This causes the plant to distribute energy more evenly across the side branches, as illustrated below. Topping uses a different technique to accomplish this. Topping is simply the act of cutting or pinching off the main growth point with the goal of breaking the apical dominance, and encouraging side branching.
Repeating the process will encourage the plant to spread energy across even more bud sites. It will start to branch out and take on a bush form. The final goal of topping in most cases is to get bushy growth that makes the best use of available light and space.
Topping does take some effort and care, but in many cases it is the right move — especially for the indoor grower. Many cannabis strains naturally grow taller than your ceiling — topping reduces vertical growth and encourages horizontal branching. If left to grow naturally, marijuana plants produce only one main cola — topping improves yield, since branching causes the plant to produce multiple large colas.
Left to grow naturally, marijuana plants will take the shape of a Christmas tree. The entire exterior of the plant can be coated in sunlight. Topping and training your plant to have a flat canopy will make better use of indoor grow lights. For this, just let the plant keep its apical dominance to focus energy on the main cola. Since topping can be traumatic to the plant and slow growth, autos that mature in less than 90 days can be stunted and reduce production.
Both tips that are rising out of this node are now considered terminal buds. Now you have more than one kola. However, there is no need to get upset.
Topping and the Height of Your Cannabis Plant Sure, you want to cultivate as much cannabis as possible. Since you are snipping away at the top, the plant must figure out a new trajectory. Therefore, if roots are sprouting on the bottom, then the recovery time will be minimal. Each plant is unique and will have different recovery times. The general rule of thumb is rotund and thick plants are more resilient.
If you top thick plants too early, their bounce back rate is still impressive. Getting the Node Ready for Regrowth Once you top, the fun doesn't stop.
After the apex bud has been topped, continue to top new shoots as they spring up. All you need to do is wait for one internode to grow. By doing this, you can expect the plant to grow very bushy. When Topping is Not an Option Topping is a popular process and can bring forth a very generous yield of cannabis.
However, it's not always a good idea to top your cannabis plants. For instance, be sure to stay away from topping when your plant has hit the flowering phase. You should only top when the cannabis is still growing in the vegetative stage. Think of how you or your children acted during puberty. When things change, plants and humans act a fool. Changes in Energy Consumption and Its Effect on Topping Some of these important changes include how many nutrients and how much moisture the plant needs.
You can literally pop your girl into a 5gal, and spend months designing her.. She alone could withstand 1x w and yield oz Ez depending on strain. Yeah, I prefer bigger nice colas, there ain't nothing more satisfying than a huge 1 oz nug that you can slap your friends in the face with. There are so many ways to top, trim, fim, prune, whatever you want to do to a plant. Many strains lend themselves readily to this kind of treatment while others do not.
I don't like to top or interfer with the plant until around the 8th node just to ensure that I have established a good root system inwhich to feed the new growth you are going to be producing. Plant health and vigor starts theres, I know lots of other things but the roots are the starting point.
Word of advice before you top or whatever, have you decided what you want your plant to look like when its done? Two or four main branches? Many buds sites with a lower canopy? This statement will get lots of different views but here is mine. If you are new to growing overall, not to mention our girls I wouldn't do anything the first grow. The more budsites, the smaller the container the more attention and balancing you are going to have to do to keep your girl at her peak throughout the grow.
You can top and other things to a plant and produce more bud sites but until you learn how to grow a plant and what it needs and when, you are not going to know what the plant is capable of. Right now the simplier you keep things the less stressed you will be over your plant during its grow. Just my two cents, but I also would be learning to take clones off of this girl and then go wild.
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When you click through our links and make purchases you are supporting our work! Search Coco for Cannabis. Search Icon. Apical Dominance and Auxins in Cannabis Cannabis naturally grows like a Christmas Tree because its apical dominance is set for tall skinny growth.
The Topping Technique Topping allows us to manipulate the growth patterns of the plant by removing top apical growth tips where auxins are produced. When To Top Cannabis Plants: We generally recommend that you wait until your cannabis plants have 6 nodes before topping them.
Equipment for Topping Cannabis If you plan to do any topping or pruning then you will need to get a pair of pruning snips.
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