Hey guys... here a few babies I super cropped today. Gotta break 'em in early if I'm going to do this instead of LST
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FUCK LST at this point... these plants can TAKE the stress, so why NOT? LSTing is really time consuming by comparison, and it's like a game of MacGuyver trying to figure out how and where to secure each tie-down!
Babies cropped today... I'll put up some new pics when they recover:
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And here is one of my adults, where I used a lot of supercropping to control canopy height:
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Here are some shots of some juicy mid-stem buds that would not have had the opportunity to develop as much without the extra light exposure from supercropping the tops:
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Here is a cool dual-bud that was shorter and would not have gotten much light from my T5s if I had not supercropped the others to match height!!:
This shot shows the sub-buds of a NON-cropped cola on the same plant... you can see that the lower buds are significantly less developed than the others up there! From now on I am SC'ing everything from the beginning!:
And again, here is an overhead of a nice cropped cola so you can see all the lower buds that were opened up to the light because of the supercropping!!:
Finally, for kicks, I decided to supercrop two of my solo cup 12/12 from clones that are already flowering. They've been flowering for about two weeks:
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Oh hell, here's an encore... one more shot of the heavily cropped lady from above in her natural environment with her sisters behind her:
Hope you guys like! This is my first grow, so I wanted to experiment with some different training techniques! I started by LSTing them all heavily, but I found it hard to keep the canopy even efficiently, so I eventually switched to Supercropping at the beginning of flowering. Now, I think Supercropping will be my primary training method, with maybe just a little LSTing here and there if needed.
Cheers all!