The Training Toolkit: Top, Bend, Net, Strip
Topping, low-stress training, SCROG netting, and defoliation each do a distinct job. Learn what each one changes and the standard commercial recipe that stacks them.
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Four tools, four jobs
Training converts a plant's natural Christmas-tree shape (one dominant cola, everything below shaded) into a flat, even table of equal colas — the shape that turns a rectangular light footprint into grams. Each technique does one specific thing:
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