Topping my first plant.

I have just topped a plant and as i havent done it before i was wandering if someone could take a quick look at this picture and tell me if i have done it correctly, i have follwed the uncle bens topping thread, my only concern was where the second true node was, i figured the little single baby leaves didnt count so i went 2 nodes up from that.

I thought i better double check i have done this one right before i do the others

looks good from my end bro... should have 2 or 4 nice new stems here in a few days

Thanks dude i am hoping for 4 if i have follwed uncle bens technique correctly. I was just a bit confused by true nodes, uncle ben says "The node where the cotyledons attach doesn't count" so i hope i have done it correctly. I only counted nodes with big leaves on them not the node with the first little leaves.

yeah u did it right, on top on the second. here's my first shot at it 5 days laterView attachment 1563379

i only got 2 but thats 2wice as many as 1 and im happy w that

you can top again, cut each new node's tip. if you're going for as many colas as possible you can try FIM next time, which is sort of cutting the growing tip in half instead of off, resulting in max nodes from one snip (search for many demos of this technique). remember that in general this will simply produce more numerous but smaller bud clusters instead of a couple huge main ones. depending on your crowding and light penetration this often allows more light to each flower though, increasing the overall quality of the yield. good luck!

here i topped and got 6 colas was surprised i found topping supper cropping gives you more bud sites but i found leaving plants alone will give you nicer bigger buds

This is how they look finished.
Tiny lil budlets indeedy.

Thanks for the advice guys, I have 4 plants on the go in my veg cab(first grow) which I think ill top all four this time then when I start my next batch I may just leave them as they are to compare yeild/quality with the topped ones.

taint said:

This is how they look finished.
Tiny lil budlets indeedy.

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nice plants i just found with topping or supercropping you change the hormones from the plant sure giving you lots of bud sites not necesarily more yield but lots of smaller buds and shake but end result is yield leaving plants to finish at 60" height i found to produce the yield i was looking for and that 2360 dry grams per 2000 watts