Tips on topping cannabis plants the right way

Added on 19 August 2020

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Tips on topping cannabis plants the right way

Topping is a fundamental tool used to train cannabis plants. It enables growers to force plants to grow horizontally instead of vertically, making the most efficient use of available lighting. Topping is a simple way to increase yields by removing the tip of the top of the plant growth, allowing it to send vital energy out to lower nodes, encouraging growth outwards, instead of up.

In a recent blog post on GrowLink.com, Joy King writes that cannabis plants typically grow tall and skinny, more like a tree than a bush. Topping diverts resources to lower nodes, effectively encouraging horizontal growth by allowing lower branches access to available light.

Topping cannabis plants can be done whether you're growing indoors or outside. Unfortunately, topping your cannabis plants is a traumatic training technique. The plants need to be healthy before topping so they can heal from the trauma associated with this particular training technique.

It is recommended that you wait until your plants have at least four nodes before topping them, and most growers recommend topping the plant above the sixth node. Nodes are the part of a plant that connects new stem offshoots with older growth, which can form a branch, a leaf, or in the case of cannabis plants, a bud.

Read the complete GrowLink article here.