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
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:
And here is one of my adults, where I used a lot of supercropping to control canopy height:
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:
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:
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!
How far into 12/12 are you ladies?
I'm actually speed-drying a few little samplers from a plant to.. er.. "test".. haha. VERY small pieces. Not even sure it's gonna do anything. What ever though. I'm getting impatient! Still got a couple weeks left on these babies... getting SO close though, errrgh.
