Uncle Ben's Topping Technique to Get 2 or 4 Main Colas

[DaveCoulier]

Swann, it looks like you have a boy to me. Its hard to tell from the pictures though. You'll know for sure within a week.

Now onto, "itself does not resemble a male plant". Male plants and females are indistinguishable during veg until they show preflowers, so I wouldn't assume just because it looks one way it must be a male or female.


Yeah Man, I had a plant that auto topped itself for two tops. I decided just to leave it as is, and top the rest as normal. Its your call if you want to top it though.

 

[swann]

well see how it looks like bud sites and then the balls, could it be a hermi?

 

[9867mike777]

well see how it looks like bud sites and then the balls, could it be a hermi?

It looks too early to tell the gender.

 

[DaveCoulier]

well see how it looks like bud sites and then the balls, could it be a hermi?

Its not a hermie. Your plant is barely showing sex, and Ive never seen a hermie occur this early. Plus you dont even have any buds forming yet, so why are you so keen on thinking its a hermie?

Male preflowers will show in the same area that female preflowers occur. Just wait a week, and you'll know for sure, but I think you should probably start another seed if this is your only plant, as there appear to be male preflowers showing in a couple of the pics.

 

[greenthings]

maybe i missed this along the thread but can the 4 colas be made on autoflowers?

 

[Danielsgb]

Look back a bit. but yes. But not good idea.

 

[DaveCoulier]

maybe i missed this along the thread but can the 4 colas be made on autoflowers?

Probably best not to top autoflowers since you really can't give them extra time to veg before flowering. Super cropping or lst'ing would be best.

 

[mydixiewrecked]

well see how it looks like bud sites and then the balls, could it be a hermi?

wait till you see either little white hairs sticking out(pistils) or little footballs. I just sexed some plants, took a little more then a week under 12/12 before they showed, when I saw the pistils, Right back to veg, they took off like they never missed a beat, and I got 4 out 5 hot mama's

 

[Ganja Geek]

wait till you see either little white hairs sticking out(pistils) or little footballs. I just sexed some plants, took a little more then a week under 12/12 before they showed, when I saw the pistils, Right back to veg, they took off like they never missed a beat, and I got 4 out 5 hot mama's

I to used to use this sexing method. It's much better to clone for sex. Theirs no stop, stress, or streach to the mother plants. They keep growing completly uneffected. Unless of course u take it from the top of the plant.

 

[lefreq]

hey UB big love m8 gd reading..... i notice most your grow are sativa dom and u say u came up with this technique to combat height probs, whats your experience with growing idica dom i currently have 8 indica dom babys goin but i have like 7ft headroom with strains that max out at 130cm so would u recomend topping at all i have a few years growing exp and have usually topped at 5 node but ive always been restricted by height also untill now that is i just finished 3 exodus cheese but they had cut taken from all over so were well bushy anyway....lol sorry to go on stoned moment haha my question basically is what u rekomend for my indica dom cheese crosses TO TOP....OR NOT TO TOP??? im thunkin just let um grow out and go for the trophy 2.5 o buds??????

le freq x

 

[Uncle Ben]

hey UB big love m8 gd reading..... i notice most your grow are sativa dom and u say u came up with this technique to combat height probs, whats your experience with growing idica dom i currently have 8 indica dom babys goin but i have like 7ft headroom with strains that max out at 130cm so would u recomend topping at all i have a few years growing exp and have usually topped at 5 node but ive always been restricted by height also untill now that is i just finished 3 exodus cheese but they had cut taken from all over so were well bushy anyway....lol sorry to go on stoned moment haha my question basically is what u rekomend for my indica dom cheese crosses TO TOP....OR NOT TO TOP??? im thunkin just let um grow out and go for the trophy 2.5 o buds??????

le freq x

I've done both, your call based on your garden's footprint limitations.

 

[lefreq]

footprint is 1.2 x 1.2 usin a 1000w and 8 plants in 11ltr pots??

 

[StonedBlownSkiller]

I found that when I used UBs method with my sativa dom it got 4 colas almost instantly(couple days) and grew them all quickly and evenly. The indica dom shot out 2 quickly and when they got bigger, like two weeks later, here came 2 more growin slowly, and smaller.

 

[lefreq]

so mabe just let them grow would be best plan i prefer S.O.B anyway as UB said earlier sea of bush not bothered about gram per what or yield just healthy is all

 

[StonedBlownSkiller]

so mabe just let them grow would be best plan i prefer S.O.B anyway as UB said earlier sea of bush not bothered about gram per what or yield just healthy is all

Hows this for healthy......thx again UB

 

[lefreq]

yeah there lookin nice m8..... i just dont see any imediate benefits unless ya restricted by height or you have a tall strain such as most sativas or if you only have say 3 or 4 plants per m2 mabe????

 

[9867mike777]

Here is my Nirvana Blackjack ten days after topping. I topped this really early, when it was 14 days from planting the seed. The plant looks really healthy, I'm just wondering when the four main offshoots will start going straight up instead of sideways.


Out of four blackjacks I have growing, I topped three of them. What I am learning is that this strain is naturally bushy, so it might not need topping. I mainly did it to keep it shorter to match my Northern Light (below.)

 

[7thtoker]

dude way sick.

 

[9867mike777]

Here are a couple of hopefully better pictures of my topped Blackjack. It is exactly 24 days from the seed being planted. It is 11 days from when I topped. If you were so inclined, you could drop a CFL right down in the middle of this plant.

 

[SysKonfig]

So does this method increase yield, or does it just allow you to achieve the same yield using less space? Cause like lefreq I am not really limited too much by vertical space and am already growing indica dom plants. So will I get more yield doing this or letting them just grow?