I have a grow journal "Northern Lights First Photo Grow going that I will update soon so I guess you can call this an addendum to the journal. As the title to the journal indicates, this is my first photoperiod grow. I wanted to document the process and steps I went through. My goal with the topping is to produce as many bud sites as possible and do it evenly over the entire plant. If things go as desired, four northern lights will fill my 3x3 tent wall to wall - corner to corner while not getting to tall. Optimistic for someone that hasn’t done this before, but what the hell. No turning back now.
Second topping – Northern Lights
The main stem of #2 was topped 5/7. All secondary stems (created from original topping) and all branches below the topped node were also topped. Thereby creating two future bud sites at each topped branch and stem. #2 has two branches below topped node. With this topping, #2 now has 12 future bud sites. (Plant #3 had 3 branches below the topped node and will therefore have 16 future bud sites.)
Below are the individual steps I took (before and after pictures related to each step are so identified)
- Removed bottom most leaves.
- Removed 2 large fan leaves at topped node
- Removed both sets of leaves on secondary branches above topped node
- Topped secondary branches
- Removed fan leaves on secondary branches – 4 leaves
- Top first branches below topped node
- Top second branches below topped node
- Removed interior leaves
- Removed interior bud sites from second branches below topped node
Step 1 Before After
Step 2 Before After
Step 3 Before
Step 4 Before After
Step 5 Before
Step 6 Before hard to see
Step 7 Before
Steps 8 &9
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they seem to be doing well. I didn’t trim any lower nodes off, though. They all seem to be growing well, and the lower ones I tied off to keep them growing outward a little longer to clear the canopy.