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You've got it,I had a hard time wrapping my head around the requirements for the 420 method, and the necessity of 'keeping the tops down'. Here's an example. In the first photo, I *temporarily* tipped two of the subordinate stems on the branch down, only to make them visible, to demonstrate. Those stems are in the approximately 1 o'clock and 3' clock positions in the photos. The 'top', aka the 'tippy top' of the stem is held horizontally with the net -- it's at about the 7 o'clock position in the photos. This tricks the plant into thinking it has 'lost its head' on that stem, so to speak, and stimulates it to put energy into its lower 'nodes', aka stems. In the second photo I have released the future 'lower' bud sites, that will grow faster/stronger until the trickery is removed from the 'tippy top' of the stem, and at that point, they will all work together in relative equality, and harmony.
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the same reason you initially bent that main top over with the stake to direct that growth energy to the lower nodes.It's the same with the side branching, keep that main "Tippy Top" horizontal as best you can and allow those lower nodes along the limb to absorb that diverted energy.
