When is a good time to prune my plants?

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$tegguNknUk$

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I am growing outdoors and i started germinating on june6 got them in the ground and now they are about 3-3 1/2 feet tall execpt for the runt in the back which i am not going to prune because i have a feeling its going to be the bomb one and its only 2 1/2 ft well im just wondering when i should, I was thinking about a week and a half from now.
 
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$tegguNknUk$

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well the area they are in if they get too big its going to be obvious whats going on where they are, plus i do not have any way of holding the plants up if they get to heavy, also they are kind of on a hill, so gravity will pull the buds down.
 
Angus

Angus

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$tegguNknUk$ said:
well the area they are in if they get too big its going to be obvious whats going on where they are, plus i do not have any way of holding the plants up if they get to heavy, also they are kind of on a hill, so gravity will pull the buds down.
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What exactly do you mean by 'prune'? It is a pretty general term.
 
Corbat420

Corbat420

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for the most part......topping=bad.
there are much better methods out there that dont put the plant into (as much) shock such as FIM and LST'ing. FIM=chopping the top 75% of the main head, so that it can still recover and be the main head, just with a second, third ect lesser head. LST'ing makes a vine out of the main stem, so that the branches form individual heads.
 
GrowSpecialist

GrowSpecialist

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Topping doesn't shock a plant. I've done it many many times and the plants have always grown just as vigorously as ever.
 
Corbat420

Corbat420

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nice, your babies must be getting their Vit B. it still kills the main head, due to overting ALL the growth hormones(cant fuck with science). FIM, FIM, FIM, FIM, dont decapitate!

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FIM TECHNIQUE

First published by Kyle Kushman in July 00 High times, the FIM Technique came from a grower in south carolina who discovered the topping method by accident. Without naming himself or herself the reader instead cryptically asked that the technique be called FIM. Now colloquially referred to as FIMMING, this ingenious way to get multiple tops from one plant has transformed indoor growing.

Traditional topping [diagram A] involves cutting the growing node off completely to induce the stalk to split in two. FIM growers trim the top 80% of the node, leaving about 20% intact [diagram B]. The node splits into many more tops, creating a bushier tree. Using the FIM technique just once can yield up to eight additional shoots.

What originally apeared to be a sloppy way of topping became instead, perfect for dramatically increasing harvest.
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