Nice information on the subject. I just FiMed one of my smaller plants yesterday and Topped a few, I will FiM one of the bigger ones tomorrow. This thread was a nice read and helped me alot, thanks. +Rep 4 You.

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Im glad to see this thread has helped some of you.

I found a home for the Afghan plant that was previously FIMmed so it is finally going to get under some decent lighting instead of the CFL it has been under. Its been doing ok so far with minimal care and lighting but once it gets under the HPS it will really take off.

Anyway here are the most recent pics of the plant. The FIM is circled in red so you can see the new growth the plant has had. Usually I would have trimmed off the lower 1 or 2 branches but since im not keeping this plant im not sure yet how big the new owner is wanting to grow it so until I know that the branches will stay on. I know some of you are probably thinking what lower branches coz it looks like ive trimmed them all off already but as you see in the earlier pics of the mature plant, I only leave on the 4 main branches after the FIM and I work with them. This plant has 6 main branches so if its going to be grown big then id be chopping the lower 2 branches off otherwise when it grows up it will be too bushy and then id have to spend more time trimming them up.

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Nice man! I just did this to my little 3 inch plant and want to see how it'll do. Thanks.

I never really thought fimming was ever worth using over just plain topping, since you can get as many tops as you want by just repeatedly topping it, but I see that this can cut down the time that you have to veg, but its more of a gamble because you don't really know how many tops you are going to end up with in the end.

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indeed - been doing this for ions now but never knew it stood for that !!!! i lol'd and nearly spat my coffee on the screen hehehe


ill pull some pics out and show a few ive done recently as at week 7 on some and have just FIM'd some in veg around a week ago

top stuff OP and plus rep for sure

haha well it will either be 3 or 4 tops. I never thought that chance of more main shoots was ever too great to detour me from doing it

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Honestly I don't know how/when the name happened.. About 15 years ago I heard FIM for the first time, but was told it was a mystery as to what it stood for.. This was common opinion on overgrow.com about 5-10 years ago too.. Now I come here and hear it stands for Fuck I Missed.. It does work granted, but I'm not sure if its the real deal name wise, or given after the fact..

Well then I fail to see how this method is even worth using if thats the case, a lack of consistency for a chance at the same results of a proven method?

You can get 4 tops 100% of the time by just plain topping.

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This method will work well for alot of grow spaces where straight up topping is less convenient.. Thats what makes it worth using..

Can you elaborate? I can't think up any scenario that would put fimming out on top.

I used to think fimming was worthless because I would always see people fimming their plants at the very top with 7-8 nodes below the fim point wondering why they had a bunch of dinky colas.

If I had a choice between fimming my plant or leaving it alone I would most definitely fim it.

I just can't seem to see fimming as anything other than inferior to topping with a chance at getting the same results.



Excluding time constraints what real benefits does fimming have over topping?

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