topping the new plant?

i just topped this 3 week old plant for the first time, i cut the new growth in the middle of the plant right off. Did i do it right?

its tough to tell but so far it looks good.

how long will it take for the new growth to start??

arizona jim said:

how long will it take for the new growth to start??

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You will see new growth within a week........you just cut the main stock above the first set of leaves, there will be 2 new main stocks now and I would let them grow until they have at least 2 leaf levels and then you can top them......which will create 4 main stocks etc. and stop topping a week or so before your plants go into flower. Just my 2 cents.Have fun.

thanks budy..i topped them and now im waiting...already see some kinda growth coming out 2 days later will put up a pic in a week or so

Next time try fim, I swear it works better! But I also like to FIM, super crop AND LAST

Where in the hell am I? said:

Next time try fim, I swear it works better! But I also like to FIM, super crop AND LAST

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Every time we try to FIM we still miss??? Takes practice I guess.

What is super crop and Last???

fim sounds intresting but could i still do it now after topping it. and i kinda know what it is but not really. got any details??

ps. plant that i topped is doing well..... new growth coming out!!!

Don't worry about topping, if you think about how to top-it then your thinking too hard! i topped like 40% of my plant off and people were telling me by plant was gonna die and it just grew bigger branches in only a week.

Irie Hawaii said:

Don't worry about topping, if you think about how to top-it then your thinking too hard! i topped like 40% of my plant off and people were telling me by plant was gonna die and it just grew bigger branches in only a week.

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Right on.............love the bush.

budy budman said:

Every time we try to FIM we still miss??? Takes practice I guess.

What is super crop and Last???

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I meant lst (low stress training)
I will attach links or my docs on FIM, Topping, LST, and Supercropping!
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[/FONT] [FONT=&quot]Topping is done to keep the plants small and bushy, promote "branching", and increase the overall yields of the plants. With higher overall yields, a grower will successfully harvest many more buds, or floral clusters, and from smaller, bushier and more compact plants.

To the indoor grower that does not use this technique, but allows their plants to grow tall, it can be a waste of their artificial lighting, and growing spaces potential. With its own natural growth pattern, and without the benefit of topping, your lady will have one main central "kola" bud, at peak flowering. Several other small branches will grow outwards, down its main stalk, with much smaller bud tops.

The natural growth pattern is to grow upwards at its main stalk. From this main central stalk will begin to grow side branches. The side branches come out as tiny shoots with leaves, and usually there is a pair of them on opposite sides of the main central stalk.

When the seed leaves have long dyed off on the main stalk: the first true seed leaves commonly can or will, wilt, dry up, or die off of the plant as well. Once healthy new vegetative growth begins the rate of growth can be very fast, with excellent lighting supplied.

As the new growth increases the light reaching the lower portions of the plants becomes less. Thus it is common to see first leafs wilting and dying etc. Growers that see leaves wilting or dying, etc, will opt to pulling them off of the plants.

The main central stalk is topped of just above the branches that are coming out below it. A pair of scissors or your fingers can be used. Remove the new growth that you see getting ready to grow outwards. (Once the topping is done you can remove the two upper fans leaves as well.) I choose not to do this. This will aid in the light getting to the newer vegetative growth, and other shoot tips, down the main central stalk.

I do not recommend topping before the 3rd node appears. Nodes are the spaces on Mary’s stem that the vegetation grows out from. The space between nodes is called internodes.

Once you have topped your plant(s) the younger shoots will rapidly begin growing. With the removal of the main central stalk the lower braches grow more. With topping completed we keep the plants on their regular lighting and feeding schedules.

Now each new shoot tip will essentially grow as the main stalk did, however the growth is not concentrated to only one central stalk. So as each new shoot grows outward new shoots will grow from each one of them stalks as well.

Therefore topping can be done again, and again, and as each shoot becomes a growing tip with other shoots forming down its stalk, it is removed. By completing these topping or pruning tactics, a grower can achieve any desired height, or desired bushiness, they desire in their plants.[/FONT]

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[/FONT][FONT=&quot]FIMMING A PLANT![/FONT][FONT=&quot]
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Fimming is actually no different that topping, what fimming does is virtually the exact same thing only your leaving part of the new growth. This only takes of part of the new growth and actually topping the very new growth which is very hard to see.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]What this ends up doing is making it seem as if your getting 4 new tops right next to each other when its actually only 2 at the very top (like topping) but since it was cut so closely to the next newest set of fan leaves 2 branches which would have formed there anyways seems to make it look like there is 4 new tops.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]This is how you go about doing this.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]1. Locate the very top of the new growth[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]2. With a clean sterilized scissors, Fold the fan leafs over and cut approximately 80% of the new growth off the plant. [/FONT][FONT=&quot]
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Thats IT!!!! you should be well on your way to Topping and Fimming of your plants.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1YEc7ENd5E
Okay, so there's all the question's answered! If these lead to more, let me know!
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thanks man, ok so then i think i might have fim ed it, not topped because i left like 20-30% of the new growth. and now it looks like four little branches forming. and this is 5 days later. I will put up a pic as soon as i find the usb cord.

ok also....completely off topic but i have a 2 month old female that i would like to try cloning. It is a small plant though that grows in a pot outdoors. The stems only have one leaf nearer to the top... but at the very bottom it has a 2 inch long stem with a couple leaves and a super tiny bud starting to grow down there. which would i use for a good clone??

pic is about 3 weeks old...is a little bigger and bushier now

I'd clone both. But I like to over do things, just to be sure

ok ill give it a try...it wont affect my bud growth will it???

The more I trimmed, the fatter the buds that had sites left were!

ok here is a more recent pic. Do you have any idea why it grew so short???? the main and only cola is only 6-8inches long
help me out for future. it is about 2.5 months old

plant was transplanted from regular soil to foxfarm in a pot...did go into shock

let me know what you think

if you love bushes then look into "lst"

MediMaryUser said:

if you love bushes then look into "lst"

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what is lst??

you tie the top down instead of topping it and then the 2 little new growths become the new tops and then you can unttie the original top and its like it was topped without the stress . heres a link


i think you will like it
https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/6834-how-lst-low-stress-training.html