should I top?

I'm pretty psyched, I have got nothing but males from this bag until now, and its a very healthy female

I have an outdoor indica bagseed(probably 95%incida) which is short and sort of lanky until the top growth, but very healthy. the top growth is bushy and little white hairs are all over it. The lower growth has no bud sites yet, so i dont really want to top but im worried about how tall its going to get. I have about one foot for it to get taller before it gets noticeable. Its surrounded by weeds and crap to cover it up, so i doubt it gets noticed if it gets a foot taller. Ive heard its going to get 3 times taller, but its been flowering for about 2-3 weeks and its not gotten but 2" taller. I also shouldnt top during flowering, i know that, but if it comes down to it, would it be too devastating to the plant if I top when it gets too big?

edit: anyone have any ideas on my yield if I dont top? It has vegged for about 3 months, and it about one foot tall.

No ideas on your yield, but if it's flowering I sure in hell wouldn't want to top at this point, as it seems to me that those are potential bud site you'd be losing. Also, since it's into flowering I'm not sure you could clone with what you've topped. How about just getting all bondage on her ass and tying her down a bit? My three LST girls, though quite small (I'm calling one Bonsai Betty), have formed each at least four main colas. The other plants I'll simply tie down as needed.

Remember, with tying down (LST) you don't want to tie any one branch too far down, you want them even.

The time to top is during the veg stage. Not during flowering. so no do not top..

you should have chopped on at about 17" on veg

yeah, topping wouldn't be the best idea right now. If the stem isn't too hard you could try tying it over

Just bend it downward so it grows more horizontally. Don't pull hard, you will snap it. Just do it like once in the morning and once late, every day for a week or so. After about a week you will prob be able to have it at 1/2 to 3/4 of its current height, and its easier to keep it growing horizontally at that point. You can go all crazy with ropes and stakes and all, but that will be even more noticeable than it getting too tall.

yea man, it sounds to late to chop. you would be losing potential budsites and chancing a hermi from causing that much stress during a transitional stage. just slowly bend the top and branches down and around so that they recieve as much light as possible, and if needed as low as you need for security. if the bending causes to much damage just as some asprin to the water (500micrograms/g) the natural salicylic acid is the same thing plants use to repair damage.

@seamadien speaking of salicylic there was a slug attack recently, and i added some to the water ro repair leaf damage.....but it also seemed to effect the slugs, it slowed them right down and repelled them.....i found this very interesting, but i still cant find out why....i was thinking it might be to alkaline for them...but i dont know.

Corbat420 said:

yea man, it sounds to late to chop. you would be losing potential budsites and chancing a hermi from causing that much stress during a transitional stage. just slowly bend the top and branches down and around so that they recieve as much light as possible, and if needed as low as you need for security. if the bending causes to much damage just as some asprin to the water (500micrograms/g) the natural salicylic acid is the same thing plants use to repair damage.

@seamadien speaking of salicylic there was a slug attack recently, and i added some to the water ro repair leaf damage.....but it also seemed to effect the slugs, it slowed them right down and repelled them.....i found this very interesting, but i still cant find out why....i was thinking it might be to alkaline for them...but i dont know.

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Just a weird Q, how did you know the slug slowed down? I mean they move so slowly I don't know how I would measure their speed in the first place...

you can see the pulsing movement of their body slow, the pulsing movement is how they move, the slower it is the slower they go.......and i have alot of time on my hands....currently an unelployed weedgrower

Me, too!

Corbat420 said:

yea man, it sounds to late to chop. you would be losing potential budsites and chancing a hermi from causing that much stress during a transitional stage. just slowly bend the top and branches down and around so that they recieve as much light as possible, and if needed as low as you need for security. if the bending causes to much damage just as some asprin to the water (500micrograms/g) the natural salicylic acid is the same thing plants use to repair damage.

@seamadien speaking of salicylic there was a slug attack recently, and i added some to the water ro repair leaf damage.....but it also seemed to effect the slugs, it slowed them right down and repelled them.....i found this very interesting, but i still cant find out why....i was thinking it might be to alkaline for them...but i dont know.

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Ooo.. good catch! I rarely catch slugs or snails during the summer, though we have plenty of other things that eat. I don't remember reading anything about aspirin-treated plants repelling them better or anything, so that would be interesting to prove, empirically at least.

Well, I took a look at it tonight. Looks really nice, it seems like it will just be one big cola bud, very big. I have a path in the weeded area where the plant is; not good. How should I get rid of the path of weeds laying down? I have done a safe deterrent from wandering people, I placed about 13 large garden spiders(harmless, but scary looking none the less, the smallest one could span the bottom of a 40 ounce bottle) and they all have webs in the area around the plant. its a pain in the ass for even me to get to the plant with out getting web and huge spiders all over me. This seems to me like the best way to keep people away safely. They dont bite, and are not poisonous.

So it's a guerilla grow? Nice! That's what I'm doing. I dono man, to cover up the path try maybe pulling a dead tree over it or something. maybe plant a bush there lol... Anything that looks natural so people won't notice the path. I've also heard of people fertilizing the path area so the vegetation grows thicker and repairs itself so you cant see the path. You gotta do some thing man, paths will get your ass caught!

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So it's a guerilla grow? Nice! That's what I'm doing. I dono man, to cover up the path try maybe pulling a dead tree over it or something. maybe plant a bush there lol... Anything that looks natural so people won't notice the path. I've also heard of people fertilizing the path area so the vegetation grows thicker and repairs itself so you cant see the path. You gotta do some thing man, paths will get your ass caught!

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I actually had a leak on my fert bottle when i was walking the path and some of the vegetation is pretty beastly lol. Im going to lay a few trees down next visit.

bump with a new question, If I dig it up and pot it will it be too much stress and make it go hermi?(so I can take it to my house and move it to where it can get full sun)

its not getting much sun on the lower branches where its at, and it will do alot better if I get it alot of sun.

Bumpity bump!

to give more info on my idea, this is my only plant, and the harvest needs to last me until at least Christmas. I need to maximize yield.

just leave it where it is, it will produce buds there. it cant be gauranteed that the plant can even survive a transplant......how big is it? remember, you gota move as much earth as plant in Cubic feet. if the plant is 4'x6' then you gota dig a 6'deep and a 4'wide hole to get all the roots, then you gota move all that dirt and root mass to the location, kinda hard to do when your looking for security.

Yea, I wouldnt even consider it if it was a big plant. Its only about a foot tall and 6" wide.

I wouldn't worry about trying to move it. As far as the path, just take different routes to get there. Unless you smoke like 1-2 times a week, a plant that size will probably not last you until xmas.

yea, id say just leave it there, make 5 or six different paths, and take a different one each time, and dont make a pattern, just randomly go down one of the paths.