ilove2sell
Active Member
I've heard great things about croping my plants while in veg.... Can someone please explain??
Good growing all!!!!
Good growing all!!!!
How to "crop" my plants?
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goldfish914
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a very easy way to train plants is low stress training or lst. it will give you very quick and efficient results. supercropping is good but takes a while and you can mess it up easily. look up a lst tutorial online i remember someone named dubman had an amazing guide that i used.
kysmoker
Active Member
I believe your talking about supercopping. If your new to growing I recommend you dont try this. However, if you decide to do it anyway, heres a guide written by a fellow rollitup member.
https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/8736-pruning-supercropping.html
It also covered pruning, if your interested in that.
Taken from the post
"I have supercropped before and have recently come to the personal conclusion that it does really work. My largest and most developed colas last crop were on supercropped branches. Just take a tender branch in your fingers and pinch and twist at the same time until you feel the insides start to collapse under the pressure of your fingers. The branch might droop slightly, but this is what you want. You're actually damaging the insides of the branch. We are trying to damage the vascular (water and nutrient carrying "veins") tissues so that they double in size after a week or so of healing themselves. As in human muscle, we must slightly damage our muscle tissue (by exercise) before it heals, larger and better able to move fluids to and from places in the body that need them. So by supercropping, you're creating body builder Pot plants!"
Credit to mogie for the information
https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/8736-pruning-supercropping.html
It also covered pruning, if your interested in that.
Taken from the post
"I have supercropped before and have recently come to the personal conclusion that it does really work. My largest and most developed colas last crop were on supercropped branches. Just take a tender branch in your fingers and pinch and twist at the same time until you feel the insides start to collapse under the pressure of your fingers. The branch might droop slightly, but this is what you want. You're actually damaging the insides of the branch. We are trying to damage the vascular (water and nutrient carrying "veins") tissues so that they double in size after a week or so of healing themselves. As in human muscle, we must slightly damage our muscle tissue (by exercise) before it heals, larger and better able to move fluids to and from places in the body that need them. So by supercropping, you're creating body builder Pot plants!"
Credit to mogie for the information
Touchet
New Member
LST and super cropping are both good ways of training but not very much alike. LST is just that Low Stress Training, meaning you do minimal stress to the plant during the training. Super cropping is causing stress to the plant intentionally. When you super crop you pinch or roll a branch in order to bend it to around 90* from it's original upward growth.
Seems how I practice this technique, here you can see the bend in the stem causing slight damage to the internal structure of the branch and a small tear in the outer skin.
In theory this is like you working out and slightly tearing your muscles in order to gain mass. You tear, rebuild, repeat.
Plant was topped then given a week to heal before this ,
Find an area between two nodes.
Now I have a topped and cropped plant.
I will top it again in 1 week, one more week to heal then I give it a special twist. Instead of bending back towards to the ground I give it a hard 90* right turn staying horizontal with the medium.
This gives you funny looking plant but lots of flower sites at a pretty even canopy level. It takes some patience but later in flowering it helps deliver more nutes up the plant for larger flowers.
Here is one at 14 days flowering with my twist on it, if you start at the bottom of the screen you can see the branch coming straight at you. Then it hangs the left for a few inches and then up she goes.
This is what I do, what works for you will be whatever makes you the happiest. Whether its quality over quantity or vice versa, you'll find your path.
Seems how I practice this technique, here you can see the bend in the stem causing slight damage to the internal structure of the branch and a small tear in the outer skin.
In theory this is like you working out and slightly tearing your muscles in order to gain mass. You tear, rebuild, repeat.
Plant was topped then given a week to heal before this ,
Find an area between two nodes.
Now I have a topped and cropped plant.
I will top it again in 1 week, one more week to heal then I give it a special twist. Instead of bending back towards to the ground I give it a hard 90* right turn staying horizontal with the medium.
This gives you funny looking plant but lots of flower sites at a pretty even canopy level. It takes some patience but later in flowering it helps deliver more nutes up the plant for larger flowers.
Here is one at 14 days flowering with my twist on it, if you start at the bottom of the screen you can see the branch coming straight at you. Then it hangs the left for a few inches and then up she goes.
This is what I do, what works for you will be whatever makes you the happiest. Whether its quality over quantity or vice versa, you'll find your path.
ilove2sell
Active Member
RIGHT ON!!! Thanks everyone for the advice. I am a newer grower and want to try out different things... I think maybe I will try topping first and then graduate to super cropping. THANKS AGAIN!
