Jogging your plants

[Kiwi]

How to JOG(Jungle of green) your plants .

Jogging your plants is another option besides topping or Fimming. It is to bush out your plants while also keeping them low for a height restricted growspace, while also allowing you to keep your main Cola. Ive used Clones/Cuttings only for this technique.

Once the cutting you have taken has rooted, and is starting to show new signs of growth, take the highest point and stake it down with a peg horizontally along the surface of the soil. I used plastic coated cantenary wire for this and cut it and bent it into tent pegs. As the plants main tip grows up towards the light pull out the peg and move it along bringing the tip horizontal.
http://www.growkind.com/gardens/Minimonsters/457/Day14.jpg

As each new formerly lower branch takes off also stake those down and move the pegs along. You then can direct each new potential budsite to where you want so as to get an even canopy.These pegs are ready to be moved along.
http://www.growkind.com/gardens/Minimonsters/457/Day21.jpg

and again.
http://www.growkind.com/gardens/Minimonsters/457/Day27.jpg
http://www.growkind.com/gardens/Minimonsters/463/Horizontal.jpg
http://www.growkind.com/gardens/Minimonsters/457/Day271.jpg

These two plants are fully jogged, and the lower branches obtain the same size as the main tip, so all buds get to the same size.As you can see these are at day35 in vege mode and the highest point is only 6 inches. Almost ready to flower.
http://www.growkind.com/gardens/Minimonsters/463/Day35Flat.jpg

Once you switch them to 12/12, leave the pegs in for a few more weeks, i removed them around day 14 flower, but i see no harm in leaving them for the full duration.
http://www.growkind.com/gardens/Minimonsters/457/2149greenGK.jpg

At harvest time you should hopefully have small bushes like these, with no topping or fimming required.
http://www.growkind.com/gardens/Minimonsters/463/Day51flower.jpg

I use this technique to keep my plants low, because intensity equals density, and i figure the lower and closer the light to my plants, the bigger the buds.
Feel free to PM me with any questions!

Kiwi (Ptko) :icon_smil

[marymaryquitecntrary]

that's an excellent explanation of jogging, kiwi ... and the pictures are fantastic! you covered it all and very concisely.

p.s. i didn't realize you were the person i formerly knew as ptko. thanks for revealing that! :D

[web420]

Excellent Info.......Kiwi
I placed a copy in the FAQ's
:leaf:

[nobogart]

:ebert: excellent explination!

[Tiberon]

I agree.....excellent show n tell!

[Mermaid]

^^^what they all said^^^^ :bigok:

....as Mary I too didn't know you were the famous PTKO. Very informative and love the pics...great job Kiwi! :animbong:

[KID A]

how much effect on yield does jogging have in general. do sativas handle jogging well or is it a pretty uniform effect on all vaieties. id love to grow some sativas but dont have the room and dont reallly want to top the plants. great demonstration, thanks!! when it comes time ill try it out.

[Kiwi]

I believe you yeild more because the light is lower, increasing intensity and therefore density. Im not sure how high my plants would be if i didnt pin them down. but i know that the "lower" buds on that plant would be smaller than the lower buds on mine.
I generally top and jog though, and pin each branch to get maximum bushiness.
Im a believer that fan leaves play an important part in the latter stages of bud production, more so then the buds receiving light, so im not concerned at all of fan leaves shading budspots. Like this
http://www.growkind.com/gardens/Minimonsters/456/54Tieddown2Day.jpg

As far as stress goes, im not sure what the effects would be on a plant grown from seed, as i use female clones and these can take a lot of punishment...ill even go as far as say they react well to punishment, get stronger, thicker branches.
Is it even possible for a female clone to turn hermaphrodite?

[KID A]

thanks kiwi for the great post and the advice, id like to try it from seed and see how that all works out, but wont have the chance until i find a new place to live!!!!!! :mad:

[Budweiser 3]

yip..just when ya think youve learned it all......BAMMM..a new one appears gotta love new thinking Bud3

[Kiwi]

:LOL: aint nothing new bud, jogging has been aroun a while.
But id be happy to class it as Kiwi Ingenuity :smoke2:

[Scorpion_King]

I'm going to have to give this a try one day.
Nice post, Kiwi :thumbsup: