Techniques/training for reducing stretch

Originally Posted by AWnox

In your experience does that elongate the transition into flowering since it doesn't have the spectrum of light the plant associates itself with the change in season?

No. It's not the wavelength of light that signals the plant to flower, it's the length of the dark periods that signals this.

Up until the point where the upper portion of my bud tips were exposed enuf I would pinch the stem to cause some damage to slow growth. Once the upper 3" of each stem is covered by premature bud and hairs that I don't wanna damage is when I stop and just let the plant do its own thing. Only thing I'm not sure on right now is quite a few leaves on the lower half and inside my canopy r yellowing and dying so I was thinkin I might wanna hit it with some veg nutes to get it some nitrogen in the next 1 or 2 watering cycles. Then go back to this flowering tea recipe I found that I like to use. Plant is Orange Krush strain.
lower half
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What you need to do is trim up allot of the lower leafs and little bud sites this will send more energy to upper bud sites. I am not sure on your flowering nutrients but don;t add veg nutes keep on flowering regime
add calmag if your not already and if you are then give it a little more calmag flowering period plants need lots of P and K not as much N if you don;t have calmag supplement then use epsom salt ( quick fix ) not to be used as a reg feeding purchase calmag lol you can also add either liquid honey , or black strap molasses this products have lots of micro nutrients that also will help for any deficiencies.
Adding MH in flower makes more leafs best way to control stretching is know your strain lower lights in first 2 weeks of flower , and super crop / pinch all tops allowing a plant to stretch is bad you only get one top bud and your lower buds never join up in turn Small nugs more trimming
Key to nice buds is tight nodes that's why many growers like to use Flourescents added in there veg room here are some end of day 20 flowering pics buds will be 14" long and all joined up when done like the bud sitting on top of the 5 gallon bucket

Originally Posted by DrGreener

Only thing that you can do is lower your lights and keep super cropping tops up to 10th day of flower

Originally Posted by DrGreener

What you need to do is trim up allot of the lower leafs and little bud sites this will send more energy to upper bud sites. I am not sure on your flowering nutrients but don;t add veg nutes keep on flowering regime
add calmag if your not already and if you are then give it a little more calmag flowering period plants need lots of P and K not as much N if you don;t have calmag supplement then use epsom salt ( quick fix ) not to be used as a reg feeding purchase calmag lol you can also add either liquid honey , or black strap molasses this products have lots of micro nutrients that also will help for any deficiencies.
Adding MH in flower makes more leafs best way to control stretching is know your strain lower lights in first 2 weeks of flower , and super crop / pinch all tops allowing a plant to stretch is bad you only get one top bud and your lower buds never join up in turn Small nugs more trimming
Key to nice buds is tight nodes that's why many growers like to use Flourescents added in there veg room here are some end of day 20 flowering pics buds will be 14" long and all joined up when done like the bud sitting on top of the 5 gallon bucket

I super crop and use veg nutes right up until 2nd week of flower and usually find it does not hamper final harvest at all, and I harvest a nice health green plant with no visible defencies.

regards,

I'm hopin to end up with sumptin similar 2 urs I'm sure I won't reach ur size on my 1st supercrop/lst attempt, but I will continue my experimentation with following grows. But how far into ur flowering period do u wait till u stop pinching off ur buds to keep em even?

I've been using bushmaster of late with pretty good success - it does not eliminate stretch, but it does help keep it to a minimum.

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http://www.planetnatural.com/site/im...ku=bush-master

Originally Posted by ru4r34l

I super crop and use veg nutes right up until 2nd week of flower and usually find it does not hamper final harvest at all, and I harvest a nice health green plant with no visible defencies.

regards,

Normally when flipping to flower the transition period week one you add half of veg nutes with flower nutes week 2 all flowering nutes

side lighting helps I use leds definatly helped