Oldchucky
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I know it does your heart good! Good job!
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For real I had wrote her off as deadI know it does your heart good! Good job!
I'm in PA and I used to grow outside and every time I topped a plant, it split. What I learned to do was tie the tip down about early July as close to the ground as I could. All the branches became tops, and it was easier to hide in my empty field. It would go from 6 ft tall to three foot tall but 5 foot wide.Ive never had a topped outdoor plant split at the stem since i was younger growing back here in tennessee. I always top outdoor plants to keep them short. So far ive never grown outdoors where i didnt have a limit on height. Even here its gonna be about 10-12 foot max. I may be early harvesting some colas this year too.
But i also use inverted tomato cages to support the vertical branches, and use them inverted so the top ring is smallest. And also so i can use the easily bendable, but strong legs to support the large lower branches that come from a topped plant that like to split on ya down the road, especially in flower. Sometimes ill also tie an elestic band from the branchto the main stalk about 8 inches to a foot up the branch as well if its one of the lower ones. I got a few branches out there ive elastic'd this year. And all my big topped plants have inverted (upside down and staked down) tomato cages. And the biggest are about to be side trellised as well.
I definitely would not recommend topping outdoor plants early unless you have a reliable way of supporting the lower stems ready to put into place.
That plant will be fine and survive this no problem, but You need to rig up some sort of support method for that plant's biggest branches or you are going to struggle with this throughout the entirety of flower. Even if you just buy some elastic bands and tie every branch to the main stem, then stake u pthe main stem. That will work decently, but bad storms can still break stuff. It is absolutely critical that you support those branches by the main stem on an early topped outdoor plant. The preflower interior clean up will also need to be a bit more dramatic then otherwise. Side trellising right before flower starts would also be a really good idea for that plant.
My peaceblaster #1 has been topped 3 times, is close to 8 ft tall, and wider then it is tall, and im not worried one bit (knock on wood) about her branches splitting. Even less so once i get the side trellis up on her. But shes also half columbian land race, and that columbian could literally survive a mild midwestern tornado in flower completely unsupported with no branch breaks. So probably bad example![]()
The smooth 1 finger and then the 3 fingers are classic signs of reveg. As gnick said light may have caused it. Is there a porch light or motion light near the plant?Ok now here’s this clone I cut of one of these idk because at that point I was just trying to. Clone anything and that one worked it’s small but I’m proud I gave it life so her she is all weird 3 leaf crazy whatever IS THIS NORMAL???? If so why did it happen ??? What did I do wrong ?
ya leave it be and let it goIf she’s in flower now is it gonna finish I don’t understand??? What to do ?
If the sun did it you don’t need to do anything. If there is a porch light, motion light, street light, car lights that can cause them to reveg. You will need to address that. Stress can cause three fingers and 1. That smooth leaf is a hard reveg.If she’s in flower now is it gonna finish I don’t understand??? What to do ?
It’s around the big one holding and supporting it grown through it and yes I bet it will be a nightmare I’ll cut it off it did help with the big storms and since it was already fragile I assumed it was a great idea I know what assuming means I made a ass out of me and the plantwhy the netting?
that will be nothing but a tangled mess..
doesn’t look like it’s doing anything?
just use a better support plan next time..It’s around the big one holding and supporting it grown through it and yes I bet it will be a nightmare I’ll cut it off it did help with the big storms and since it was already fragile I assumed it was a great idea I know what assuming means I made a ass out of me and the planttoo late now lesson learned don’t top big plant outside for sure learned a lot this grow