Uncle Ben's Topping Technique to Get 2 or 4 Main Colas

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born2killspam said:
Cloning/topping of autos is asked all the time, but never really answered or experimented with.. You could help change that..
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sure, they can be topped the same way everyone is doing it here.

i dont understand why people want to clone autos ?
dont you buy an auto so you dont have to clone /keep mothers vegging ?
 
I need some help Uncle Ben. This is my first grow and now the plants are 8 weeks old and I need to flower. As you can see they are going to be in my lights in no time. I was told to veg for 8 wks then flower for 8 wks (I grow Cronic video) I have read a little about SCROG and saw some pics and I think I want to use that method but I'm not sure how much I need to cut off my plants or what to do. Please help.
 

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It is kind of funny that the most ghetto method of all earns that name..:) I'm not saying it doesn't work if your space accepts it well, I just find it funny to think that if a tree falls on a plant in the bush, that it quite likely 'supercropped' it..:)
 
tooler said:
is it possible to top a autoflowering strain? if yes when?
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Again, some of you guys are either not reading the thread or I'm not explaining things too well. I thought I had posted pix of an autoflowering plant grown outdoors.

When? Read the thread.

UB
 
HyDro Guy said:
I need some help Uncle Ben. This is my first grow and now the plants are 8 weeks old and I need to flower. As you can see they are going to be in my lights in no time. I was told to veg for 8 wks then flower for 8 wks (I grow Cronic video) I have read a little about SCROG and saw some pics and I think I want to use that method but I'm not sure how much I need to cut off my plants or what to do. Please help.
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Sorry, I don't do SCROG or anything that I consider a potential PITA.

Good luck,
UB
 
I've done scrog, back in my earliest indoor crops.. It was a tough beast to get down.. Especially because the first time I tried to incorporate a screen, it was for support since I didn't plan for that from the start, and started trying to string stuff through when when they were a little too old, already established like they thought proper.. It was pretty gruelling, and hardly resembled the nice looking scrogs experienced scroggers grow their plants into from the start.. Got good yield, but I probably would have gotten as much without the screen.. It was just a jungle mess..
I did get alot better the crop after that, but was realizing that if I grew them nice, the screen wasn't very critical at all.. Eventually I ditched the scrog when I started growing stouter plants (still bigger than most sogs though)..
I can't imagine much more dreadful than the thought of needing to remove a sick/infected plant from the middle of a tight scrog..
 
born2killspam said:
It is kind of funny that the most ghetto method of all earns that name..:) I'm not saying it doesn't work if your space accepts it well, I just find it funny to think that if a tree falls on a plant in the bush, that it quite likely 'supercropped' it..:)
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If there were no one around to see the tree fall, would the "supercropped" plant still exist? :p

There are medical dispensary growers who swear by this method, ghetto or not. I'd rather do LST than supercropping myself; "low stress" being the key words. But to each his/her own, eh? ;)
 
Got a question for you Uncle Ben,
I have a plant in the flower room right now, I call it 'Incredible Hulk'. Out of some bagseed a friend gave me that I have growing in 13" 6 gal. pot. I just happened to have this one planted in the middle of the pot with some other seed out of the same batch. I was gonna thin down any way at some point. This thing at 10 days old was 12" wide and 10" tall with 6 sets of leaves. Individual leaves were 2&1/4" wide. A monster. Put it in 12/12 at 15 days after taking the bottom 2 shutes for clones. On day 19, 4 days after 12/12, I topped it leaving the 2nd and 3rd set, 4 total.
Will I still get the hormonal setup for 4 mains?

It has a massive stem, 1/2" dia, much potential. Although I don't know if its a female yet, am rolling the dice.
 
Givin it a whirl anyways, we'll see what happens.
You were right though, after 24 hrs the leaders are stood right up and growin fast. Now, as long as it's female...still no sign. Thanks UB.

P.S. I know your not that keen on LST but, have you ever low stressed a 4 top plant in opposite directions?
 
Bud Frosty said:
Givin it a whirl anyways, we'll see what happens.
You were right though, after 24 hrs the leaders are stood right up and growin fast. Now, as long as it's female...still no sign. Thanks UB.

P.S. I know your not that keen on LST but, have you ever low stressed a 4 top plant in opposite directions?
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No I haven't. Any time your grow a "fruiting" stem horizontally, you'll get output from the node sites. Whether or not you choose to let those bud sites produce vertically or horizontally is your choice.

Good luck,
UB
 
I don't think I'll LST this particular plant, I want to grow it out using your method for 4 tops. Besides, it would probably take up too much space in the flower room. But it would make an interesting 'sea of bush' project for outside.

Thanks UB
 
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