Super Cropping
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notoriousb
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you sure it wasn't a hermie to begin with? it takes a little more than bending some branches to herm a plant
genfranco
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very nice man... make sure you put some weight on it or tie id down to the height you want cause shell try to come back up on you.... lol..... lets do some early fim/top next time bro...then you can have more branches to bend....
hanimmal
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Well here is my shot at supercropping. It was 4 days into flowering when I tried it:
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I also have 3 that I did some (was supposed to be LST (pics here: https://www.rollitup.org/newbie-central/232394-just-hacked-my-plant-while.html#post2969326 )
But I messed one up and since nobody was showing signs of flowering I switched it back to 18-6 on the advice I received. So that they can recoup a bit before putting them back into flowering. One of my not so low stress training ended up being a topping.
Before
After:
Top view Before:
Top view after:
I also have 3 that I did some (was supposed to be LST (pics here: https://www.rollitup.org/newbie-central/232394-just-hacked-my-plant-while.html#post2969326 )
But I messed one up and since nobody was showing signs of flowering I switched it back to 18-6 on the advice I received. So that they can recoup a bit before putting them back into flowering. One of my not so low stress training ended up being a topping.
genfranco
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i think they look great.... what is with everyone doing this shit in flower when everywhere in this thread i keep saying to do it in veg.... 2 weeks before switching ...
you need to give those little lower shoots that now are at the top a chance to grow a bit..you get 2 or 3 internodes growth on them and youll have some nice colas....
you need to give those little lower shoots that now are at the top a chance to grow a bit..you get 2 or 3 internodes growth on them and youll have some nice colas....
hanimmal
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If I would have read your thread a couple weeks ago I would have.
But I did put it back into 18-6 the night that I did all this, and there are no signs of flowering yet, so I am hoping that it stays that way. I am planning on giving them another 2 weeks to veg before putting them back into 12-12.
Here is the day 30 NY diesel that I supercropped just now. Since I have a couple weeks now before i flower figure may as well make the most out of it.
Question that I have for you, is there a reason why you weigh them down? I bought some eye bolts so that I can tie them down if I should do it. I figure that I will drill small holes in the lip of the pots so that I can use them as tie downs.
This is so nice to hear. Almost makes me giddy.
if u dont weigh them down they will go bak up unless u stay on them and keep pullin them down but eventually will stay... i tape pennies or heavy nails, nuts or what evers small and heavt to the screw part of my eyeboltIf I would have read your thread a couple weeks ago I would have.
But I did put it back into 18-6 the night that I did all this, and there are no signs of flowering yet, so I am hoping that it stays that way. I am planning on giving them another 2 weeks to veg before putting them back into 12-12.
Here is the day 30 NY diesel that I supercropped just now. Since I have a couple weeks now before i flower figure may as well make the most out of it.
Question that I have for you, is there a reason why you weigh them down? I bought some eye bolts so that I can tie them down if I should do it. I figure that I will drill small holes in the lip of the pots so that I can use them as tie downs.
genfranco
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i just hang some s hooks and hang shit if i have to to weigh it down... The reoson is because our plants will heal themselves and will come back up on there own... thats why some people weigh them down... some tie them down after the supercropp to make sure they dont pop back up.... strong plants...
PS.... very nice coloring on those plants.... healthy healthy
eye bolts with s hooks... !
PS.... very nice coloring on those plants.... healthy healthy
eye bolts with s hooks... !
Scuba
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very nice gen, i usually just tie mine down till they stay there. Same principlei just hang some s hooks and hang shit if i have to to weigh it down... The reoson is because our plants will heal themselves and will come back up on there own... thats why some people weigh them down... some tie them down after the supercropp to make sure they dont pop back up.... strong plants...
PS.... very nice coloring on those plants.... healthy healthy
eye bolts with s hooks... !
nick17gar
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yea me too. this seems like a good way to fill in any gaps between plants and use up that light im paying for
+rep for the great advice
monster dave 420
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i am about 2 months into veg and have started this on all my available branches. will post pics when i get home tonight. + rep and FUCKIN THANK YOU for the knowledge.
