dc4
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nah, you can top it. Most people top after 4th, 5h node, Uncle ben has tehniques of topping after 1st 2nd and 3rd true node.
I topped mine after 3rd, everything is nice and dandy.
Does my plant look healthy? and its flowering pistils on a 18-6 cycle, not autoflower
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I topped mine after 3rd, everything is nice and dandy.
Dr Kynes
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i wouldnt advise a noob to top a plant this early on his first grow, especially not to take enough to make a cutting take root. pinching the tip might help increase branchieness but i prefer a more patient approach. i havent topped any of mine, and they are bushy as fuck, due to large numbers of low wattage lights all around, and effective reflection.nah, you can top it. Most people top after 4th, 5h node, Uncle ben has tehniques of topping after 1st 2nd and 3rd true node.
I topped mine after 3rd, everything is nice and dandy.
if that plant is around two months old, give it more light all around. if the plant is under one month old, it will bush out soon.
cc08150
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lol i top at first or 2nd internode every time and never have any problems...grow into big fat bushes every time... It doesn't really matter when you top it, it's gonna grow two shoots after that instead of just one. 3-4 shoots if you FIM top it. Takes 5 seconds at most...just use tweezers
Hell I even went against what everybody told me a few weeks back about topping a Haze plant and went ahead and did it at the first internode. Now instead of a 4-5foot haze plant i got a 2 foot bushy haze plant
But i do agree that side lighting with CFL will make it grow into a bush without having to top it more than likely if you don't feel confident about doing so. But in all reality it is not hard...
As for cloning, always take cuttings from the very bottom of the plant first. That is where the rooting hormones are most concentrated, therefore you will only have to wait a week or two for roots to start growing from a cutting taken off the bottom of a plant compared to weeks even a month for roots to grow on a clone taken from the top of a plant. You, however, should not take clones off that plant, as it is not big enough yet and doesn't have long bottom branches that are worth cloning right now.
Hell I even went against what everybody told me a few weeks back about topping a Haze plant and went ahead and did it at the first internode. Now instead of a 4-5foot haze plant i got a 2 foot bushy haze plant
But i do agree that side lighting with CFL will make it grow into a bush without having to top it more than likely if you don't feel confident about doing so. But in all reality it is not hard...
As for cloning, always take cuttings from the very bottom of the plant first. That is where the rooting hormones are most concentrated, therefore you will only have to wait a week or two for roots to start growing from a cutting taken off the bottom of a plant compared to weeks even a month for roots to grow on a clone taken from the top of a plant. You, however, should not take clones off that plant, as it is not big enough yet and doesn't have long bottom branches that are worth cloning right now.
kennyp02
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i just bought a 18watt cfl to hangdown to feed the bottom light. I will start watering untill runoff, i havent been. i did mix my own vermite/perlite into the medium so rentenion might be a problem.how much mylar should i buy for a 6ft by 6ft space?
Is the cfl a good amount away from the plant? can you tell
haight
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Stop worrying. Your plant looks great.