants when it comes to mold resistance.
I just had the top cola of a Northern Light get mold. It was a huge cola that was very dense, so no light could get to the interior of the bud, plus no air circulation. In my opinion, if this would have been a topped plant, I would have gotten at least two smaller colas instead of one huge cola. This would lessen the risk for mold. This is an educated guess on my part, but if I am right, a real nice advantage to topping.
As for my Northern Light, I had problems from overwatering and over nuting, so it wasn't 100% healthy. But it still looked great. Because of the mold, I had to lop off the top third of the plant. The bottom of the plant is still good, as the buds weren't that huge. I was able so salvage quite a bit from the top cola, but I ended up trashing at least 3/4th of the bud. This is my first experience with mold. It isn't pretty. I was rather surprised because my grow space isn't overly damp or anything. I did turn on a low volume fan to keep the air moving over the buds. It had been off for a few weeks because I thought it was drying out the plants.
I just had the top cola of a Northern Light get mold. It was a huge cola that was very dense, so no light could get to the interior of the bud, plus no air circulation. In my opinion, if this would have been a topped plant, I would have gotten at least two smaller colas instead of one huge cola. This would lessen the risk for mold. This is an educated guess on my part, but if I am right, a real nice advantage to topping.
As for my Northern Light, I had problems from overwatering and over nuting, so it wasn't 100% healthy. But it still looked great. Because of the mold, I had to lop off the top third of the plant. The bottom of the plant is still good, as the buds weren't that huge. I was able so salvage quite a bit from the top cola, but I ended up trashing at least 3/4th of the bud. This is my first experience with mold. It isn't pretty. I was rather surprised because my grow space isn't overly damp or anything. I did turn on a low volume fan to keep the air moving over the buds. It had been off for a few weeks because I thought it was drying out the plants.
Uncle Ben
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Had the same problem with my avatar photo. Luckily I didn't have to remove much rot. That cola was as dense as a rock, bud growing into bud. Learned real quick that for such tight colas you always have a fan blowing on them.
More than likely you were drying out your plants by applying too much salts.
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