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Emilya Green
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I don't believe that after making that first cut, that the two resulting main colas are now going to be half the size they would have been if left alone to have only one main cola. Certainly a plant with 50 nodes is not going to be able to achieve the bud size/weight as a less gifted plant, but as long as you don't go crazy with this, there is no reason that you can't achieve a few extra buds without compromising their individual weights and quality. If yield was a set quantity with a plant and no training could ever get over that amount, no one would ever top a plant. Topping might not exactly double the yield on that first cut, but it comes very close. Larf also has a lot more to do with light penetration and air flow than it does how many cuts you have made.But does that first cut really double your yield in terms of weight, or is it more about now two colas, each at roughly half the size of the single main one?
A given pot size is going to max out at a certain yield, whether it is concentrated in a single large bud with a bunch of smaller ones lower down, or with topping and training, help with height and spreading a given amount of hormones around to several other buds rather than being concentrated in a single bud.
More veg time and up-potting to larger pots gives you a larger plant and therefore certainly more weight in terms of yield, but I've always thought training a plant in your final pot size was more about space management and ending up with a bunch of similar sized colas rather than one dominant cola and a bunch of larf.