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

I got a 4 cola jack herer a week into flower now, cant wait 4th one is a lil bit smaller than the others, but the base looks like a perfect halfway-mainline grow, lol. Next from seed JH I will main line to 8....

Hi UB
The information and knowledge you have taught and provided on here is priceless. Thanks again.
I promised some pics of my topped Super Snow Lotus and Jesus OG and I am thrilled with how they're looking. The first pic is of the SSL and 2nd is of a Jesus OG that is over 4' tall. These are both on day 24 of flower. Both are sitting on 4" X4" RW cubes on top of another 4" deep small slap I created for one plant. Both are already covered in buds that smell potent and look to me like each of these trunks will be 1 huge bud when all is said and done.

The J-OG base in 4'X4" cube. (hard to see all 4 trunks in pic)


Super Snow Lotus.

Jesus OG

next to eachother.

I will post more as they progress

You're welcome. Curious, what happened to the leaves? Without a heavy canopy of leaves your yield will greatly suffer.

Dear uncle Ben, I owe you an apology. you tried to tell me time and time again what the problems with my grow were, and because didnt like the way you said it i choose to argue with you. well you were completely correct. I have X'ed out advance nutrients and gone as basic as possible, And i use the techniques you describe on this thread to get excellent yields time after time. just didnt sit right with me the way I spoke to you and still use your methods. so just wanted to say my bad, and thanks for the info. peace

Uncle Ben said:

You're welcome. Curious, what happened to the leaves? Without a heavy canopy of leaves your yield will greatly suffer.

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He probably cut them off to create more light to the lower budsites. It increases yield by 400%. You should try it.

FresnoFarmer said:

He probably cut them off to create more light to the lower budsites. It increases yield by 400%. You should try it.

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I'll keep in mind.

would agree that he's removed too many leaves and done it at the wrong time
it's always best to keep it simple till you have done a few crops and even then some growers should not try this

I have played with my plants a lot over the years and you can gain a lot of extra bud if you do it right

problem is, from what I have seen is most growers get it wrong so topping is the best way of training plants for most growers
and will always give a better yield than not training the plant at all

don't know if uncle Ben gives out this advice but I always flower the plant under 2ft (18" is the best height to get the best yield )
short plants always yield more high quality bud than tall stretched plants under a 600w hps

I flower plants based on my garden's limitations and logistics. For indoor that's 10-14" tall.

Uncle Ben said:

I flower plants based on my garden's limitations and logistics. For indoor that's 10-14" tall.

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Hi uncle ben
I was thinking a 600w would penetrate the canopy 18" and a 1000w hps even more than that, but tbh 10-14" would give you a lot of high qualty bud, just like getting any extra free bud I can

Uncle Ben said:

I flower plants based on my garden's limitations and logistics. For indoor that's 10-14" tall.

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I thought you're a big proponent of long veg-time. How do you mature them and flower while maintaining that height?

They finish at 36" +

Uncle Ben said:

They finish at 36" +

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so you grow sativa strains as they do most there growing in flower, so you flower them off at 10-14" high and they finish at 36"+
not a big lover of sativa dominant strains when it comes to topping as the nodes grow uneven

where a good indica dominant plant will grow 50-100% more when you turn it over to flower, (less stretch so you don't run out of height and larger dense buds, good for newbies) the nodes grow even so you get better results when you top them, also you get a high yield for the short time there in flower

That would be mutts, not sativa.

Uncle Ben said:

That would be mutts, not sativa.

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you can call it what you like, mutts, sativa dominant, sativa hybrids who cares, there only 2 plants grown inside under light ( sativa or indica and its called Hybrid when you mix some sativa and indica together

The point is indica dominant Hybrid strains don't grow 3-4 times there height in flower

Topped for 4 mains.

Chargermane said:

Also I see UB and other people saying that they use this on plants with long internodes to control height.

My internodes are really small and tight, would using this topping technique useful still?

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Cut above #1 for 2 mains and above #2 for 4 mains.

And yes. You can benefit from topping. Believe it can increase yield.