You should have 1 main stalk going up, with new leaves erupting from the top. Can you see the trunk/stalk? How many nodes do you have? Those are the pairs of branches coming out of the main.
Can I do this during lights out or do I need to wait till lights on (1.5 hours from now).
I can have another look and try to get pics that might help
Best wait on the lights.
@DrWoo, @dbrn32, @1HappyPappy, @Bulldognuts, @Hellraiser (I do not know tagging etiquette, but i have read many of your grows and would love to have you be part of mine)
@DrWoo , I followed the base trunk from the Coco up to the top and found EXACTLY what I was looking for all along.Between you and Hellraiserâs topping tutorial, I am confident at this point. Once again, your simple, straight-forward advice is exactly what the âdoctorâ ordered. I cannot express enough how much I have appreciated your easy to follow advice, along with everyone elseâs who have helped me with so much else.
Here are the girls. (at this point, they are all your pseudo nieces. lol!)
Tent 1: Strawberry Cough (Maybe? I really considered labeling shitâŚ)
Tent 2: Chronic Widow (DefinitelyâŚWho needs labels, right?)
Tent 3: Super Lemon Haze(Or Strawberry Cough? I knew I should have labeled shitâŚ)
So those are OUR girls. I am not doing shit till someone know who knows wtf they are doing tells me what to do! lol.
My thought is, I need to TOP them like yesterday, and I need to get my trellis installed and start LST like LAST week.
Waiting for REAL growers to advice.
Thanks again for all the guidance.
You think itâs bad now, wait until you harvest one and declare âGood God! This is the best stuff ever!â, then not know which is what.
A lot depends on how many main tops you want and how many nodes you have. I suggest trying a small variety to see what works. If you want 8 mains, leave 4 pairs of branches below. How many nodes do you have? If you have enough, snip the bottom pair off, then the main stalk above the remaining 4 pairs. Make sense? If not, ask before cutting - as cutting is sort of a one way street.
Iâd cut the bottom pair only because they are less likely to make it to the top of the canopy in time. If yours are strong like bear and growing like nobodyâs biz then change it up.
Know that just like the main threw off a branch everywhere a fan leaf broke out, so will the auxiliary branches. So the secondaries that became mains will have tertiaries that become secondaries, and so on. Itâs turtles all the way down.
And donât worry. Youâre in veg. Everything short of outright death is fixable.
Well, @DrWoo, you have not lead me astray yet. Look at my plants. If they were your girls, and not just your pseudo nieces, what would you do to them at this point? I am sold on your methods. You type, I follow.
And if you need more pictures (Like for example with the foliage pulled back so you can see the main stalkâŚwhich I suspect you need to see) just let me know.
My goal is as much weight as possible per tent.
This is what people keep telling me is going to happen. But I smoke some HIGH quality weed every day. I am struggling to believe there is a higher tier, but trust me when I say I have never been more eager to be wrong about something in my entire life! lol
@DrWoo, @dbrn32, @1HappyPappy, @Bulldognuts
Oh, and in a completely unrelated note (sorta), my father-in-law checked out our girls. He said he has seen a LOT of home grows in his life, but never one that looked as healthy, strong, and promising as ours does. You have no idea how hard it is to get a compliment from that man! THANK YOU!
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Oh yea, and did I miss my chance to top them or should I go top them like RIGHT now?
They look healthy as hell. A great looking crop. Youâre in veg. Nothing is too late. Keep telling yourself that, because itâs both true and reassuring.
Get a count of the nodes youâre dealing with and make your cut. Leave either 6 or 8 main branches (Iâd suggest mixing it up), and let them fly.
The end goal to remember and keep in mind is that you want an even spread across a level field for the buds. Netting or other horizontal management is helpful.
So I followed each of the 5 main stalks to the top and snipped them. Is that enough? Or do I need to follow more stalks?
They are in some wild orderâŚi hope this helps though.
And also of note, if you can see it in those pics, I have noticed some white âfuzzâ looking crap on the top of my CocoâŚlike mold on bad food or something.
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Look good to me. If you didnât already, clean those dead leaves up off top of media.
we got curious and ate one of our toppings that i had clipped off. We were very surprised to find out that it was spicy. lol, like wtf? my best guess is we are feeling nutrients and prolly ought naughta done that lol
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The plants look really healthy. I donât know what the fuzz is. Probably a little mold growth. Get rid of the dead leaves and maybe the lowest fan leaves to get a little more airflow around the base to dry the top coco a bit. Pinch off the small suckers (new branches) down low. I can see a few inch long ones in the pic with the dead leaves. Theyâll never make it to the top, so donât waste plant energy trying.
I doubt what youâre tasting has anything to do with the nutes. Once the plant takes them up there isnât really any difference between synthetic and naturally occurring nutrients. What youâre tasting is what the plant tastes like.
Moving forward, the plants are going to try to grow vertically and youâre going to try to get them to grow horizontally. Time to start training now. Spread your pots so each is in the center of the space allocated for that plant. Install your nets above the plants. As the branches grow though the net youâre going to gently tip them over and under the next strand over. forcing sideways growth. The tip will immediately start growing up. When high enough you repeat the tucking on the next strand. Weaving over/under so the net provides support. Sounds more complicated than it is. Just make sure you go 360 degrees with the growth. When youâre near to limits of horizontal growth you flip lights.
So if I want to start training now, is it also time for the first haircut?
that will be happening sometime today. still watching tutorials and gaining confidence before I go in there snippin at shit. 
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@DrWoo , @dbrn32 , @1HappyPappy , @Bulldognuts
First haircut done. Does this look right? I pretty much just judged whether or not I felt it was part of the main canopy or if it was getting enough light to catch up to the main canopy, and if not, i snipped it.
Oh, and here is the white fuzzy stuff on the Coco.
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If my first haircut is good, I will get the others snipped today before lights out.
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First tent is doneâŚ
(I will need to wait for a bit of horizontal growth to be able to do the trellis correctly, but im watching it)
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I meant the ones that looked like they were already removed and laying on top of media. Even if still on plant, once leaves are dead they arenât helping anything. Just pinch at base of stem and pull off.
Wait, do you mean I should not have defoliated?! I thought I was doing goodâŚDid I ruin those two girls?