Ahh, got it now. I was confused because I pinch off only the top 2 leaves when topping, like I do with fruit trees. It usually creates branches at each of the lower nodes.
Grow n learn. Thanks!
@Nicky here’s my latest FIM, 3 days after. Done on a Purple Queen clone. I’m still gun shy to do it to the auto Diesel. What do you think of this one?
Hello. That is a great picture of what FIMming looks like. I have seen advanced pictures and drawings, but this is the best actual photo I’ve seen. So, as a newbie, the point of doing this is to get two colas from one, correct? If so, do you LST and FIM all the new cola sights?
It would be great to keep following. Do you have a grow journal?
Always learning. Thanks.
@PP3121 thanks for your comments. That FIM is only the 4th time I’ve tried. I usually just pinch the top 2 leaves completely off, which gives the 2 colas you referred to. FIMming should result in at least 4 new tops, and from what I understand up to 8 can emerge.
I do have a journal of the Purple Queen (First Grow, Purple Queen at 60 days). Those plants from which I got the clone in the pic here. However, they are in soil, and I have changed to DWC for all new grows.
Nice! 
Will you also LST these or let them go?
Looks successful, I was worried you cut to low at first to be honest but the growth is looking good so far.
Keep updating us with pictures.
@Nicky, thanks! Guess it’s my first successful FIM!
@PP3121 I topped my other PQ plants, then used copper wire (had it on hand from my bonsai trees) to tie the branches down to spread them out.
Right now my veg room is getting too full for me to properly train the branches of these 2 clones, which are growing so much faster in DWC, than the parents did in soil.
The flower room is full of 3 PQs (the parents) which are 2 and 3 weeks into flowering.
The problem is I got impatient and started a Green Crack and the Diesel Autoflower, and they are now larger than the PQs and the DA is already flowering.
I guess my problems could be worse than too many healthy plants, growing out of their space!
I hear you, I had two Northern light autos not do the auto thing because I bought them from a no name breeder since I was there strain hunting for something else specifically but got lazy and just did all my shopping at one place.
Now the two autos are 7ft tall and I have tried to manually flip them… Won’t be able to force a flip again until Monday.
@Nicky this is your area
Thanks for the tag @Not2SureYet
@Eyes_of_the_World
You need to bend up those other to smaller leafs as well so that when you make the cut you cut 4 leafs.
Leave 20% of the veins/leaf material, upward of from where the stems turn into leaf.
Here is a couple images that may help, it’s hard to see exactly by your image to be honest.
