i can’t show mine or the girls’ (no camera yet) but i have just started a variation on this technique after reading Soma’s Organic Cannabis book. also, it seems there are variations of topping/training and the word “supercropping” applied to more than one(?) my first encounter with the term was Jorge’s purple book in which a plant is topped after the 2 largest bottom branche segments. i did this several times now and it is a great technique for space/profile mgmt & more uniform branches. i find that 6 branches is ideal & 8 too crowded(so the 3rd segment is topped).
and now i’ve started bending to the near-point of kinking/cell-rupture…Soma-style, but less rough(in his book he shows a nasty wounded bend going grey-brown…ugh! ). i aim to only bend & form, not damage the branches, to gain the bushiness & reduce stretch, and it’s working beautifully. i like it. the big caveat is that some plants are stronger than others & there’s somewhat of a permanent learning curve because of it. also, the time of day seems to affect the response, with morning being ideal, afternoon not-so.
(matches the harvest-in-the-morning rule too).
and there’s almost certainly at least one fertilizer or some nute crap out there with the same name, heheh…(…ReikoX?)
<-- hates bending because he’s stiff & old & knuckley