A buddy told me to cut my plant in half should I?

yo_Dyldo

yo_Dyldo

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I have a super sour diesel clone growing its 10 and a half weeks old I topped it about 3 weeks ago or so and nothing is happening at all. My buddy who has a lot of experience in botany and growing bud told me to cut it about half way down and that it will grow more tops and make the other branches produce more bud. How true is this? I’m pretty experienced in growing aswell but I’ve never seen anyone cut their plant in half. I know all about LST and super cropping and all that shit. Thanks for the help
 
HazednConfused

HazednConfused

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yo_Dyldo said:
I have a super sour diesel clone growing its 10 and a half weeks old I topped it about 3 weeks ago or so and nothing is happening at all. My buddy who has a lot of experience in botany and growing bud told me to cut it about half way down and that it will grow more tops and make the other branches produce more bud. How true is this? I’m pretty experienced in growing aswell but I’ve never seen anyone cut their plant in half. I know all about LST and super cropping and all that shit. Thanks for the help
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If you already topped it once, just let it do it's thing for a few weeks. Cutting your plant in half is only going to cut your yield in half. Give it some time, and use all the knowledge you know about LST, super cropping and all that to get that extra growth.:blsmoke:
 
yo_Dyldo

yo_Dyldo

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HazednConfused said:
If you already topped it once, just let it do it's thing for a few weeks. Cutting your plant in half is only going to cut your yield in half. Give it some time, and use all the knowledge you know about LST, super cropping and all that to get that extra growth.:blsmoke:
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Thanks! Yeah it’s been topped for 3 weeks now and nothing is showing at all yet. I got a good amount of branches though that I’m trying to LST. I’m just scared all the little branches are just gonna produce little popcorn buds
 
HazednConfused

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No problem, start tying all of those branches down to the pot, start trying to get that shape you want and the stems will bulk up! Just get that ev2n canopy
 
Johnei

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This is advanced technique and in the end, Can make for a bigger stronger bushier more bud sites plant. Your friend is correct, but it will take much longer for this plant to grow to where you want it, than if you didn't chop.

What most don't take into account, is that when doing this, you will then have a root scructure and size that is now feeding a half the size plant, root to shoot ratio goes way up, and plants become extremely robust and buds get huge.

imagine a plant, that has roots in a pot feeding the upper growth, now you chop that plant down, and the same roots are now feeding a plant half the size, you get monster growth, stability from a larger root to shoot ratio plant above that holds sugars and nutrients in it's larger root scructure for smaller plant above.. stronger plant with huge roots compared to top above that feeds that upper growth that is now smaller, and roots dont stop growing as long as pot size is not restrictive and this root to shoot ratio stays with the plant for life and you get an overall better plant in the end.

This is advanced technique.

Just some blahblah for ya...
 
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Indacouch

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HazednConfused said:
If you already topped it once, just let it do it's thing for a few weeks. Cutting your plant in half is only going to cut your yield in half. Give it some time, and use all the knowledge you know about LST, super cropping and all that to get that extra growth.:blsmoke:
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Couldn't agree more .....I top and then lst my girls .....it's amazing how you can train a nice sized plant with many tops just doing that ......I wouldn't cut a plant In half......just be more patient and train the new tops that will grow out in time .....lst FTW ......GL

And great advice again
 
Johnei

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I now see picture of plant before I did not.

I would cut all heads off that plant to make cuttings and from the bottom little bonzai style little nodes left will grow bnack up to be monster. Your friend is correct. Use all tops cut for cuttings.

Or if you don't want to add new more grow time to your plant then dont do it because after cutting it will take some more time than usual to recover cutting every head down to bonzai style nodes left. will add more time to grow.

Good luck plant is nice, I would cut all heads off take cuttings then when plant grow back up will be somethiong to show pictures and be proud,. But more time. And must use sterilized tools all time remember disease is worst outcome because you do something stupid use crusty tool you use to clean grout in bathroom example.

Usually this aadvice not good for newbie but you say you have guy cover your back so go into detail.

Not everybody have big cahoona to do this why may tell you yield will be half but they are wrong and do not know because never did to full extreme technique. root to shoot ratio key to big bud and plant health. ByeBye.
 
Johnei

Johnei

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LST the bitch, final answer, transpolant her first, that pot you showed in other thread small, small pot also make plants stretch, by the way.

transplant to bigger final pot, then make bunch of holes in pot around perimeter and get string tie all heads in circle in star pattern down, Look LST on here. probably best that plant. final answer.
 
yo_Dyldo

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Johnei said:
LST the bitch, final answer, transpolant her first, that pot you showed in other thread small, small pot also make plants stretch, by the way.

transplant to bigger final pot, then make bunch of holes in pot around perimeter and get string tie all heads in circle in star pattern down, Look LST on here. probably best that plant. final answer.
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That’s an older picture i transplanted about a week ago
 
PKHydro

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Sam the skunkman, back in one of the early hashchurch episodes was mentioning a technique he tried back in the day. They would plant outdoor and put a tall pvc pipe around the plant causing it to stretch and get really lanky. Then once it hit 3' tall they would split the main stem twice with a razor, from the top of the plant all the way to the soil. They would then lay each section on the ground in a big + and re bury the stems. He said in a matter of days they would have shoots coming up out of the soil all along each 3' piece of stem that had been buried. It would grow massive plants but took insane veg times.
 
Johnei

Johnei

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PKHydro said:
Sam the skunkman, back in one of the early hashchurch episodes was mentioning a technique he tried back in the day. They would plant outdoor and put a tall pvc pipe around the plant causing it to stretch and get really lanky. Then once it hit 3' tall they would split the main stem twice with a razor, from the top of the plant all the way to the soil. They would then lay each section on the ground in a big + and re bury the stems. He said in a matter of days they would have shoots coming up out of the soil all along each 3' piece of stem that had been buried. It would grow massive plants but took insane veg times.
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FASCINATING! wow.
 
Johnei

Johnei

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Weed will grow roots from the entire stem.

for example if you removed every single leaf of the plant erxcept the tip, and buried the entire thing in the ground, the entiore length of the stem will grow roots. This is what I do with seedlings that have that long stretchy stem sometimes begginning of life.. bury it up to the first set of leaves at first chance.. it'll grow roots from whole stem that is buried. cya

the splitting it down the middle part, and laying both halfs down is the fascinating part to me. :)
 
yo_Dyldo

yo_Dyldo

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Johnei said:
Weed will grow roots from the entire stem.

for example if you removed every single leaf of the plant erxcept the tip, and buried the entire thing in the ground, the entiore length of the stem will grow roots. This is what I do with seedlings that have that long stretchy stem sometimes begginning of life.. bury it up to the first set of leaves at first chance.. it'll grow roots from whole stem that is buried. cya

the splitting it down the middle part, and laying both halfs down is the fascinating part to me. :)
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Wow that it crazy
 
Johnei

Johnei

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good way to make a realy robust plant, forcing it to grow more roots along its stem putting in bigger pot burying it deep... whenever you transplant dont use the already established bottom of plant/top of pot line, take some lower node/leaves off and bury it up higher covering the bottom 1-2 nodes... it's good stuff. roots = shoots. :)_
 
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