my plant is enormous!! what can i do!?

Hey guys, my plant that is in my flowering tent has gotten unmanageably big. My light is almost as high as I can get it. Fortunately I have such good air ventilation that my plant can basically touch the glass of my HPS. I've read around about different options, but I can't decide what to do. I'm less than 2 weeks into flowering. I never topped this plant, but whats crazy, is several of my side branches are ALMOST as tall as the main cola. In fact, one of them is exactly the same height (these pics are a little old). I've heard people say that if you don't top your plant, you only get 1 cola... but thats not going to be true of my plant right? I mean, i have a bunch of side branches that are VERY prominent. They will product bud as well, right? Anyways, back to the topic... what to do? I have PLENTY of room to move the plant to the side, and turn my light sideways... is that a good option? With so much time left to flower, you think my plant will still reach the roof of my grow tent? Should I try to train it some? I don't really know how to do it.. but I assume i just need some string and I try to pull the top down some?? My main stem is really THICK. Anyways, check out the pics! Any advice would be greatly appreciated! This damn thing is growing so fast...

it looks like a sexy beast man good job i would start tying that sex beast to the side and try to get it to bush out

L.S.T? You should be able to halve the size!

Hi just crush the stems and bend over there will repair break in days.

Looks really strong, you should bush it out for sure.

Well you can bend the branches over as they get too tall...or just super crop all the branches...just had to do that to one of mine...Some don't grow in the main cola way...ever..topped or not...

it is no big deal...however you bend it, it will adjust...even if you just gently bend all the branches down one by one a few times everyday each branch will start to grow outward more than upward, even before the end of the day..these are super easily trained plants...so don't sweat it...just bend it how you want it.

I frequently hang weights on the branches with twist-ties or S-hooks, like tree ornaments. Bend the branches in an arc, tie weights toward the branch tips to hold them where you want them. Check after a while because they may bend even further than you wanted- just make the weight less. By moving the weights out further as the branch grows you can train it to go horizontally, with the buds sticking up like a family of owls.

Still has a growth spurt to go too.. Lst or supercrop before it really forms up.

Kyle Keen Green said:

L.S.T? You should be able to halve the size!

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thats what i did early on in my grow
get some yarn, some of them plastic ties that are on bread packages an puttin holes in the upper most portion of that bucket

it'll probably take a week or 2 before u finally get her tied down just the way ya want but like kyle said u'll cut the size down to half easily

You could use a hardener like bushmaster or koolbloom, they will make the plant focus on buds

since its only two weeks you should make a decsion quick, u can take the main stalk an bend it till u see fluid start to come out were you are bending it. you may want to tie it down as well ive had them pop right back up. or you can simply start to tie it down towrds a corner of your room pulling the main top down from the light (lst) gradually pulling it further down. or just top it about an inch, i had to do this a few grows ago because they streatched to much an put me in the same situation, i still got 7 oz outa 6 plants got like 2 colas on each plant and they were fat. but ne ways hope all goes well an keep us up to date, have a growtaastic day

Bend the stems each day more and more till you reach a 45 degree angle or more. Be gentle and make sure you don't breake the stem. You will get something like this ( bushy low height plants ) :

pcman123 said:

Hi just crush the stems and bend over there will repair break in days.

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-Agreed, better than topping this late in the grow.

Wow, I neglected to check my thread for a day, and so many responses!! Thanks so much guys... I definitely needed some encouragement in the right direction, because I just walked into my room and my main cola was pushing into the glass of my HPS... like start to grow along the glass, lol! Didn't burn it at all... but I'm literally almost out of room. I think I'm going to try some LST like most of you have suggested. I just hate the idea of breaking my main stem... I mean I'm sure yall know what you are talking about, but I'm just not confident enough to do that yet. So are every one of the main branches that are sticking up (nearly as high as the main stem) going to produce a lot of bud too?

tie that bitch down... LST

2 weeks into flower..she should stop stretching soon.

Well... I was going to do LST... until I bent it to far and it broke... well, it didn't really break, it just kind of bent. The stem is super full of moisture, so there was no "SNAP." I have it bent at nearly a 90 degree angle now... Is this going to be ok? I assume it will be since some of you told me to break it. I assume that it will heal itself and start growing back towards the light? Thanks for the input!





Nothing to worry about right? Theres no fluid or anything that came out where it broke... didn't even break the skin... just kind of stretched.

perfect, its called supercropping!

Thats fine. You just supercropped !

tying her down should fix ur problems