Quote Originally Posted by postmandave
you claim the main cola to be the main controller ..... when the plant gets tied down at the 4th node the top is now the the same height as the rest of it, as the plant grows, if you can maintain the top and side chutes at the same height, the side chutes become colas and the density of ALL the colas looks the same........ has the plant simply focused all its energy equally into each cola, being confused as to where the original MAIN cola is??
i have treid this several times in the past ... proving it very effective with phenominal results.... NEVER putting the ladies undre the knife ....
just trying to back my theory here ..... i do agree that the plant focuses on the primary cola but am i really "confusing" the plant??

thanks for your time.
Well I did not make that up it's been known in the science of botany for about 20 years. You crop the plant early on in the veg cycle and the plant has plenty of time to recover. There is only one mail cola. sure the side shoots can catch up but they are only searching for light. When you tie them down you are doing LST not cropping. All you are doing is bending the branches. There has been only one plant that I have seen and believed yielded a pound grown in a closet. Most closet grows are giddy & happy if they only get 4-6 ounces out of a plant.

I'm not positive what your exact question is?

If you crop think in terms of the plant no longer has a branch in charge and the rest of the branches fight for the light together. Does that help?
Zandor Reviewed by Zandor on . question ZANDOR you posted this in faqs under cropping and bending, By removing the mail cola between the 4th & 5th node in early vegetation stage will keep the plant shorter and bushier. This works to keep the plants shorter thus better for indoor growing. You can grow in cabinets and still yield a pound or more with a SCOG method of growing. The main cola contains the anit-oxidant that controls height and other factors of the plant. (Think of it as the controller) when you remove the control everything Rating: 5