@InTheShed, great thread! Simple explanation and nice visual aids. You the man! 
Hows & Whys Of Supercropping
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Thanks GDB! Always glad to help where I can.
HappyPots89
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Thanks for sending me over this way @West Hippie and great work making this @InTheShed. I was looking for info on supercropping in flower stage. Got the info I needed in the first post. My understanding is it is doable but not recommended. In my situation I kind of need to do it as my plant is less than 10” away from growing in to my hps light. I’m only about 2 weeks in to flower so I know I’m in trouble lol. Will be supercropping areas I need to to keep the plant short enough for my setup. Thanks again for the info fellas!
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Thanks for stopping by HP! I'm glad you met up with West Hippie, he's a great grower.
Supercropping is the way to go to keep stretch under control. I've got a sativa growing now that I supercrop every morning to keep it from stretching out of control. There is no downside to supercropping unless it's done so late in flower that the plant doesn't have time to repair the bend before harvest. And two weeks into flower is perfect as it will increase the number of tops in the end, in addition to keeping them from frying under the light.
If you hadn’t hit follow on @InTheShed yet you’ll be missing out on great info !Thanks for sending me over this way @West Hippie and great work making this @InTheShed. I was looking for info on supercropping in flower stage. Got the info I needed in the first post. My understanding is it is doable but not recommended. In my situation I kind of need to do it as my plant is less than 10” away from growing in to my hps light. I’m only about 2 weeks in to flower so I know I’m in trouble lol. Will be supercropping areas I need to to keep the plant short enough for my setup. Thanks again for the info fellas!
HappyPots89
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He’s helped me out quite a bit with my first dwc setup. Gave me some good info.
Ya I’m gonna give him a follow. Seen a lot of his stuff and he’s very knowledgeable for sure!
High Shed and other HST supercroppers. How late is it ok, or inadvisable, to supercrop a branch?
I just did it to one that is just in the early flower stretch so i suppose i will find out soon enough if it was a bad idea. I topped this Purple Satlelite too late and it’s juts shooting these 2 long top shoots and only one real side shoot (which I snapped this morning, and hopefully fixed).
I supercropped one of those top shoots just to see and didnt check in here first to see if it was maybe a bd time to do it. Timing is all out of whack anyway so i figure i might as well experiment. It just started flowering properly about 4days ago (as in showing pistils in the tops)
(Disclaimer: for those who don:t know - this plant has lived through fire and smoke and heat waves and cold snaps and 80kph winds and long periods with no sun... so while it looks pretty scraggly, it’s amazing it still is at all.)
Maybe I’ll bend and train the other one to see how each of them responds.
Whadd’ya think? Is it too late for that kind of supercrop?
Hi Shed and folks. I’m dropping back to update on this supercrop and bend on the pure sativa just entering flower - Purple Satellite.Yeah you’re right, and I thought about doing that. The only side branch would have been impacted for sun and space tho, had i done so.
I went back out to prop it up a bit and bent the other top branch over at the same time. So now it looks like this.
I suppose I kind of am. That’s what I was not sure about in terms of timing. It’s a pure sativa so I’m hoping it will have quite a bit more stretch in it yet. I’ve really (totally inadvertently) made a complete travesty of it’s shape! But it lives! It flowers!
Thank you, very much
It had a very compromised veg period, growing up during the apocalypse and I’m pleased to report that it has recovered brilliantly. Here’s some pics taken since the supercrop day on Feb 5 (pictured above), up until yesterday.
I was primarily aiming to trigger 2 lower side shoots (front and back) into a bit of aciton and they responded very well, the back one reaching higher that the 2 previously main branches and some of the other lowers coming up to join the party as well. I’m super happy with the shape now - I think it looks beautiful and rangey, just how I like ‘em
So it’s taught me something about the shape of this plant before flower and what happens to it.The heavily supercropped branch.
Also the supercropped branch.
and yesterday... because the light was nice
It’s 6-and-a-bit weeks into flower.Nexrt year same but bigger!
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Thanks Amy! It took that bend beautifully and is stacking really well after all it's been through. I've been supercropping my sativa Golden Tiger almost every morning to keep it under control, and it's taking it equally in stride, two weeks post flip with pistils just showing.
I'll put up some pics this week.
