What is "lollypopping'? Some kind of new French dessert, or a kewl sex toy?




its where you cut the bottom limbs of so all the fucus goes to the top of the plant.

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Bad practice. Never remove leafsets.

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PLANT MOISTURE STRESS aka leaf edge/tip curling - symptoms and solutions
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I think they do it two weeks before they switch to flowering, or two weeks into it. Uncle Ben would you mine checking out this post of mine on my soil idea?
Thanks man
start to finish/no fancy soils

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Well, I had a problem with PH initially, so after transplanting, I tested the soil PH and my waters PH and it is now doing well. No leaves are dying now, all new growth is lush green. But, where the original leaves were (the first few nodes I'd say) are these small leaves. Take a look at the thread I posted previously for pics. It has been doing good for two weeks now, but it is starting to get too tall. I'd like to top now in order to get more main colas and then begin the flowering once it has recovered (after the new offshoots/growth have significant foliage and such.)

Why not hedge your bets and bend it over LST style as low as possible to see if you can get those low node secondaries to pop into action..

So whats it do? Cause i lollipop my plants. It doesn't seem to affect them. They still are ready to harvest in the time frame. I do it because i'm growin SOG style and have 4 plants per sqft.

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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

More leaves means more growth all around so long as your roots can support it all.. Earlier when I said I'd chop that pH troubled plant and let the secondaries take over, I didn't mention that it would be turning back the clock for the sake of a fresh start with new lush foliage (pretty much revegging).. Once flowering begins though, the clock can't be tinkered with, so you let them keep any foliage you possibly can because they are on a 'deadline'..
Personally I'd only bother nursing a plant to sustain genetics if it came down to it.. I prefered small plants, so I always took far more clones than I needed, and vegged out more than I needed, selected for best roots popping, and culled what I couldn't flower.. Squeaky wheels got no grease in my grow room..

If it's a healthy leafset, leave it be. If you have to ask "why", then I must refer you to Botany 101.

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PLANT MOISTURE STRESS aka leaf edge/tip curling - symptoms and solutions
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ohhhhhhhhhh, burn!

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I've used this topping technique on a young seedling 2 weeks ago, and the two branches at the second node have been growing really well. The problem is internode spacing is incredibly short. It's a new set of leaves basically on top of the old set each time. The leaves from the two branches are pushing right up against each other and the plant isn't really growing taller. Leaves are fine and healthy (with very minor burn on the edges). Is this a problem that will sort itself out? I could try bending out the branches at the 2nd node but they are very short, and it would probably require removing a small set of leaves to do so.