Any 1 Know What Strains are Good & not Good to Top???

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beans davis

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Iwas going to top for 4 colas today.Cali Hashplant Dinafem.
Has anyone tried U.B.s method on this strain?

Thanks
T.J.
 
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KUShSOurSMOKEr

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ya sativas i think mite like it better forsure!

topped my white grapes(white widow x sour grapes) stunteddd the fuck out of it..and the other one untopped is 4 ft the one i did top isnt even a ft :( crazyy right.

most seed sites say if u shud top there strain or not just look for ur strain there..
 
sigurd

sigurd

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ive got bubba kush and white widdow as well as some bagseed, just wondering if theres any type of training i can do with my bubba, and also if widdow takes topping well, never grown these strains before. thanks
 
70's natureboy

70's natureboy

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JarJarBinks said:
Most commercial growers don't top, LST, or FIM. They all cause significant stress (even LST) and result in a less balanced vascular system. There is a some debate over whether or not increases in yield are achieved.

In my experience, pruning, LST, and FIM create a larger quantity of smaller buds, but no more weight than their unpruned counterparts, regardless of strain.
The major upside to all pruning techniques is that they limit plant height, which is desirable if you have limited lighting.

If you have extremely powerful lighting, (i.e. 1000w/meter) then pruning has no benefit. In fact, it can even delay the production of flowering hormones.


**Note: Blueberry is one of a few strains that appears to benefit from a more branced/decentralized vascular system.
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This has been my experience too. Whenever I tried topping or scrog it increases the veg time by a few weeks and the yield is about the same as the untouched plants. I'm sure the yields can increase a lot if you are doing a single plant. That may all be fine for a hobbyist but it means less crops per year.

I am currently experimenting with a Jack Herrer scrog and it is 3 weeks behind her sisters. Instead of the usual bush, it is a very wide bush soaking up more than her share of light. If it doesn't yield more than the others then it will be a waste of extra veg time and prime light space.
 
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badbackbill

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I've found that most of the pure indica plants I've grown take longer to recover after topping. I've also found 90% of the other plants I've topped love it, but the key to topping is do it well before you flip into flower. A full two weeks is best. The goal for topping is keeping the canopy at the same height and filling in the square footage of your floor space with plant matter. Growing one big coala 18-24inches above the rest of the canopy just starves the lower buds of equall lighting because the lights are raised to not burn the main coala tips.
I'm not gonna brag about yields here but I think 1.5lbs a light is disappointing
 
Benelli

Benelli

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Critical+, Pineapple Chunk and chocolope chunk were very good for me for topping. HUGE DENSE yields.

Critical Super Silver Haze and Blue Dream not very good for me. got way too big and spread out. ended up with a lot of small buds, most were good but some were popcorn.
 
calicocalyx

calicocalyx

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It's relative to veg time/recovery time, and there's a big difference between indoor and outdoor. I have a longer veg time on my indoor (8-10 wks), so my technique is relevant to my setup, but one thing that helps is to thin out the lower shoots when I top so that the plant focuses on those new tops as it's re bounding from a little stress. Stress, in and of itself is not a bad thing. If you wait long enough after topping, the new tops can get as thick as the original. Would have to agree that plants in the indica side of things, are not as vigorous in veg and take a little longer after topping to resume the same rate of growth, but my outdoor indicas get topped constantly and are fine with it.
 
axl

axl

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It will make life a lot easier to top or do any of those other techinques. Try letting a sativa dom. strain grow in a tent or even in most in door set ups, youll have a 5 foot plant.

Regardless of the yield factor, doing these different techiques will give you a better and more even canopy, with a much larger percentage of high quality smoke. I certainly wouldnt want to buy a bag of the bottom shit off a 5 foot plant, where the buds are like 4 feet away from the light.

If you have the time to veg, than who cares if there is a slight adjustment period?
 
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QuarksRSmall

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Instead of topping, try bending the top cola. It will redistribute the auxins and allow all bud sites the hormones to develop as if they were the main cola. Even the bottom arms will swing up and massively fatten. The main cola must be close to horizontal with the ground and then be secured to remain there.:weed:
 
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s4nt14g0

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Jack Herer DOESN'T like to be topped.
I've done it and the plant started to grow weird right after that. I topped just one while I left another JH untopped. Growing wise, they didn't seem like they were the same strain after that.
Final results, the NO topped one was my best plant of that harvest. Top quality taste.
The one I topped end up having really weird bottom buds and didn't taste like the other JH at all. Seemed mediocre.

Sadly afterwards, I read somewhere that Jack Herers shouldn't be topped.
So now I can back that up with my own experience, too bad I didn't know it beforehand.

Cheers!
 
Wigiberto

Wigiberto

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Here is my Sensi Jack Herer ( Pheno A) At 64 days in flower topped for 8 main colas and still has about 3-4 weeks to go

I know I was uncertain of doing this but took a risk and now she’s producing beautifully.....

Pics don’t do her justice.

It did slow her down at least 2 weeks and she had a hard time coming back but eventually she did... :)

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shannonball

shannonball

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We've topped a Jack Herer and it developed very nice. We only tend to top our sativa's, sometimes our hybrids, depending on what they are. Our higher indica plants we don't touch.

Your plant looks great!
 
gwheels

gwheels

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Topping is very dependant on grow style. For example I have outdoor plants with another 7 weeks of veg to go. They are already huge. I have to top them to keep the height low.

If you run a sea of green you top once (if at all) and flip them for a bunch of colas that are big (1 oz per cola).

I think most strains can handle topping of fimming if you have the time for veg. And feed them silica. They recover WAY faster.
 
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