Sorry, dude. I have a medical condition. LOL! But I'm starting to feel better now, Dirk.
Make sure you whistle when you walk by this thread.
Thanks, Mo. The tallest branch is just about 24" off the screen.
It's a combination of grower preference and strain behavior I would say. I train the viney clones very early and weave throughout veg as documented in my quiet, event-free journal. I do some follow up training in early flower, but not much. I think seed plants, however, need to be approached differently. I wish I could give you first-hand experience with topping a seed plant under a screen, but what you see is what you get with me I'm afraid. That's why I pointed you to Scottyballs. In addition to having one of the funniest names, he's one of the most creative growers here imo. I wish I could do better than, "Just follow what Scotty does." But that's pretty much all I have.
Y'know, I could get used to this new, quiet journal.
Mo, this is my first grow, but I am growing several varieties, both sativa hybrids (from bagseed) and indicas hybrids (from clones). I can say with certainty that each and every one of them has shown a beneficial reaction to topping. It makes these plants grow even more than before, especially out the nodes. I did some FIMing as well, with limited success. It had the effect of promoting node growth, but none of my FIM'd plants grew two main colas like they did once I topped them. Some varieties love being pinched, topped, LST'd; you can also tell which plants don't like what as well. I am vegging some clones now and trying different things on them. Every time I look at a pic of your plant, I think 'Top her!" :^) Not that I'm saying you gotta top her, of course. Just some food for thought.
Good lookin' out. See? I didn't know all that. I don't top or fim at all.
Since the topic of when to harvest has been brought up, can we talk about when to harvest? I just picked up a 40x microscope and looked at my trichs tonight. On my OG girls and master bubba girls, I am seeing some cloudy-ish trichs and some clear trichs. Jin, you had said you were thinking about 50 days. Is this based on your previous experience with your grows or are you looking at the trichs? I am trying to determine if I need to flush or change over to just ph-adjusted water from now on. Based on everything I am reading, I have to wait til I have half amber and half cloudy trichs to harvest.
On the OGs I'm growing, I do top the main plant to get her to branch out and I've been bending down all of her branches, which produces even more branches. They seem to really dig it. I might top them more if I can get them into a scrog set-up.
Last time I killed power at 56 days I think? This might be kinda' touchy since it's the very thing that started the firestorm of negative rage, but I'll say again that I'm going to evaluate things at the 50 day mark. I hope I didn't give the impression that I was gonna cut at day 50. Even I'm not that stupid... Lol. No, but seriously, I'm gonna let them really sag for a few more days this time. Last time I was just sick of fighting the PM, so I chopped out of PM fuck you anger. No such problem this time. I can let them go for a while. If I had to guess... I'll def try for beyond day 60 this time if the leaves can take it.
I can see that. I haven't done the surgical stimulation through cutting per se, but I have seen stimulated budding through emergency pinching and bending and whatnot.
