How do folks get the "bush" look?

I've grown in the past and just started again. I've always topped/tied branches down which seems to give more yield. But all over these forums and elsewhere, I see pictures of plants that are shaped like a shrub, totally round.

How do you get them to look like that? And would the yield be similar to my method? It just seems that it would be more efficient, space-wise, to have them round shaped

9 times out of 10, it's the light that's lacking, not training methods. Either that, or they use pots that are too small, restricting the roots. Go with a 8-bulb T5 setup, set about 1-2" above the plants, or a MH, at least 600 watts,(less than 20" away) and you'll see some nice plants.(lots of others will work, those are just examples) Also, go with 3+ gallon pots,(5 is better) and you'll have your bushy plants.

I have an outdoor beauty in a 10 gallon pot w/Ocean Forest, so the size is good, and lots of budding all over. A lot of the pictures I see are outdoors, and all the plants look like green balls

Bushmaster. Just give your plants a bottle of bushmaster soon as they get their third set of leaves.






I kid I kid. It's mostly strain dependent. I have an Alaskan Thunderfuck that I have never topped,cropped,fimmed. Nothing. She's a round little girl with probably 20 tops. Then there's my NYCD. Topped once, she has 2 tops. Tall plant with no bush factor at all.

Outdoors is where I see most of the true bushes. My pops got some 7 foot outdoor giants that are 10 feet wide, he supercrops the shit out of them and I tell you what, thats the only way to do it outdoors.

Errrr. GOLF balls, not testicles..

obijohn said:

I've grown in the past and just started again. I've always topped/tied branches down which seems to give more yield. But all over these forums and elsewhere, I see pictures of plants that are shaped like a shrub, totally round.

How do you get them to look like that? And would the yield be similar to my method? It just seems that it would be more efficient, space-wise, to have them round shaped

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Some plants grow that way naturally, especially outdoors. Alternatively you can just top to make virtually any strain into a bush.

strain, light, and pruning.

Or maybe I can hire a landscaper and have them carve the plants into the faces of John, Paul, George and Ringo!


hehe thanks all for the advice. I was thinking there was a special method for getting them like that

This probably goes without saying, but indicas are tend to be thick and bushy, whereas sativas are typically thin and tall. That may be the difference you're noticing, particularly if you've grown mainly sativas.

topping creates more colars, but fimming give u the bushy look

Fimming? What's that?

its were u pinch out the new growth of the main colar, Mblaze has a good tutorial on it, ill look for it and get back to u