To help my ladies grow taller

question: (this is our first grow ever... we know absolutely nothing so please excuse how dumb we may sound we are literally in kindergarten here)... my hubby was told that to make our plants grow taller to cut them in the Y (area indicated in picture) where the larger leaf is dropping and cut that leaf off.
#1) is this a step that we need to do?
#2) when should we start doing it?
#3) how often?
#4) only the top leafs or any other?

Hi SheryIsue, I haven't been growing to long myself but i would of thought that to make a plant grow taller then leave it unmanipulated.
But a tall plant wont always yeild the best, I myself grow till about 1ft tall then bend them all over 45 degrees 2 nodes up from the coco
then veg for another 2 weeks.

Haha id kill that plant read for a month start over (a picture is a thousand words)

.Da1&only. said:

Hi SheryIsue, I haven't been growing to long myself but i would of thought that to make a plant grow taller then leave it unmanipulated.
But a tall plant wont always yeild the best, I myself grow till about 1ft tall then bend them all over 45 degrees 2 nodes up from the coco
then veg for another 2 weeks.

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you said:
bend them all over 45 degrees 2 nodes up from the coco


could you please clarify?
im not sure what you mean by any of that! sorry

Doggonewild said:

Haha id kill that plant read for a month start over (a picture is a thousand words)

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i would love to start over unfortunately these where donated to me. i am disabled and cannot afford to scrap this and start over i have to attempt to salvage my plants within my budget

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNuanYP7sb8&list=FLt-aouRy_kRIQZhKFA9aHrA&index=5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkyuOHGcBxY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq97gHZfmY8

Hey SheryIsue, I am very new to this myself. There is so much here on this site that you guys can research, not to mention all the awesome feed back that you will get from the old timer pro's. I have learned a lot and more everyday. I want to share with you my items which are working for me but forgive me I don't want to type that much cause I'm hitting the sack real soon, so I loaded some of my favorite videos which I real hope will help you as much as they had for me. Don't mind the first video's guy that's in it and his potty mouth (but he is pretty funny) the thing is that this guys plants are always huge full of awesome buds. Good luck and may the Cannabis Gods be with you guys.

I think what he's thinking of is topping the plant to get two terminals instead of one. It will make the plant bushier and keep it shorter with more (although smaller) colas. But it won't make it taller. But your clones are in alternate branching, and you won't get any benefit to topping trying to increase the number of growing tips. It needs to be in an opposite branching pattern to really benefit. Plants start out opposite and switch to alternate as they become sexually mature and these clones were cut from mature tissue.


There also aa bunch of info on topping here, especially look at the very first pic in the series. Not sure if makes sense to you but hope it helps.

https://www.rollitup.org/advanced-marijuana-cultivation/151706-uncle-bens-topping-technique-get.html