Super cropping idea

Discussion in 'Plant Training' started by kashkr0p, Sep 21, 2013.


  1. If this was brought up before then sorry. What if instead of jus popping a spot with your fingers to create a knuckle what if you taped off a larger area then what Ud normally pop with your fingers an jus snap that area within the tape that way it'll stay up n hopefully in a week or 2 have a larger knuckle for water an nuet flow. Has anyone tryed this or is this a dumb idea?


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  2. Hello helloo helooo *echo*

    Lol anyone thinks this is dumb?

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  3. I don't see the point.  Knuckles aren't really a good thing.  I can't see why you'd want them on your plant.  Best to try and avoid them by not breaking the branch.    All you'd achieve here is slower and stunted growth.
     
  4. A knuckel I thought was the point of super cropping so the plant cam.carry more water an nuets

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  5. #5 tylerm428, Sep 21, 2013
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    No, not at all.
     
    If you supercrop properly you don't have knuckles or you have very small knuckles..    The point of supercropping is to force the plant into more horizontal growth which usually results in more branching and more light to budsites - ultimately resulting in more yield.
     
    A knuckle is formed when you break or heavily damage a stem.  The plant can no-longer pass nutrients through a broken branch and cannot repair the branch at the break.  Instead the plant grows around the break to re-establish a path for nutrients to flow.   A knuckle is only as big as the plants need to allow nutrient transport.  It's not a storage area, not does it improve nutrient flow.
     
    Whenever a knuckle is formed it means the plant was damaged and had to repair itself.  This is time and energy wasted that could have gone to vegetative growth.  Typically a knuckle represents a setback or a delay in the plant's development.
     
  6. I appolagize for my dumbness lol

    I found this somehwere on a diff site.


    to explain it in a way that makes sense, you basically fool the plant into thinking it has no top.. if the point in which you super cropped formed a horizontal line over the plant, the plant would try to push everything below that line up to give it a top... all the lower branches, instead of growing outward horizontally, will start to bend and grow upwards, vertically... really, everything below the imaginary line the super cropping makes grows vertically verse horizontally.



    So I was wrong thanks for clearing that up

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  7. Super cropping causes branching, when you pinch the stem and the top part of the plant falls down to a 90 degree angle, the hormones will begin to undergo some changes. Cannabis is a plant that focuses a majority of its energy at the tops and most of the auxins are up there. When you supercrop and te top half of the plant is hanging at a 90 degree angle those auxins spread throughout the plant because its at that angle the plant thinks it needs to produce more branching/tops to get some tops as close to the light as possible. So idk what that guys talking about^

    And idk man that seems risky and probably wouldn't work. Pinching stems already causes enough stress, pinching a whole main stem would cause sooo much stress and the plant would probably be laying on the ground or something. I wouldn't do it
     
  8. Thanks ted u been a help latly

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  9. No problem man glad to help
     
  10. I use supercropping technique instead of top or fim the recovery is shorter and outdoor my plants stay wide and short with upwards of 15 sudo-colas


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  11. I supercrop indoors and my plants also recover amazingly fast. I believe topping and FIM to take longer. IDK, that's just my take on it. To each their own. Phezisica
     
  12. #12 Kinglewis360, Sep 19, 2015
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    first you just need to squeeze very fairly hard to weaken the cell wall. You then bend back, forth at a medium pace each time back and forth bend a bit further than last until it's at a complete 90 degree angle. She'll then eventually form a a huge in knuckle and start sticking up straight again then repeat a few inches up were it won't be rock hard. NEVER try it on the wood like part just the green more bendy parts. If you break it fuck it either throw it away and it's like topping or get out the duct tape g'day.
     
  13. I love the knuckles. That knuckle is a strong joint, once its healed you're good to go. I've never seen a decrease in growth rates or overall product from super cropping. Its great if you want really bush out the plants, thats something topping alone can never do. Lst takes too much effort to get the same results IMO. Your plant will naturally fill up the empty space you have available.
     
  14. i like to super crop as much as possible.


    it greatly helps with yield.


    more buds.


    highly recommended.




     

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