Topping
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Lacy
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It doesn't sound stupid in the least.
To my understanding 'topping' is when you snip the top leaves coming up. I usually do mine after the 5th node. You don't wanna do it too late or too early.
This makes the plants bushier. More branches equals more buds.
You can also train the branches to grow downwards for more light exposure and the extra stress helps them grow stronger.
You just have to do this a bit later on when the plant has some strength.
Good luck
To my understanding 'topping' is when you snip the top leaves coming up. I usually do mine after the 5th node. You don't wanna do it too late or too early.
This makes the plants bushier. More branches equals more buds.
You can also train the branches to grow downwards for more light exposure and the extra stress helps them grow stronger.
You just have to do this a bit later on when the plant has some strength.
Good luck
This may be stupid but im wondering if someone could explain in detail how to top and what it does..thank you its definently appreciated.
Peace out
I will grab some pics of my topped and tied clone that is a few weeks in the veg box, it's getting big. For me I top as soon as the first set of branches have thrown out some leaves. The idea is your kill the vertical growth point, this makes those two branches below the cut the new "tops". This is my first topped plant. I have a few huge cola plants going right now of the same strain. This will let me get a rough idea of how much more I can get topping.
MajoR_TokE
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I just pinch off the top with my fingers after the 5-6 node. The plants lower branches will grow faster and the plant becomes bushier.
MajoR_TokE
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ChillWill151
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yea i would say it more or less redistribites the yield on a plant, not significanlty increasing it
It depends on the strain, blueberry for example yields more topped then untopped..it all depends on the yield..experiment with it..Id love to see pictures of topping however so I can get a real idea if that is at all possible. I personally havent experimented with the topping idea because I have only grown a few times, but I have read numerous articles through high times, and head's that certain strains yield more when topped and other strains lose yield when topped.
2BLITZED4U
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ya ne 1 of theses methods work but i like 2 cut my top after the 5-6 node and put the top into 12-12 for sexing
MrIntricate
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Topping will produce higher yield incertain strains (ex blueberry). The truth of the matter however is that toppnig will also decrease potency. Ideal potency is reched just leaving the plant to its own devices. THe most potent bud is found in hte top khola (sp?) with potency decreasing as you descend the plant. By topping, you are essentially shrinking the top khola and expanding the lower buds. For plants where topping is recommended, keep in mind that you are increasing yield, but decreasing potency, though not substantially.
godspeedsuckah
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I would like to know if there is truth to this because it makes no sense at all.
Manny Ramirez
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Sure...I've done it many times
infamouse21
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well i am doing an experiment right now with a toped plant & a none toped plant of 2 diff strans.
so far my conclusion is this.
toping plant when it is about 10 inches tall will deff slow it vertical grow, only for a short time.
also u will have 2 new tops form & if your luck u might get what looks like 4 tops cause the 2 lower nodes are just as tall & fat.
week 7 into veg the untoped plant was jsut over 3.5 ft tall.
toped plant was 2.5 ft tall but had 4 top colas, (teqnically only 2 but all 4 were the same hight & thickness)
now we are starting week 3 flowering & wow. these plants have taken off.
the untoped plant is now over 4 ft tall & we have to LST the top over ( tie it down at an angle). because it was hitting the light & it was maxed out at 5.5 ft high.
now the toped plant had cought up & passed the other un-toped plant bye about 3 inches.
as far at LST when we did it to the plant that wasnt toped. all the lower groth has went straight up & we now have 20 baby tops looking at the light & it is awsome.
here is a pic of when they were younger. ill have some updates by thurs night.
i still cant believe how these have taken off, & what these methods has shown so far.
plant on the right is un-toped, see the hight diff then the other 3 toped plants this is week 4 of veg.
also plant of the bottom see how it looks like 4 main colas as they are all the same hight & thickness.
so far my conclusion is this.
toping plant when it is about 10 inches tall will deff slow it vertical grow, only for a short time.
also u will have 2 new tops form & if your luck u might get what looks like 4 tops cause the 2 lower nodes are just as tall & fat.
week 7 into veg the untoped plant was jsut over 3.5 ft tall.
toped plant was 2.5 ft tall but had 4 top colas, (teqnically only 2 but all 4 were the same hight & thickness)
now we are starting week 3 flowering & wow. these plants have taken off.
the untoped plant is now over 4 ft tall & we have to LST the top over ( tie it down at an angle). because it was hitting the light & it was maxed out at 5.5 ft high.
now the toped plant had cought up & passed the other un-toped plant bye about 3 inches.
as far at LST when we did it to the plant that wasnt toped. all the lower groth has went straight up & we now have 20 baby tops looking at the light & it is awsome.
here is a pic of when they were younger. ill have some updates by thurs night.
i still cant believe how these have taken off, & what these methods has shown so far.
plant on the right is un-toped, see the hight diff then the other 3 toped plants this is week 4 of veg.
also plant of the bottom see how it looks like 4 main colas as they are all the same hight & thickness.
We1
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I don't know Im sitting at 6 heads on each plant....Not seeing decreased potency, however, six heads...at least 4x more bud mass... Plus I burnt the shit out of the leaves on the top of one of the cola's but in removing those leaves the bud is by far the fattest. (Even distribution????? I don't know, I always heard six heads is better than one!) There is no way I am losing potency though!!!!! Here take a whiff!!!!
godspeedsuckah
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I appreciate everyones response and opinions. I am in agreement with all of you; It makes no sense at all that the plant is losing the main cola and thus the most potency is gone. I learned and always was told that after being topped the plant takes the energy used for vertical growth and redistributes to the side branches and then it focuses on the 2 new tops.
asdfva
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^^Co-signed! Thank you to all for being
so helpful to me, and to each other...
for the most part. I have basically been
sitting back and just absorbing everything
that I possible can in preparation for a first
time grow in the next 2 months. After creeping
around for this past month, non stop day and
night, I have amassed a wealth of information
that really gets me... high. No other way to
put. Thank you.