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

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Eazy1

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Nice mucky ducky
How much veg time did u give them after u topped . . I'm definitely trying this next time in hydro . I'm doing mainlining now and veg time is killing me
 

MuckyDucky

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Nice mucky ducky
How much veg time did u give them after u topped . . I'm definitely trying this next time in hydro . I'm doing mainlining now and veg time is killing me
I started flowering 1 week after topping. The plants in my hydro system grow super fast tho so your results may be different. I have outlined my current grow journal with the dates and photos from the first day.

This is what they looked like when topped on Aug 5th:
https://www.rollitup.org/t/cap-ebb-flow-using-the-lucas-formula-only-3-pots-with-400-watts.835089/page-2#post-10766056

This is what they looked like on Aug 12th, in flower for 1 day:
https://www.rollitup.org/t/cap-ebb-flow-using-the-lucas-formula-only-3-pots-with-400-watts.835089/page-3#post-10790465
 

Eazy1

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Cool did u tie any main colas down on veg or just let it grow natural . Wow that is a quick system I thought my aeroponic was quick
 

MuckyDucky

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The quick growth really amazes me too. My first few grows were in soil and they seemed to take forever to get large enough to flower.. I think I remember vegging for 7 or 8 weeks sometimes and those plants never got over 3 feet tall.

No, I didn't have to tie down the colas at all, I just added the net to the top to hold up the colas after they were in flower.
 

Eazy1

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Cool thanks man .
I will just use yo yos to hold mine up . I was using soil for a long time too. So slow ! My aero system is quick aswell . I think where I have mainlined it's just a really long process . Can't wait to try uncle bens on my next grow . Thanks again
 

Eazy1

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Nice job!
Hi I have plants ready for topping . It clearly says to top above the second true node for this method . If your first true nodes are Runts can you just move up a set and top then remove your two lowest runt nodes . This still gives you 4 tops . What will the difference be . ?? Any ideas
 

Guitar Man

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This is my 4th mature grow using UB's topping technique. The only difference this time was that I decided to attempt an outdoor grow instead of my typical indoor regime. I live in the North, so I wasn't too sure how things would turn out. Well, I just cut this girl down and it's the best harvest I've had from 1 plant.

What is interesting about this plant is, the topping produced a total of 7 main colas. And I mean, main colas. These pictures show this fairly well, but I will take a picture of the stem structure that shows this. I also had one of the cola's split in two, which was a nice surprise.

I planted the germed seed the middle of May and I harvested yesterday. So, she endured about 4 and 1/2 months and performed great. What's interesting about this Strain, about 4 years ago my daughter gave me a seed from her bag weed. That year, I grew this Strain/seed (indoors) and she did herm on me, and I got about 20 seeds from that plant because she pollinated herself.

Since then, I have used those seeds from the hermed plant a couple of times with my indoor grow, and both times, those plants hermed on me as well, as the genetic is in the seed to throw out nanners/balls.

So, since this was my first outdoor grow I figured I would use the hermed seeds, and to my surprise, I didn't find 1 nanner/ball on this plant. I think this proves (in one sense), that the unnatural environment of growing MJ inside may induce enough stress to cause a Hermaphrodite seed to produce the unwanted affects, no matter how hard a grower attempts to avoid this dilemma.
 

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papajohn

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ub lets say you get 4-5 days non stop rain in september,on the 6 day the weather is back to a sunny condition but your leaves are nt stretching does that mean Failure?
 

MuckyDucky

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This is my 4th mature grow using UB's topping technique. The only difference this time was that I decided to attempt an outdoor grow instead of my typical indoor regime. I live in the North, so I wasn't too sure how things would turn out. Well, I just cut this girl down and it's the best harvest I've had from 1 plant.

What is interesting about this plant is, the topping produced a total of 7 main colas. And I mean, main colas. These pictures show this fairly well, but I will take a picture of the stem structure that shows this. I also had one of the cola's split in two, which was a nice surprise.

