Do you want one small or many small, dingleberry? Cut the head off the hydra, you get more heads. No matter the size. They are 5 weeks old, they have plenty of time to grow.
Supercropping works wonders!
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Would you want one 20g cola and popcorn or six 6gram colas? Winter harvest, I’ll take whatever advantage I can get…plus resin output is greater!
Billy the Mountain
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You're actually suggesting bending some branches will somehow induce the plant to "produce more resin"?
It wont
It wont
twentyeight.threefive
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Your plants are in flower. You think they are going to be forming lots of new bud sites? You would have been been off training the plants in veg like most people if you wanted to maximize size.
FidelCa$hflow
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Supercropped plants develop more fibrous stems and training this way allows lower budding sites to “catch up
FidelCa$hflow
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Supercropped plants develop more fibrous stems and training this way allows lower budding sites to “catch up” but no science exists on whether they produce more resin.
You can avoid breaking stems if you soften it between your fingers before you bend it over.
Bukvičák
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I think we all (at least most of us) know that, what we do not understand is why you perfomed it on such a small outdoor plant… Actually supercropping has nothing in common with lower buds to chatch up, it is auxin who inhibits them, so it does not matter if LST, fimming, topping or supercropping the main cola makes the job done….
They really have, where I bent the plant the buds underneath are growing faster and getting much more resin production, so much so that they are catching up to the size of the branch that I bent over. Now that they are healing I will post more pics.
How can you say that if the lower buds are getting much more direct sunlight and the fan leaves are out of the way, still photosynthesizing but not covering the smaller nodes?
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And why does that happen?
Bukvičák
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Outdoor, your fan leaves are horsework for flowering and it is actually just because of growing hormone called auxin which is mostly situated in the main top and is inhibiting grow of those lower ones. Not because of they stay in shade of fan leaves, it works completely opposite. Outdoor plants are never “shaded” unless you put them in real shade. Thats because in shade there is bigger far red to red ratio, so shade causes stretch like crazy. Once you provide some action which change plants common habits, than the lowers are no longer inhibited so much and get more strenght from the plant. You are redistributing overall energy and there are better and faster ways how to achieve the same effect. I use supercropping only as handbrake, when running out of space, obviously indoor. You might feel like Chriss Columbus, its probably because you got some good stash, but yer too late. Anyway good luck.
xtsho
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Old farts like me drink RC Cola. That's if we can find it. I mix mine with rum.
So you are saying your Portugal, England and France? I’m not trying to prove the earth is flat, I just want to pillage! Any suggestions or am I too late to enjoy my sticky stash…
Who cares
You are right there’s no point in educating yourself
Lordeylord
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I see what you mean, I top to bush them and then net all of the stalks outwards to open the middle
mtnman2016
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I am with you. I supercrop at any place I want as well but just need to be somewhat gentle. Every time I have done this is due to height issues but in the end those particular buds are larger than the rest.