Accidental 'supercrop' on day 23 of flower

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spek9

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Hey all,

My plants are continuously growing out of control, and I finally have no height left in my tent to raise my light.

So the last couple weeks, I've been pushing further each day with LST, but yesterday I tightened things down too tight and collapsed the main cola branch just below the first set of leaves from the top of the one plant I have that wasn't topped. I taped a pen around the bend to stabilize it, but I'm wondering if I can take the tape off and let it bend over on its own.

The stem isn't overly damaged, and it did not break in any fashion.

If I just leave it bend without the stabilizing pen, will my main cola die off or cease to grow?

Is this a feasible method to provide me with some more height without much damage?

Thanks,

-spek
 
Pics. It's a little farther down than I thought, so a lot of plant will be damaged if I make the wrong choice. You can see the red electrical tape lightly holding the pen in place.

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-spek
 
Ideally you would have wanted to do that a few weeks before the flip. The bend/break doesn't look terribly bad it should be fine. I bet you will be pleasantly surprised at what happens. A little shock never hurt. As long as your plant is healthy otherwise it will be just fine. If the leaves start drooping and the big D sets in you will know it, but I have yet to kill one.
 
I can relate, I have about 18 plants in my 10x10 rm..1600 watts, soil..organic. About a 1000 in a veg site with the babies. I find most often if I have a Cal/Mag issue it is almost always ph related. I now religiously adjust my ph as needed. I have oddly high tap ph. I use Vinegar or Lemon Juice for PH down. I give a little MOllasses during the grow for soil maintenance and allow the plants to finish as naturally as possible.

Here is a little peak. Peace!

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Wow, they look fantastic!

I don't think pH is my issue, I believe it is under-nute. I religiously pH to 6.4-6.6 since day one. This is my first indoor grow, so I'm learning as I go. I feed nutes every second feed, and maybe at this stage it isn't enough. I fed 3/4 calmag today with unnuted water, so I'll be able to see if it clears up. If not, I'll have to feed more often... perhaps 2/3 waters.

Cheers,

-spek
 
That makes sense to me. If they are growing vigorously they might need that supplement. Back when I was using Cal/mag I added a little every watering its pretty safe.
 
Thanks :)

Do you have a specific journal describing your setup? I'm very interested in growing in pure organic like I do my vegetables and herbs, but am not too familiar with feeding etc.

I know I can go and search like I did for this run, but you seem to be doing wonderfully, so if you have any tips, I'd greatly appreciate them :)

-spek
 
Your plant will be fine. You dont even need prop it up. In about a week or two it will look like it never lost a step.

If you need to LST, go buy some twine and tie them down. Although, you're basically past the stretch phase being 3 weeks into flower.
 
adower said:
Your plant will be fine. You dont even need prop it up. In about a week or two it will look like it never lost a step.

If you need to LST, go buy some twine and tie them down. Although, you're basically past the stretch phase being 3 weeks into flower.
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That's exactly what I was hoping to hear on all points :)

Thank you!

-spek

ps. They are tied down, that's how I bent it too far in the first place :)
 
I have a bit of a journal going, it's not very current to my system now. But the short is I have a few compost piles, chickens for poop, Maple, elm, evergreens, you name it in my compost. I have been mixing my compost in with my old root balls, all shaken out. I add topsoil components as needed, I was using Promix, but recently found a product at Home Dep that is super cool, organic certified, CHEAP, and kicks well. It's from MOntana, called Kellog brand, Promix is awesome but kind of spendy stuff. . FYI Dolomite lime will help any cal/mag woes too. I have started mixing it in at low rates and havent seen a symptom in a long time. I bought a PH pen to monitor my ph, I was way off before I started using it. Big difference watering with ph'd wata. I was and still get 8.5 out of my tap. I use Vinegar or Lemon Juice to bring it down. Molasses ever other watering at very low doses about 1tbsp per Gal. Organics take a lot of time. My friends notice the difference as I do in the final product. My yields are not huge but I am not going for quantity either. I am averaging 2-3 zips per plant dry, although I have some Mutant growing in the middle of my room that is going to surpass all. Biggest indoor stem I have grown yet, easily 1 1/2" thick!! I guess I could update my journal. SIgh

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I just harvested two of these. It has taken a while, but things are smoothing out. This plant has zero added bottled voodoo. Not that Voodoo is bad..;-)
 

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