So this is my 2nd grow.... I'm doing blue dream and bubblegum.... I only veg for 4 weeks and I have made some monsters.... I'm useing General hydroponics nutes and roots organics soil.... I'm at day 11 of flower, when will these girls stop stretching.... I'm not to happy with the blue dream as it has super long stems.... I have only toped once at fourth node and I have been lst these girls...... my problem is I am very restricted for height...... Any and all advice is welcome
I had this issue early this year, heavy sativa dom blue dream! Started 3ft away from 1kw hood, ended at 8" away lol, that was topped, fim'ed and screen of green and still they stretched an inch per day in fucking soil! I hate this plant for this reason. All my flower cabs are only 5ft high not counting the size of the pots and hoods. If it helps, the tops did not mind being 8" under a new 1kw hortilux shps, but you could easily have a different cut. Heres what i would do next time,
im gonna keep the metal halide for the first 3-4 weeks of flower, then swap to the shps.
I will NOT trim too much bottom growth, doing so will make her tops get even bigger.
Use wider and shorter pots
Train early! too long/much of a recovery in veg will just make her stretch more. So if the plant is 3ft high, topping her will just cause you to wait another week or two, this will make her bush out more BUT it will also make a more mature and vigorously growing plant, the older she gets, the more she will stretch in flower regardless of how much topping has been done. If you top early you can get it to the size you want before she starts growing too fast.
Keeping temps below 80f can help combat stretching.
