When to induce flowering: explained

View attachment 2717026Flowering and veg cycles are completely up to the grower preference, you can induce flowering in a rooted one inch clone if you want or you could grow a sativa dominant plant 14 feet tall before you induce flowering its up to you... What it really comes down to is how much time you have to wait for the plant to grow big, and how much room you have for bigger plants (obviosly while practicing "supercropping" techniques in veg such as topping, bending,bansai-ing, FIMing, lollipoping ect...will multiply your yield as many times as your patience and percistance allows. Hygrohybrid has good advice and vids on youtube) Just one thing though you absolutly need a seperate veg and flower rooms to maintain a perpetual harvest and get enough yield to make paying the light bill worth your wile. As far as cloning taking a clone from a vegitative plant is the only way to go in my opinion because you take a clone from a flowering plant you risk waiting up to 2 months for it to revert back to vegitative growth and in the long run will cost you extra nutrients, inefficiently used space in your grow show, and money to veg it extra long before your desired size. Also another important side note you can grow them bushy and wide rather than tall... I will post a pic of my finished product of suppercropping plant. The plant in this pic yielded over a pound after it was dry and cured! it was only 20 inches tall, but almost 4 feet wide! you can manipulate these plants to grow however you want! I took this Liberty haze plant when it was 2 ft tall and slowly and carefully bent the top branch where it met the branch below it and in the opposite direction and where there is a gap between main branches bend the horizontal smaller branches that are coming off the main branches into the open space where it will get more light ( you can even convince the plant to make side branches by carefully bending the branch just above a new node, if you bend it until it either pops or can be completly bend to the point it can touch itself then the new node below it recieves hormones telling it that it is now the new "top" of this branch!) check the bends daily tape over any splits that happen, its ok if your new bends leave the leaves upside down it will revert back to facing upwards in a little as an hour! every 5 days bend some more creating a big round bush, also apply the other supercropping techniques listed above (except basai in this method)you can top again every 7-10 days or so, skys the limit. Cannabis plants are like hoes the more you smack them around the more they want to please you! If this was helpfull please "like" my post and page or whatever lol

The reason that you would bend a branch down is to send a hormonal growth signal to the plant to give side its branches that are inhibited by the upper canopy that its time to grow. In the tips of the the stems and roots is a chemical known as auxin that regulates or modify plant growth. When the chemical balance of the plant is altered by bending down a branch to the level of the side buds the plant senses that the top part of the plant has been lost and stops growing. The side buds then begin to grow, once they start to grow you can release the top bud and it will continue to grow again. This results in more very large buds.

I have done this many times on a handful of plants I wanted to see the difference doing it and not doing the super cropping. honestly I did not see any different results, except for me breaking a branch a few times lol

lol yea its hard at first and has to be done slowly so you dont snap the stem, it works really well if done right. I broke a lot of top branches when i was learning too. The trick is to know what to listen and feel for and where to bend the plant from and how much you can bend it at a time.

That is all true, pretty much a form of FIMing when applied in flowering cycle, but in veg the top part of the plant doesent "stop" growing, the next node (or 2) on the branch recieve the extra hormone auxins and they take the role of the new top branch(s) all the strains I have worked with respond very well to this except true thai strains that typically most pheno types dont naturally grow side branchs of of main branches. I have also tried not super cropping and just growing tall before flowering and my supper cropped shorter plant of the same strains had MUCH bigger yields.