Topping vs. Super Cropping?

HydroKid239

HydroKid239

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Topping can help those lowers turn into tops with the right training to keep the canopy even. Super cropping can help level a plant out as well.
The more bud sites you can get at the canopy level the better.
 
Rsawr

Rsawr

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If you supercrop REALLY hard you sometimes get clones, too. O:
I've never really noticed a yield difference from plants I left alone, and plants I've topped or supercropped. I usually top, then use supercropping to bend the branches how I like, but sometimes I leave them entirely alone. The thing I feel like (anecdotally) helps is removing the bottom bud sites early in flower, so the tops get all the energy.
 
hotrodharley

hotrodharley

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Rsawr said:
If you supercrop REALLY hard you sometimes get clones, too. O:
I've never really noticed a yield difference from plants I left alone, and plants I've topped or supercropped. I usually top, then use supercropping to bend the branches how I like, but sometimes I leave them entirely alone. The thing I feel like (anecdotally) helps is removing the bottom bud sites early in flower, so the tops get all the energy.
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You’re not supercropping very well then. I get far more good buds by topping and supercropping starting way early. The flatter canopy allows what would be sucker shoots to get full light and develop buds.
 
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Nope_49595933949

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Oldguyrealy said:
I was going to Top some plants and then Super Cropping.

My Son is all for Clones so he wants Topping.

Will I get more Bud doing either?
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We top while in veg and then start to super crop about the middle of the stretch. I tried super cropping later in flower and I ended up having to support the buds.
 
Rsawr

Rsawr

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hotrodharley said:
You’re not supercropping very well then. I get far more good buds by topping and supercropping starting way early. The flatter canopy allows what would be sucker shoots to get full light and develop buds.
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I cut off the lower sucker shoots so I don't have to deal with them. I'm happy to be wrong. Just commenting on the question with personal experience. Enjoy your day.
 
PopAndSonGrows

PopAndSonGrows

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Alright, here's my 2 cents. . ..

Supercrop to IMMEDIATELY control height; got a branch that's too tall right now? --pinch/pop the stem, lean it over with a half-twist & ideally lasso it down.

Top to PROACTIVELY control the future height of the plant, and also create more topsites.
 
speedwell68

speedwell68

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Rsawr said:
I cut off the lower sucker shoots so I don't have to deal with them. I'm happy to be wrong. Just commenting on the question with personal experience. Enjoy your day.
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As soon as they hit the 5th node I bend them over and cut the top off, that gives me 10 tops right away. When those new tops grow up a few nodes I top them and pin them down. I get a nice level canopy and shit loads of tops to become colas.
 
visajoe1

visajoe1

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i do both. top em to keep em low in the tent, then force the branches out flat via supercropping. fills my tent faster. remove the larf, trim the edges as needed at end of veg.

1 week after flip i lollipop em all, drop 2 layers of nets down, then let em go
 
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