Manifolding

St_Nick said:

It works OK but didn't give me the per plant yield that a scrog gives me. I think it is great if you are limited by a small grow area.:joint4:

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Hushpuppy said:

If you don't want to deal with scrog screens then this technique is good. Just remember there are multiple ways of doing this, not just 1 right way. You have to find the methods that work best for you. That takes a little time to accomplish. You will also find some strains will take to this method beautifully and some will not.

I do a combination of this AND scrog in my little space. I often do it just as a method of slowing down the vertical growth of the plants that are in veg so that they don't get too tall while I wait for them to get sexually mature.

By the time I put them into flower, they have 8-12 main top colas but then I set my screens and spread the branches out so that I can get more side branching. I will often top some of the faster growing branches to force the side branches to come up faster while slowing the initial branch. I only do this a little so as not to stress the plant much.

You have to be careful with this as you can cause too many branches which can cause the buds to be much smaller. I generally will go back in and remove the lower/smaller branches about the bottom 1/3 of the plant during the first 3 weeks of flower so that energy from the plant isn't dispersed too much. I go in and remove a few branches per plant every few days until I have it like I want it. Doing a little at a time prevents too much stress on the flowering plants.

I generally will top my young plants around the 5th-7th leaf nodes depending on the growth of the plant. You can literally allow the plant to grow for several weeks and then top it back to the 3rd-5th nodes and she will keep on rolling. once the root systems are established you can do a lot of pruning without issue if the plant genes are strong.

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The Hemp Goddess said:

I always called that lollipopping. Also, "splitting the plant in two" is simply topping at the first joint. It is not a new concept. Like St. Nick, I found that it did not give the yield that a good scrog will.

I notice he says that with this method the plant gets to harvest faster. I can see no way that this could be true. Every time you top a plant you have a recovery period, which slows growth. And flowering time is whatever it is--no way at all to hasten that up regardless of what he claims (he has a lot of questionable ideas IMO). I caution you to use your own good judgement when visiting his site...

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