When to top lower branches?

AlmightyJumpman said:

This is how she looks after my version of training. Lights just came on, like I said I feel like I’m doing something wrong.

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As she grows just keep adjusting every day im constantly training bending and tying down here is 4 same strain autos i worked on every day till they finished the stretch nearly all colas the same height.

cat shit said:

As she grows just keep adjusting every day im constantly training bending and tying down here is 4 same strain autos i worked on every day till they finished the stretch nearly all colas the same height.

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You don't need lst clips i use soft plant wire and like i said adjust daily

Fatjoe said:

I have taken plants 5 weeks in veg and crushed the main stem and bent them over 90°. I've also left the main standing and crushed all other growth outwards at 4 wks in flower.

Cannabis is a tough plant. If ya go slow and crush branches to confirm to your needs you win. Don't be discouraged with stiff stems. If you want them to move crush n bend.
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Crushing sounds like a good idea before bending a stiff stem. Will try that!

Each to there own but I'm not big on topping better can be achieved by simply tying the top down.


I've not trained anything in a while but tying the top down is my default removing growth than can support a huge cola isn't for me.

Edit...I've got weights noted somewhere of topping versus tying, tying won by a considerable amount I can't remember the exact figures?

AlmightyJumpman said:

This is how she looks after my version of training. Lights just came on, like I said I feel like I’m doing something wrong.

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Looks fine to me. Personally I'd release those lowest branches so they can catch up to the rest. It's gonna take a bit now that you've topped them, since they have to start from the two tiny growth tips that are left.

As a general rule, the hormones in the plant provide a kind of feedback loop where growing tips that are physically higher up (not necessarily farther from the base of the plant) will grow upward faster. If you want a flatter canopy without using a net for training, you have to pull down the uppermost growth and let the lower growth catch up to it.