Replant Those Long Stretchy Stems ( Its Easy )

[Dannysayo]

Yes re pot them. Try to bury the stem down about 50% of what's visable maybe more. Slightly water your buried stem area. Within a few days it'll begin making roots. Keep me posted bro

Thank you dragon. I will repot today! Glad I joined the site you guys are very helpful and fast answered

 

[CleverDad]

Thanks for the great information. My first day here and I already learned something I'm doing wrong.

 

[PhilPhries]

Hey, I'm a complete newbie first time grower. I actually just had some seeds lying around when I was planting some tomato and pepper seeds and figured I would put them in some soil and see what happened. Low and behold, all 6 sprouted and 12 days later I have some questions. First, due to lack of resources I put three seedlings each into two little jiffy starter pots. After all 6 sprouted I figured I would see this thing through. When they got to be about 2 inches tall I transplanted them into a larger container but I didn't separate the seedlings. So, in each larger pot I now have 3 3.5-inch tall plants. After reading this I realize I should have buried them deeper to encourage the stems to grow thicker, but since they actually seem to be growing (albeit slowly and skinny so far) should I carefully dig them up and separate them? I can post pics if people think it would be helpful.

 

[Briansmith8585]

I'm glad I came across this cuz I have one pc that is stretching crazy and I was wondering what I was going to do but now I know great thread

 

[sunni]

Hey, I'm a complete newbie first time grower. I actually just had some seeds lying around when I was planting some tomato and pepper seeds and figured I would put them in some soil and see what happened. Low and behold, all 6 sprouted and 12 days later I have some questions. First, due to lack of resources I put three seedlings each into two little jiffy starter pots. After all 6 sprouted I figured I would see this thing through. When they got to be about 2 inches tall I transplanted them into a larger container but I didn't separate the seedlings. So, in each larger pot I now have 3 3.5-inch tall plants. After reading this I realize I should have buried them deeper to encourage the stems to grow thicker, but since they actually seem to be growing (albeit slowly and skinny so far) should I carefully dig them up and separate them? I can post pics if people think it would be helpful.

marijuana needs to be alone by itself, its kinda like a Siamese fighting fish in that way it will become root bound and sickness will ensure if you plant more than 1 plant in each pot

seperate , and re pot

 

[grizlbr]

Separate and replant. As soon as it is legal I will grow something besides tomatoes. Till then the tomatoes will be out my back door. Last year all I had was what grew wild from front yard garden. and I dug up tomatoes and separated and replanted. Works great for tomatoes and suckers. (clones) still have parts for 5 gallon cloner but suckers are clones. I buried the mother up to the first leave. Will see how large a container Resident manager will allow.

 

[PRLBear]

Cheers on this thread. I had some stretchy little girls because all I had in the box at the start were the supplementary T5 strips from my flower box in it and they were reaching hard. Reburied the girls, raised them up and added a spiral over their heads and all is well.

 

[TrippyMontana21]

I have been indoor growing a Sativa for little over a month and it's a little over 12in tall but on the tips of lower leaves are a little brown, I'm guessing it's because I need to put it in a bigger pot. Could that be the case?

 

[erbguy]

always beleave your metes

 

[samster123]

Seems some plants continue to stretch even when my lights are 1.5 inches away -___-

 

[coneoisser]

Hi Guys! I hope this is the right thread for advice as my problem is partly based on this topic. I have a 1m x1m x1.8m tent with 600w hps. Cooltube and exhaust separate fan. I popped 2 ww x bb and a Freddy's best about 10 days ago. I am on a time frame as to when i have to start flowering and the growth is very slow at the moment. I am using oraganic soil with 1/8 strength nutes every second wateringg and also using rizotonic. I had a bit of stretch from the light not being on when they popped and have now replanted the seedlings so only 1-2 inches of stem are showing. My pots are about 12L and I think this is the problem. From what i have been able to read my plants are spending all their energy on growing roots and they wont start to veg until the roots start to hit the side of the pot. When I repotted them the ball of roots was about the size of a small cup. Would it be wise to transplant them into a smaller pot so the roots hits the sides quicker and then go into veg quicker or should i just wait. Keep in mind I really can only veg for another two weeks before I flip to 12/12 as im going overseas for a while. Apart from that ph seems fine, temps are fine etc etc. any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[illinelly]

i say just flip o 12/12 now imo

 

[coneoisser]

If I flipped to 12/12 now and even if my plants quadruple in size they'd be 6" tall at best haha.

 

[bmd]

I'm on day 13 on my plants there a lil bigger and I buried them depper three times already I don't know what else to do

 

[bmd]

I've done mine three times already should I move them to solo cups

 

[coneoisser]

Hey man I dont think it's the pot size that is causing stretching. It coukd be makingbthem grow slowly as I think it has in my case. Stretchung is caused by them looking fot light so I'd say thats what you need more of. What are you using for light and how far away from the plantd is it?

 

[bmd]

Hey man I dont think it's the pot size that is causing stretching. It coukd be makingbthem grow slowly as I think it has in my case. Stretchung is caused by them looking fot light so I'd say thats what you need more of. What are you using for light and how far away from the plantd is it?

I changed my lights to a 18" the box said a daylight bulb 6500k

 

[twostrokenut]

Got some 6" ones that were reaching for ambient sunlight, now they will be 6" shorter when the finish in the cab, thanks!

 

[coneoisser]

I changed my lights to a 18" the box said a daylight bulb 6500k

What is the wattage on that 6500k bulb? Is it cfl? If it is it needs to be nearly touching the plant unless its 130w true wattage or greater. Then it needs to be at about 12 inches. If it is a normal household cfl you need a few and very close

 

[zgreatcornholio]

yeah i also did this and got GREAT results