What is your biggest question about growing cannabis?

[Vaibag]

No the tip is the brand new leaf coming out at the extreme end of the stem. You barely pinch anything off if you do it at the right time. What you want to do I would call hedge trimming.

can you top plant in direct sunlight or do you put it in the shade or do it inside??

[Vaibag]

I’m a first timer and I absolutely f$&&ed up the seedling stage, I began indoors and the light was too weak and
I had the light too far away, it grew to like 15cm looking like a thin root so I had to educate myself on a few things, fixed them up and it took me 3 weeks to get it to veg stage lol, I’m new to this stuff 😀

I would chop off at the 6th node but the pistils are present on the 8th node.

I live in the Southern Hemisphere so I have about 4 weeks until the sun goes to 12/12.
If I run out of time I’ll hit it with a light for 3-4 hrs before sunset to make it think it’s still veg time, being my first plant and the fact that it’s female I definitely wanna get to the harvest stage.

Just waiting on some supplies and I’ll be tying stuff down on the plant.

One thing about topping I’m unsure of is if you can do it while the plant is in direct sunlight or if you do it in the shade or take the plans inside to do it??

[Puglover1]

What was it doing the other few weeks if not vegging? I had to chop the tops off of three big plants on my first grow or I would have been harvesting buds in my attic - closet grow. I did pinch a few tips when they were young, before I had the closet set up. With mentoring from a generous, helpful member on here I still have a few jars of bud left, a year later. HST, LST, and a lot of twisty ties and yoyos were used. It'll delay your harvest but you'd yield a lot more if you ... chop off a good bit of the plant. Growers have their own methods, topping after nodes 4, 5 or 6 or just LST to spread out the plant. You can hard stress a plant, train a stem to grow at a 90 degree angle for a foot, sideways, the growing tip end will seek the light, sun above. You want an even canopy. Where you live is the amount of hours of daylight on the downswing? If so will you have enough daylight hours to complete the harvest?

[Vaibag]

No the tip is the brand new leaf coming out at the extreme end of the stem. You barely pinch anything off if you do it at the right time. What you want to do I would call hedge trimming.

Haha hedge trimming 😀 from all the topping vids I watched that seems to be the norm. Unless I fim like you just said.
There’s so many people that cut the plant in half - those vids scared the shit outta me 😀

[3Berries]

That is pretty much the tip in that pic. There’s one more node above but it has only just developed leaves.
There’s about 3cm of plant above that red line in the pic.

No the tip is the brand new leaf coming out at the extreme end of the stem. You barely pinch anything off if you do it at the right time. What you want to do I would call hedge trimming.

[Vaibag]

If you are not going to cut the very tippipy tip off them it doesn't really matter where you cut it. Anywhere you cut will force more branching. Cutting down low like you want to will work but not as well as at the very tip of the plant stems. If height is the issue then the only thing else is to bend them over and let them grow more horizontally. This too will sprout out more stems and flowers.

That is pretty much the tip in that pic. There’s one more node above but it has only just developed leaves.
There’s about 3cm of plant above that red line in the pic.

[Vaibag]

No it’s 9 and a half weeks, in its 6th week of vegging.
yeah done a lot of reading and looked at a lot of the
info here on GWE.
It’s 50cm tall now, can get to 160cm, I probably wouldn’t want it higher than 80cm.

[3Berries]

So the 8th node isn’t symmetrical, would I cut it at the red line??

If you are not going to cut the very tippipy tip off them it doesn't really matter where you cut it. Anywhere you cut will force more branching. Cutting down low like you want to will work but not as well as at the very tip of the plant stems. If height is the issue then the only thing else is to bend them over and let them grow more horizontally. This too will sprout out more stems and flowers.

[Puglover1]

Do you have a picture of the entire plant? Was it started from seed? You're saying that a 6 week old plant in 14.5 hours of daylight went into flowering stage? Have you read on the GWE main site about plant training? There are several options. What is your final height limit?

[Vaibag]

So the 8th node isn’t symmetrical, would I cut it at the red line??

[3Berries]

Yes, and the closer you can get to the node the better when you cut. It will double branch out and force new branching out all over.

[Vaibag]

Ah so just cut off the stalk one centimetre above the 8th node and that way keep the pistils??

[3Berries]

Just the tip. Then it ill start double branching and force growth on what is left. Either one is just the tip. No sense throwing away a node unless you really need to keep it short. Then your better off bending it over. And you can cut the tips off other branches too near the top.

[Vaibag]

Are you talking about fimming or topping?

I wanna top, and I’ve read to do it at the 6th node,
so if I cut it there there’s 2 more nodes above it and
the very top one has pistils, so I’ll be cutting off 10cm
of plant but the pistils being there and nowhere else
worries me. Will pistils appear elsewhere??

[3Berries]

It's just the very tip, just as the new leaves come out but not expanded, pinch them completely off.