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

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Uncle Ben

Uncle Ben

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ShowMeTheWay said:
you're only getting confused because you're just skimming through the info.

read it properly. im learning all this for the first time, and its annoying that on nearly every single page of the thread people ask the same dumb questions.
if you cant understand something made so simple by pictures and diagrams or cant be bothered to read the threads properly and research it yourself then don't bother growing in the first place cause you obviously don't have the right mindstate to do it.

next you'll want them to come and take your grow over for you.....
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SOS, just a different day. Thanks.

One reason why I posted a revised ditty with a FAQ at another site was to preclude the redundant questions, but, some folks aint gonna get it no matter how much you spoon feed them. Like you said, if he doesn't understand plant anatomy, plant nutrition, etc. then he shouldn't be growing.

The following edited thread explains it better - http://riddlem3.com/index.php/topic,1106.0.html

Editing of threads by the thread starter is not allowed here. Beats the hell out of me why....

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i was just wondering, my plants are mature now so there's no chance of topping them i understand that, what i want to know is there anything else, other than the talked about root growth hormone that you can use for cuttings?

i researched a little bit and have only found one thing talking about how some plants produce thier own rooting hormone, one of them being a willow tree.
apparently you can take a live branch from a willow tree, place it in some water that you will be using for the cutting and it 'should' help the cutting take root.

then can put it into another batch of water that you will be using to water the cutting...

what's your take on it? obviously im guessing the rooting hormone you buy will do a better job as its concentrated, but do you know any of the other plants that produce thier own rooting hormone?
 
lbezphil2005

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ShowMeTheWay said:
i was just wondering, my plants are mature now so there's no chance of topping them i understand that, what i want to know is there anything else, other than the talked about root growth hormone that you can use for cuttings?

i researched a little bit and have only found one thing talking about how some plants produce thier own rooting hormone, one of them being a willow tree.
apparently you can take a live branch from a willow tree, place it in some water that you will be using for the cutting and it 'should' help the cutting take root.

then can put it into another batch of water that you will be using to water the cutting...

what's your take on it? obviously im guessing the rooting hormone you buy will do a better job as its concentrated, but do you know any of the other plants that produce thier own rooting hormone?
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The hormone is in the bark of the willow tree. Thats the only one I know of.
 
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Just an update: I topped above the 4th node before reading this carefully on ONE of my plants, many months ago. That plant IS, indeed, VERY VERY bushy as people on here told me it will be. However, I do, actually, have 8 smaller Colas on my baby with what looks like will be a great yield for my first grow. Yay :) My second plant I did not top at all because flowering came too soon out of nowhere and it is friggin' tall as hell!! Nearly 6 feet! lol.
 
jesicalorren

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ya i got alternating but i think its because i got clones form clones from clones and so on... i started a seed and got opposing sites that makes the tecnique possible . when u do it from altenaing your babys look all weird but they come out allll rigghhhhhttttt
 
Harrekin

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Uncle Ben...when I top at the second node alot of the time I get branches growing from where the cots join the main stem, I assume this is from the flow of hormones being interrupted and accumilating in the remaining tissues...but how normal is it? I top when the plant is literally just large enough to top and usually cut off the new cot-branches btw.

Thanks man.
 
Uncle Ben

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Harrekin said:
Uncle Ben...when I top at the second node alot of the time I get branches growing from where the cots join the main stem, I assume this is from the flow of hormones being interrupted and accumilating in the remaining tissues...but how normal is it? I top when the plant is literally just large enough to top and usually cut off the new cot-branches btw.

Thanks man.
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I have done this a dozen times and never gotten output in the axis where the cotyledons attach to the "trunk" and that includes pinching out above the first node. Guess your mileage may vary.....
 
fatboyOGOF

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i read this thread a couple of times and i keep forgetting to try this method. i put a sticky note on my veg door to remind me to do a few of them this time! :)

i like the look of the 4 cola plant. i used to get some pretty cool looking plants by twisting the hurd. remember that fad ben? lol
 
Harrekin

Harrekin

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Uncle Ben said:
I have done this a dozen times and never gotten output in the axis where the cotyledons attach to the "trunk" and that includes pinching out above the first node. Guess your mileage may vary.....
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Excuse my ignorance, but what does the mileage comment mean?
 
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