help, plants are getting to tall

they are sativas and in there first week of flowering. i planted from bagseed. its sept 23, i tied one down today. it was also topped in veg. does this look ok???? or will it stress my plant out????should i keep bending at a slow rate. i cant have it go pass the fence. also will the bending of the branch tip still support the buds????? any guess when theyll be finished. im in so cal desert.

please help this is my first grow.

You could try switching them over to LST, they look happy tho!

how would i lst them. there 6 feet tall???

no choice but then to tie them down... u shoulda done the this like 3 weeks ago to promote more growth... now ur jus gonna be keeping it low to hide it rather then profit and suppercropping, LSTing is very profitable if done rite

sogbunn said:

no choice but then to tie them down... u shoulda done the this like 3 weeks ago to promote more growth... now ur jus gonna be keeping it low to hide it rather then profit and suppercropping, LSTing is very profitable if done rite

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well sorry im not an expert superman, but will my yield or anything be affected??? there still in week 1 flower

infidel420 said:

well sorry im not an expert superman, but will my yield or anything be affected??? there still in week 1 flower

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nono, not at all... but if u woulda tied it down like 2-3 weeks b4 flowering u woulda increased ur yeild.. i wasnt putting u down or anything.. i was jus tellin u so perhaps next yr u may be more prepared

ill go as i learn i guess. these seeds came from a 5 dollar schwag bag sack so i had know idea they would become so huge plus, its my first grow.

thanks for the input though all knowledge is appreciated.

Don't sweat it too much man, tie the shit out of em, sure you'll lose some yield but with that number of plants and that size? You're doing a ton more weight than pretty much every first time grower. Congrats!

thanks grizzly, thers only 3 plants, two ARE CLOSE TOGETHER AND THE THIRD IS THE ONE I PRACTICED THE TIE DOWN WITH. ANY GUESS WHEN THEYLL BE DONE AND YIELD IM IN SO CAL DESERT.

u wont lose yeild...

lose yield due to lack of proper pruning? Yes I think he will.

Ok thats awesome news, but i really need to know if they will be done by november, because ive heard of equatorial sativas that can take up tp 16 weeks to flower. Any way knowing if these are them???

u will not lose yeild.. if anything u will gain cuz ull be opening ur plant up so lower nugs will see more light and have more space to grow... u will lose ur big colas tho as ur buds will be growing along a horizontal branch rather then uprite all close together... tieing down(supercropping, LSTing) has nuffin to do with pruning.. he jus wont get his potential due to improper training times

No way of knowing how long the flowering period is with bag seeds.

Will that make them harder to properly cut off all fan leaves and excess leaf, im not sure what excess leaf is. Lol. Ive just been waiting for so long i just want this grow to be atleast a tad bit successfull. Swear ive been on this website 4 hours every day reading threads since germination.

infidel420 said:

Will that make them harder to properly cut off all fan leaves and excess leaf, im not sure what excess leaf is. Lol. Ive just been waiting for so long i just want this grow to be atleast a tad bit successfull. Swear ive been on this website 4 hours every day reading threads since germination.

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nah.. it will pretty much be the same to trim but u will have to remove more stems... jus say ur foot long cola is made up of 6 buds tite togther, u culd cut it off at the botem of ur cols and keep it as 1... but since its tied down those 6 buds will be beside eachother so u cant really keep them as 1 peice, ya dig???

dont ever cut(prune) off healthy fan leaves, lst will increase yield, not make it smaller.

darkdestruction420 said:

dont ever cut(prune) off healthy fan leaves, lst will increase yield, not make it smaller.

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i think he meant when he harvests

Yeah aint know scissors gettin 20 feet near my plants. Man i love pot growing but it takes so damn long.