Topping Outdoor Weed Plant Question

Any where under the top node.
I usually strip off the big fans on the main stalk then.

 

After running outdoors for a few years, I started topping and never looked back. As soon as the 4th node appeared, I would start and never let them get over 4 feet or so. If you let them grow into trees, your top nugs will be great, your middle decent, and your bottom shit. Once topped, you won't get the quantity, but the quality should be there throughout the plant if done right.
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I think nature has designed cannabis plants to make as many seeds as it possibly can, that's really it's only mission in life and if topping an outdoor plant increased seed production (bud production) then nature would have designed the plant differently. Growing indoors fucks with the natural state so making alterations is necessary. Since size isn't an issue for you, I suggest topping one or two and let the others grow naturally. See which is best and post your results in this thread after harvest.

At any rate, you're going to need bigger cages. Here's my last summer's crop, there are eleven plants (my wife and I are allowed 12 in flower under NM rec laws) crammed together and early on I topped them once or twice before setting them out about June 1st. They were so close together they grew as if they were one plant with the outside buds getting the light, the inside buds didn't do so well. Notice the buds grew about how Caljain said, large on top and smaller down low but still the lower buds are decently sized. Where they're growing gets shade from about mid afternoon on so they didn't get full sun all day which may partially account for their runty look. 11lbs bud and 3 pounds smaller buds and popcorn. Ignore my wife, I stuck her in there for perspective.

 

Purely personal thing I don't think it will make a diff either way.

 

I've grown indoors more than outdoors because for most of my life growing was a felony and they weren't fucking around when it came to sentencing time plus I enjoy growing pot and could grow year around. Now that I'm an old man and growing is legal I've found growing outside satisfies my need to grow and my desire for a stash box full of bud and a freezer full of oil. Long ago, maybe in the mid 1970s I swore I'd never be out of pot again and so far I haven't been. I've been close to out a couple of times during the years I wasn't in a position to grow for one reason or another but would eventually find someone with a QP for sale then I'd be set for a while.

My last year's harvest was plentiful because of all the spring rains we had plus I was basically growing where I'd been composting pine needles and yard clippings for the previous several years. Anyway, I'm not growing this year.

I don't remove fan leaves when growing outside. Inside I remove the ones that shade bud sites but I couldn't tell you if it makes any difference or not.

 

What are you feeding the girls?

They look healthy organic vs synthetic nutes but I doubt your soil mix alone kept them as lush as they looked last year.

 

You should do some reading on living soil, it might convince you otherwise.
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You're not understanding my comment, I've been organic for 10+ years. My post was complimenting him on their health by assuming that he isn't feeding them synthetics. But I also don't think he's running hydro store bag soil only start to finish.

 

I doubt your soil mix alone kept them as lush as they looked last year.

LOL Okay, but to me, that's not what that's^^^ saying.

Sorry I misunderstood