chopping the top

If I have a plant 8 ft. high and once it has budded to my liking, can I cut the top 4-5 foot off and let the bottom bud out longer?

I would like to know also...i feel like it might be a great amount of stress on it. It might work just fine though ive never had a plant that tall. Any pics of her?

Gonna take pics tomarrow.

yes you can
but its all gonna be at the same stage
but maybe you could cut the top early to get some uplifting smoke and the bottom late to get a heavy smoke
but i would just cut it all the same time

You can cut just what is ripe and ready to harvest. You do not have to harvest the entire plant at once.

Thats what I was thinking. It would be cool to check out the different stages, and help lower the plant for a less paranoid me. LOL

Go ahead, lots of people do it(called a staggered harvest) to let the bottom buds finish and fatten up and benefit from the extra light. You can do it multiple times if you want.
Heres a tutorial of sorts.-
https://www.rollitup.org/harvesting-curing/242294-staggered-harvest-tutorial.html

8ft in your backyard is a bit of a nightmare
i would be stressing every time i knocked off work and drove home

Hell yes and I have more than 1.

Cool! I have tied down now until there is no where else to tie down. The branches need tied down. OMG I have the grow I use to dream about. Shit it is better than I dreamed! But it is totally out of control. They took over my whole back yard. Sooper paranoia!

Wow, what are you doing to mask smells? Anything?

I have one addvantage, I live in the country. But I have alot of traffic on the roads on two sides of me and two fields on the other sides.

I have had immagrant workers within 40 ft. of my plants. I have had planes spraying the fields next to me. It's getting to be a long grow, LOL.

yeah, lol, i'd be so fucking paranoid i probally wouldnt be able to sleep at night.

wow, i'd be paranoid too. i'd also be very paranoid about posting this on the internet since it's on your property. huge advantage though of having access to your plants like that. good luck and don't let 'em go more than 1 second longer than they have to so you can get them outa there.

yep, but I have my MM card and I am at my legal limit as far as the cops go. But I don't want to deal with them. I am more concerned about the public. But I hate hassels.

These are 12 weeks old. They are pretty bushy so I think I will try cutting the top half on at least 2 of them. Good expierance if nothing else.

hey bro how ya doing hows yer grow coming on ?? im also doing an outdoar grow and looking great for 3 weeks in but thing im unshure of is when do i start counting the days down on a 80 day straiView attachment 1101225n ??? do i start from when i see the first hairs ?? or from when i flip the lights !! lol doing that by taking in at nighView attachment 1101227t into a spare room !!! puzzled when to use my pk spike and when to be ready to flush !!!! realy need help with this!!! fView attachment 1101225irst hairs 31st july witch means im in week 3 but from light difrence 23d witch makes neer on 4 ????? heres some pics!!!View attachment 1101224 first time using decent nutes first time had tops like this!!! smaller ones are the very bottom smallest buds!! any advice please ! do they look well developed for age or under developed ??? so any help with when i should be counting from be very much apreciated !! peace!!

Ya you can You can take off the top and the bottom should still develop. Its gonna go through some shock obviously.

I wonder how long it will take to come out of the shock, any idea?