To top of trying to grow monsters ?

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Qualitystoned

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Hey you guys I have popped seeds and want to try to get 10 monsters out of them. they are about a foot high and I haven’t did any training on them yet . Should I top if I want to try and grow monsters out of the 10 big ones and leave the others to just grow or what is the best method of growing also I have some discoloration in my plants leaves that are minimal but I feel needs some attention .
 

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29menace

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Hi bud,, if you top them they will bush out and if grown for another few weeks before flipping them then yeah youl get monsters. I top most of mine for that reason.
 
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If you look at the videos on my profile, that white widow was topped and she turned out huge.
 
29menace

29menace

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Lol ,I have no experience in outdoor grows but I imagine topping will still create large ass plants, if left alone I think youl still get monsters but 12ft ones.
 
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Thundercat said:
In theory an untopped plant will end up taller vs a topped plant in the same conditions.

By the same principals of growth, a topped plant should end up wider then an untopped plant......

So do you want your monster taller or wider?
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Honestly I just want it to yield the most I got a bunch of blue dreams and super lemon hazes I’m trying to have yield to 10 idk if that is unrealistic .
 
T macc

T macc

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It's up to you to top, like thundercat said, it depends if you want a tall plant or a bush. If you have a fence line to stay under, I would top and maybe LST if it should stay short
 
BluntMoniker

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You can grow monsters with or without topping them.. that doesnt really determine the size of your plant, moreso the shape.

Provide proper growing conditions, high quality lighting, a large container, proper nutrition, and as much time for vegetative growth as possible.. and you'll have monsters
 
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T macc said:
It's up to you to top, like thundercat said, it depends if you want a tall plant or a bush. If you have a fence line to stay under, I would top and maybe LST if it should stay short
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No I don’t need to worry about it keeping short up here in lake county I’m not in a residential area .
 
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BluntMoniker said:
You can grow monsters with or without topping them.. that doesnt really determine the size of your plant, moreso the shape.

Provide proper growing conditions, high quality lighting, a large container, proper nutrition, and as much time for vegetative growth as possible.. and you'll have monsters
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These where started from seed about 6 weeks ago I plan on going to it’s final pots of 100 gallon . By may 20
 
T macc

T macc

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Those look like 1 gallons there in now? I would transplant to a 2 gal so you can get better growth in the next month. It should fill out that root space within the next month
 
Renfro

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29menace said:
Lol ,I have no experience in outdoor grows but I imagine topping will still create large ass plants, if left alone I think youl still get monsters but 12ft ones.
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Sometimes it's good to supercrop them by letting them get tall and then tying it down so all the nodes shoot up from a rather horizontal main stem. That works good with some sativas. Most indica dominate varieties tend to get really bushy on their own but sometimes topping them once.

Whatever you do, have some form of support handy like trellis / fencing. Let them grow into it instead of trying to support heavy buds later with stakes, when it's harder to do and you are probably doing it because of an issue like breakage. Wind can wreck an unsupported heavy flowered plant really fast.
 
Renfro

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My buddy did an outdoor a few years ago and grasshoppers messed him up pretty hard for a while and then later when the plants were about 3 weeks from ripe a hail storm came and decimated everything. What little was left was messed up because an early hard frost hit that. Really sucked because he had some pretty big trees and he busted ass taking care of them all summer in the 100+ degree heat. It can be very difficult in some locations to get the plant truly ripe before mother nature says your done lol. He busted ass for three seasons before that one and it was always something. One year it was thieves.
 
29menace

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that's a shame after all that time,effort ,blood sweat and tears man. I hope his luck changed next season bro.

I've seen videos where winds decimated unsupported grows so yeah trellis is a must I'd say. I'm in the UK and it's probably not suitable to grow outdoors here but it's always been something I'd love to do.

Maybe one day if they legalise it here I might actually get my chance to try it out.
 
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Renfro said:
Sometimes it's good to supercrop them by letting them get tall and then tying it down so all the nodes shoot up from a rather horizontal main stem. That works good with some sativas. Most indica dominate varieties tend to get really bushy on their own but sometimes topping them once.

Whatever you do, have some form of support handy like trellis / fencing. Let them grow into it instead of trying to support heavy buds later with stakes, when it's harder to do and you are probably doing it because of an issue like breakage. Wind can wreck an unsupported heavy flowered plant really fast.
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I appreciate you and all the other people for the last minute advice lol . Ima have to try it out
 
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