Hi guys, this is my second grow. My first time i used miracle grow and during flowering they only grew maybe 150%. This grow I'm using Fox Farm and they have already doubled in the first week of flowering...eeeek. I have the height for the plants but they are crammed under my 400w hps and i also have 3 40watt fluorescents. I cut off the bottom 4 branches off each plant and that gave them room for a couple of days, but now they are all over each other again. This is my only grow area and it's cold here (MN) so i cant go outdoors. Should I add lights below the plants ? My next grow I'm gonna only do 4 plants vs. the 9 now so I don't want to invest in more expensive lights. Should I cut more branches off? right now from bottom to top there is about 14 branches on each plant. Any advice is appreciated!!
plants growing to big, what to do?
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alexonfire
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they got enough room, how close are they to the 400w?
michomikhail
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Im no expert just was thinking you could strategicly trim some of the leaves/branches using your best judgement but i would do no more than 25% to any indivudual plant so you dont over stress the thing. Are you flowering yet is another question are you doing that yet? and i live in mn to and yes it has been fing cold
michomikhail
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srry re read my post and noticed you are flowering
Thanks for the quick replies!, They have been flowering for exactly 1 weeek and they are about 12" away from the 400w hps. The room itself is about 7 ft tall. I've seen some threads on lollipoping plants, wondering if that is an option. The reason I cut off the bottom 4 branches is on the last grow they produced really small buds. But as I'm learning this grow is going much better so maybe I will yeild more. I got about 7 oz from the last grow of 6 plants.
michomikhail
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im just thinking and was wondering if mabey cutting a lower branch and mabey tying the other branches down to spread out the canopy.
finally done snowing today how do you feel about that?
ah yes I got out there at 9pm last night and got my snow blowing done. Some heavy wet snow. It sucked for sure. It would be nice to find other growers close by to share clones with. I pulled 10 clones off of these just to see if I could. BTW these plants include: white widow, northern soul, mama mia, la woman, pinapple express.
michomikhail
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lol we are lucky enough to pay a kid 5 bucks to do ours every time it snows but clones sound like fun. what area are you from? i have lockstock going on and indian skunk not nearly as nice as yours though im on a budget most of my stuff was laying around just mostly had to buy lightbulbs and seeds
northern cali
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they look fine to me i always cram a bunch under my 1000 just cut some leaves off dont cut branchs,i will cut off some fan leaves after thy are 4 to 6 weeks into flowering, I usally put 15 to 20 under a 1000 i just raise the light if i have to
i also have a space constriction and a fellow RUIer introduced me to Supercropping... i just supercropped my plant last night and didnt seem to stress my plant at all(very surprised) take a look at some vids on youtube of how to do it.. it worked well for me hope this helps
marijuananation
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I would have to say that tying it down or supercropping would be the way to go my friend.
here is what my plant looks like (self supercropped)
For more pictures of this grow, please visit my albums.
Ciao for now
https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/278797-first-time-grow-1-killer.html
here is what my plant looks like (self supercropped)
For more pictures of this grow, please visit my albums.
Ciao for now https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/278797-first-time-grow-1-killer.html