You want to start topping main cola(s) to promote branching. This will stress your plants for about a week, then growth will explode from the bottom branches and middle branches that have more energy due to the fact that the dominant cola is healing itself. Give it a week or two after it has healed so you see real branching take place. After that, just trim all the leaves closest to the main stem, and remove the bottom branches that are not growing well. Magic happens
more like a couple days. i would sugges topping too. instead of apical dominance, youll have terminal dominance (if you top correctly). after you top, veg for another week (or so)
sure..i pull ~28 grams from each plant i run, 12/12 from seed. i think your lights will be the bottleneck. it takes 3 weeks to get pistils anyway. i also top and it fixes itself during the stretch, i dont even give it time to heal. i literally top the day before week 3 (the stretch), and she starts to stretch and grow into her terminal form. look at my blackout kush journal.
sounds good. you cut the entire top off right? if you fim (or top at the wrong spot), the auxins will get stuck up top and not distribute to the terminal sights as they should.
yeah. the entire top should be removed. the two little branches/leaves just under the cut, in the crotches between the next set of nodes and the main stalk will become the two new heads. make sure not to damage those.
just got home from work and the girls are all still looking pretty droopy, is this from the stress from topping them or could they need water or something?
mine never really drooped from it. you need to provide a clear picture of the issue. if its that theyre thirsty, thats a good easy fix. you can literally watch them stand up in 5 mins. if its over watering, its more difficult because roots could be rotting and therefore not working properly