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

Have fun fellers!

wish someone would do a thread on growinig bonzai mothers...I guess it couldn't be that hard.

dude if ya cant find nothing here try this link its a great bonzai mother guide
http://www.weedguru.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=88&t=26668

odlaw said:

dude if ya cant find nothing here try this link its a great bonzai mother guide
http://www.weedguru.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=88&t=26668

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Yea I looked at that, but Its not really what Im looking for... what I may be calling bonzai style mums may actually be called something else. Thank you though.
What Im talking about is where there are no leaves on the stock for about a foot or so then it gets bushy as hell.

Zcomfort said:

Yea I looked at that, but Its not really what Im looking for... what I may be calling bonzai style mums may actually be called something else. Thank you though.
What Im talking about is where there are no leaves on the stock for about a foot or so then it gets bushy as hell.

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isnt that called lolly popping

odlaw said:

isnt that called lolly popping

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Yes, and consider it a dirty word in this thread.

Uncle Ben said:

Yes, and consider it a dirty word in this thread.

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lol fair enough

the norther lights auto flower i topped was supposed to have 4 top colas but i accidently broke one of the branches off !! but oh well 3 better then 1!!!!

and this is an autoflower too!

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thanks so so much UB,
ive spent the last like few months looking through this WHOLE thread
your patience for the people not even arsed to read the first POST and then comment is truely admirable.
i think i actually saw one guy asking, "so how do i get four tops?"

i just have one question however(btw i completely understand the topping technique and i did from page1)
you mentioned earlier that you could in theory use this concept on any plant - even an oak tree,
but lets say for a tomato plant: there are no opposing nodes on a tomato plant so how would you do it then? (this is purely out of interest in botany as i hate tomatoes)

anyway i think its terrible, but oddly funny, that your possibly the only grower on this site, that i can truely trust for advice, because you advise from experience(without influence from all the commercial crap surrounding the growing community, like soma for example), and not only that but you'd rather tell them to go find out through their own experience rather than be told what to do off a screen.

if there was a "give handjob" button, i'd press it, but i guess RIU have a lot of work to do on this site haha

much love

I have 4 strains.

Dutch Passion Orange Bud
Barney Farms LSD
DNA Lemon Skunk
DNA Sour Cream
I would like to do it to one. which one would benefit the most?

Uncle Ben said:

Yes, and consider it a dirty word in this thread.

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clever,
+rep

DunLarkin said:

I have 4 strains.

Dutch Passion Orange Bud
Barney Farms LSD
DNA Lemon Skunk
DNA Sour Cream
I would like to do it to one. which one would benefit the most?

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do it to all of them....

I have never topped before, is this an opportunity to yield more?

Topping does not directly give larger yield, but topping along with certain techniques or methods, and styles of growing can definitely improve the yield of a grow.

GimpDoctor420 said:

I just have one question however(btw i completely understand the topping technique and i did from page1)
you mentioned earlier that you could in theory use this concept on any plant - even an oak tree,
but lets say for a tomato plant: there are no opposing nodes on a tomato plant so how would you do it then? (this is purely out of interest in botany as i hate tomatoes)

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You need to understand where the dormant foliar buds are located. In the case of cannabis and many other plant materials, they're in the axils of where the leaf petioles, branches, attach to the trunk. More are located along the "trunk" but it takes alot to make them break out, so, for the sake of discussion, keep that in mind.

anyway i think its terrible, but oddly funny, that your possibly the only grower on this site, that i can truely trust for advice, because you advise from experience(without influence from all the commercial crap surrounding the growing community, like soma for example), and not only that but you'd rather tell them to go find out through their own experience rather than be told what to do off a screen.

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Thanks. I don't allow popular opinion sway me or forum politics define who I am.

Good luck,
UB

I grow in square plastic pots, if I top for four colas, let the new "main" branches grow a bit and then tie them down (just once), one in each corner of the pot, reckon this would make a decent combination of the two techniques to check out?

Harrekin said:

I grow in square plastic pots, if I top for four colas, let the new "main" branches grow a bit and then tie them down (just once), one in each corner of the pot, reckon this would make a decent combination of the two techniques to check out?

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I feel like this is the most efficient methods of combining the methods. The real stress of topping, which isn't much to begin with, is done with and you can continue to train your plant without major snips. Plus topping first really sets the whole process into gear, and the side branches more readily come out.

awesome thread. +rep!

I have to make a decision pretty soon on topping these three plants; Barney's Farm LSD, Blueberry Gum and Pineapple Express. Yes, I got some of these in the Attitude freebie last month. I'm contemplating letting it grow a little taller and trying to clone the resulting top when I cut it. Anyone with experience with these particular strains, or trying to clone a top on a young vegging plant, let me know.

Can you choose any two sets of nodes you want or does it have to be the bottom 2 sets? Like keep the 3 and 4 nodes, top above, then clip off the 1 and 2 node?