Help growing a sativa ?

Cool, if it's useful thats great. Ya if you're going to top, you need to go a few weeks longer before flowering to actually get some new growth going, not just an injured top.
Really, lst is only good for indoors where you might have limited vertical space. I think outdoor 10ft sativas would be fun but alas, im limited to indoor. I'd really rather be using the -->:sunny:

It bugged me I couldn't remember the terms so I had to look it up. You can start here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apical_dominance

 

Question.. Since I did top it two days before I changed to flowering, would I end up w injured top without yield from that branch??
The clone I took have a very thick stem and so far growing nicely but can not be folded.. Any suggestions ?

 

On the first, I would say if you're not too far into a 12/12 schedule, go back to a longer light period (18 hrs or so) for a few days and see if you get some growth going there again then switch back to flowering. Maybe you could get a nice cola out of it but, I wouldn't worry too much about yield overall. What, a couple of grams less at worst? No biggie.

Edit: I just reread, my *suspicion* would be that it will flower more just below the injury as a result of not having healthy bud sites at the top. I really couldn't say as I've never done that and each strain and pheno is different.

The second, I'm not sure without seeing, but, when bending and training I always go slow, a bit at a time without really bending hard. You can tell when the stem is being stressed... bend it just a little today, a bit more tomorrow, etc, until you get what you like. If the clone is newly rooted, wait a bit until you have new growth and she's established in the soil.

 

Thank you!! :2thumbsup:

Done and done. (back into 18-6 and little bending as well)


Btw. In a place without any supplies, couple of g feels like A LOT. :watchplant:

 

I hear ya, but once you start pulling a few zips per plant, there won't be a drought

I suspect, once you have a bit of new growth on the top, flip back to 12/12 and you should get some decent tops.

 

I found that my long flowering Sativas did well topping only 3 days before initiating 12/12. The long flowering period and crazy stretch made it a non- issue. However I DID find that any topping after 12/12 made a noticeable change in growth.

 

Really? Interesting. Did you find it reduced the stretch at all? Thats another something I battle with.
The one time I topped close to 12/12 that one tip had a deformed cola.

 

It minimized the stretch some... but the only way to grow sativa indoors is bondage.

 

Ha. That's been my (limited) experience too. I've only about 3 ft vertical from soil to lamp and its hard keeping them in check.
Plus weak stems that can't hold the weight of flowers so they have to be staked. Indica strains are much easier in that regard.