WTF is lollypopping?

Just an inform-myself thread, what do you do in the method of lollypopping? What is it good for?

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Lmao no idea where did you hear of this

wtf is that? ... maybe its curing or molasses what u talking about?

You remove the lower 1/3 of growth (all leaves and side shoots) on a single cola plant so that they no longer take nutrients from the rest of the plant, this causes the top cola to become larger and more potent (as there is no lower growth/budsites, that don't get a lot of light, to 'steal' nutrients from the top of the plant, which is the largest cola which receives the most light). This causes the plant to look somewhat like a lollipop... Stick at the base, mass on top.

It can be used to increase yield, usually in grows with limited space where the lower budsites of the plants are shaded by other plants and so never develop properly.

You remove the lower 1/3 of growth (all leaves and side shoots) on a single cola plant so that they no longer take nutrients from the rest of the plant, this causes the top cola to become larger and more potent (as there is no lower growth/budsites, that don't get a lot of light, to 'steal' nutrients from the top of the plant, which is the largest cola which receives the most light). This causes the plant to look somewhat like a lollipop... Stick at the base, mass on top.

It can be used to increase yield, usually in grows with limited space where the lower budsites of the plants are shaded by other plants and so never develop properly.

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https://www.rollitup.org/ads/adclick.php?bannerid=13&zoneid=1&source=&dest=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollitup.org%2Fsendmessage.php very intresting... thanks for info. anyway, i dont think that it could increase yield.. would be nice to see some pics, though

Funny i was just thinking about this method.

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very intresting... thanks for info. anyway, i dont think that it could increase yield.. would be nice to see some pics, though

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Yep it can increase yield. Otherwise I wouldn't say it.
I don't use the method myself as I rarely grow single cola plants.
A lot of people remove lower growth when doing ScrOG grows, it's the same method to the madness, in a ScrOG the lower growth is completely shaded, so the buds down there never grow properly or fully mature well. The leaves are shaded and so are doing very little photosynthesis but the plant still needs to feed them the sugars created by the leaves photosynthesis-ing on the top of the plant (in the light), if the lower leaves got no sugars they'd die and drop off, creating the same effect as removing them anyway.
Removing them means that they are not there to require sugars created by photosynthesis and so the plant can redirect those sugars and that energy to the parts of the plant that most greatly require it, such as the leaves and budsites receiving the most light at the top of the plant.

it increases the yield by alowing you to plant up to 4 plants per sq foot in hydro
so by packing many more times as many plants in under the same light / sq footage you go from say 1 plant every 1.5 sq ft to sat 4 plants per sq ft which in a 4 x 4 area instead of say 9 plants you pack in 64 plants .. 4 per sq is the max and al b fukt reccomends 2.6 per sq ft i think but even that is like 42 plants in a 4 x 4

so yeah yield wise if you average an ounce top cola per plant yer rollin in the tonnage

thats a new one on me lol

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What Lollipopping can do for you:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qaNG1pN9We4

I've got a F3 hybrid that produces colas like that when I look after it properly... I think it's coz it has the yield of it's Northern Lights and Skunk genetics but flowers like a Haze with 12-14 weeks of flowering time to mature, that's a lot of growth time fro something with buds swelling like a Skunk x NL hybrid.

This is a poor example of lollipopping, but the only one I have a picture of, if you look closely you can see how the lower shoots and leaves have been removed to encourage a large top cola.



Mmm... Perty colours

the lollipopping sog is tried and true. i learned it from albfuct and am doing it right now, it's the real deal

the lollipopping sog is tried and true. i learned it from albfuct and am doing it right now, it's the real deal

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Sure is tried and true. It's simply logical too, buds down the bottom will not get light, therefor they'll not develop properly, therefor there's no sense in them being there!

So I'm just guessing that where you snip or cut the branches off, new growth comes back from area. If so, do you just constantly trim the little stubs back?

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So I'm just guessing that where you snip or cut the branches off, new growth comes back from area. If so, do you just constantly trim the little stubs back?

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no they dont grow back. when i snip the tops of the branches to get more branches i always cut the lower and inner branches and leaves off.

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some people also literally tie lolipops to there bottom branches to make them droop not sure why, but it fattens up your plants. I saw it done on this website

that makes absolutely no fucking sense. Maby the person who told you that was just an asshole and was praying on your ignorance. Or... I say you believed that guy and you really think people tie lollipops to thier plants because your too young and dumb to be on this site.