Issue #667 - Sunday, February 2, 2025 Hey Fellow Grower, - Want a totally free way to increase your yields? Learn about two simple and quick techniques you can use on young cannabis plants to increase yields later. Both "Topping" and "FIMing" make buds bigger, and are amazingly easy to do at
home!
- Does "Super Cropping" really make your crops super? While we're talking about free and easy techniques to increase yields, I had to mention this one. Lean how you can use the "super crop" technique to both control height and make more productive plants!
- Do you love weed and want more of it? If you're ready to start growing top-shelf weed at home for as little as $20/ounce, you don't want to miss our upcoming home
grow class, starting February 18! Click here to get notified when registration opens!
- Weekly Plant Spotlight: A Wild Ride from Outdoors to Hydro! Doug first grew weed outdoors in the 80s, but recently decided to give indoor hydroponics a try. Learn how he mastered the journey and started growing
epic cannabis at home!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside
Co-Founders, GrowWeedEasy.com
“Pruning is the art of revealing strength through careful removal.” ~Unknown Topping and FIMing, like all cannabis plant training techniques, are designed to help growers get a more desirable plant shape and bigger yields. The cool thing about plant training is it increases cannabis yields without having to change any other aspect of the
grow. Notice how these cannabis plants have many buds instead of just one. Topping and FIMing help you grow plants like this. Cannabis plants don’t naturally grow in a way that takes full advantage of indoor grow lights. Since only tops buds get full light levels, a lot of light gets wasted indoors when cannabis plants are allowed to grow naturally without “training”. Check out the above example. The cannabis plant on the left was allowed to grow naturally, which resulted in the classic cannabis “Christmas tree” shape. This natural shape is not efficient under indoor grow lights because it only produces one main bud (also known as a "cola"). The plant on the right was topped or FIMed as a seedling. This broke the apical dominance of the main cola, and
the plant grew many colas and therefore multiple big buds. Quick Reference of Terms What does “topping” stand for? “Topping” is when you cut off the top of the plant. It’s common to hear growers phrases like “top the plant”, or a grower “topped” the plant. What does “FIM” stand for? FIM is like topping, but you take off a little less. The acronym “FIM” stands for “F*ck I Missed.” FIMing
originally referred to growers accidentally pinching off some top growth instead of fully cutting off the top. FIMing has become known as its own technique as it has slightly different results compared to topping (recovery time, number of colas produced in one cut, etc.). What is a “cola” and why do they matter? “Cola” is Spanish for “tail” and refers to any big, long, thick bud. When dried, these buds may look like a tail, hence the nickname. As a cannabis
grower, you want a lot of colas on your plant to maximize yields. Colas grow at the top of stems, so when a plant is young, growers try to get their plant to grow many main stems. This rewards you later. Even before the plant starts making buds, the main stems are still often called colas or sometimes “mains”. Buds the size of 2-liter cola bottles. Really puts the “cola” in cola! Some cannabis strains naturally grow bushy with many buds/colas, but most strains only naturally grow one and therefore produce lower yields indoors without your help. With both topping and FIMing, the growth tips that become new colas are already present. They just get bigger and become colas because topping and FIMing breaks the symmetry of the plant and exposes these growth
tips to light and air. Instead of focusing on just one cola, the plant starts focusing on many growth tips until they become colas of their own. Main Idea: Topping & FIMing remove or damage top growth, signaling the plant to put energy into lower growth tips. By damaging the main stem, topping and FIMing encourage the plant to spend energy growing many colas instead of focusing on just one. Lower stems will become new colas once they’re exposed to light and air, but they develop much faster when the main cola’s dominance is broken by topping or FIMing. Notice how the lower growth tips on this next plant have started developing and rising up after plant is topped or FIMed. For this picture, the fan leaves were removed so you can see the new colas and overall structure more easily. Super Cropping Marijuana: Simple Secret to Bigger Yields
Sometimes you have a stem (or three) that have gotten too tall and you want to bend them shorter.
Learn how to bend tough stems without breaking
them! Perhaps you want to prevent tall stems from growing into the grow light. Or maybe you just want to increase your yields (wide, flat plants produce bigger buds!). But what if the stem you want to bend is already hard and woody? These stems can easily break if you try to bend them. As a result, tall, tough stems can become a problem. Some plants getting taller than others? (like these two on the right) Look, how I bent over all the tallest stems. Much more flat and even! What if I told you there's a technique that lets you bend even the toughest stems without breaking? It's called "super cropping" and this simple technique can be a lifesaver. In this tutorial, you learn how to force tall plants to bend to your will. Super cropping lets you do this! The super cropping technique makes it so you never do this! Our Next Online Class Starts February 18! Is This You? - You love weed and wish you had more of it
- You believe weed should cost $20/ounce
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If so, our home grow class is for you! If you can follow basic instructions, you already have what it takes to grow top-shelf weed at home. Our system makes
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📸 Weekly Plant Spotlight: A Wild Ride: An Outdoor Grower's First Hydro Cannabis Grow
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Doug's journey with cannabis goes way back. “I grew weed in the late ‘80s outside in a rural area. Back when the only info we had was rumors and an occasional copy of High Times,” he said. “When my circle stopped growing, I moved on to hydroponic vegetables in a greenhouse for a few years.” Fast forward to now: Doug’s girlfriend and her family smoke, and he started noticing their weed quality (and how they stored it). That led him to GrowWeedEasy.com. Before long, he was setting up a small tent and started growing cannabis via top-fed hydro. His grow
wasn’t without challenges. “I made a few mistakes,” he admitted. “I started with bag seed, planted too many at once, and mixed seeds with totally different growth rates in the same tent." He affectionately named one bagseed plant ‘Freddy Kruger’ because it started wonky and grew it's whole life that way. But
that didn't stop Freddy from producing a great harvest, "Very happy and excited to say Freddy Kruger is now curing in jars." Despite the learning curve, Doug’s results speak for themselves. “It’s been a wild ride, but I’m happy with EVERYTHING thanks to your hard work!” I'm so impressed what Doug was able to accomplish on his first hydroponic grow with cannabis plants. Check
out Doug’s epic grow pics below! ~Nebula
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Nebula Haze: When I first started growing, I struggled. Now, it is my mission to make it easy for new growers to get started while helping advanced growers get bigger, better yields with less time and money. We update/add articles every week. Anyone and everyone can grow if they want to! Learn which seed sources are recommended by Nebula Haze Sirius Fourside: Sirius Fourside is a hobbyist grower who has gained the bulk of his experience growing in water as a medium (deep water culture, bubbleponics). "Growing
cannabis can be a relaxing hobby in and of itself, but it also saves you money and keeps you from having to deal with shady characters. Cannabis is much easier to grow than people give it credit for, and growing in water doesn't increase the difficulty much, if any. But whether you want to grow in water, coco, or a different medium, we'll show you how easy it can be!" Copyright (c) 2025 GrowWeedEasy.com NOTE: If links aren't working or if pictures are not showing up properly, please view the full newsletter here: http://archive.aweber.com/gwe-updates Disclaimer: Grow Weed Easy only recommends products that we've either personally checked out ourselves, or that come from people we know and trust. For doing so, we may receive a commission. Nothing in this e-mail should be considered personalized Financial, Legal, or Medical Advice. The contributors to this magazine grow legally under their local laws but are not lawyers or medical professionals. Any decision to grow
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