How anyone tried bending and tying in early flower?

I am trying a lil something out with two of my plants out of 8. I am in first week of flowering and I have slightly tied the plant to give the plant a bend, about 180 degrees (I dont want to snap anything), to get the lower branches to get more light and hopefully more yeild at the end. It has been one day the lower branches have been growing more upward and looks more even with the top, I am going to probably keep it tied and just keep checking it out. The other plant I put 5 stakes around the bucket and have tied and raised up the lower branches so that they are more even with the top and have tied them where they are now getting more light also. I have also tucked leaves so that there isnt any big water leaves shading any part of the plant. Doing this has also made it alot more roomy in my small grow space 4x5, The plant isnt as bushy because I have raised the branches upward and have tucked leaves. They look happy and healthy so far! Has anyone done anything like this during early flower?

I did last year, tied down the colas horizontally so the buds along the stems grew straight up. I even snapped one of the main branches, I just let it hang there and it grew fine

ok great because my brother loves to argue about just leaving it alone lol I on the other hand believe that yes it will grow fine if I just leave it alone but I also believe that bending and tying the plant will allow light to the areas that arent getting light and help them grow bigger and stronger towards that light!

A nice batch of supper cropping works wonder in early flower, just squeeze stem and twist (only till the branch droops) then position where desired. My curent grow had serious stretch issues and I had to crop during week 3 and they bounced back fine, below is a picture of them with the bends annotated.



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regards,

I do it all the time. I try to be gentle and if it's a a lot of bending I do it in stages.

In principle any change you make to the plant will force it to spend some time and resources responding. The question is whether this amounts to anything significant. Plants have to move and bend as they grow anyway.

I am constantly doing it. I keep trying to fit 10 pounds of shit in a five pound bag... and I keep getting away with it.

Yakgreenies said:

I have slightly tied the plant to give the plant a bend, about 180 degrees

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A 180 degree bend is more than slight !
I LST through flower regularly with zero probs.

obijohn said:

I did last year, tied down the colas horizontally so the buds along the stems grew straight up. I even snapped one of the main branches, I just let it hang there and it grew fine

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lmao damn bro you got the perfect name for this avatar.you can have it but treat it right. it was my favorite