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When to top
Beginnerbuds2020started grow question 4 years ago
When can I top my girl I don’t want to do it to early ?
Can anyone help ?
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Collinsy74answered grow question 4 years ago
It's normally around the 4-5th node (sets of leaves) if it's a auto I wouldn't do it because they don't have time to recover properly.
EEXMEanswered grow question 4 years ago
You could top it now if you wanted but if you wanna play safe, wait for one more node pair to grow and then top.
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