H.A.F.
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No worries - I'm lighting up another one as I type so let me know if I miss something or get distractedHAF,
I actually don't see what I'd gain by manifolding that plant. Are you saying that it's actually the healed knuckle that increases nutrient flow? I feel I'm missing something important here.
JD
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Knuckles:
![IMG_9683.JPG](/data/attachments/3446/3446393-1fc3420cf2e41f725c6c772361c7f976.jpg)
When you top a plant and leave it only 2 directions to go, it bulks up and creates a knuckle. Don't know the science, but it has big insides and divides the nutes equally above that point. It also kills the center-dominance of the plant - the main fat veins running to the top that everything else branches off of. It means you did a manifold right LOL.
![IMG_9680.JPG](/data/attachments/3446/3446394-39a2692c7f6b71d7a6f5672ab7549790.jpg)
You will start to see one forming where you did top it, but it won't be as drastic just because of the limbs below there.
That is why I think repeated toppings, instead of several cola off two main limbs stays more with that "even distribution" plan. So from now on even if I do an 8-top (or more) it will start like this 4-top.