I planted the germed seed the middle of May and I harvested yesterday. So, she endured about 4 and 1/2 months and performed great. What's interesting about this Strain, about 4 years ago my daughter gave me a seed from her bag weed. That year, I grew this Strain/seed (indoors) and she did herm on me, and I got about 20 seeds from that plant because she pollinated herself.

Since then, I have used those seeds from the hermed plant a couple of times with my indoor grow, and both times, those plants hermed on me as well, as the genetic is in the seed to throw out nanners/balls.

So, since this was my first outdoor grow I figured I would use the hermed seeds, and to my surprise, I didn't find 1 nanner/ball on this plant. I think this proves (in one sense), that the unnatural environment of growing MJ inside may induce enough stress to cause a Hermaphrodite seed to produce the unwanted affects, no matter how hard a grower attempts to avoid this dilemma.
Looking good Guitar Man! I have 3 plants topped and growing right now, different varieties, almost ready to harvest and one of them made 4 colas, one made 5 colas and 1 has 8 but the 4 real mains are a few inches taller and larger. The extra colas grew out from the bottom of the original 4 colas..... must be the pheno and strain that makes some branch like that. All 3 plants were in hydro treated exactly the same way.
 

Uncle Ben

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This is my 4th mature grow using UB's topping technique. The only difference this time was that I decided to attempt an outdoor grow instead of my typical indoor regime. I live in the North, so I wasn't too sure how things would turn out. Well, I just cut this girl down and it's the best harvest I've had from 1 plant.

What is interesting about this plant is, the topping produced a total of 7 main colas. And I mean, main colas. These pictures show this fairly well, but I will take a picture of the stem structure that shows this. I also had one of the cola's split in two, which was a nice surprise.

I planted the germed seed the middle of May and I harvested yesterday. So, she endured about 4 and 1/2 months and performed great. What's interesting about this Strain, about 4 years ago my daughter gave me a seed from her bag weed. That year, I grew this Strain/seed (indoors) and she did herm on me, and I got about 20 seeds from that plant because she pollinated herself.

Since then, I have used those seeds from the hermed plant a couple of times with my indoor grow, and both times, those plants hermed on me as well, as the genetic is in the seed to throw out nanners/balls.

So, since this was my first outdoor grow I figured I would use the hermed seeds, and to my surprise, I didn't find 1 nanner/ball on this plant. I think this proves (in one sense), that the unnatural environment of growing MJ inside may induce enough stress to cause a Hermaphrodite seed to produce the unwanted affects, no matter how hard a grower attempts to avoid this dilemma.
Nice job, great looking colas & plants. As you've proven, natural is best.

Happy harvest,
Uncle Ben
 

Guitar Man

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Yep. All-in-all I think the plants are better if you just plain don't mess with them. All this voodoo with hacking on them for a specific response is hit-or-miss. Some plants will respond real nice to that method, and others not so much. I think you can even break that down to pheno-type as well.


After trying this I fully believe what I've always said to myself when thinking of doing such things; "is that how the plant grows in nature"? If the answer is no then it's not the approach I'm taking.
I have grown MJ naturally, not topping or doing anything with the plant accept feeding and watering it.

Then I've done UB's method of topping and the yield and overall performance of the plant(s) is far beyond letting the plant just do it's thing.

CBK, this is science, not some bullshit idea that so many believe in growing cannabis. Show us your plants that do so much better (or the same) as plants that are topped correctly.
 

Guitar Man

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Nice job, great looking colas & plants. As you've proven, natural is best.

Happy harvest,
Uncle Ben
Here are 2 pics showing the response of topping this particular strain. Interesting how this plant developed additional colas (7 total), and how the one cola split in two. The 2 small branches that came out of the bottom, I almost cut them off when the plant was small, but decided to leave them. The one side also split into two colas off of one branch, and they both produced some NICE buds! (Glad I didn't cut them off!)
 

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Michiganja Meduana

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Here's a little Jack Herer to look at.

The last time I did this, one of the branches was a lot smaller than the others. What can i do to get a slow-poke to catch up? Would I put the short side towards the light, or would I leave it on the shady side of the plant, hoping that it will stretch?




 
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