Hey guys/gals I was lookin at the skeleton of the male I just pulled out and I had to share a pic of it. Look how much larger the side that I supercopped is, and I mean the entire side the branches towards the middle were not supercopped and look how much larger they are just because I did the outside branches if you ever wanted to know if supercropping actually affected the growth of your plants this pic should put those questions to bed. I’ve supercopped probably close to 100 plants and I’ve never looked at the bones and compared them and when I threw this one in the trash it landed just right that it really stood out so I had to dig it out and take a pic. I supercrop to keep my canopy in line not to create a better structure but I believe I’ll be running some comparison experiments in the future
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I wish I had some better photos but I think these will show something similar. Although not supercropped, the branches were damaged and bent enough to cause large repair knuckles. Branches 1 & 4 each have large knuckles and substantially more girth than the other two.
Technically branch nodes 1 & 2 were removed as seedlings. So these are actually nodes three and four. Branch 1 is paired with #2 and 3 & 4 are a pair.
This is what branches 1 - 3 produced
Same branches cut down a little further (left to right 1 - 3)
This is from branch 4 - I wish I could remember how I caused the damage so I could duplicate it.
As broke down for drying. Just imagine if you had eight of these from one plant
Side note
I occasionally number the branches to track results. My original purpose was to see how much if any, location, i.e. node number, has on the branch’s production. Additionally, I usually cut off the first two sets of branches because of poor production and for training purposes.
@MeEasy I think you are on to something and I agree.
Agreed 100%…stem flexing produces similar results and I believe them to produce the best possible outcome if used in conjugation with each other…
Thanks for the great post. I have had similar results but never documented it like you have.
Happy cannaversary wizard brother 
Thanks for the tag
@MeEasy I am with @Arrow & @beardless your onto something for sure ,the proof speaks for itself.
Just now reading this. I really never super crop but have a lot on this current grow and… every branch I super cropped has larger thicker buds. I am a firm believer that the plant sends energy to repair the bend and it makes everything in that area GROW GROW GROW. pretty dang neat
I’ve noticed that there’s different growth up top but I’ve never written it down or tracked what caused what to happen but I’ve never looked at the bones and compared them with ones s c and ones not. So when I saw this I was impressed and now I have more crap to track lol
You call it flexing, another calls in chiropractic, Chubby call it the
Hope you don’t mind a question from a newbie @MeEasy.
I saw a video put out by another seed bank site that I probably can’t mention on here The guy was a nut but it looked like he did know a lot.
Anyway, he went along almost the entire branch, almost to the tip, twisting until popping could be heard. My question is: do you do multiple points along the branch, or does one or two damage points suffice?
Thanks.
@MoBilly I never mind a noob question. I’ve done alot of supercropping but I was doing it to the branches that were growing taller than the others to slow it’s growth and allow the other branches to catch up. But now that I saw the difference in these two sides I’m probably going to be doing it alot more. As far as multiple on one branch the way I do it I don’t see me doing it like you said many times all at once but I’ve done it to the same branches again after it healed up. Here’s a pic of the day I did it and after it’s repaired. These are not the same branch probably not the same plant
On my first grow I had a branch that broke early on. I had a watering pitcher slip. It split the main branch down the center. I just taped it back tight and went on. The plant healed with a large knot left behind. Those two branches produced the best, heaviest buds by a long shot. That’s how I came to find that video. I thought I’d probably killed that part of the plant but learned a new technique.
I’ve noticed that some colas are much larger than others but never paid attention if they were branches that had been supercopped. This plant was a male from my current grow and when I threw it away it landed perfectly for me to see the s c scares and that that whole side was double the size of the other. You hear so much bs on the internet that later you find out it was bunk info I’m sceptical of these gimmick tricks so I don’t pay attention unless it comes from someone I actually know. Then I’ll start playing with a plant or two and now after seeing this I’ll be playing lol
I’ve broken I don’t know how many branches and these plants amaze me on how tough they are. But again never paid attention to what happened to the branch later on
I wish I’d taken pics of that healed spot. It was like two large burls on a tree. That was just before I joined the forum.
Yep that’s what they do, I’m on a manifold kick right now and when you pull down your branches to form it they like to split right down the middle of the main stem and they’ll get a big ass bulb. I thought I had some pics, they must be on my old tablet I just changed to a new one a couple months ago. There’s a guy on here that does manifold too and he’s way more advanced than I am. I’m not very tech savvy and can’t link it but if you search @Arrow and manifold you will probably find it or because I put his name in he might show up and show you how to get there. Like I said I’m into manifold or some call it main-lining it’s a fun way to make a plant give you some nice colas but my favorite thing about them is that like I do mine there’s only 8 tops and when they get close to the end you only have 8 colas to try to keep upright not 20 lol plus with the fewer colas they grow thicker and more sturdy to start with