Quote Originally Posted by prettygirlsmokes420
I was wondering if it would damage my plant if I tie the branches down and keep topping it. As of right now it has four tops that have been topped again. It's just a small experament I'm trying. But still, I've heard you cab train the plants. Id love to try but I want to make sure it won't hurt the plant. My goal is to make as many tops as I can before I sent it into flowering, but I want it to be bushy as well. Some of the bigger branches are blocking light from the smaller ones in the center and id like to tie them down so they will grow outward and then back up, prefferably around the smaller branches in the middle. Will that work?
You have no doubt seen that it is hard to kill off this weed if you are giving it what it needs, and topping (I prefer FIM'ing) or LST (low stress training) just seems to encourage the dang things. A master grower once told me that when you force the tallest growth to be lower than some of the other growth on the sides, it releases a hormone into the plant that tells it to grow out from the sides. Tying down your top growth does produce a much more bushy plant because of this.

Do a search here on the board for LST and for FIM. FIM has an added advantage that topping does not give... Four tops result instead of the two that you get with topping a branch. I use this method to great effect before I bring my plants to the flowering tent where they go under a SCRog screen, where of course I want to have as many bud sites as I can manage to produce. Good luck with your grow, and do some reading on these advanced techniques. Look at my grow log where I learned to do these things some time ago and shared the results with the good folks here. There are many examples on the forum of all these techniques, and you never know how effective they are until you try them yourself.