Too big to flower?

I purchased two clones a few weeks ago. I intended to keep one as a mother and flower the other. I was still in the process of setting up my grow room so I thought it would give them time to veg a bit before flower. Well, now my grow room is set up but the plants grew like crazy and are now 22" tall (not including the container). Basically, if they double in size during flower then I will probably run out of room in the tent. If it grows even a bit more than double it won't fit in the tent.

So... is there any kind of trimming, pruning, or whatever I can do to address this now before putting it to flower, or would I have to resort to tying, bending, etc during flowering should it get too big?

yea bend just bend the over when they get too big or supercrop them

LST them bitches!

psyte said:

I purchased two clones a few weeks ago. I intended to keep one as a mother and flower the other. I was still in the process of setting up my grow room so I thought it would give them time to veg a bit before flower. Well, now my grow room is set up but the plants grew like crazy and are now 22" tall (not including the container). Basically, if they double in size during flower then I will probably run out of room in the tent. If it grows even a bit more than double it won't fit in the tent.

So... is there any kind of trimming, pruning, or whatever I can do to address this now before putting it to flower, or would I have to resort to tying, bending, etc during flowering should it get too big?

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Set up a SCROG screen and LST - it works for me everytime.

Ok, so I was reading up on these methods, but it's my first grow so I was hoping to try out this kind of stuff later on down the line. But if it will make this plant work for me then I'm down to give it a try.
Some of the articles I read on these methods recommended starting out by topping. Should I top the plant also, or is that something that only should be done when the plant is still small?

you can top anytime in veg without a problem

SCROG does not require topping, and works well in conjunction with LST & Super cropping.

Korner420Garden said:

you can top anytime in veg without a problem

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Is it okay to top right before switching to 12/12? I plan on putting it to flower tomorrow night.

Im gonna poat a pic in a minute of mine i had the same problem..i tied down the top and its worked out great..itll give you an example anyway bro

The first one was where i pulled and tied down the top the second one shows i didnt have chop shit and still kept the best bud....just what happened to me.

^Very cool. Thanks for the pics too. Those are some tasty looking colas.

Thanks to everyone who helped me out here... I'm feeling much better about flowering this plant now.

Still curious if it's too late to top it too since it's about to go to flower. I read that would slow the growth also while the two new growing tips get going.

Well i take shit off the plant all the way up to two weeks in..but i dint think topping right now will help because the whole point is to do it early on so the plant to grow out two main stems but right before flower all youll do is possibly take away from the main bud..i do have a plant where the main bud was burned so i cut the top off..that was two weeks into flower its now on day fifty six. ..Ill post a pic in a minute so you can see the results

So the difference is pretty obvious right..the first was topped in the beggining and the second plant was topped early veg..and left to flower. ..So id say just tie em down

Cool bro, thanks for the info. I definitely won't top at this point if that's the case.
I think I'm all set for now, I'll get started on the LST today.

I'm new so it won't do much... but rep to everyone who helped, I really appreciate it.

psyte said:

Is it okay to top right before switching to 12/12? I plan on putting it to flower tomorrow night.

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You can, but it is always a good idea to give the plant a week to recover before changing anything.

psyte said:

I purchased two clones a few weeks ago. I intended to keep one as a mother and flower the other. I was still in the process of setting up my grow room so I thought it would give them time to veg a bit before flower. Well, now my grow room is set up but the plants grew like crazy and are now 22" tall (not including the container). Basically, if they double in size during flower then I will probably run out of room in the tent. If it grows even a bit more than double it won't fit in the tent.

So... is there any kind of trimming, pruning, or whatever I can do to address this now before putting it to flower, or would I have to resort to tying, bending, etc during flowering should it get too big?

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never to big to flower, the bigger the better the bigger the more yield

I finished my initial LST last night, so just wanted to update on how well it's going.
I seriously can't thank you guys enough. This is not only going to solve my height issue, but the plant is getting so much more light to so many more tips now that they're all the same height. I'm so fucking excited about this grow now!

It's easier to show it than describe it, so here's what I've got so far:


Here it is in the veg tent prior to doing any LST. About 22" tall here.



This is my first bend. I attached the main stem near the base and then bent the whole thing over about half way up. I couldn't bend it too far since the stem was about 3/8" thick and pretty rigid. I really didn't want to snap it right at the base. This only reduced the height a couple inches and made the plant quite lop sided. I wanted to do more but was a couple days from the next watering so I decided to wait until then so it would be easier to bend.



This is the first or second day in the flower tent. It's hard to see the main stem bent over here cause the pic is a bit dark. But you can see the side branches reaching straight up for the light now.



This is last night after finishing the initial LST. The top of the main stem was bent down and at about 90deg angle back to the edge of the container. All of the big branches are tied down around the edge of the container evenly spaced out. I was planning on only tying down a couple but once I got started it was going so well I had to keep going. I finished about 30 min before lights out so I was concerned about the branches that had leaves bottom side up and thought I would have to do more temporary tying in the morning but then....



This morning all the leaves had righted themselves. I thought it would require more light time to do this so I was surprised it happened overnight.

At this point, the main stem is about 26-27" long, but overall height is only 15"! The tips will probably reach more toward the light today and add another couple inches, but we're talking about reducing the plant height by more than a third. Not only that but now I have an amazing canopy up close to the light vs just one tip up there!