UB, can you give me some info on pinching. I know people use it when supercropping, but Im wondering is it possible to pinch the top two colas without bending them over. Will that allow the lower colas to catch up while the top two are healing?
I'll not be a slave to my plants, (right). So, I improvise by doing a double harvest. Tieing, pinching.....it's really not necessary to get great yields. Pinching is causing a callous to the stem, supposedly it increase yields. It sure increases forum talk cloaked in romanticsm, hope, mystique.....the human element, not necessarily the botanical one. Wanna increase yields? Learn what makes a plant tick. I see some of the pathetic plants in these forums and can only shake my head.
Rulz......
1. Use good overhead lighting - HID. Exclusively MH, HPS, combo it doesn't really matter to the plant. The plant
really doesn't care. It only matters to folks who wanna talk the lights talk and of course vendors who are out to sell lighting every which way but Sunday.
2. Use mobile high reflecting side panels. Keep them adjacent to the plants based on the garden's footprint. There is alot of useful light in reflective light. You're buying light, do not waste it, especially by over-doing it. Find your plant's light saturation point reflected by the bleaching out of the chlorophyll.
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Double harvest - take out the bulked up, fat colas first. Cut the cola off at a point where it turns from fat and chunky to wispy and airy buds. Those are the last to come on and mature, so give them a chance. Studies have shown they can also have the highest THC %, one reason is that they aren't subjected to some of the stresses of top buds like heat. Put the lower half back under the lights, same photoperiod and when they bulk up harvest those buds. It can make a big difference in your overall yields. I've published photos a dozen times in other forums, too damn busy to do it again.
BTW, ya gotta have some leaves left at first harvest to do this right. Can't do it if you're bound and determined to butcher your plants by not providing proper nutrition or flushing.
UB
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I added some photos of the first topped plant under natural daylight. But both of them are really sucking up the water, I have to water almost everyday now with them.
You also have more control this way.
