Excellent response. Plus rep for this tutorial!

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you could just FIMM it and get like 8 tops, more productive imo

1. FIM is not reliable regarding predictable results,

2. No one seems to agree on just how to "FIM", and no one seems to understand why it does or doesn't do what it supposedly does.

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Not to mention that FIM apparently stands for "Fuck I Missed"..
I've always found that the more viciously I topped a plant, the more vigorous growth I got from it, so I see why you suggest growing so many nodes first..
Do you have any info sources as to 'why' the 2/4/8.... scheme appears at nodes 1/2/3....? Is that guaranteed to be common across all genetics? I'm just pretty good at spotting patterns like that, and I never really noticed that predictability..

Well when you topp the plants, you promote 2 main Colas, then all the inter nodes start growin up which results in all the "tops"

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good stuff, nice info.

if i grow four main colas, would i snip the rest of the secondary growth to give more juice into the main colas? like the shoots at the bottom of the shoots that are the main colas? would this make the main colas grow bigger?

Uncle BEN, GREAT THREAD, + REP for you! I have tried and tried to master this technique, and please look at my pic under my signature. I had 13 stalks, 9 major ones, on one plant, by topping it 6 times, twice at 2, 3 and 4 weeks of VEGGING.

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I had 9 major stalks on this one:



it almost fell out of the tank.

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That's about the <cough>, size of it LOL.

Hmmmmmm, for some reason you're not understanding how the plant responds. I'll try again. Being that there are two leafsets at each node during veg, and there are dormant foliar buds in the axils of where the petiole attaches to the "trunk", then each node = 2 foliar outputs WHEN THE AUXINS ARE TRICKED INTO BEING REDISTRIBUTED TO THOSE SITES. IOW, when you cut above the 2nd node, you'll get 4 outputs - 2 from the first node and 2 from the second. It's when you get above 3 or 4 that it becomes iffy regarding the outcome. You'll find the typical forum advice for topping is around the 7th node. Why, I don't know.

Has been for me. I've done it on pure sativas like zamal (see photo) to indica-dom hybrids like Peak 19. This brings up a good point - I only concentrate on pure sativas or those with long internodes, using it as training tool to shorten plant height. A plant with multiple colas will be shorter than one with only 1 main cola.

UB

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