Teach me Supercropping (many colas)

Hi, i am doing my first indoor grow with 12 plants under 1200 watts. my plants are in veg and are about 1 ft - 1.5 ft in height. should i start supercropping or stressing them yet? if so, how do i do it without hurting my plants? i need to know what parts of branches to get rid of to get multiple large colas off each plant.

Im going to watch this thread as i will also like to know this technique, any information regarding the technique is much appreciated.

wherever you have a shoot taller than the rest, pick a spot, pinch your fingers together, turn 90 degrees,pinch again, carefully fold branch down.

chuck estevez said:

wherever you have a shoot taller than the rest, pick a spot, pinch your fingers together, turn 90 degrees,pinch again, carefully fold branch down.

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Chuck thanks for the video, this is great! I never think to go to YouTube.

l0gikz said:

Hi, i am doing my first indoor grow with 12 plants under 1200 watts. my plants are in veg and are about 1 ft - 1.5 ft in height. should i start supercropping or stressing them yet? if so, how do i do it without hurting my plants? i need to know what parts of branches to get rid of to get multiple large colas off each plant.

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How large is the room your working with?

Supercropping works wonders, have tape handy for when you get carried away and it snaps a little too much, other than that the video explained it pretty well.

l0gikz said:

Hi, i am doing my first indoor grow with 12 plants under 1200 watts. my plants are in veg and are about 1 ft - 1.5 ft in height. should i start supercropping or stressing them yet? if so, how do i do it without hurting my plants? i need to know what parts of branches to get rid of to get multiple large colas off each plant.

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IMO to get multiple colas the plants are best to be topped

Once topped u can suprcrop the colas that grow taller than the others, but i don't suggest it as a primary way to make multiple main colas.

orod said:

How large is the room your working with?

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4'x8'x8'

imo you're at a good stage for super-cropping. Just do it when you still have at least a couple of weeks of veg left so they have time to heal and develop new growth from the super-cropped areas. I use both FIM's and super-cropping to generate additional growth/colas. The area you super-crop will heal, then grow new shoots which have the potential to grow out new colas you wouldn't have had, they'll grow from around the knot created when you super crop so the bend you put in it should be cropped/bent in a manner to generate colas where light will get to them or you have/create open space. Just super-cropped a few branches after FIM's a week ago on some of these ladies, selected sites where I wanted new shoots to come up. Key is to give them time between whatever method you're using, super-cropping and FIM or Topping generate (high) stress to get hormones going and generate new growth, their considered high stress training so they should be given time to recover before flipping them to flower. I FIM vs. topping is it's less stress on the plant and generate about the same result, FIM recovers faster imo, lend itself well to additional methods like super-cropping.