FIMming a seedling?

[alex32]

i wonder what happens if you try to FIM a seedling? anyone know, or what happens when you top a seedling?

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alex32 Reviewed by alex32 on 03-15-2006. FIMming a seedling? i wonder what happens if you try to FIM a seedling? anyone know, or what happens when you top a seedling? http://www.dopefiend.co.uk Rating: 5

[alex32]

it would be easier to just take a cutting, i know, but still i wonder?!??!

[karmaxul]

I dont think we all know what FIM is, I sure don't. Could you kick some knowledge down?

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[alex32]

We all know what topping is dont we? topping your plant causes two shoots to grow back in place on the one pruned off, thus increasing the number of top/main buds. If you make a cut just below the centre of the node, leaving about 10% of it intact it can grow up to as many as eight different shoots. This is because the vegetation left behind has cells that are rapidly dividing in many different directions.

[karmaxul]

If you top a seedling you cut it off from the part with the highest consentration of growth cells, the top. I have trimmed the tiny fan leaves in a firming fashion leaving the main growth to produce thicker colas. You can also produce multi heads if you cut it right.

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[alex32]

so fimming a seedling COULD still produce 8 different nodes?

[karmaxul]

You would be cutting off all the leaves on a seedling. It would be way to stressfull.

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[alex32]

im not talking about the first rounded set of leaves that the plant uses for starch or whatever it is. If you cut the second set, shouldnt it be able to? someone somewhere must have tried it?

[karmaxul]

It would cause stress and slow growth considerably. It can be done but it may grow stringy to lack of food.

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[FERMENTATION]

I let four sets of leaves develop on my plants then FIMed them. We will see how they progress over the next week or two. No pics but I will still update and let you know how many new growth shoots they produce. This is my first FIMing too.

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

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