I'll put up some pics this week.
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I hope not! I guess a true sativa doesn't obey the 21-day stretch rule though...
Well, is it 2 weeks from flip? Or 2 weeks from pistils showing in the tops?
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I only count from flip!
Missed that sorry! 
I’d wager, then, that it will stretch a bit longer than 21 days from flip. Where is it up to now?
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Taller and fluffier, though I've been bending it so all height comparisons are moot!
Scottylikesbud
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My dispensary sativa hybrid finally ended stretch maybe a week ago. So I’d reckon you got a week or two left lol.
super crop experiment in flower on 1 branch
Circled areas where I applied pressure this morning
Now to wait and see what comes of this
super crop experiment in flower on 1 branch
Circled areas where I applied pressure this morning
Now to wait and see what comes of this
Mickey Pearson
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Great article thank you for all the info. I had thought originally that this technique was only for flower, however im going through my first indoor grow and as i am sure many first timers have before, I have been a bit ambitious and brought in 6 different clones. Ive been super cropping in the method you mention out of necessity and using low stress training. I have split a bunch of stems . Im trying taping and coating with honey. How would you heal a duffed bend ?? Many thanks for all the clarity
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Hey Mickey! Whenever I split a stem I use electrical tape and support it from underneath so it doesn't flop below 90º. I've only had one or two not make it
Scottylikesbud
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I’m new, so idk.
but it’s been 12 days so lemme share some photos of that branch same branch today
Took a bit to find the right branch lol. But found the one with the markings.
zoomed out photo
Another one I did that day no comparison orto lazy to go through my many phone plant photos. 8.75 gigs of it.
same as previous photo super cropped the 12th
can’t find comparison if any
but it’s been 12 days so lemme share some photos of that branch same branch today
Took a bit to find the right branch lol. But found the one with the markings.
zoomed out photo
Another one I did that day no comparison orto lazy to go through my many phone plant photos. 8.75 gigs of it.
same as previous photo super cropped the 12th
can’t find comparison if any
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As it comes closer to harvest, see if the buds beyond the crops have gotten fatter than a similar uncropped branch.
Transfer them to a computer and delete the old ones!
Scottylikesbud
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My phone is my computer 
some of us aren’t as fortunate enough to have some everyday devices such as computers
Last one got jacked lol. :’(
(don’t want to go further explaining)
But yeah I noticed that just below the crop. The buds get fatter as though they became dominant. Like in topping? Idk I don’t top anymore after the first couple times I tried it lol. Was disappointed. I Didn’t like the way it looked. I like the un topped, lst and supercropped monsters!!
they look more impressive to my eyes. Preference thing I’m sure.
here’s some other examples lol although these were done like in stretch
Red shows the crop and blue is the branch
My favorite example on this plant cause it’s easy to spot
Thought I was going to show more examples. But that would require me to move my plant. As I already did that today. Don’t think I want to right now. Plus there’s all thes leaves in the way. And I’m not going to defol. So maybe tomorrow. When I fill up the res again I can get more photos of some branches I cropped.
But I went crop happy on this plant. Soo only a few of the new growths up top are un cropped. Everything else has been cropped at least once in veg
Bah dah bop bah dah!
I’m loving it
Lol
some of us aren’t as fortunate enough to have some everyday devices such as computers
Last one got jacked lol. :’(
(don’t want to go further explaining)
But yeah I noticed that just below the crop. The buds get fatter as though they became dominant. Like in topping? Idk I don’t top anymore after the first couple times I tried it lol. Was disappointed. I Didn’t like the way it looked. I like the un topped, lst and supercropped monsters!!
they look more impressive to my eyes. Preference thing I’m sure.
here’s some other examples lol although these were done like in stretch
Red shows the crop and blue is the branch
My favorite example on this plant cause it’s easy to spot
Thought I was going to show more examples. But that would require me to move my plant. As I already did that today. Don’t think I want to right now. Plus there’s all thes leaves in the way. And I’m not going to defol. So maybe tomorrow. When I fill up the res again I can get more photos of some branches I cropped.
But I went crop happy on this plant. Soo only a few of the new growths up top are un cropped. Everything else has been cropped at least once in veg
Bah dah bop bah dah!
I’m loving it
Lol