Excellent information, Al. This does help. I have both a handheld microscope (sort of) and a digital microscope (60X - 1000X) arriving in a day or so. That should get me in close enough to see what I a supposed to do. “Old Guy Eyes” need all of the help they can get.
You can do it more than once keep in mind every time you do there will be a short recovery of a week or two before they take off again
There are other training techniques
Look into LST training
Or super cropping which is a high stress technique just not as stressful as fimming or topping
All will help you control your hieght and keep a more even canopy
I personally only top or fim once
I have read about LST and was thinking that would be quite beneficial after they go into their final pots.
I am also very interested in Super Cropping although I am not entirely sure what parts I have read are actually Super Cropping and what parts are something else. I think that I have plenty of time to learn about that before any decision must be made. Thanks @Countryboyjvd1971, as always.
Awesome @merlin44
Yeah most training will be done once in forever home
I actually top mine usually at the same time I transplant into the forever homes sometimes ill give them a few day to adjust to the new digs
Since I went from starter pots (3" maybe) to 2 gallon nursery pots (the next step will final 10 gallon nursery pots) I will likely top and FIM before the last replanting. Not sure thought.
I agree, you can do FIM’ming ounce or twice, to achieved 16 main colas like mainligning does after 4 topping…
However, if you want to FIMming more than ounce, I will suggest that you do a “bending” that consist in slightly crush, without split on the stem, and bend the main stem to achieve, by time (2-3 weeks step back), the formation of a “knuckle” at the bending area and at different angle …
After recovering, do the FIM’ming and repeat the “crush, bending and different angle” on the 4 new main stems to achieve 4 more “knuckles” and let it grow to achieved 16 main colas and LST them to achieve space between those colas, as soon as they recover…
Honestly, I did not go that far and only did it with tomato and pepper plants, so, I have no idea what will be the results of triple FIM’ming on a cannabis plants…!?!