1st Grow

im hereby a successful plant grower lol..my only lil girl (1 out of 4 plants) has finally started to get some really noticeable buds and lil crystals n cute lil baby leaves in the buds!! omg im so excited! its like my kid growing up lol..i figure i have about 3 or 4 weeks before harvest time..the buds on the very top of the plant are about the size of peanut m&ms....
on another note....ive started another plant of some even higher grade bud...its just a little sproutling right now..i believe this seed came out of a northern lights mixed with what ive been told is cinderella 99..
.this time i want a bushier thicker plant..i waited till it was kinda too big to top my 1st grow...whats the best way for me to make my plants bushier??

Theres a few methods,one is cutting it off after the 4th internode (4th growing section) There is also a method called pinching where you injure the top and I guess it gets alot of tops on it, I dont know much about pinching though, but theres threads on this on this forum. Another method is bending, so its sideways and the branches all become like growing tops, that dont necessarily make em bushier it just makes better use of the branches to increase yield.

ooh bending sounds like a good idea..ill read on that one

i had a buddy that pinched his herb because he too wanted bigger bushier buds but then he got big puffy pillows of sadness are you sure you dont want them dense?

supercropping leads to a lotta nice fat buds... keeps the canopy of the plant nice and even... and gives you a nice bushy plant... everything you are askin... and its easy to do... look on youtube.. there are really good instructional videos on how to supercrop...

good luck
sampson

its not risky.. the plants will survive.. the key is not to snap the branch over.. but to weaken it by breaking inside the stem.. and laying it over... gentle is the way to go.. enough pressure to weaken inside the stem, but not enough to actually break the stem.. make sense??

and you actually do this to every shoot, including the main stem.. you want all the shoots to be bent at about the same height... the more even you keep where the bends are the more even the canopy will be... i imagine if you keep the bend in the main stem higher than the rest the plant will still continue to grow in a somewhat normal christmas tree fashion, but with much bushier side shoots... but for a really bushy plant that isnt very tall super crop all the branches at the same height... you can also do this multiple times throughout the veg process to achieve maximum results...

ok...so i should still top it at about 4 or 5 nodes right? Then start the supercropping? Bending every little branch? Its making sense im just mind boggled on how that works! Lol and when do u need 2 stop bending them? At the end of the veg cycle, or till harvest?
also, does this change the time it takes from being a sproutling to harvest time?
the plant ive got flowering now was planted on january 21st of this year, with about 4 weeks to go.