Ive just gotten into actual supercropping instead of tie downs and besides it being alot less time consuming it basicly does the exact same thing. Ive always fim'd my plants rather than topping, some strains dont react well to topping but Ive yet to run into one that has problems after I pinch 3/4 of the new growth, good thing about pinching rather than cutting is the rougher edges seem to possibly promote more than two tops, Ive got up to 4 new colas. Theres plenty of different ways to change the growth of the plant, but the funny thing is the biggest yielding plants Ive seen were never touched throughout the grow, but still I like tinkering around and doing different things. Do whatever your most comfortable with, have a few experimental plants, whether its different lst's, nutrients, lighting, soil, patterns, changing things up now and then keeps it interesting. Good luck to all on the upcoming outdoor season, enough with the little plants, its time to grow some monsters out in the sun....take care e1, peace!!!!!