Thanks for the reply! For some reason the email notification didn't work *boggles*.

I have read quite a bit regarding SOG and SCROG. Yes, those pesky 99 plant rules. Currently I have 40 in flower under only 6 1000 watt lights. A couple less than I'd like, but for now I'm making the most of it. I'm averaging a tad over 4oz/plant. This is suitable to me, and I think it would be a stretch to get anything over 5 per plant with my current lighting.

Topping always comes down to quantity it seems, but there is never a stead-fast rule. I have an inkling that if you grew only 2 plants under a single 1000 watt light it may be possible to get them to produce close to 1lbs dry off of each. Personally if I could grow 10 plants instead of 40 that would be great. Less heat, less nutrients, less space, less time. But, that is a big gamble to make as an experiment.

I am planning on growing 8 plants of these mothered strains. 1 set will be untopped, 1 will be topped a single time, 1 will be topped twice, etc. Then I will average each method and since they came from the same mother should give me a general idea as to which is 'better', or maybe that they are all the same and just vary in levels of trimming difficulty.

I'm going to attach a picture if I can, otherwise I will link to it. It is a picture of Critical Mass in a greenhouse grow directly from Mr. Nice seeds. These plants look like they are going to harvest quite a bit more than 4oz per plant. They look untopped and also appear to only have 4 or 5 branches aside from the main cola. I'm curious to get some peoples opinions. Do you think those are just 'naturally' grown without any pruning? To me it looks like a trimming dream come true.

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P.S. OM, if possible you could probably PM me any info that may get censored?
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