Plants are outgrowing lights!!!
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BrassNwood
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Young soft plants your thumbnail is enough to indent the stem in a few places and fold a plant over 90 degrees.
Older hard stems present a more difficult problem. Be to rough and snap the stem and everything above the snap will die.
To prevent snapping we need to provide some strain relief. Get out the pliers and go at it. Crush a zone 6 inches or more as needed to bend them over 90 degrees without snapping. Fluids will flow past the crush and everything above it will continue to swell and grow.
Grab the top in one hand and start crushing where and at the angle you want her folded. Tie it down as it will keep trying to stand back up. I use this to keep huge Sativa strains below the fence line and being seen from adjoining yards. While it is legal there is no point in needless advertising. I've crushed and bent nearly the entire length of a main stem before rolling the plant in a circle with her crown back at ground level.
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Older hard stems present a more difficult problem. Be to rough and snap the stem and everything above the snap will die.
To prevent snapping we need to provide some strain relief. Get out the pliers and go at it. Crush a zone 6 inches or more as needed to bend them over 90 degrees without snapping. Fluids will flow past the crush and everything above it will continue to swell and grow.
Grab the top in one hand and start crushing where and at the angle you want her folded. Tie it down as it will keep trying to stand back up. I use this to keep huge Sativa strains below the fence line and being seen from adjoining yards. While it is legal there is no point in needless advertising. I've crushed and bent nearly the entire length of a main stem before rolling the plant in a circle with her crown back at ground level.
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I had the same problem so I tied them down now I got them tied up lol
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crankdoctor
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You need to go out in garage and get a hedge trimmer for those!. Or find a place out side and set them free. Seriously didn’t you see that coming? Your going to have real problems being they Havnt even went through stretch yet.. other than super cropping and a hair cut. Good thing it’s a weed it will grow back. A long time ago growing outside we would bend them over and stake them like you would scrog indoor. Some would get up to 15ft long. That’s an option if you can get them outside without next door seeing them if posable. I would suggest looking up scrog and mainline method and apply that on your next run that way you will have full controll over your grow. Just a tip but maybe only grow one. 2 max plants in your tent that way. You Will have a better yield. Take some clones in case this grow don’t work out for you that way you have a backup plan! Good luck. Ps when you do super crop have some tape handy because some will break and you need to tape around them so they heal. Could use a bit of super thrive to help them along but just once at this stage.
I’m going to keep a eye on your grow so please post pics. Everyone is here to help so don’t get discouraged.
I’m going to keep a eye on your grow so please post pics. Everyone is here to help so don’t get discouraged.
That was 9 months ago...
pegboy
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Those plants are currently 25 feet tall.
PopAndSonGrows
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If they're still in veg, cut them waaaaaay back.
StonedGardener
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When I see that they are going to grow to the ceiling, I start the process of bending them. You gotta do it gently , increasing your load on the plant. I start out with a very light washer attached with a small S hook. The top stem will be new growth , green and not very strong. So start out with a very light washer that won't break the stem. I end up, at the end with very heavy loads ( like big Cresent wreches )which keep the mature branch down and growing vertical . This vertical stem will give rise to a bunch of branches growing straight up to the lights and form nice colas. Go real light at first ! I've put two light washers on to start bending one time....seemed okay......it held. I came back later and it had snapped stem.
Budzbuddha
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Use a machete
Greengrouch
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Duck tape, not kidding either, I’ve snapped more than my fair share of stems trying to bend or supercrop, it’ll heal up pretty quickly
StonedGardener
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I start out very,very slow . When I see that it's gonna too tall , I start out witha very light washer on a S hook . The top of the plant has very new growth that won't handle much weight . I slowly add weight ( bigger washers ) . In the end I'm using
Monkey wrenches and other large tools to hold it down. Ya got to start early and go slow. Sometimes I'll start bending them by tying them off towards the top and slowly bring it down.
conor c
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He's right duct tape works wonders for patching it up and this is a lesson every grower must learn at somepoint when you let plants out grow lights let it teach you to control height better in future ive literally only let this happen once mind you i can finish stuff at 6 feet tall worst case if i need to my first grow ever i let plants get outta control and they were 7+ foot monsters trying to hide those buggers from a house inspection outside in a van when that was going on was hilarious definitely lesson learned the hard way im lucky i didnt end up in jail lol
crankdoctor
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Sounds like a good rush. Hers a good example of out of hand. Being gone over a couple weeks in hydro don’t mix. Plus strain was all over the place. That was a job to get back in order but turned out. What a mess!
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Dude... this thread is fucking old. But anyway, flowering too late is a rookie mistake. We've all done it. After 5 or so grows of indica or sativa, you should be pretty solid on when to flower either. The stretch is inevitable. A study came out a while back that demonstrated flushing at the start of flower reduced stretching. Never tried this myself, but kinda considering it.