Monster cropping means taking cuttings from a flowering plant, usually in the first few weeks of flower, rooting them and keeping them under long days. The cuttings slowly revert to vegetative growth, and many throw out unusual, bushy growth with lots of branching shoots, which some growers like for a wide canopy.
In practice
Rooting from flowering tissue is slower than from vegetative cuttings, often 2-4 weeks, and the first new leaves are frequently small, round or single-bladed while the shoot reverts. Success varies by cultivar. Growers use it to rescue a genotype they forgot to clone before flipping, or to build mothers with many cut sites.
Evidence is anecdotal. Treat the "monster" growth as a side effect of re-vegging, not a guaranteed yield gain.
Don't confuse with
- Re-veg: reverting a whole plant after harvest; monster cropping uses cuttings.
- Supercropping: crushing and bending stems; unrelated despite the name.
Cloning is propagating a plant by rooting cuttings from it, producing new plants that are genetically identical to the donor.The genotype is the set of alleles a plant actually carries, either at one locus or across its whole genome, as opposed to the traits you can see.A mother plant is a female kept permanently in vegetative growth to supply cuttings, so a selected genotype can be propagated as clones indefinitely.Re-veg is returning a flowering or harvested plant to vegetative growth by putting it back under long days, often to save a genotype after harvest.Supercropping is gently crushing a stem's inner tissue between the fingers and bending it over, so the branch lowers, toughens at a knuckle and stays productive.A cutting is a piece of shoot, usually a tip with two or three nodes, removed from a plant so it can be rooted into a new, genetically identical plant.HST (high-stress training) covers training methods that deliberately cut, crush or break plant tissue, such as topping, FIM and supercropping, to reshape growth.
