When is the earliest anyone is ever split a plant I might experiment with one of my white widow autos and do it a little early just to see what happens
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Iâve started splitting all my seedlings
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Iâm watering a Northern Lights today to be stem split tomorrow.
I was ready to split today, mentally, but noticed she was drying out and figured to water her today, get some moisture up to those buds before the stress.
I donât know what to expectâŚup to 20% more weight, more resin, more THC?..all I know is the plant will be dead in a week, it wonât be the stress that killed her, itâll be me!
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Hahahaha good luck with the splitting hope it works out for the best
I was planning on it but now Iâm just not sure 
Let us know how it works out
CB
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I know my stem, thicker than the ones in the examplesâŚbut whatâs to lose?
itâs not like itâs a sequoia and I wanna drive a car thruâŚ
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Yep please let us know maybe before and after pictures if possible? âŚwould sure like to see some comparisons
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You canât loose anything I read about it is if you do it wrong you just have to harvest early
Hope it yields good results @ Iâm with @Paranorman
Would like to see before and after
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Made me in that group too, I plan to try it 
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I just finished maintenanceâŚwhen I look at the trichs on my soon to be stem split girl with my 63 year old eyesâŚI see mostly cloudy, very little clear, very little amberâŚmy target zone.
the other plant still shows clear and cloudy so itâs 2 weeks away, as well as my Gold Leaf I doused with acid as a seed, gibberellic acid, and it still has a week or 2 to go.
I didnât plan on stopping nutes the last two weeks, I let the plant tell me, and the leaves stayed healthy enough so the 3 girls are on a water only basis till harvest. The last time I fed them, I think the ppm was about 600, mostly bloom NPK.
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Lol I am with you @kabongster, I know the feeling, when I go to check my babies I have to wear UV 400 protective glass, however, itâs not an over glass one so I have to remove my correcting ones and see blurr and double if I am too close, lol 
, I am currently in a search for over glass UV 400 certified protective glass.
The plant never lies about when itâs in need
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you can call me kabongster the impalerâŚ
and the utensilsâŚit wasnât easy
the plant that got split was always an under performer, smaller than the second NL started at the same time, always needed something under the pot to get it nearer the light.
Iâm thinking I didnât help her out,I stressed her out earlier with my stem snipping, all done in veg which you can see in the photoâŚIâm relieved I donât see any male flowersâŚso this plant has been an experiment from the first month into the grow. She ate and drank less and reacted to smaller pH changes and never did develop into a robust plant.
the clearest close up out of the pics I took, a small side budâŚ
what can I expect in 3-7 days when trichomes and the THC takes weeks to mature from clear to cloudyâŚmaybe a little bulking up, but I do place this in the âat this point, it canât do much harmâ category, atm, and I donât intend to do it to the larger Northern Lights I have growingâŚunless our mentors endorse it.
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Iâve been calling you that for a long time now LOL just kidding looks good I guess I donât know, hope you got some close-up trike pictures for before and after?!
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lol, Iâll do my cameras bestâŚI do need a tripod and something to press the button, a stable surface to rest on for clarity. Turning off the fans would help stop any small movements, too. My macro photos have been declining in quality recently.
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Oh man believe me anything you can do is better than what I can do! when I bend forward to look at the triâs thru my 60Ă I get dizzy I donât know if itâs the blood pressure or what but I nearly fall down, itâs all I can do to get a focus on them anyway LOL, Iâm pretty sure theyâre almost all cloudy on at least one incredible bulk but who the hell knows LOL I do my best, itâs all I can do these days
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Iâm there with youâŚI look with the loupe and what I can hold in focus looks cloudyâŚthen I look at them in an enlarged photo and I doubt myself.
split a stem, commit to a harvest, lol!
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Thatâs a massive trunk on that lady⌠I like them big down low as well as on topâŚ
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just to set the record straightâŚI started 2 Northern Lights and I split the stem on the runt figuring it could only help
this is the larger one
and the split one
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I split the stem on my Bluberry Kush Auto on Wednesday and am waiting for the first sign of amber in my trichs. Seems like it should be any day. Then I will cut the lights and hope for the best. This is the first time I tried this so we will see. This is the first BB Kush Iâve grown though so I guess I wont really know if its better, but Iâll know its as good as I could do. It is hard to focus on the trichomes. This is the first time that I have had a jewelers eye piece so I can actually see them. The hard part is holding still enough to get a good look. Iâll try to get some pics of the buds when theyâre ready.
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my plan is 5 days with the split stemâŚI dunno why 5 daysâŚthen a night a day then a night, 36 hours darkness, then itâs harvest time⌠I recall it being discussed and I think it was MacGâŚ
found it! 
@MacGyverStoner ILGM Bergmanâs Lab Grow Support Guru - Science Officer - Moderator Aug '15
"I donât think the dark period before chopping it down is that extremely important, at least not for that long anyway.
As @latewood likes to remind us, the plant is not dead even after being chopped down, and much of the biological activity will continue while the plant is hanging in the dark, very slowly drying, kind of the pre-cure early dry part of the entire process.
Also, I think the solid 12 hour dark period on the last day of the grow cycle is mostly good enough, and if you time it in such a fashion that you give the plant an extra 12 hours darkness tacked onto that last night, so you have one 24 hour period of darkness for the plant before harvesting, and then a following approximate 12 hours of darkness, more or less to fit a schedule for when it is convenient for you to chop it all down at one sitting, then you have almost 36 hours of complete darkness, and from what Iâve read up on the subject, this amount of darkness, 36 hours, is what seems to show the most benefit, and any increase in dark period beyond this for most strains has not been documented to show any significant increase in yeild, weight, density, or potency.
Also, here are some other thoughts on this. Some studies do show resin production seems to peak right before the light would come back on, or the dawn outdoors. Most growers that practice this do seem to agree more than 48 hours does not show any real benefit for the mass majority of strains theyâve tried it with, a few exceptions not withstanding. That last 36 hour dark period would put you at the morning of the second day if you get my meaning, chopping down right after that 2nd peak resin production. And I really donât think the plant is going to do much more than that after that, as actively biologically it really doesnât do much at all during the dark period, above ground anyway, and any longer and you are starting to ask for problems, maybe inviting rot and such."
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Thanks for sharing that great info @kabongster
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