FIM Tutorial (taking the guesswork out)
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ArizonaIceTea
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I think topping is easiest. I'm able to understand it more. To get 4 top colas would you not just top the 2 new colas after the first topping?
It's easier then fimming aswell for new growers like myself because you don't need to stress and worry over your plants fucking up. On that note, if I did fuck up a fimming and haven't seen much to any new growth over a few days, should I then resort to topping?
It's easier then fimming aswell for new growers like myself because you don't need to stress and worry over your plants fucking up. On that note, if I did fuck up a fimming and haven't seen much to any new growth over a few days, should I then resort to topping?
Bionic Rider
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I think of giving new methods a try. Time and patients are all you need to produce good results.
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Uncle Ben
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"It" is topping with a corny label. When you take out the "tip" or meristem you'll get output from the axillary bud sites.
True "FIM" as romanticized by some at the old OG site was to cut about halfway thru a node in order to induce branching about a mm below the cut. That too was bullshit and usually failed. Call it what you want, topping is topping whenever you remove the apical growing point, the meristem tissue.
UB
Uncle Ben
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Nice photos and expected output when a plant is topped. It branches.hey UB
what ya rekon of my pics???
wiimb
New Member
Should have a look at my large plant thats in flower kolas and branches and kolas and branches
all due to fimming 
Kaptain Kron
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you mean topping? yea topping works great, you know if you top above the fourth node you can get more than just 4 mains =0 you guys act like its magic or somthing, cutting off a tiny piece of the tip of the meristem is IDENTICAL to chopping your plant between 2 nodes, you just take off more material topping it lower, you can choose to get all tweaker and spread your leaves if you want. Like UB said waste of time when your commercial, just look at your plant decide how many tops count up nodes from the bottom and SNIP all done. FIM is a total misnomer. Its just topping people, the fuck i missed comes from some guy trying to pinch a fucked up leaf from top of his plant and he got the meristem and it shot out a couple tops.. its not fuckin magic.
Should have a look at my large plant thats in flower kolas and branches and kolas and branches
tripboufe
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im new on these... and i see my 1 month old veg plants being lot smaller and less dense than others ... i just topped like 3 of my plants a week ago.. i did the stupidity to take of the lateral new growths... but they comed back alive with no problem , but thats not what im here .. just updating... what i wanna know.. is how to make more lateral branches.. as i said my plants are 1 month old.. some will become mother plants and some i will just flower when timing is right i shall wait top.. 3 months to flower no more than that... and so... maybe just 2 months some of my plants are 8 inches by now.. well ok i wanna know how to make more tops... i mean ive allready topped some pplants but how to make more lateral branches... what method i should use.. and is it ok to use it now on 1 month old veg plants? help.. i also would like to clone from this plants my lower buding sides are just 2 inches TOP ... could i take clones from them? i was currently feeding my plants with only light 4 florucent t12 30w cool/warm light and start feeding with nutrientes like at the 3rd week or a month of age... now my plants under 600w hps space of 35 inches x 20inches , also how many plants can i fit in there ? planing on sog from clones.. ak47 also have autoberry that are allready flowering... 1 has alrleady 1 week old they under the 600w hps 24H on ive read that ppl got some good resutls under 24 hour lighting... so why not give it a try , also making bigbud "ive heard its hard to clone" oh right another question can i take clones from my flowering autoberry?? i would like to have some more plants of that bitchy tho i havent tryed yet.. but fast plants... in 30 days the;ve autoflowered... also.. can i top a plant that autoflowers? or it would be best to trim.. i wanna do trimming but im so afraid.. i dont wanna fuk my plants up.. yet.. rather have my mother plants good to go and experiment with my cloning babies... well sorry if its all fked up kinda high,.. peace ppl just found this forum ... just starting growing anyway fkin awesome forum have been reading it for lyk 4 hours now
tripboufe
Active Member
also... when can i top my topped plant.. can i make this posible without stressing the plant or there are chances that my plants begins to stress out...
sorry if im leaving this topic by asking this question but... im growing on soil atm, with this nutrients
botanicare pure blend pro grow 3-1.5-4
botanicare Liquid karma 0.1-0.1-0.5
Pure BLend pro bloom 1.5-4-5
but im looking some plants that i think they missing some micronutrients.. so ima try to look some micronutrient stuff im out of US so not much variety ntil i get my thnigs from there... well what do u think. gonna post some pics later of my topped stuff
sorry if im leaving this topic by asking this question but... im growing on soil atm, with this nutrients
botanicare pure blend pro grow 3-1.5-4
botanicare Liquid karma 0.1-0.1-0.5
Pure BLend pro bloom 1.5-4-5
but im looking some plants that i think they missing some micronutrients.. so ima try to look some micronutrient stuff im out of US so not much variety ntil i get my thnigs from there... well what do u think. gonna post some pics later of my topped stuff
JASON79
Active Member
you can get a lot more than 4 main tops
next grow i am going for 16 main tops, i will have to lst and support it, but i hope i will pull it off
the big plant, is the one i am doing now, just 4 weeks in flower and some ideal of the size of the buds on it, 7 main tops and now some of the heads are getting to 6"
this an old grow only 5 heads but first try
next grow i am going for 16 main tops, i will have to lst and support it, but i hope i will pull it off
the big plant, is the one i am doing now, just 4 weeks in flower and some ideal of the size of the buds on it, 7 main tops and now some of the heads are getting to 6"
this an old grow only 5 heads but first try
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HeadbandHead
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Hello, can anyone explain (or post a pic) how exactly you are supposed to LST after FIMming?
DankDave420
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Well this thread is old as hell and the dude that made it was clueless. When he said he needed to experiment how many tops to get because he is inexperienced, should of been a red flag. Ideally you should get four new tops. What he is explaining is some sort of micro topping. He is doing a basic top but at a node so small it doesn't even make sense because you might miss. And when you screw up his way you say fuck I missed and you did a proper FIM. Dude was so full of misinformation. Cutting the growth tip including the leaves is the method. Why would you make a thread and act like an expert when you have no clue what you are talking about? Look out for bullshit on forums. Luckily there are many professional sources that explain this now and hopefully nobody is listening to this noob misinformation. Even he couldn't find a single source backing up his way. He is just saying everyone besides him is wrong. SMH.
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DankDave420
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I seen where he was coming from as I missed the growth tip on one of my plants and the tip came back and the only outcome was I had some clipped fan leaves. I thought it might have been too high. You have to make sure you get low enough to get the tip. Some phenos are more difficult to FIM. You can cut more fan leaf to get lower on the tip or you can dig deeper to the point of micro topping. How deep you have to dig will vary by pheno. If you have to cut so much of the leaf that only the fan leaf stem remains, you should dig deeper. It was wrong of me to call him wrong.