M Blze FTW

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"Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp and observing as far as my eye can see." -Thomas Jefferson, 1781
Nb's 600w HPS/T5 Organic Basement Grow(Current Grow)

agree with you almost wholeheartely. the plant does recieve some stress from the fim method . small amount of stress can be a positive thing to stimulate a surge of growth as you touched on what is infact what happens i believe (some more scientiofc can explain what happens. its like when you do the soma method and squeeze your top stems virtually snapping the in some instances during veg,... its ends the energy for growth elswhere (i.e the bottoms of the pant ) and repairs the top whilst discouraging growth at the top end.

if im worng someone can enlighten me


anyway as promised a pic or 2 of the FIM ive done on a GHS cheese. always do it with my fingers tbh so i may try the scoccors for a more accurate job in the future .. loves this thread and a back advocate of teh FIM method.

last thing ill say is that some of the mistakes people make when fimming are

fim too late and put the plant into flower striaght after doing it or worse still fim during the 1st week of flower


some plants dont react well to fim method grapefuit ( a sativa) for example didnt particularly do better than when left alone and was very hard to support the mass of quickly growing branches.

supporting via netting and yo yos is a good way to get the best outof fimming with sativas and sativa dominante cross breeds


anyway top thread once again man - kudos


1) GHS cheese 21 days after cloning (12 then 8 days after FIM)
2) same but a diffirent view

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What are we defining as stress to a plant anyways?? Are they worried the other plants are going to laugh at them because they look different?? You can butcher a plant and it will hardly flinch.. Stress occurs when evironmental aspects impede growth.. All thats hapening here is auxin redistribution, or lack there of..

Here is a few pics from different grows just to show how consistent my results are. This is just the way I do it and how I choose to grow and the results are exactly what I plan to achieve every time.

The main branches

Last grow





Another plant from a different grow which is tied up and down and left and right to create a very wide monster plant




Now here is some more pics at various stages of different grows to show you how symmetrical the plants grow with a little bit of help from tying/training of coarse.







Another grow

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Mmm those look so tasty M Blaze how long do you veg until you actually fim? looks like there's jusssst enough room for your lights to sit comfortably

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"Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp and observing as far as my eye can see." -Thomas Jefferson, 1781
Nb's 600w HPS/T5 Organic Basement Grow(Current Grow)

Im not sure on the exact time frame or how old the plant/clone is when I FIM because its all about how big and how developed the plant is when I do it. As long as the plant has at the very least 4 true sets of leaves and the growth tip is developed enough then it can be FIMmed. Well thats from my experience anyway.


I have had plants growing right up past the lights before and ive never really had a problem with them being so close to the lights. Heres a couple pics to show u what I mean and these were taken in about week 3 or 4 so you could imagine how close they would have been by week 7 or 8:

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they don't burn the plants when they're that close though? or you just use cfl's like that one in the picture when flowering?

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"Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp and observing as far as my eye can see." -Thomas Jefferson, 1781
Nb's 600w HPS/T5 Organic Basement Grow(Current Grow)

whats that strain too? looks delicious

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"Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp and observing as far as my eye can see." -Thomas Jefferson, 1781
Nb's 600w HPS/T5 Organic Basement Grow(Current Grow)

The cfl was just on so I could see what I was doin in the dark, I use HPS lighting. Some leaves tend to burn but the buds dont have any problem with it. I dont like to have them that close but when you run out of room there nothing else you can do since they are already tied down as much as possible.

Those plants were Jack Herer.

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Oh haha that makes sense with the cfl. no worries then if it doesnt affect your buds. just thought it might
funny it's Jack Herer though. I just got a zip of some indoor Jack from a buddy haha. perrrrrrty dank

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"Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp and observing as far as my eye can see." -Thomas Jefferson, 1781
Nb's 600w HPS/T5 Organic Basement Grow(Current Grow)