Uncle Ben's Topping Technique to Get 2 or 4 Main Colas

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UB your tech works like a champ. :clap::clap::clap:

I cut between 2nd and 3rd I got 4 colas, between 3rd and 4th I got six colas...just like you said...perfect. Thanks for the info! :-P

All it takes is a general understanding of apical dominance....the redistribution of auxins and gibberelins to dormant buds which we've talked about numerous times throughout this thread. Glad it worked out for you.

Im also using Dyna Grow. Love that stuff and so do my plants...anyway I have DG root gel. It has a sticker that says "not to be used on plants intended for food or feed puposes" what are thoughts on using this on MJ? Im affraid to use it now...

Depends on how many Green lawyers are wrapped around it. :D

I've used the Griffin's Spin-Out pot treatment on many an edible plant, and I'm still standing. ;)

You mentioned "flushing like you are supose to" in a previous post. I am growing in soil and thought people only flush at the end of flower. Should soil plants be "flushed" durring the grow like between veg and flower? Or did you mean just getting a good "run off" with each watering / feeding?

Thanks for all your threads. Helped mt a lot.

IMO, flushing is a myth started by the Dutch as an atonement for over fertilizing.

FINDME i think you need to go research some horticulture books and educate yourself

No shit. I'm not here to teach the basics nor spoon-feed anyone. It's their responsibility to learn what makes a plant tick. If you guys keep asking the same questions that have been answered over and over and over, I'm just gonna consider you lazy and/or rude.

I bet alot of these questions are rhetorical in nature, from youth who have never grown a plant in their life nor are able to pull it off due to extenuating circumstances (currently living with Mom/Pop).

UB
 
We don't argue methods, we try each one and settle on the one that works for us. So far the Uncle Ben method is suddenly happening to all my plants, I now take those tops I stole and confirm sex twice as fast as before.. Talk about working, this method is getting it down for me.. Not to mention plant height is not a pressing issue any longer.. This thread though is about Uncle Ben's method, where most of us have tried all other ways to do things as well. Quit harassing Uncle Ben, you might need to ask him a question some day. If you are just seeking attention from him offer him 100K cold hard cash, that is a great conversation opener.
 
We don't argue methods, we try each one and settle on the one that works for us. So far the Uncle Ben method is suddenly happening to all my plants, I now take those tops I stole and confirm sex twice as fast as before.. Talk about working, this method is getting it down for me.. Not to mention plant height is not a pressing issue any longer.. This thread though is about Uncle Ben's method, where most of us have tried all other ways to do things as well. Quit harassing Uncle Ben, you might need to ask him a question some day. If you are just seeking attention from him offer him 100K cold hard cash, that is a great conversation opener.

Thanks. In case you missed my offer, I'd be glad to do a FAQ for this thread, page one, addressing the redundant issues but RIU is not cooperating.

Grow hard,
UB
 
Thanks. In case you missed my offer, I'd be glad to do a FAQ for this thread, page one, addressing the redundant issues but RIU is not cooperating.

Grow hard,
UB


At times the thread can be just like déjà vu all over again …. to use a Yogi Berra line.
 
hey

ive got a question guys my girls on her 4th node and the 5th is jus sproutin the thing is i was goin to top for 4 colas so cut above the 2nd node but the 1st an 2nd node are really small an only have 1 leaf when the 3rd an 4th are huge compared and have many. i think its due to me runnin my nutes abit to low at first. would you top my plant or would you let her grow as normal an have a try on the next run?

cheers
 
hey

ive got a question guys my girls on her 4th node and the 5th is jus sproutin the thing is i was goin to top for 4 colas so cut above the 2nd node but the 1st an 2nd node are really small an only have 1 leaf when the 3rd an 4th are huge compared and have many. i think its due to me runnin my nutes abit to low at first. would you top my plant or would you let her grow as normal an have a try on the next run?

cheers

If you think your plant is healthy enough you can top. If not, I would delay it until the plant improves or try again next time.
 
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Hey as I said before the plant I topped in UB style turned out to be a giant, and realy overshadowed the plant that I had left.... sadly it was a male.
The pic is the remaining mutant from a few weeks ago...
It has 3 of those tall arms, I just got a shitty angle when I took the pick. I guess its nature copying UB.
The middle arm was mutating pretty badly when the plant was young, so the two secondary branches below that became dominant, the middle caught up nicely with it though. Its putting out a few white hairs, but not realy in flower yet as our days are still very long. I could get it to start flowering if I move it to my old spot, but I wanna see how big it can get.

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This is the base... remember this is untopped, totaly naturaly grown.
 
To get back to the subject, here is the one I'm waiting on next with the large four colas. It was cut exactly according to the picture on the first page :) Thank you UB.
 

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hey

ive got a question guys my girls on her 4th node and the 5th is jus sproutin the thing is i was goin to top for 4 colas so cut above the 2nd node but the 1st an 2nd node are really small an only have 1 leaf when the 3rd an 4th are huge compared and have many. i think its due to me runnin my nutes abit to low at first. would you top my plant or would you let her grow as normal an have a try on the next run?

cheers

let her go abit longer you will see the growth comming from the 1st and 2cnd node then just top wont b long now
 
how much extra veg time is required after a top for 4 main colas. Can I top, wait 5 days or so and flower with decent yeilds?

Im at 6 nodes high now, would i yeild more flowering in 5 days, or topping now then flowering in 5 days?
 
from my experience, under a nice HID light, in a week the size will have at least doubled. as for a delay, only about 24 hours.

how much extra veg time is required after a top for 4 main colas. Can I top, wait 5 days or so and flower with decent yeilds?

Im at 6 nodes high now, would i yeild more flowering in 5 days, or topping now then flowering in 5 days?
 
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