Replant Those Long Stretchy Stems ( Its Easy )

awsome read. rep+!!

I am doing my first grow now, i am 7 days from germ and i have very long stems on my plants as i think i left them in the dark to long. What will happen to my plant if i just left it?

Thats cool thanks for throwing this up. I want to try this type of thing with an outdoor plant next season (get deep roots and it should be able to find a lot of its own water) but I had never considered it with seedlings.

I have to try this. I am trying my first seed, and they have grown stretches about 3-4" from the dirt before sprouting some leaves. Im not sure if it is the Pineapple Chunk seeds or just my inexperience. I did cut up a piece of straw and put it around them so they went straight up instead of a weird L or J shape.

This is a great remedy for a common problem. thank you. Also if you cant lower your lights to prevent stretching bring your plants up higher, closer to the light. Just food for thought

Definitely want to try this on my girls, but will it work transferring from riot cubes to medium for a DWC? Also is it possible that a tiny bit of rooting hormone would help with the rooting process of the covered stem?

Thanks for the Post Mr. Ganja; new user here, and I just did what you did, and it is working out nicely. Question: How big do they need to get before going to a 1 or 2 gallon container? I have a 4 by 6 closet space and 14 ladies (at least I think they're ladies) and I'm going about this kind of blind and by info gained online. I watered them according to the 3 day plan from the High Times guy, but my soil has been soggy for 3 days now and some of the leaves are starting to curl. Any advice? Thx.

In reference to cfl growing, would you say it's better to have short stocky plants over plants that may be slightly too stretched? Will this also affect how dense the yielded bud will be?

Okay so,,,,,, shit went down and I had to get rid of my lights. So I ordered a UFO led when things got back on track. And the piece of shit led wen out in 2 days(blackstar) and I demanded my money back(I went at them like an asshole) and instead of them saying sorry, and giving me my money back, they gave me a new one. Yeah, it crossed my mind to keep the broke one, fix it up, and sell it for compensation(I had 3 seedlings under the UFO) of course I didn't tell them that. My thought was, it was their fault that the led went out, therefore they killed my seedlings..... Long story short, I got the seedlings to live, but they were stretchy like my G-ma's vagina... So, I scooped up the seedlings with a spoon(never had stretchy youngens) and I could HEAR the spoon fucking the roots... Killed em... Find this thread... And I'm butt-hurt..


In the end, I blamed blackstar for killing my seedlings, then I did it.. And the new Works great!!! Got good stuff under it now.


A+ guys keep on growin

will the stem grow new roots if we do this?

Soooooo
You can't just throw a little extra soil on top of whats there?

migl said:

will the stem grow new roots if we do this?

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Yes

New roots will grow from the buried stem

bigbull52 said:

Soooooo
You can't just throw a little extra soil on top of whats there?

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Sure if their is extra room

I know some people will only put a little soil then after the stretch they fill in the rest

Awesom, thats what I'll dosince mine stretched so much.

I do similar with every grow. I start with 3/4 the cup of soil and add soil as they grow. Seems to make stronger and healthier seedlings.

Is this something you can do while transplanting or should you do it as soon as you notice it?

Good advice. I like to wait for a little stretch then put soil on top. To me this helps the stalk get stronger and of course allows for roots to start.. like u said
Then when i am ready to re-pot i will bury the stalk just like you did.
And yes it is much easier to get the dirt off the roots when it's dry.
DO NOT DAMAGE THE ROOTS if you do it will just take that much longer for the roots to start to grow back.

good post. Im sure its helped many.

Ye seedlings do that but its all part of the grow

thanks for the info

like i really want to replant for two reason. One i got two plants in one pot. dumb for me to do that but it was a rookie move but i thought it wouldnt matter.and the other reason one plant is tall and the others one is short but they both healthy plants.i want both of these plants. so how do i go about replanting my babies pics on the bottom so you can understand the situation
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