topping an lollipoping
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giggles26
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Top at first or 2nd node and train from there.
Remove all lower growth as the plant grows upward clear up until the 2nd week of flower and then leave it alone.
The stronger your light the further down it will penetrate into the plant. You want to push all the energy upwards.
Look into mainlining and super cropping.
Remove all lower growth as the plant grows upward clear up until the 2nd week of flower and then leave it alone.
The stronger your light the further down it will penetrate into the plant. You want to push all the energy upwards.
Look into mainlining and super cropping.
Commander Strax
Well-Known Member
look up "mainlining" if you want some interesting reading
SouthernIllinois
Member
I don't know if I'm on the right page, I'm new here and on my first grow. I have a box that I built myself and a cheap 120w plant bulb from Walmart but my one plant is doing ok. Well, kind of ok. It looks like a tree, but big beautiful leaves. It's 25" tall and about 18" wide and it's 5 days into flower and still showing female. It is really starting to grow up at the nodes, but my problem is it's growing too tall for my box. I've heard you can bend it over, would someone please give me some advice on this and well, really any advice you have on basically anything would be helpful. Like I said, it's my first grow, but I have 4 more seedlings that just came up and want to do right by them. I will eventually set up a better environment, but this kind of caught me by surprise and had to improvise.
SouthernIllinois
Member
Ok. By topping, you mean removing the top two leaves? I would assume pinching them off or cutting with scissors? They top two leaves are still relatively small, so
SouthernIllinois
Member
Sorry, the top pair of leaves are what you want me to cut? I assume scissors are ok? Will that help the plant bush out?
Captain Curry
New Member
Just youtube topping and or F.I.M. I havent checked but Id assume there are probably 20 videos on it. I always like watching and seeing pictures with explanations before I starting cutting or doing stuff that cant be taken back. GL.
SouthernIllinois
Member
Great. I sure will. Thanks.
SouthernIllinois
Member
No, sorry I don't. I'm just going to watch a video on youtube.
Commander Strax
Well-Known Member
do not top a plant in flower...
look up LST, it stands for Low Stress Training.
topping is to make a bigger plant (more tops)
you should know that a plant will stretch up to 200% when switched to flower
zander19
Well-Known Member
ty brother
never new that