Bending

This one sounds self explanatory, but it's not. It's actually a very advanced technique. That's why I put it here, in the Advanced Marijuana Cultivation section.

Any questions?

Nay

I love this technique. Below the next set of shoots i believe. week 2 of flower? Any one?

Bending in flower. Always remember to bend your lead cola below your next set of branching. Its perfect way to manage canopy and not keep raising lights. you will actually lower the lamps. Especially on viny stretchy plants like og's. This creates for an awesome yield. I personally do this about Day 17-18 0f flower.

pretty much scrogging without a screen

nl5xsk1 said:

pretty much scrogging without a screen

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although scrogging requires more of a veg time to fill a screen. Not saying one is better then the other cuz scrogging alloys one to grow less plants most of the time.

yep, your right, and yes , I didn't think about the fact that typically when scrogging less is best. I think Ill give your method a try

I know the one plant is yellowing, she's being a finicky girl. Though both pictures were pretty relevant though so hope these are well recieved

I try to bend and pin down all plants for exactly the reasons stated by mongo-frog... less moving of the lights and a more even canopy.



This sativa was so flexible that she could be coiled around the pot and pinned down.

I have a noob question about bending... how is the stretch phase modified after you have bent a plant over during veg?

Cos its my first grow and I don't know what my strain is going to do at all (Ganesh, mandalaseeds.com)

Does the original meristem still shoot out double the height of the whole stem or do all the newly equal auxiliary meristems all stretch 'x%' of '100/x total stretch' inches? (where x = number of equally dominant meristems)

Chester da Horse said:

Does the original meristem still shoot out double the height of the whole stem or do all the newly equal auxiliary meristems all stretch 'x%' of '100/x total stretch' inches? (where x = number of equally dominant meristems)

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I don't have enough experience to know if there is a specific, consistent algebraic relationship to the stretch. From what I have seen, the percent of stretch you get with a main shoot can be applied to the new growth. This is assuming you make the bend early in flower.

For example, if your strain averages 3x stretch, then after the bend the side branches will stretch 3x.

In this picture, even though it is not a full 90 degree bend, you can see how each of the side branches has stretched almost equally. Those toward the top are longer because I didn't bend it early in flower and so they were longer at the time of the bend. Afterwards things evened out and the lower branches grew faster.



I had to bring this one back to vertical to make more space, and this picture shows another view of how the stretch is pretty equal among the side branches. Notice that after training, those shorter, lower branches have grown faster and are almost the same length as the longer top ones.