When should you top?

[grh]

In what week of veg should you top?

 

[driftset]

Do it young!

when growing from seed, a lot of people top right above the second leaf set after the third set has formed. This gives you four main colas instead of one.

I myself use clones, so I wait till theres at least 6 growth points/ branches. Then top and leave 4 branches. This produces a similar effect as what I said of the seeds.

I've topped later but i've always gotten a lot of small buds (great for scrog). I don't do scrog so i like growing those 4 branches into nice big colas :)

Here's a pic of the clones befor topping and the other pics 5 days after the top. the 4 branches left over get nice and big and space between nodes gets real tight.

hope that helps

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[Str8Dank]

i just topped a whole cloners worth of cuts as they were going into their first transplant. they were really big and healthy cuts.

 

[Bud Spleefman]

Some plants shouldn't be topped at all, depends on the plant and your growing style... obviously if you are doing a scrog you should top, and train, if you are growing tress, maybe not......

 

[grh]

Thanks driftset, that was super helpful! I just finished the second trasplant, so I think I am way too far along for this round.
Nice Chocolope!

 

[ogk1ng]

i would top 4th, 5th noid on a clone. you wanna get a bush early so you have alot of tops.

 

[half baked]

it all depends on what your lookin to get from your plant, atm ive got a 1x1m tent and top all 16 of my plants to create 4 tops per plant(64 tops in total) im also just finishing off my other room and i am lookin at 9 tops per plant
first pic is a 9 header

second is 4 main tops

1 thing ive noticed with topping is if you do it and nodes start to grow from these nodes they take up lots of space without yeilding as much, what im tryin to say is top when you have to but try to make sure each top grows from the main stem not a node from a node, hope this help a lil bro

peace hb

 

[grh]

Yes, a big help. Thanks!
Btw...I'm a chic farmer :)

 

[budboy299]

Holy cow...you can farm chicks?

To think of all my youth spent in bars and chasing the gals around when I could of simply been growing my own! :evilgrin0040:

 

[JPLord01]

What is your setup like photos if you can then we can go from there.

 

[SeekOne]

Holy cow...you can farm chicks?

To think of all my youth spent in bars and chasing the gals around when I could of simply been growing my own! :evilgrin0040:

LMAO!! That's funny, I don't care who you are.... That's funny.