Brick Top
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Last night I was thinking about different training methods and remembered reading about a fairly novel way to train plants to keep them low. It is not exactly supercropping, and is actually more like LST I guess, but what the person did was he took short pieces of fishing line and would attach a fairly heavy fishing weight to one end of the line and a barbless hook to the other.
When there was enough additional soft upward growth that he felt it was time to redirect it to keep the plant low he would take a hook, line and weight and placed the hook on the soft main-stem, or for that fact branch or branches, and the weight would pull it over and hold it down without needing to do any damage to the plant and without the effort of tying the plant down.
Depending on how much weight was needed at times just positioning the hook/line/weight correctly would supply enough leverage to pull the portion down to where he wanted it and other time he had to decrease or increase the weight’s size.
　
He hung the weights pulling down the plants main-stem and branches and would leave the weights hanging until the main-stem or branch or branches hardened off at the lower position they had been pulled down to and then he would remove the hook, line and weigh to use again elsewhere and the main-stem or branch or branches would remain where he had wanted them to be and had trained them to be.
　
I never tried it so I will not say if it is a horrible thing to do or a good thing to do or a great thing to do or the very best invention since the invention of pussy. I am not telling anyone to try it and I am not advocating it. Only because it was such a novel approach to training and because after many years I remembered it again I thought I would share it so if nothing else to amuse people possibly making them think of how a plant or plants might look slightly like a Charlie Brown Christmas Tree all bent over because they could not support the weight of the ornaments Charlie Brown hung on it, so that is at least in part why I shared it.
When there was enough additional soft upward growth that he felt it was time to redirect it to keep the plant low he would take a hook, line and weight and placed the hook on the soft main-stem, or for that fact branch or branches, and the weight would pull it over and hold it down without needing to do any damage to the plant and without the effort of tying the plant down.
Depending on how much weight was needed at times just positioning the hook/line/weight correctly would supply enough leverage to pull the portion down to where he wanted it and other time he had to decrease or increase the weight’s size.
　
He hung the weights pulling down the plants main-stem and branches and would leave the weights hanging until the main-stem or branch or branches hardened off at the lower position they had been pulled down to and then he would remove the hook, line and weigh to use again elsewhere and the main-stem or branch or branches would remain where he had wanted them to be and had trained them to be.
　
I never tried it so I will not say if it is a horrible thing to do or a good thing to do or a great thing to do or the very best invention since the invention of pussy. I am not telling anyone to try it and I am not advocating it. Only because it was such a novel approach to training and because after many years I remembered it again I thought I would share it so if nothing else to amuse people possibly making them think of how a plant or plants might look slightly like a Charlie Brown Christmas Tree all bent over because they could not support the weight of the ornaments Charlie Brown hung on it, so that is at least in part why I shared it.
TechnoMage
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I think it sounds like a great idea Brick.
Brick Top
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As I said I have never tried the training method I mentioned so I am not endorsing it or advocating it and definitely not claiming it to be as good or better than any other method of training.
　
I just remembered it and thought about how novel it is and how simple would be to do.
It really does make perfect sense to me and it should work just as I read it did, but I stress that is only my opinion.
So I thought possibly someone might read about it and think that in their situation it may be the best or at least the simplest way to go for them to train their plants to remain low/short, so I decided to share it with everyone.
genfranco
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Whatup brick top... ya that sounds great. As a matter of fact when i weigh the branches down after the pinch i play that game for the first week or so.. moving the wieght further down the ...or up the.. well towards the new growth. I remember and old mans back yard once that had two plants going along his 6 foot fence at about 12 inches high off the ground.... it was beautiful.
im looking to super crop and top. should i top my plants before i supercrop. also, when should i top if i wanna supercrop? chop the 3rd node off? one more thing. when i get two branches, how should i SC them? like when should i SC them? how come you plant has like 8 branches coming directly out of the soil? mine only has one..
Scuba
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only top it once, the small branches will get fat after you pinch and bend her. Just like gen's plant, a L shape bend and the other branches will turn up and make a row of tops
sweet. all my plants except one have 4 nodes, the other has 3. should i top them now? also, im only gonna be vegging for another 2 weeks, maybe 3.. all i need to do is SC those 2 main branches? the branches underneath the main Y branches will start to even out with the SC branches? or should i SC them also?