Results of topping a 1.5 week old plant. I think it was successful!

I decided that I wanted to try topping my blue dream bag seed to see what the outcome would be like topping this early in life. The plant was topped directly above the 1st node. Below are pictures of before and after. Total elapsed time between cut and latest picture is a little under 36 hrs.

Before:
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After cut:
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Today (about 36 hours after the topping):
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Thoughts??

Next time consider topping when you see 3 or 4 sets of growth nodes. That will give your plant to mature so it will be able to recover from the shock you induced.

I have not noticed the plant showing any signs of shock. No slowing of growth, discoloration or excessive curling of leaves. Looks happy!

cali cats right. heres what happened when i did the same thing as you: It staye dstunted and finished as a 10" tall plant next to my 8 foot monsters:

Hopefully I don't see such stunted growth, I'm curious to see how this shakes out!

Why would you top it so early???

To keep the plant as bushy as possible, vertical space is limited.

Im not sure hwo your asking but I do a lot of "weird" things just for the hell of it. You cant know unless you try mane

looks like it is going to be a double cola. my most productive plants have been the double. some way they can yield a good bit more over a single or a 4 cola plant, at least imo. GL

Po boy, hopefully you're right! So far it looks that way. Plant looks to be doing very well! I will feed her pH'd water with BioWeed (Kelp mix for root growth) this Thursday.

Topped a lil early, But if she is not stunted, hey good luck!

Leave 2 nodes then you get 4 main tops with 1 topping

Quick update on the plant! Growth is very rapid, I did not notice a slow down at all. This is four days after the cut.

I just topped my og 18 at about the same age and put her into the flower tent super early and shes growing nice I heard shes a stretcher so I had to do it

i top plants at least twice, especially with sativas. first time is when i have four nodes, second is when i have four new shoots and third is FIM'd after 75 days on half of new shoots, this along with super cropping does work! that will probably just be two main colas unless you top it agian, it looks to me like its going to just fine and not stunted.

Here we are at one week after cutting. Looking good, I can't believe how busy this thing is turning out. This plant came from a "Blue Dream" bagseed. I'm seeing a very Indica dominant strain, look at how big those leaves are!

It looks good but why is it so droopy did you pour water on it or something? those leaves will die if they touch the soil for too long