force flower is where you take a cutting or put plant plant in flower just long enough to tell the sex
EMC is where you take a cutting or re veg a plant that has just started to form bud sites in true flower (10 -14 white hairs )
then you top the plant in early veg.
good example of my EMC plant in mid veg
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monster crop is where you let a plant flower (true flower) and remove a shoot with a bud site and re veg it
I think the proper terminology for this is 'regenerative cloning'
Monster cropping is a street name for the process.
I've have done this several times and it does get more top colas from my experience, but the colas never filled out as wide as the original plants.
The weights over all when dried were very similar, slightly up on RG over original plants, but not significantly.
It is a big help in my opinion to be able to take clones from flowering plants and get them ready for planting straight after harvest. But from my experience the plants loose their growth and vigour when this is done to the same plants over a number of grows.
I had a northern lights plant about 14 years back that I flowered, harvested and the revegged it over and over.. Just in soil and hps as I wanted to see what would happen overtime..
It gave me decent results each harvest, and after about 2 years the plant grew strong bark around the main and lower stems.
Between the 3-4 year mark the plant literally started falling apart, splitting along the stems and whole branches just snapping of, the inside if the plant was thick dense and resembled a wood like body.
I cut her down then.
I hope this is useful to someone who has not done this but was curious as to what would happen if you try an keep a plant going.