Topping after LST
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mudballs
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Yeah topping can break apical dominance, AD, and tying down can do it too. So doing both is redundant.
WintersBones
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I've been playing around with topping, LST, and combinations of both this past year, on photos and autos, and what works best is really dependent on the strain and phenotype and how it responds to the training.
If you're already LSTing the plant heavily, you should be breaking the apical dominance, so topping as well won't make a huge difference at that point.
If you're already LSTing the plant heavily, you should be breaking the apical dominance, so topping as well won't make a huge difference at that point.
Dank Bongula
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I am mainlining three blueberry photos right now so I am doing both at the same time.
Your plan will work just fine...if you have multiples of the same strain, feel free to do different things to each one and see which results you like best.
My aim is to do LST once by bending the main stem down then topping it so that it doesn't come back as the dominant shoot. Once the side branches (5-6) are a little more developed (a couple weeks later) I will top each of them to double the number of colas (5-6 to 10-12). From there I'd just let her rip without much LST at all. Thoughts?
Dank Bongula
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That is a common way of growing and perfectly fine. You're not reinventing the wheel here.