What to do with a Sativa that no longer fits in the grow?

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acazsouza

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Sorry. I post the same thread in lot of other forums, and they said I can top it, the videos do that. But I think the top should be less, very litle right?

Ok. I did wrong, but it's ok, I was wanting to throw away this plant, because is my first grow and I waited for 3 months for the auto to flowers and now I want to travel for a month. I don't want to see plant everyday for a month.

Me second grow will be most professional. Thank you all guys.
 
BudmanTX

BudmanTX

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acazsouza said:
Sorry. I post the same thread in lot of other forums, and they said I can top it, the videos do that. But I think the top should be less, very litle right?

Ok. I did wrong, but it's ok, I was wanting to throw away this plant, because is my first grow and I waited for 3 months for the auto to flowers and now I want to travel for a month. I don't want to see plant everyday for a month.

Me second grow will be most professional. Thank you all guys.
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keep it and let her finish......

lesson learned

Sativa's need to be topped extremely early and frequent to control height.....just fyi
 
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RadicalRoss

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Yeah bud, don't sweat it too much. People are being real jerks and I feel like now my flippant comment might be read wrong, instead of in the joking sense it was meant.

We all make mistakes. This plant will still produce bud that you'll enjoy smoking if you bring it to flower.

Lesson learned, take it with you to the future! You know so much more now than you did for this grow.
 
twentyeight.threefive

twentyeight.threefive

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xtsho said:
Just call it a lesson learned and next time you grow a sativa remember that they can get big and grow fast so get on top of the training early and don't let them get too big before you start flowering them.




I transplanted it into a 3 gallon pot and put it in the flower tent. I didn't wait 10 - 14 days for it to recover or anything like many say to do. But I never experience this so called transplant shock you hear about so much. It didn't skip a beat and was rootbound when I harvested it so the roots just kept growing even though it went into 12/12. Many cannabis growers think you have to do this that and another thing. I don't do any of them. Plants grow fine.

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HA! That think looks like a pot shaped rockwool cube. :hump:
 
Thundercat

Thundercat

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acazsouza said:
Yes. I gonna keep her and let her finish. Lessons learned.

Thank you all.
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Don’t even sweat it. Leave it in veg for another week or two and you are gonna be fine.

I don’t really know why everyone is freaking out so much about you topping the plant. I’ve seen people do waaay more extreme “hair cuts” and the plants were just fine.

Sure you might loose some yield, but you really might not. That plant wasn’t sized or shaped right to take advantage of your lighting properly. So it wouldn’t have ever maximized the yield you were gonna get. Now with the lower height you can keep the light closer to a larger number of colas which should allow the plant to grow those colas better. Plants do redistribute energy. Possibly increasing your yield vs only having one main cola and a bunch of larf buds on the bottom.

If you might have lost some yield but learned a lesson. Either way it’s not worth all these negative comments.
 
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acazsouza

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Thundercat said:
Don’t even sweat it. Leave it in veg for another week or two and you are gonna be fine.

I don’t really know why everyone is freaking out so much about you topping the plant. I’ve seen people do waaay more extreme “hair cuts” and the plants were just fine.

Sure you might loose some yield, but you really might not. That plant wasn’t sized or shaped right to take advantage of your lighting properly. So it wouldn’t have ever maximized the yield you were gonna get. Now with the lower height you can keep the light closer to a larger number of colas which should allow the plant to grow those colas better. Plants do redistribute energy. Possibly increasing your yield vs only having one main cola and a bunch of larf buds on the bottom.

If you might have lost some yield but learned a lesson. Either way it’s not worth all these negative comments.
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Thanks man!

Let's take it more technically. The plant growed in a natural standard with 18 nodes (18 nodes means 2 colas per node?!), I top on node 10. Like I said, the plant didnt suffer any trainning technique to be exposed to light. When I top on node 10, I exposed 20 colas (Maybe 10 on top, more 5 on bottom and more 5 the lastests) now I can trainning each cola to be exposed to the light horizontally with the plant wasting all the energy in only 20 colas.

If I only supercrop on top 10 for example, well, I`ll expose 10 nodes at top to the light and more 10 nodes to bottom at light too, right? Meaning 40 colas of flowers? Thats not too much? This will required more soil, more fertlizers and more administration in general of moldi or fungi?!
 
xtsho

xtsho

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Thundercat said:
Don’t even sweat it. Leave it in veg for another week or two and you are gonna be fine.

I don’t really know why everyone is freaking out so much about you topping the plant. I’ve seen people do waaay more extreme “hair cuts” and the plants were just fine.

Sure you might loose some yield, but you really might not. That plant wasn’t sized or shaped right to take advantage of your lighting properly. So it wouldn’t have ever maximized the yield you were gonna get. Now with the lower height you can keep the light closer to a larger number of colas which should allow the plant to grow those colas better. Plants do redistribute energy. Possibly increasing your yield vs only having one main cola and a bunch of larf buds on the bottom.

If you might have lost some yield but learned a lesson. Either way it’s not worth all these negative comments.
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It's not the end of the world at all but I still think supercropping would have been a better option but that's me and I've been growing for years and have done it so many times. It takes time to learn these things. But the best thing would have been not to let it get out of control like that to begin with although I'm guilty of letting plants get out of control and having to deal with them. Sativa's can be challenging in limited space.

I think another lesson here for those trying to grow sativa's indoors is that they need to get on top of training them early and not letting them get too big. I don't think a sativa is the best thing for a new grower to attempt indoors in a tent. :peace: bongsmilie
 
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acazsouza

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acazsouza said:
Thanks man!

Let's take it more technically. The plant growed in a natural standard with 18 nodes (18 nodes means 2 colas per node?!), I top on node 10. Like I said, the plant didnt suffer any trainning technique to be exposed to light. When I top on node 10, I exposed 20 colas (Maybe 10 on top, more 5 on bottom and more 5 the lastests) now I can trainning each cola to be exposed to the light horizontally with the plant wasting all the energy in only 20 colas.

If I only supercrop on top 10 for example, well, I`ll expose 10 nodes at top to the light and more 10 nodes to bottom at light too, right? Meaning 40 colas of flowers? Thats not too much? This will required more soil, more fertlizers and more administration in general of moldi or fungi?!
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And if I want to wait more time in veg stage to the plant develop new branches? This new branches I could do a LST?! makes sense?
 
Thundercat

Thundercat

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Look you are over thinking it. Especially since it’s done already. I was just saying you will be ok.

Super cropping is a great technique. It would have gave you better use of your space and light. It might have spread your yield out over more bud sites but with better access to light you should yield more.
 
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acazsouza

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xtsho said:
It's not the end of the world at all but I still think supercropping would have been a better option but that's me and I've been growing for years and have done it so many times. It takes time to learn these things. But the best thing would have been not to let it get out of control like that to begin with although I'm guilty of letting plants get out of control and having to deal with them. Sativa's can be challenging in limited space.

I think another lesson here for those trying to grow sativa's indoors is that they need to get on top of training them early and not letting them get too big. I don't think a sativa is the best thing for a new grower to attempt indoors in a tent. :peace: bongsmilie
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Very enlightening comment. Thanks.
 
HydroKid239

HydroKid239

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When the autos are done you should LST. Put her on one side of the tent and bend her the other way tying her down so the lower branches can stretch up. Once the auto's are done you will have more space to make her explode.
 
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acazsouza

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HydroKid239 said:
You should definitely grow some fire and just dominate the market then. Capitalize my friend!
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Lot's of people are prepared to that here in this massive country with lot of people with terminal illnesses.

Until the weed is forbidden, no way to capitalize it, very very risky.
 
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