Is Monstercropping really beneficial?

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Yeah check em out now. There fucked little things ha ha. Not my favorite declining in flower either. But trying to save a strain I want to keep.

They just got recovered in trichs about 4 days ago. Never had a clone do such things

Neither have I. It's the oddest thing lol. I'm just curious now ha ha.

Both of these are monster cropped clones from a buddy. My first grow and i have more branches than i know what to do with. It did seem to take forever before the plants really took off in veg tho.

Those are very nice. You have to keep an eye out for sure. You can def. Over do it. My last reveg got a little out of control.

Jaybodankly said:

I think it is about 3 months from taking a clone. It is a multi branched beastie. Some minimal training to keep it from growing to tall.

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My clones are somewhat affecting this bushy, many shooters appearance, and they got stinky just after I brought them home d transplanted. I honk they started to think they needed to flower because I had them outside for a week in half day of sun (buildings and porch covering all but a few hours of nice, direct light. I believe they got worried, started to flower, then within a few days I had moved them inside and the light schedule switched em back and I began lst and they are MASSIVE bushes now, so maybe my accident will yield a useful technique between monster cropping and regular cloning.
Any thoughts..? I'm really blown away by these plants growth after all the stress I put them under so I'm gonna keep doing this way either way but I wanted opinions on whether it could just be bushy genetics this is day after transplant in a few hours my lights come on and I'll show what they look like 16 days later, but succinctly, they have 5-6 times the tops ey had in the beginning

Also, how much smaller are monster cropped colas than original ones, for you, in average, relative to the size of your fully grown plants with one or a few colas

dankesthours182 said:

Also, how much smaller are monster cropped colas than original ones, for you, in average, relative to the size of your fully grown plants with one or a few colas

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Mine all turned out tiny. Millions of tiny, tiny buds. It sucked. Never again for me my friend. However, your experience may differ.

All depends on environment. Good for "short" spaces and low end lighting. As we know it is all about "light" indoors. If you have say only CFLs a tall one or two cola plant would NOT be beneficial. That same plant short as hell with multiple colas and CFLs sitting right on top of every cola, your yeild will double/triple.
My experience the yeild is around the same on a plant weather topping or not. One cola cut gives about two smaller colas equalling about the same as one. As far down as you want to go.. However.... Light can reach more to each Cola giving the yeild that much better on each Cola. There for the "increase" in yeild.
But if you have the room and light. Ease of growing one, two cola plants compared to caring for say a 40-50 cola plant is a big difference, especially come harvest day.

BudgetGrows said:

All depends on environment. Good for "short" spaces and low end lighting. As we know it is all about "light" indoors. If you have say only CFLs a tall one or two cola plant would NOT be beneficial. That same plant short as hell with multiple colas and CFLs sitting right on top of every cola, your yeild will double/triple.
My experience the yeild is around the same on a plant weather topping or not. One cola cut gives about two smaller colas equalling about the same as one. As far down as you want to go.. However.... Light can reach more to each Cola giving the yeild that much better on each Cola. There for the "increase" in yeild.
But if you have the room and light. Ease of growing one, two cola plants compared to caring for say a 40-50 cola plant is a big difference, especially come harvest day.

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Thanks for that. I'm still such a novice. What you just described is exactly the conclusion I've been coming to on my own, getting confirmation is nice. All the guides push pruning for indoor grows, but my plants I don't prune grow faster, easier and at the end of the day the yield is the same, fewer but bigger buds. I've got 740 watts of LED in a 4'x4' and I think it must be adequate lighting. Yeah, no more pruning for me at all. Plus with taller plants I can fit more in the tent....

Yes, a 740w should have the penetration needed. You might still lollipop the bottom just a bit. Dont use any plant energy growing bottom branches that just don't quite reach the light. That energy needs to be consumed by the top colas. Otherwise your good to go. Plus there's just something nice about a BiG main cola

It takes quite awhile for the clones to get moving. Super cropping is worth it imo, but I can FIM and get just as much going