Have you never seen a tree staked up? This is common practice. I used a cuticle pusher or cuticle stick for mine when it had a similar problem. You can get a pack of them for cheap from Wal-mart. Put them a half inch from your plant, use twisty ties to bind your plant to your stake. Leave it loose. Your plant shouldn't be pulled to the stake just tied loosely to it. Really not that difficult.

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im not contending that it is not totally safe and commonplace to stake them up. i am simply suggesting that not staking may produce a more hearty and vigorous plant later on. it has just been my experience that holding them up allows the plants to focus on continued upward growth rather than stability. i germ my seeds in soil in front of a fan. so that from the very beginning my plants are very aware of their responsibility to first stabilize them selves and then grow upward. the result is tight nodal spacing and denser flowers.

i realize that there are alot of people out there who have plenty of success staking their plants for support. i just wanted to give the newbie the ability to understand a different way, in addition to the posibility of artificial support.

another way... if the seedling is still short, try packing a little extra soil around the base of the stem.

the important part is really just smoking it once you have finished... good luck on that part

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I personally remove the stake when the roots have taken sufficient hold and I too use a fan but sometimes accidents happen. I stake for anywhere between 1 to 3 weeks. If your plant is literally laying on its side I do not believe it would be able to prop itself back up. I may be wrong here but why take the risk?

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i disagree and agree lol. staking is fine early on.....have a fan blowing on em like 18/6 or 24/0 for a week or so then un-tie em. they should be nice and strong by then. u could also try supercropping while its still staked...i did. made the main stem huge so i did it a couple times and it shocked me the first couple times how much bigger the main stem got each time i did. 3rd time it didnt really do too much so i havent done it since it was more than big enough already

some of my best plants have grown like a fallen coconut tree. Growing on a curve isn't the worst thing.

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take a large clear container and throw it over top like a humi dome. happens to all my clones i throw into dirt before a good root system develops. the humidity makes her stand right up after 2 hours and on her own no stakes needed

ok so i went against ppls ideas and put it back into a smaller cup to hospitalize it. now all the leaves are going brown! underwatered? or is that from the leaves laying on the soil?

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you made a bad choice.....its dying. start over...

it looked like that before i transplanted and im seeing the leaves/stem perk up straight. whats the problem? underwatered im guessing

The plant laying on it's side means that the whole plant recived optimol light.when a plant is growing up right the fan leaves take light from the bottom section.you was lucky though because if you would have left it on side would have died.that is why the new tardis growrooms grow the plans comeing out sideways and need to be turned every other day.