To Tall! Top or Bend?

next time try LST (low stress training). where u bend NOT top to train your plant. this can be done early in the plants life. there is a thread on here for LST . look it up i thought it was interesting

Topping during flower will definately decrease yield, how could it not? You're cutting off the best bud site that the plant has after it just spent 4 weeks preparing it for flower... There's been a couple of threads about this lately. I would not advise anyone to top their main bud during flower.

If you top the plant during veg it will not switch it's ""resources"" to ""secondary growth."" In flower, I'm not sure what would happen, I think you would just loose a good bud site.

FLoJo said:

have you ever even grown bud? when you top a plant it makes it switch its resources to secondary growth, i.e. lower branches.. so your telling me all the growers that top their plants dont end up with more side branching and bushiness they just end up with bud that is a bitch to manicure?

come on now dont give out advice when you have no idea what you are talking about

FLo

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https://www.rollitup.org/advanced-marijuana-cultivation/429672-i-need-help-possible-top-3.html

--The Teaching starts around page 3.

Hahaha looks like dudeman fucked up his 6'+ trees and quit.
Sad story :/

Alex Kelly said:

If you top the plant during veg it will not switch it's ""resources"" to ""secondary growth."" In flower, I'm not sure what would happen, I think you would just loose a good bud site.

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He thinks because he doesnt know. So far all ive seen from Alex is controversy in all his posts. I havent seen one leaf or anything leading me to believe hes ever grown anything. listen if you like. but be warned. It took him 3 posts to explain that.

I never believed in topping, I would fim maybe sometimes, but I was always a guiding, bondage tying down lst guy, I can get like 6/7 nice main tops per plant depending how longs the clones tend to take to a 1 gallon pot, then onto a 5 gallon for 2 more weeks of filling out veg.

BUt yeah I hate cutting unless nesscary take the time to train, guide, and position tops.

i love to c a bud every 3 or 4 inches in the canopy all that tying is too much i think everyone should cut the top out a week or so b4 flower

hoag I don't argue with you anymore. If you would like I can copy the last post from our last arguement which highlighted 6 or so amazingly stupid and incorrect posts you have made (oh and there are many more), and then maybe you will leave the thread without saying anything again. Not to mention one of your retard posts was used by a respected RIU member as their signature. All of my advice above was correct, you should never cut off your main cola in the middle of flowering, as you can see by the evidence I then provided with a link to another thread about this subject which definately cleared it up. And you're right I think because I don't know, because I have never removed my main/top cola half way through flowering. Be sure to let me know what happens when you do that.

Just like C.Indica said: "Looks like Dudeman fucked up his trees and quit," maybe you should too..