stelow

Works well for stimulating side branch growth. You just pinch the plant between the internodes. Use your finger and thumb and just pinch the plant without injurying the outer shell watch your fingernails when you do this. Your nails can cause serious injury to the plant. Then you just rotate your hand around the plant 180% and pinch again same spot. There will be a slight snap sound sometimes thats o.k.. You just broke the inner herd of the plant thus stimulation takes place. This does work and the sooner you start during veg the better the results.

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Stalwart

I like where you use both hands and twist the stem in opposite directions that way your not directly in contact with the part that's being mangled( for lack of a better word) so those hemp fibers can keep the surface cells intact.

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mr. hyde

is there any difference between either way described here and cutting the stem with scissors?

stelow

Maybe not to clear about my description then, if you think that. This method is explained fully in high times super grow special. I've used the method and it does work. You carefully break or, in the case of seedlings bruise the innner herd, without damaging the outer stalk. Breaking the inner herd initiates growth. You have not cut anything. You have not removed any part of the plant. Again I have used this method and it does work. But as close as you see alot of these guys growing there plants it would defeat the purpose. The next post that came after mine, in this thread, says I THINK you'd have to pinch with your nails. I have sharp nails and they would definately damage the outer stalk. Maybe to much information, but i have accidently lost tops because I was not careful with my nails.

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there are various ways of supercropping/lst/fim... The scissor idea though is a last resort nowadays in my eyes... It just doesn't seem logical to snip the plant, stunt growth as it repairs the cut, and then goes back to growin'... I'm a big fan of LST.

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Supercropping by Soma

Another one of my tricks is stem bending, a technique where you roll the stem in between your fingers while squeezing fairly hard, but not hard enough to break the stem, then slowly bend the stem over. The stem forms a hard elbow where it was bent and the top straightens itself out so that it can continue pointing at the Sun (grow light ). The result is what is called Supercropping. The secondary buds underneath the tops, build up with a survival hormone because of the stress factor and become at least twice as large as normal, increasing the yield and potentcy. I do this technique to each plant quite a few times as they are growing to achieve an even canopy as I look at the plants from the top.

Source: "Grow with Wisdom #6" by Soma

I like this method of training, it's simple to do after a little practice and it has worked well on the plants I've used it on.

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GreenDragon2k

there was awhile, where I would only supercrop and never top....


Now I seem to always top and never supercrop
I think its just easier, lasyness..


cool thing about supercropping is you can get the plant to bush out like topping but you dont exactly lose your main cola.

Also topping during streching phase is not reccomended. >But you can still supercrop!

I never really felt it improved yield that much on the branch but it is an effective training method, at least in my experience.

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stelow

Well GreenDragon2k with most of us older growers it was just the opposite we never even heard of supercropping back in the day but we knew what it meant to top a plant.

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Sso

kinda reminds of, i think it was called panama gold or something like that, just before harvest, you strip the stem abit under the top cola, this causes it to dry out on the plant, aquiring a golden colour and a very smooth smoke i assume (just read about this)

but my point is, "the result is what is called Supercropping. The secondary buds underneath the tops, build up with a survival hormone because of the stress factor and become at least twice as large as normal, increasing the yield and potentcy"

doesnt this just retard the top, enlarging the secondary branches at the expense of the main cola? losing time as the lower branches get ready?

stelow

It gives you more main colas with a bigger overall yield if done properly; depending on the extent you supercrop the plant, it's possible to still have a larger main cola. One plant supercropped can yield much more than one that's not.

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