5 weeks flowering plant leaning hard!?

[Dbridgeman1984]

When I got in my garden this morning one of my white widows is leaning hella hard. It always has a tilt to it but now that I’m stacking on weight it’s almost laying on its side. I defoliated as much as I felt comfortable with and zip tied the plant to the wall. My question is, why is this happening and if I leave it lean will it be okay? Or will these monster colas snap my plant?

 

[HydoDan]

You better make plans to support those buds or they will be on the ground..
I've been using tomato cages for support.. Now that you know you can plan ahead..

 

[Dbridgeman1984]

You better make plans to support those buds or they will be on the ground..
I've been using tomato cages for support.. Now that you know you can plan ahead..

Wish my under stairs setup would let me use a trellis but I got one way in and one way out of a tight squeeze. I vegged the girl for a solid 8 weeks, the branches look strong enough to be an outdoor plant I thought. I was also trying to do as little defoliation on her as possible and the other girl got as much defoliation as it could. Trying to determine strain preferences for my space. It’s a first run under the stairs so guess there’s obviously kinks to work out.

 

[HydoDan]

Seems like there's always another lesson to learn..

 

[Thundercat]

Get some stakes and support that girl! Or some people hook strings to the ceiling and tie them to the upper part of the branches.

 

[MickFoster]

I use wood dowels.

 

[Phytoplankton]

Bamboo garden stakes work great, cheap too!

 

[Unga Bunga]

I like the green bamboo tomato stakes . My plants use to look like porcupines .

Edit to say there were many times I duct taped 2 together for plants that were 4-5' tall