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

Thanks man that was really helpful

You now why its called fimming? Cause its topping gone wrong or another words, Fuck I Missed or FIM for short. That was a informative picture but has nothing too do with UBs method.

brotherjericho said:

Its amazing that such a simple technique has generated 468 pages!

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And some folks still don't get it. Wonder if they dress themselves in the morning?

This older technique works really well, the drawback to topping early like this, additional time in veg. redistribution of the auxins (a class of plant hormones) at this early stage does allow you to produce more colas but it add over a week or two to your veg stage, if you want to take full advantage of this topping technique. Playing with the hormone pool that early can also cause internal issues with the plant. From this original technique there has been some major advancements in topping. Early 90's was where it was found out that NOT topping your plants until they are fully mature does the same thing without missing a beat or loosing time, you may not produce colas but the weight gain is the same. If time is critical do a little side by side test, by the time your ready to flower you will see how far behind the one plant is. Topping your plants 7-10 days(strains vary)before flower has similar results but your girls don't stress as much and the result is a canopy of even soldiers.

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Uncle Ben said:

And some folks still don't get it. Wonder if they dress themselves in the morning?

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I rest my case.

Uncle Ben said:

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I rest my case.

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Do yourself a favor UB and put Sir Trolls Alot on ignore. The guy is a total ass wipe.

Ok well the only thing that confuses me about ub's method is whether there should be 2 or 4 nodes left on the plant cause if you have six nodes and you cut above the second one that seems like a lot to cut off the plant

Ya seriously, why should you wait till 6 nodes to cut the second node?

^^. Read! As he explains it numerous times in this thread. Use the cut off as a clone. It's not a waste.

jbrown3 said:

Ya seriously, why should you wait till 6 nodes to cut the second node?

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I explained in the first post. https://www.rollitup.org/advanced-marijuana-cultivation/151706-uncle-bens-topping-technique-get.html

damn bro chill, stoner mistake...

Nevermind.

jbrown3 said:

damn bro chill, stoner mistake...

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No mistake, you just took the lazy way out. Look, I put a lot of time to help tards like you and if you can't or won't bother to at least read the first post, much less the first page, then you need not waste members' time. STOP asking questions when the answers have been given over and over again people. LURK!

UB

watching a video aND dude says never top more that twice? some people say they top a bunch right? soo....

also I was wondering if I should top a plant that is already under LST and what are the benefits because arent the side branched already going to become tops?

Thanks UB. Topped last night along with four others. Pic is 10 hours later, still looking perky.

So I topped last night and since I was confused about it all being my first time ever, I fimmed 2, I did what I think ub 's method is to 2 of them and I just topped one normally. The cuttings I took from UB's method I tried to make clones with, I dipped them in a water diluted nutrient solution to wet the stem and dipped them in plant prod rooting powder and stuck them each in a plastic cup with soil. Today the leaves are lumping over could this just be stress on the plants or are they dying?

Uncle Ben makes multiple comparisons to Fruit trees, vine trees, and marijuana. I did not just come up with this shit on the fly... TO whomever the Uncle Ben follower that mentioned it.

Alexander Supertramp said:

Not only off topic but a horrible comparison. Deciduous trees and perennial vines to annuals? Wow...

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Yep, absolutely no relationship, just another newbie chest beater that's getting confused. You can't mix up, lump together, fruit growing and the techniques used by commercial growers with my technique. Hell, they're not even in the same family....one's an annual the other perennial.

Another RIU troll that needs help dressing in the morning.

UB

Impman said:

'This is the same principle used by fruit orchard managers who create an open vase profile for their trees in order to increase production.'

Your a fucking dick dude. I use to like reading your shit but you and your followers are ass holes.

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Ya think?

BTW, it's "you're", not "your".

Uh...... what's a "vine tree"?

You think you know all this shit about growing fruit trees?

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Sure do. Been growing, training, pruning, thinning thousands for over 40 years, and that includes my commercial vineyard. Wanna learn some VSP tips? You do know what VSP is, don't you?

Growers use grafting mostly to get the production they need.

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We (fruit growers) use grafting to pair the rootstock with the soil profile and structure such that the scion can best utilize the applied water and soil elements. For instance, after a year of studying, I selected 1103 Paulsen for my grape rootstock. Betcha can't understand why? I T-budded citrus scions to Flying Dragon rootstock to increase cold hardiness and dwarf the scion output....just grafted gourmet avocado scion wood to W. Indies hybrid rootstock cause that rootstock does well in a high salts environment and is efficient in excluding Ca which my well water is very high in. My well water's TDS is a whopping 839ppm. Whatcha think about that, junior?

IT is RARE to see a grower who just Pruned or topped. Mostly all GRAFTED.

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Now that makes a helluva lot of sense. Look junior, all fruit trees are grafted and then trained via pruning to get the profile the grower wants. I prune peach trees very hard, and top cannabis. But it's all done for different reasons to get certain results. For starts, it's much easier to harvest fruit on a tree that's only 6' tall versus one that is 12'.

Trees are also 'thinned' during the spring to increase fruit size. Im wayyyyy off topic right Uncle Chester

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You finally got one right. A commercial peach, plum or apple grower will drop as much as 60% of the post flowering fruit to increase size and improve visual marketing appeal. The customer likes a big, richly colored peach....that's what sells, not one the size of a golf ball. It's all about visuals. Doesn't mean he'll get the same yield off that tree as he would have if he let it bear all fruit.

Now, feel free to comment when you can keep this all in it's proper context and NOT use Obama type spin and deceptions. Perhaps a teleprompter is in order?

UB