FIMming a seedling?

[turtle420]

I really think the F.I.M. name is funny considering what it stands for and that we do it intentionally.

Please enlighten us... (or at least me)... What's F.I.M. stand for?

[MEME]

FIM stand for :Fuck I Missed

I'm not entirely sure who branded the name but it seems to be getting around more and more these days. It's a great way(the same as topping basically) to keep your plants stout and bushy. Perfect for an indoor grower. And it also works for outdoor purposes if you want to get light to your lower buds. I find that eventually with both topping/FIMing all your bud site seem to even out depending on how long you veg for after you cut. I myself usually do about 2-3 cuts every 3-4 nodes of growth. I'm sure however that you could top a seedling but it would take a whole lot longer to start re-growing due to shock, thus increasing the chance of getting a herm. On this round of growing I plan on doing my first cut at node #4 and then every other node after that until I complete 4 cuts in total on the origianal shoots. This is also my first indoor grow so we will see how things work out.

MEME

[turtle420]

Fuck I Missed...

interesting.

I remember from the OverGrow FAQs, that the author of the FIM FAQ I was reading, said that he was naming it "FIM", but, he didn't know why. The technique was told/teached to him by another person, and that person asked for it to be called "FIM", but didn't say what FIM stoof for.

I don't know... it's just, another option.

AHahahaa! Unless it's Fuck I Missed the top... which... I guess it happens a lot.... they're so small.... FIM!

What you say boy?
FIM mom! FIM!
((( SMACK!!! )))
Don't talk to your mother like that!

[Zandor]

This is a tenique that can f@$k up a good plant in no time.

Can you say STRESS?

The plant does not even developed a full set of growth hormones until you have 4 full sets of true leaves.

This is why I left OG to much crap being passed off as fact and everyone thinks if they read it on OG it must be true!!

Please don't stress the plant in that way.

[Kush Over]

I have to disagree with you Zandor, but that's just my personal opinion.

I FIM'd my plant when it produced it's third node, then again after new shoots came in. The plant did great, and still is doing great aside from a lock-out I'm in the process of solving.

[Zandor]

Is this your first time?

Do you have a control plant?

Do you know how it will end up in terms if yield and quality?

You do know that is a very harsh stress technique and short cycle plants donâ??t like stress. They just donâ??t have the shelf life to deal with stress for an extended period of time with out turning hermie

[Kush Over]

First time growing; no.

First time with this particular strain; no.

The plant's literally doing the same thing all of it's distant sisters from the two previous grows did, except the two previous grows didn't involve the amount of HST I performed on this plant. Not only that, I didn't bother topping either of the previous females from said grows. The buds are coming in at the same rate, same density, etc. The internodal stretch was almost exactly the same. The yield on the previous grows was just over a quarter pound with the first plant, and right at a quarter with the second. The one thing I won't be able to determine until harvest and cure is the potency.

The 'strain', as I mentioned, is little more than another Sativa dominant Mexican variant as this is nothing more than an experiment with a yield. I'd never intend stressing, say.. a Jack Herer IBL, nor any IBL, F1 or any half way decent F2 for that matter. Frankly, the one surprising thing about this grow is that this plant hasn't bitch slapped me for the shit I put it through -- the Miracle-Gro soil; the High Stress Training; the lock-out!

Now, I may not have my dates right, but the plant I'm growing now is just over 80 days old, and about 6.1 weeks into flowering. Just under three feet tall, that's two gallon pot included [ I thought I had a thread with pictures.. ]. Stress in any shape or form can't be attributed to any single cause as evidence of anything the HST and FIMing may have done, stress wise, is buried beneath lock-out damage. The soil had very low soil pH for an indeterminable amount of time, which is more likely to stress it than anything I can think of aside from a very high pH.

One shoot was damaged a few weeks ago -- a snap in the stem a foot from the top -- and it healed rather well granted that it's top bud is behind the other shoots', size wise. Being that it's a Sativa dominant, 6.1 weeks of flowering is hardly the end of it, and with the bud production I see so far it's not too hard to get a visual perspective of it's final mass, and that's being a pessimist in mind.

I will honestly admit that the plant experienced a stunt in growth after the initial FIM, which lasted three days until it could replace the missing top. In this time period, two other shoots from the node below had a chance to catch up, and matched the 'top' of the plant in growth vigor as the plant progressed in it's life. I then decided to target the new shoots -- the two that grew in at the second node. They were just topped, then the plant was allowed to recuperate and wouldn't see any 'stress' until I decided to start bending it's stalk.

The results are below. This picture was taken two days before I decided to leech the soil. Anyway, without further ado..

I give thee -- Crackhead!

[chisme]

lol it looks like a candle holder hehehe

[Zandor]

This was grown NOT using the FIM method do you notice a slight difference?

[Krogith]

Zandor your right man i did that exact same thing using String to Tie shit down will get the same sprouting results as FIM but you Get hella more. when your trimmiing like that you know what your doing you stoping the roots from feeding that area and the sourouning leaf sprouts in that location will use the roots that were feeding the one you cut and power feed the reaming. Well if you tie a branch down it takes the ^UP^ motion of the way the plant feeds and makes it go side ways thus slowing it down that extra flow will in turn rush food to your other sourounding sprouts just the same. the more plant the more Roots and when your plant buds it no longer grows roots and what roots you have grown are what make your buds. Thus more rootage more buddage all the stems suported by the STRING are makeing the steam not have to be as THICK so supost massave buds. So instead of lets say 6 tops and 70% roots into buds groth factor and 30% of the roots would have to supost the 6 massave stims. Well Zandor and my way makes it have 30 Tops 90% of roots are bud powered and the 10% of roots energy required for stem due to suporting strings AND more root groth due to more top due to NOT FIM.