This super-cropping guide will demonstrate the why, when, and how of super-cropping so that you can get bigger, better yields from stronger and healthier plants.

Selective leaf pruning, branch and node pruning, topping, bending and breaking, also known as snapping and twisting, will all be covered.

If you need help with these techniques, keep going. Some are more challenging to master than others.

Super cropping: What is it?

Although everyone has their definition of super-cropping, it refers to a group of methods.

These methods involve physically working with your plants to raise their health, quality, and yield. Although some may be more stressful than others, they all fall under the umbrella of high-stress training (HST).

The key to super cropping is organisation. It involves organising your plant’s physical structure to make it function more effectively. And a lot of it makes no sense.

What do you need to super crop your cannabis plants?

One of the cheapest ways to increase yields is by super cropping; the only expense is the learning curve.

What you’ll need is as follows:

• A means of securing the branches. Plant ties with twists or strings work well (avoid using anything sharp that might cut into the tissue).
• Sticky tape (for those unavoidable mistakes).
• This simple, super cropping guide.

The starting point for super cropping

It’s important to know when to begin super cropping. As soon as your plants reach full veg, you can start selective leaf pruning, but you should hold off on snapping and twisting until the plants are 10 to 12 inches tall.

Super cropping mainly occurs in the vegetative stage. Flowering takes up most of a flowering plant’s energy, leaving less for recovery.

There are a few crucial points to bear in mind when super cropping:

• Avoid super cropping Fast Versions or Autoflowering.
• Cannabis super cropping is a time-consuming process. For small-scale home gardeners, it’s fantastic, but for large, industrial grows, it’s overwhelming.
• Super cropping cannabis under stress from pests, deficiencies, or other problems is not a good idea. Weak cannabis plants won’t thrive and may not survive because it is a very stressful method.

What are the four main methods of super cropping?

1. Selective leaf pruning

This super cropping technique involves removing larger shade leaves that cover them to give nodes or budding sites access to the light.

You may eliminate all leaves or leaves pointing at the canopy’s interior to the first layer of leaves.

Scissors are only sometimes necessary. Pinch the leaf and stem together with your thumb and index finger before pulling it off firmly.

Start this pruning only once your plant is actively growing.

You’ll know it’s time to begin selective leaf pruning when you notice the leaves crowding one another and shading the lower nodes.

2. Pruning of branches and nodes

Removing ineffective bud sites and focusing energy where it is most needed is a great way to increase the yield of your plants.

Your plant is now producing what are known as sucker branches as it grows.

They are known as sucker branches. Despite sucking energy from the plant, they fail to produce anything of value because they lack direct, intense light.

By removing some of the weaker, lower branches, energy is instead directed to the remaining, higher-up sites for branching and budding, which receive direct sunlight.

To nodes, the same rule applies.

Beginning in the gap where the main stem and a leaf stem meet, a node eventually develops into a new branch.

Consider a branch with six nodes that could each develop into a branch in the future.

The solution is to eliminate all nodes except the top three because that will use a lot of energy.

Assume you have 15 branches, each with 15 nodes, for a total of 225 nodes.

Now, 180 nodes—or 80% of the total number of nodes on the plant—would be lost if all but the top three were removed.

With fewer sites consuming energy from your plant, what is left can grow nearly 80% more quickly.

Before transitioning into flowering, thinning out plants in this manner is essential.

Nodes and branches should be separate from one another.

3. Training and topping

A super cropping technique called topping boosts the number of top colas.

Cannabis typically develops into a very tall, central apex like a Christmas tree.

This apex is eliminated during topping, allowing lower satellite branches to receive equal light and develop into main colas.

To outgrow everything around them and receive full sunlight, plants send their growth hormones to the highest point.

Once topped, your satellite branches will receive significantly more energy than all the good light from one central branch.

You will regrow your apex tip as two tops. The secondary branches will catch up as it grows again, giving you a nice, even canopy.

Keep the number of tops in proportion to the plant’s overall size.

Lower your lights if you notice a branch protruding above the others so that the canopy is evenly lit.

This is yet another valuable method for balancing the canopy. Except for a few satellite branches that have gone berserk and are sitting several inches higher than the rest, everything looks good after topping.

To keep them in place, bend them over and tie them. Use a stake, connect them to a bucket, or weave them into a Scrog.

Screen of Green (ScrOG) involves more than just erecting a trellis and allowing plants to grow through it.

To increase yields, carefully weave those eager branches through the trellis by slowly twisting and massaging them as you bend them. The branches can be six inches long or longer.

All the tiny nodes on these branches will stand upright once they are safe.

They’ll all develop into tops and reach a similar height.

Scrogging offers that benefit. It makes the most of your available space by enabling you to combine branches of all heights into a super-effective, level canopy.

4. Snap and twist

This is the fundamental idea behind the super cropping techniques, also called bending and breaking.

Although it is a challenging skill to master, it has the most significant impact on the plant.

The layers that make up your cannabis stock are as follows:

• When you peel off the outer hurd, you can see the skin.
• The hurd is a mass of fibrous material.
• The hollow interior.

To break the inner hurd while leaving the outer layer intact, grasp a branch with both hands and twist it in opposite directions until you feel and hear a snap.

The plant will begin to heal over the next 24 hours, and over the following few days, you’ll notice a knuckle forming where you injured her.

How late can you super crop?

Your cannabis plants should stop being super-cropped as soon as they bloom.

Can you super-crop the main stem?

You can always super-crop the central stalk as long as the plant grows rapidly.

The stem will naturally curve back once folded and bent downward, facing the light.

After the plant stops growing vertically, attempting to twist the main stem prevents it from turning around, leaving the plant in the dark—the incorrect location for your plants.

Do you want to increase your yield?

As with all good things, super cropping takes practice, so get a few grows before moving on to the challenging material.

Now that you have this thorough explanation of super cropping, you are ready to try it.

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