I developed this technique because I was growing sativas and wanted an easy way out to shorten plant height. If your internodes are that close, I'm not sure why you want to pinch out this way.
the plant is doing good other than no new growth right at the cut. i really just want 4 main colas because your plant pic looks sweet. I think it is going to work fine, because the branches from the 2nd node are growing very fast now and the branches look like they are starting to bend up a little and fill in the void left from the leader i cut out.I have limited height to work with in my grow room so this should be the ticket. thanks
A false node would be where your cotyledons are growing from.
You dont understand topping that well. Did you closely read the first page? You dont get new growth from the cutting site. Its the lateral branches that grow out and up like the previous main top. You are already experiencing that by what you wrote in your post.
Do you mean below the cut? If you don't understand where the new foliar output comes from, read page one again.
Ben,
I think i might have cut off the new foliar output because this thing was so small. plant does look beautifull now though.
Thanks for the info, killer job on that one.Too many to keep up with for this old man. Sorry!
That was a strange plant. It came from the Brothers Grimm In/Out collection and took forever, something like 12 weeks of blooming. I vegged for about 4 weeks from the time it popped the soil's surface. If any of your old timers remember RC (Heavens Stairway seedbank, that got busted by the RMCP) and the Bros Grimm, can you believe I still have quite a few of the Bros In/Out Mix seeds! RC sold me about 20 for a buck a bean. Eat your heart out.
Weird, unexpected growth, which it sounds like you found out, hah! Any time you mess with mama nature's ho moans, she can produce weird results. Some have reported hearing voices coming from their gardens.
Google triacontanol. You will find info of when a good thing can turn bad. Same thing applies with Superthrive. Thanks. It was fun.
Since I think FIM is a farce, can't advise ya.
It's never failed me.
No he means FIM'ing is foolish because there is no control over what happens, it is designed by name to fail, Fu*K I Missed is what fim stands for and most of the time missing is what happens and with topping you get exactly what you go for where as with fim you get what ever happens
I fell asleep in the sofa after taking a big hit of Bubblegum, when I woke up 1 plant was "missing". I had fergotten to fill up my dogs water bowl and he knows that green leaves contain water, he eats leaves all the time when where out doors, also had I fergotten door open to grow room. Lesson learned and now I have a "net" in the door post so I can "forget" it open w out any dogs harming my ladies. Anywho...the plant only had few branches left on it w almost no leaves...the top was "missing" above the 2nd node so I just made a clean cut cuz it was "chewed" and kept her as an "experiment plant". It was those 4 branches left and now she has 4 main kolas forming...shame this 1 was bad genetics but now I know how I will top my clones wich are on their way, 3-4 nodes. I was just gonna top them, but now I know how.
