supercropping

[dodohead]

I was just wondering what would happen if you supercropped all of your fan leaf sites?

dodohead Reviewed by dodohead on 10-29-2007. supercropping I was just wondering what would happen if you supercropped all of your fan leaf sites? Rating: 5

[stinkyattic]

When a fan leaf is removed another one should grow back, but if you are talking about FIM on the fan sites, the answer is nothing much- you have to FIM on a growing tip.
To me supercropping means something entirely different though- the practice of starting seeds/cuts in very small containers and maintaining an UNINTERRUPTED canopy through all growth stages to take advantage of light, and repotting rather frequently so that there is no time where a plant is sitting in a SUPER oversized pot losing light to the media surface. Application to cannabis growing would be using like a 400MH for veg with all the plants clustered under in small pots and then at least 1200 total watts HPS for flower and spreading them out and raising the lights as they grow larger and fill in.

[dodohead]

oo, i thought supercropping was when you crushed the insides of whatever stem you are doing it on.

[foxysox]

The term means different things to different people. I don't like the stem-crushing technique; I feel it is too great a risk of allowing disease to enter the crush site, and I also don't like the idea of the plant wasting energy healing itself. I prefer to pinch and tie, or bend over and allow apical dominance to switch naturally to newly-exposed nodes without pinching.

[growbe]

oo, i thought supercropping was when you crushed the insides of whatever stem you are doing it on.

Me too. The thing is that there really is no pot dictionary so everyone has there own views. Take LST-to me it means doing nothing but pulling the plants over to achieve an even canopy. I have been doing this for years and someone coined the term on overgrow. At least that is where I first found out about it a long time back. It makes sense (low stress training).But others considered LST doing anything that achieves an even canopy like Fimming, super cropping, topping and so on and so forth. So I guess to each his own.

[smokenss]

the term LST is new to me but ive been tying plants down for years

[20dollarholla]

I thought supercropping was topping all the visable tops when they are very young, is this true?

[c of green]

supercropping is when you pinch the stem and roll it back and forth in your fingers until it leans over.you have to be careful not to break the skin otherwise you risk disease.At least thats what soma says.i,ve used this technique a few times but don't really see any real purpose yield wise,more for keeping them even

[growbe]

^^^^ Wow dude, that was amazing. I'm not sure what the hell to call my training, but I learned it from OG. Actually I started doing this about 25 years ago outdoors. I grew on a deck and had to keep the plants below 2 feet, noy incluing pot. So I used string to pull them down, and I had no idea that what was to about to occur. And that was an awesome yield
I can't remember the guy on og but his user name was something like delta9.. Then there was another guy that started taking all the credit, but delta and him did not see eye to eye on a lot things. Delta was one hell of a grower and knew all the plant jargon.Then there was a guy musicformybrains or something like that. He use to grow one big ass wide plant in a closet and would ave 8 oz's per.
So my technique is to veg for 6-8 weeks. Finishing in 5 or 7 gal pots. I pull every branch down and here is what i come up with. I spend a hell of a lot of time doing this and it pays off. You see 6 plants in this pic. Peace

[growbe]

So much for editing. damn time limit. Oh well, you get the picture. I'm pretty sure a few of these guys used fertigation where they watered/fed everday and flush right when the plant showed signs of locking up. 6 or 7 days.
I tried releasing the strings at week 6 like delta said to do, but could never get it work for me. Damn buds would get so big and heavy that they would fall over at times whan I would do this.
And talk about woody stems!