What would be the outcome of topping my plants?

I have 3 plants 14 days old since planting the seeds and i'd like to top them to make them grow shorter with more colas instead of just 1 tall cola like my current ones in flower. I flower in a ds60 tent so I believe topping would benefit me but I don't know if i've left it too late.

Search 'topping' and 'FIM'.
It's not too late, in fact, you have plenty of time to read up on how to do it.

I like to leave my plants reach around 7-10 nodes before topping.

Uncle Ben has a good thread about topping in the advanced cultivation section of RIU.



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Shorter plants. cn

Thanks guys i'll get reading for a few hours and top them later. I try posting pics of my plants but i'm on my mobile and the upload thing is acting weird but if I get a connection on my laptop i'll upload them.

here u go. this is the best guide. GL

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

If you want to really know there's a lot of factors. Some strains work better topped, others don't. PH also plays a role in apical growth.

yep, check out uncle bens topping guide. I suggest taking them for clones. Root them and throw em in a couple weeks behind mom and should grow a huge bud if you throw em in vs. top veg. em for weeks.

more even canopy with more buds closer to the light

I've topped them but on one of them I accidently cut off a starter branch growing from the main stem, will this matter or should I top again a node down or would that cause too much stress. The plant it happened to is a stretchy strain and I wouldn't be to bothered if it stunts as long as it can't fuck with the gender if you know what I mean. I'm wondering if I should top a bit below in case if what I did would create just 1 cola.

its really hard to mess up the plant will do its thing no matter what sounds like you may have fimed her which funny enough is how it got its name

https://www.rollitup.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=2438993&d=1355276717

Does it look fine I took this with a 40x loupe.

Will this plant grow any different to the others. If you look carefully at the right of the stem you can see where the branch was cut. I thought it was these parts that start a new cola or will it grow back.

Even attachments are getting deleted and it's the only way I can upload photos on this website.

Some plant's with extremely direct bud relation to strong apical growth are very bad to top. In some varieties of pure indicas you might as well grow it out, chop of the cola, throw it in the garbage because that's what the plants going to look like grown out "topped" it's not going to produce shit. I know you're not suppose to top chronic which isn't even pure indica, so you have to watch the general information and experiment. Anybody who's topped enough plants knows that "Uncle Ben's" topping technique is not a sure fire way to get the number of colas mentioned. You can top a plant and nature would have us think that the numbers of colas would follow some Fibonacci sequence in some kind of accordance to the number of side branches, but that's definitely not the case. It's pretty chaotic. Some plants bush out, some get a couple colas..