Slowing Vegetative Growth

Any recommendations on slowing vegetative growth? I have plants on a 9 week cycle and the ones in Veg. look like they will outgrow their closet. Currently using a 90 Watt LED UFO for Veg. only.

I was thinking either:
a) Reducing light to 16 hours on and 8 hours off or...
b) Substituting the LED UFO with a lower powered CFL for the last few weeks of Veg. growth while keeping the plants on the 18/6 cycle.

My thanks in advance for your suggestions.
 

RRLBT420

Active Member
you can use the weaker cfls to slow the growth, but you'll have to reduce feeding slightly as well. instead, you can also cut the plants down to the desired size and this will slow growth way down for about a week or two. also, try supercropping. the plant looks like shit after this, but it will cause the plant to focus on thickening stems instead of growing taller. the added benefit to supercropping is that the plants will have larger stalks and stem with which they can use more water and support heavier buds. you can also play with your temperature control and make it so lights on is 10 degrees COOLER than lights off, which will result in shorter internode lengths. this can also increase resin production
 

reggaerican

Well-Known Member
you can use the weaker cfls to slow the growth, but you'll have to reduce feeding slightly as well. instead, you can also cut the plants down to the desired size and this will slow growth way down for about a week or two. also, try supercropping. the plant looks like shit after this, but it will cause the plant to focus on thickening stems instead of growing taller. the added benefit to supercropping is that the plants will have larger stalks and stem with which they can use more water and support heavier buds. you can also play with your temperature control and make it so lights on is 10 degrees COOLER than lights off, which will result in shorter internode lengths. this can also increase resin production
yes lower your nutes to just enough to keep green, use a cfl insteed of your led and and change your light cycle.. also heck man just top them if you need to, you will get a crap load more buds if you do and problem solved..
 
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