how to keep plants short

[toke420]

i have some narcs 4 neighbours and am starting a couple plants in my garden next year so i was just wondering if there are anyways to keep the plants under 5 feet without hurting the plant?

 

[Rudeboy]

grow lowryders, they only grow like 2 feet MAX pretty nice bud still.

 

[toke420]

i have seeds for indicas and want 2 just keep them short i was told bending ste,s keeps them short is this true?

 

[jerrydavis911]

I havent ever done it but i have read about it, BUT its a prosses of cutting the branches , making then grow v's and growing make like a bush(growing out and not up) then strait up. The name os the prosses is on the tip of my toung, but i cant name it.

I hope this was a lil-helpful

(also look at training)



EDIT, i THINK its called topping

 

[Sublime757]

if you clip the main shoot between the nodes, it will stop growth at that point and proceed to grow 2 stalks instead of one. you can do this three times for a total of 8 branches. 1 into 2 into 4 into 8. or you can bend them over little by little everyday to make them grow sideways. this is probably the easiest and most effective.

 

[toke420]

thanks i'll keep thoose ideas in mind

 

[treehugs]

its pretty easy all u need to do is tie your plants to the grown and they will just grow in a "bush" form. this way they don't look quite like weed plants and they stay low. the branches will just grow up and wont grow taller then 3 feet or so.

 

[Vote 2 Legalize Marijuana]

Stay away from some of those African strains. I planted one in my garden last year and I swear it had to be 15-20 feet tall. Never Again!!!

 

[leonphelpss11]

Stay away from some of those African strains. I planted one in my garden last year and I swear it had to be 15-20 feet tall. Never Again!!!

lol, i heard about african strains to be jolly green giant tall

 

[Wavels]

Any strain can be bent over by tying down with stakes. You can adjust the height to what you need for stealth.
I prefer this technique to cutting, because there is no growth lag.

 

[toke420]

ok i'll give that a try thanks for all the feed back

 

[Bennythejet]

you can cut ur leaves flat at the end to make them look different

 

[Godkas]

My two cents. Top it to make it look like a bush and cut off all but the single blade on each leaf.

 

[eastlosg1]

just disfigure the leaves and keep it by some other kinds of plants

 

[purplegorillas]

You can top the plants, stress train them (increases yield), grow indica strains (they tend to be shorter), tie them down, and im sure there are more methods

 

[IPokeSmot]

If you "weight" down the leaves in will grow side to side rather then up. my friend said he used paperclips at first. i dont know what he did after that

 

[fdd2blk]

my friend, neighbor cop, kids ball over fence, woops you know the rest.


be very, very careful.


they kicked down the front door. made several arrests. confiscated hella paraphenillia.

over a ball.


don't mean to scare you just warn you.

 

[TillthedayiDIE420]

grow lowryders, they only grow like 2 feet MAX pretty nice bud still.

Lowryder RARLEY grow over 12" (one foot) they never grow 2 feet.

 

[FilthyFletch]

crop the top and lst the branches.. stay with indicas

 

[IPokeSmot]

my friend, neighbor cop, kids ball over fence, woops you know the rest.


be very, very careful.


they kicked down the front door. made several arrests. confiscated hella paraphenillia.

over a ball.


don't mean to scare you just warn you.

color me freaked out