hey guys, recently stumbled upon this awesome technique for topping your plant (or pruning any tips), while reading a book on growing marijuana, i've lent it to a friend so i'll reference it later when i get it back as the discover deserves credit for it. anyhow, i'm sure a lot of you guys will know of this technique but for those who don't i thought i'd make a thread as it was great to learn it when starting off and is very simple to practice.
all you need to do is instead of cutting the whole top off the shoot you're pruning, you remove only the top 70% of it. in the pic below the top shoot's shaped like an arrow head. you need cut off all of the top part above the WIDEST section of the shoot, the "branching node" (i'll call it).
i've used a clone here to get a close up of the shoot and have drawn a red line where one should cut down to. once cut, pinch the cut surface on the plant closed to help against infection etc. it's important that the majority of the branching node on the tip stays relatively intact as this is where 2 new shoots/tops will emerge.
Here's one i prepared earlier! this is about a week after topping it and as you can see there're 2 shoots coming out of the 30% of the original top that remained after the cutting as well as the 2 at the base of that old top stem. 4 TOPS WILL RESULT! WIN, normally if you remove the entire tip when topping you'll only get those 2 laterals becoming new tops, so it's definitely worth practicing this technique next time you prune!
RESULTS???
these below two pictures show 4 equal sized shoots growing out of the pruned area.
this plant's recovering from a bit of iron def so growing would've been slightly reduced as well as it having a bit of a yellow colouration.
hope this helps!
darwin
all you need to do is instead of cutting the whole top off the shoot you're pruning, you remove only the top 70% of it. in the pic below the top shoot's shaped like an arrow head. you need cut off all of the top part above the WIDEST section of the shoot, the "branching node" (i'll call it).
i've used a clone here to get a close up of the shoot and have drawn a red line where one should cut down to. once cut, pinch the cut surface on the plant closed to help against infection etc. it's important that the majority of the branching node on the tip stays relatively intact as this is where 2 new shoots/tops will emerge.
Here's one i prepared earlier! this is about a week after topping it and as you can see there're 2 shoots coming out of the 30% of the original top that remained after the cutting as well as the 2 at the base of that old top stem. 4 TOPS WILL RESULT! WIN, normally if you remove the entire tip when topping you'll only get those 2 laterals becoming new tops, so it's definitely worth practicing this technique next time you prune!
RESULTS???
these below two pictures show 4 equal sized shoots growing out of the pruned area.
this plant's recovering from a bit of iron def so growing would've been slightly reduced as well as it having a bit of a yellow colouration.
hope this helps!
darwin
