New Grower Top, Crop, or stop Growth???

[Bgrow82]

Fresh out of the box here and I am attempting a SCROG with just 2. T5 light, 2x4x6. Here's the thing I was told if I was to scrog to top or crop them and that would be key to sucses. Well I pulled one set of imature limbs from the tops of both. Here's the problem, I pulled 2 sets of limbs from one by accident. The one which only one set of limbs came off is doing very well with its two shoots groing in place of the cola. The one I botched has not grown at all except for those two new shoots in place of the cola, it still smells green and looks like it did the day I did that to it except the top two........
Any one know how long the lower half of this lady is going to be on strike?
Any one had this happen or knows whats going to happen from hre on out with it I could sure use a little know how here.
Thanks. Wtf

 

[namvet25]

It just takes time for the knew shoots to really shoot up.The plants slows down because of the shock of trimming but in time should take off.

 

[Bgrow82]

Appriciate it. Was just curious cause its been a good week and its at 26 days now but only 6 inches tall and its sister is 12 or more inches.

 

[Bgrow82]

ok so its been atleast 2 weeks since i topped them. Still nothing but those new shoots growing on the one. Its now day 31 and dont see any buds forming on either. Could it be from topping? Or are they photo? I could post a pic but dont know how from xbox! They would just look like some healthy ladies with no hairs just depressing. INPUT ANYONE PLEASE???

 

[Coolbreeze]

We have no idea if they are photos or not. We have no frame of reference man. In view of the fact that we haven't got any real info about your grow- I have to suggest that you rad some of the multitude of topping, filming, cropping, supercropping, scrogging and LSTing threads here available through the search and see what you think. There are camps that top and trim and there are camps that LST and leaf tuck. I like scrog for photos- I think it's a little high stress (the way I do it- lots of cutting) for autos. But then you got guys doing scrogs here pulling massive harvests. Were i to scrog an auto there wouldn't be any cutting- just a really low screen- and I'd just be constantly pulling new growth down to fill it.


Tell us a bit about your nutes, lights (cycle) and strain- that will go a long way toward getting you answers. Are you saying that at day 31 they haven't sexed?


Just reread. Yes. That is what you are saying.

 

[Bgrow82]

Ok today they are 31 days I'm cunting from first sign of growth popping out of the soil. My water was rain water for the first 3 weeks mixed with botanicare cns17 growth nutriens. Then I just did rain water for two feedings. Now I'm running just the fox farm tiger bloom and bush doctor microbe brew. They sexed at 15 days, female of course. I had them on 24 straight for the first week and 20/4 till now.
I'm still getting growth on the limbs meaning lenght not bud growth. Do they start to bud befor they are done growing knodes?
There are growths coming from the arm pits of the little branches on the long branches coming from the stalk. Look like more leaves but won't be able to tell till tomoro for sure. But no sign of any hairs like I see on every one elses 31 day plants

 

[Bgrow82]

*counting

 

[Coolbreeze]

Am I missin the strain as I read? I've been off lately. Anyway- the bloom nutes shoul help them kick in. Rule of thumb around here is to stay on veg nutes until verticle growth has stopped. That will help maximize yield. The other side of that is that switching early will help bring it on quicker.

As for flowering -you should see your nodes start to alternate- it'll almost look like the meristem (mainstem) is changing- or splitting at times. It'll get Kind of zig zaggy like a clone. Once that happens your about to start to blow up.

Some strains do way better with stress than others. With some strains (autos) you get permanent stunting - and with others it's almost like they were just on pause- and they catch back up with size and finish a couple weeks late. The type of stress also has a lot to do with this. Feeding stress (deficiencies, lockout, burns , toxicity, over watering) and root stress seem to permanently zap one more so than stress from trauma to the topside- in my experience/ opinion.

Quite likely you have delayed the real onset of flowering by a week or two- but it's no biggie- you may lose some weight compared to a perfect grow, and your plants may take longer to finish- but it's nothing to sweat.

Look for the alternating nodes on your new tops/ arms and when you see that... It's about to blow up.

That alternating growth will be explosive when it happens, a couple inches a day at times. Once the reticle growth stops- they start to swell quick. Pictures bro... And the name of the strain and which bank/ breeder it's from will give anyone paying attention a lot more to go off of- and probably net you some more concrete answers based in other people's grows o the same strain.



Also- you said they had shown sex- but now you are saying they haven't? Which is it, I am confused. The hairs are pistils- and if you haven't got any- you haven't got a plant that has sexed yet. Unless he has balls.... Haha

Also- you may continue to get secondary branching fromthe "armpits" tha will blow up with bug also. Sounds like you at vegging still. Get back on the veg nutes and support tat growth for a better yield!!

 

[Coolbreeze]

Fuck auto correct on this phone.

 

[hank]

just let it grow. Topping autos is hard. I did it and it worked great! not all have the same out come. you may of fucked your plant. sry.