I wanted to share something very interesting that I observed while playing with different lighting arrangements.
I was thinking - if you can control how the plant grows/stretches vertically with Early stage lighting arrangements then why not horizontally?
So I took my two strongest lights & set them directly overhead the plant and spaced them a few inches apart. So there is actually a few inches of gap between lighting directly (90 degrees) above. One light is shaped as a circle, & the other one is a rectangle.
My plant at Day 36 (below), has been under the same funky arrangement since day 1 and it has grown many side branches from the base that are now just as thick as the main stem and it looks as if the plant had been topped with scissors, even though I have not cut anything off this plant.
I was wondering if anybody else has experienced the same thing and if this could be a potential alternative or even more efficient technique to achieve the same results as one would get by actually topping the plant by cutting it. Maybe this could yield even more than conventional topping? Or make plants bushier and grow outward as well or better?
Thoughts or similar experiences anybody?
(Auto Northern Lights- Day 36 from sprout)
The pic of my light setup is not totally accurate- I just moved them closer like this 24 hours ago, & I had about 4" gap in between the 2 overhead lights for the 1st month. Other than that my setup has been the same for this experiment grow
Would have been interesting to see a comparison with the same light set-up with a plant you topped. I wonder if that would have been even bushier. Love seeing this kind of stuff! Nice post!
Just saw this tread and the same under another title lol maybe @Majiktoker
Could merge them
Post pic of lighting arrangement with the plant under so we can get full visual?
Interesting question
I have renamed the duplicate to centralize discussion on this forum. I’m sorry for the confusion I don’t know how it happened. Let’s use this link. I will continue to update with pictures every week.
When you top you do not lose yield in fact when you top you double your yield, now as for having the lights how they are, my opinion yea that’s a great way to get your buds to fill out more, this increases overall weight of smaller buds due to more even light distribution, also I hope you don’t mind @MedMan1878, I deleted the other topic so it’s not taking up room
I’m mainly an outdoor grow or after finding this site and seeing what people were pulling off it makes me want to spend good money on good lights and see what I can produce because I know what I can do outside but this is a lot of fun and by good lights I mean top shelf lights professional lights I think it would be worth the money
Stress encourages growth bend a limb pinch trim a bit and your plants seem to reset and show faster growth much like anything if they have no reason to try and improve their situation why would they. Using light light movers has been proven to aide growth by hitting plants with light from more angles but so too have bending topping pinching super cropping simply rotating plants 1/4 turn a day can expose different surfaces to light. Just seems a lot of work to me to move light around by hand when I can grab a pot and turn it
