fdd2blk's Basic Trimming And Topping Techniques
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jyermum
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Within 2 days the bent/snapped area is usually rock hard and looking like a knuckle. the same day all of the vegitation usually is pointing up (the new up that is) and growing. I've been doing it this way for years and never had any ill affect. I just recently learned that people call it "supercropping" and Ive seen people call it pinching due to the pinch before bending it.
Its a great way for the undergrowth to catch up with the tops so its not fighting for light and just making popcorn.
Hydrotech364
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Did I miss something?
Holy shit to that giant one. I need advice, I topped my first plant above the 4th node, and it is already over 3 feet tall. If I follow Uncle Ben's advice to cut my second plant above the 2nd true node to create 4 main colas, will this make this other plant even taller since there are less tops growing? Also, what is your opinion on the best node to cut above? Thank you.
Kingrow1
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Not the best pictures but i am starting to pinch my growing tops, each plant has 4 main branches after topping and after following Fdds thread i now wana give it a go, figure it will keep the height down and compliment the LST im already doing.
Like your plants the branches are pretty much standing up 24hours later. I pinched one side and bent, if i did it any higher up the branch the growing tip seemed like it would snap off so i assumed i would be alright pinching a little futher down.
Is this done now, one pinch and then let it grow and do it stuff? Peace
that's about it.
i like to go close towards the end of the growing shot, where the stalk is still soft and delicate. sometimes they do snap off. if you're mid veg or ealier it's really no worry though.
sometimes just by continued pinching on the same branches, you can slow upward growth and cause closer node spacing and bushier plants.
Kingrow1
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Yer thanks, this thread inspired me to, did it yesterday and just looked today for the results, just like yours dude except in minature. I did this one week 12/12 lights, takes two weeks to start flowering generally but this is where i get a lot of growth, branches stretch more than the side nodes grow so lets hope it keeps it more compact and shorter. I am gona let this one ride out like this, if it needs more i will do it to the next plant.
Hopefully this is gona go well and get my side branches blooming. Thanks dude, i will keep us updated sooner or later once some growth has piled on. Peace
Hopefully this is gona go well and get my side branches blooming. Thanks dude, i will keep us updated sooner or later once some growth has piled on. Peace
hellraizer30
Rebel From The North
Ive noticed this my self why i top/pinch
More than once during veg. One thing by doing this
Causes the plant to be real bushy and lollypoping
Is a must for good light penatration.
More than once during veg. One thing by doing this
Causes the plant to be real bushy and lollypoping
Is a must for good light penatration.
Kingrow1
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Light penetration was my main aim, i dont need tall plants just budsites and compactness, i flower with 2x250w envirolites so anything over 30cm is pretty useless to me, i didn't like lollipopping and think i lost some yeild doing it, am sold on the pinching but would never have done it if Fdd hadnt shown just how easy it was and how little damage it caused, if anything his plants hardly noticed the broken branches, i guess your not really damaging the vascular system more the plants support in the branch.
i can't believe i crack my stalks wide open and it has no ill effects on them.
that is a hole all the way thru my stalk.
Kingrow1
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The vascular system round the outside of the stem is unbroken for the whole, makes sense that it keeps on working.
Question, if i pinched and bend a branch 90 degrees then tie it in place so it can't stand back up straight what effect would this have, i see one like that in the picture, would it have any negative effect tying the bend in place over letting it resupport itself and standing back up?
Question, if i pinched and bend a branch 90 degrees then tie it in place so it can't stand back up straight what effect would this have, i see one like that in the picture, would it have any negative effect tying the bend in place over letting it resupport itself and standing back up?
hmmmm, i'm not sure. i think the stem would grow upright, but having it pinched off at the bend may do other things as well.
genuity
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all it dose is create a candycane shape,i do that all the time
