I started flowering 1 week after topping. The plants in my hydro system grow super fast tho so your results may be different. I have outlined my current grow journal with the dates and photos from the first day.Nice mucky ducky
How much veg time did u give them after u topped . . I'm definitely trying this next time in hydro . I'm doing mainlining now and veg time is killing me
Nice job!Thanks UB! After topping my 3 plants to 4 colas I took your advice and did not do any thinning. Here they are in day 35 of flower and the colas on the left are over 4.5 feet tall. They are covered in buds and still have 30 days or so to go!
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Hi I have plants ready for topping . It clearly says to top above the second true node for this method . If your first true nodes are Runts can you just move up a set and top then remove your two lowest runt nodes . This still gives you 4 tops . What will the difference be . ?? Any ideasNice job!
Looking good Guitar Man! I have 3 plants topped and growing right now, different varieties, almost ready to harvest and one of them made 4 colas, one made 5 colas and 1 has 8 but the 4 real mains are a few inches taller and larger. The extra colas grew out from the bottom of the original 4 colas..... must be the pheno and strain that makes some branch like that. All 3 plants were in hydro treated exactly the same way.This is my 4th mature grow using UB's topping technique. The only difference this time was that I decided to attempt an outdoor grow instead of my typical indoor regime. I live in the North, so I wasn't too sure how things would turn out. Well, I just cut this girl down and it's the best harvest I've had from 1 plant.
What is interesting about this plant is, the topping produced a total of 7 main colas. And I mean, main colas. These pictures show this fairly well, but I will take a picture of the stem structure that shows this. I also had one of the cola's split in two, which was a nice surprise.
I planted the germed seed the middle of May and I harvested yesterday. So, she endured about 4 and 1/2 months and performed great. What's interesting about this Strain, about 4 years ago my daughter gave me a seed from her bag weed. That year, I grew this Strain/seed (indoors) and she did herm on me, and I got about 20 seeds from that plant because she pollinated herself.
Since then, I have used those seeds from the hermed plant a couple of times with my indoor grow, and both times, those plants hermed on me as well, as the genetic is in the seed to throw out nanners/balls.
So, since this was my first outdoor grow I figured I would use the hermed seeds, and to my surprise, I didn't find 1 nanner/ball on this plant. I think this proves (in one sense), that the unnatural environment of growing MJ inside may induce enough stress to cause a Hermaphrodite seed to produce the unwanted affects, no matter how hard a grower attempts to avoid this dilemma.
Nice job, great looking colas & plants. As you've proven, natural is best.This is my 4th mature grow using UB's topping technique. The only difference this time was that I decided to attempt an outdoor grow instead of my typical indoor regime. I live in the North, so I wasn't too sure how things would turn out. Well, I just cut this girl down and it's the best harvest I've had from 1 plant.
What is interesting about this plant is, the topping produced a total of 7 main colas. And I mean, main colas. These pictures show this fairly well, but I will take a picture of the stem structure that shows this. I also had one of the cola's split in two, which was a nice surprise.
I planted the germed seed the middle of May and I harvested yesterday. So, she endured about 4 and 1/2 months and performed great. What's interesting about this Strain, about 4 years ago my daughter gave me a seed from her bag weed. That year, I grew this Strain/seed (indoors) and she did herm on me, and I got about 20 seeds from that plant because she pollinated herself.
Since then, I have used those seeds from the hermed plant a couple of times with my indoor grow, and both times, those plants hermed on me as well, as the genetic is in the seed to throw out nanners/balls.
So, since this was my first outdoor grow I figured I would use the hermed seeds, and to my surprise, I didn't find 1 nanner/ball on this plant. I think this proves (in one sense), that the unnatural environment of growing MJ inside may induce enough stress to cause a Hermaphrodite seed to produce the unwanted affects, no matter how hard a grower attempts to avoid this dilemma.
I have grown MJ naturally, not topping or doing anything with the plant accept feeding and watering it.Yep. All-in-all I think the plants are better if you just plain don't mess with them. All this voodoo with hacking on them for a specific response is hit-or-miss. Some plants will respond real nice to that method, and others not so much. I think you can even break that down to pheno-type as well.
After trying this I fully believe what I've always said to myself when thinking of doing such things; "is that how the plant grows in nature"? If the answer is no then it's not the approach I'm taking.
Here are 2 pics showing the response of topping this particular strain. Interesting how this plant developed additional colas (7 total), and how the one cola split in two. The 2 small branches that came out of the bottom, I almost cut them off when the plant was small, but decided to leave them. The one side also split into two colas off of one branch, and they both produced some NICE buds! (Glad I didn't cut them off!)Nice job, great looking colas & plants. As you've proven, natural is best.
Happy harvest,
Uncle Ben
Nice, how many oz?For those considering this method, here is another picture of doing this on an indoor grow. I harvested this plant last March and she is a BEAUTY!!!
You just don't worry about it and give it good care.