Uncle Ben's Topping Technique to Get 2 or 4 Main Colas

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thats exactly wat i thought, but then i started to think, of how that would of mean they r acually thinking......then i triped myself out staring at my plants thinking''theyr thinking about me'' or maybe they r thinking for me.its about to b the poltergiest in here.


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I'm still a bit confused. My very bottom leafs are the tiny 1/4 inch things that appeared first upon germination. Then above those is a node (i think) but those leafs are single fan leafs. Then above that one are three nodes that have large 3-fan leafs attached. Is that node with the single fan leafs considered a true node? Did i fuck it up?

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mjr99 said:
I'm still a bit confused. My very bottom leafs are the tiny 1/4 inch things that appeared first upon germination. Then above those is a node (i think) but those leafs are single fan leafs. Then above that one are three nodes that have large 3-fan leafs attached. Is that node with the single fan leafs considered a true node? Did i fuck it up?
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You did just fine, that is what you wanted to do.

The single fan leaf is the first true node.

You did what you were suppose to to get the 4 main colas.
 
Uncle Ben said:
The really thick scaffold branches are the main colas. You should be able to see 2 distinct "V's", one above the other, 90* to the other. The spindly branches came on quite a bit later, which they normally do no matter how you prune or train a plant. Those secondary branches produced superficial buds, as normal. Also notice the bulging ring, the callous like effect of the 4 main colas where they are attached to the "trunk", the node sites. Interesting effect, don't have a clue why the plant responded like that.

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Thank you .. !!!!

Plant growth being a process of cell division.... I guess those cell's were triggered to keep dividing ... and PRESTO ! haha
 
mjr99 said:
I'm still a bit confused. My very bottom leafs are the tiny 1/4 inch things that appeared first upon germination. Then above those is a node (i think) but those leafs are single fan leafs. Then above that one are three nodes that have large 3-fan leafs attached. Is that node with the single fan leafs considered a true node? Did i fuck it up?

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What do you think uncle ben? Is this correct?
 
mjr99 said:
Thanks. Hey, you should make your own strain and call it Uncle Ben's Ice.
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I do, served with a dose of single malt Scotch whiskey. :D

If I had to say which was my best cross, it would have to be between a fine Peak19 male and a special C99 lady. Check out this male parent. Most folks don't believe me but this guy was only 3 weeks old from the time the seedling popped the soil's surface. The leaves are as big as dinner plates, reference the wine bottle. Feller had at least 7 tightly spaced nodes in this shot, check out the newest leafsets and how they lay over the previous ones.

Needless to say, he was passed around the lady's powder room quite a bit. ;)

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Roland said:
what was the product .. the offspring named ? .. is it f1'd ? or ... f2 now ? ? avilable ?
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Gone. I sent most to a Cbay auction to help this guy who got busted and they were either confiscated by customs or stolen by RC or one of his gang.
 
Hi Uncle Ben, your advice in the past has really helped me. Thank you very much. I am running a hydro drip system... do you know much about nutrients? if so, what nutrients do you suggest for flowering. I just finished week 1 and I want to make sure that I yield the biggest and most potent buds possible. Any feedback would be great. Thanks!
 
aaahhhhhh................. bummer !


any special tips on re-vegging Ben ? Tryin' to get my Sour Diesel to re-veg .... I'm startin to worry that .. she ain't gonna make it .... 250 W cfl's on 24/0 ... thrive and 20/10/5 every other water ... 2 wks
 
Hey UB, I was wondering what you though was the better of the two options for my plants. I'm Day 21 into flowering, Day 49 total and I'm pretty much out of space. The plants are probably almost 6 feet tall and today one of the main "colas" was touching the reflector and because I didn't get in right away when the lights went on it got singed a little bit. I have maybe 12 inches of room left to raise the light, probably more like 9 inches.

I feel these are my options atm and was wondering what you thought would be the best one or had a different suggestion. I relieze the importance of not stressing the girls at this point because I'm down to 3 plants and don't want to hermaphidite them. So ...

A: top her so to speak, once the lights get to max height and she grows into the reflector again, cut the top off and make her 6-12 inches shorter to try to finish stunting the colas height.
B: do the stem, thumb, finger rolling thing to semi crush the stem and make the cola fall over maybe 45-90 degrees making it grow sideways or close to it.
C: just put the stem as they grow off to the side of the reflector and just let the top finish growing into the ceiling and not get light or just whatever is reflected around.

Option A and B seem like they would create to much stress at this point so I'm leaning towards C but was wondering what you thought.

Thanks, your threads have been a great help so far.
 
Howdy, hate to be anal, but for growing questions/tweeks this would be a better place to post to: https://www.rollitup.org/advanced-m...9-uncle-bens-gardening-tweeks-pointers-6.html

lawhyno said:
Hi Uncle Ben, your advice in the past has really helped me. Thank you very much. I am running a hydro drip system... do you know much about nutrients? if so, what nutrients do you suggest for flowering. I just finished week 1 and I want to make sure that I yield the biggest and most potent buds possible. Any feedback would be great. Thanks!
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1-3-2 ratio in general, see the above link where we are currently discussing this issue.

Roland said:
aaahhhhhh................. bummer !

any special tips on re-vegging Ben ? Tryin' to get my Sour Diesel to re-veg .... I'm startin to worry that .. she ain't gonna make it .... 250 W cfl's on 24/0 ... thrive and 20/10/5 every other water ... 2 wks
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If in soil, get rid of the Superthrive drills, go to a 30-10-10 and put them on a 20/4 schedule. This is very unusual. Do you have enough leaves left for the hormonal change to occur? They should revert back to small juvenile single leaf or tri-leaf leafsets within 3 weeks. Don't rush it after going long days.

fanya said:
Hey UB, I was wondering what you though was the better of the two options for my plants. I'm Day 21 into flowering, Day 49 total and I'm pretty much out of space. The plants are probably almost 6 feet tall and today one of the main "colas" was touching the reflector and because I didn't get in right away when the lights went on it got singed a little bit. I have maybe 12 inches of room left to raise the light, probably more like 9 inches.
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Move it to the perimeter like I did below on a dalat sativa. I just let it grow right past the lights until I could free up some space and then went solo with a 600W HPS.

A: top her so to speak, once the lights get to max height and she grows into the reflector again, cut the top off and make her 6-12 inches shorter to try to finish stunting the colas height.
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That would work. I've topped many a sativa during flowering. You do what you have to do.

B: do the stem, thumb, finger rolling thing to semi crush the stem and make the cola fall over maybe 45-90 degrees making it grow sideways or close to it.
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Iffy

C: just put the stem as they grow off to the side of the reflector and just let the top finish growing into the ceiling and not get light or just whatever is reflected around.
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See my photo. That's what I get for not reading the whole post before responding. :D Dalat's on the right.

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Hey ben, how much trimming do you do to the lower branches once topped this way and at what stages. Thanks.
 
Ben, if someone topped using this method but wanted to top a second time to keep the plant even shorter, where on the plant would you suggest he do this. Thanks alot.
 
renyman said:
Ben, if someone topped using this method but wanted to top a second time to keep the plant even shorter, where on the plant would you suggest he do this. Thanks alot.
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You do it at any place convenient to manage the height. All you need to remember is that you'll get output at the node below the cut.

UB
 
While browsing thru my photos, I found a couple of post harvest shots showing the scaffold structure of a few sativas.

Haze male:

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Zamal female:

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