Plant grew too high!

Had my roommate watch my plants while i was gone for 3 weeks. One of them stretched a little more then the other one and it is too big. Is it safe to remove about 4 inches of stem and growth? I want these plants to be the same size so they dont out compete one another in my grow box. i dont want the plant any taller and will be putting up screen to prevent it from growing any farther.

I also have a little plant that i put in a hydroponic gatorade bottle. I did it for fun because the plant was about to die, well it made a huge comeback and it too stretched. I want to bonsai this little bastard and see how fat i can get it while keeping it like 8 inches tall

Just use LST. Tie it down basically. Bend the plant at the point where when bent you have the height you want, then carefully tie plant with plant tape or string/wire leaving big enough loop so branch can still grow and then secure other end to container or something else. I've keep 7-8 foot sativas at 4-5 feet this way. It will begin to grow toward the light again, you then can bend and tie it the other way. Eventually it will reach a peak height and go from there.


an example, not mine.

This is my first time growing. I watched some videos about topping and found out I should have done it a loooong time ago.

Another learning experience !!!!!!!!

Never go a single day without learning something new !!!!!!!!

Tie that bitch down !!!!

i dont really have an anchoring point for her (at least im hoping a her.) I went ahead and topped all on both plants as well as topping all the other branches. The shorter one is beautiful but there is some yellowing on quite a few leaves, they were in bad need of nutes. Im going to be babying these little ones for awhile. Ive got my plants in solo cups with lots of holes in the bottom sitting in a 1 gallon container, ghetto dwc once i find my fishing line im going to try tying fishing line to the cup to draw down the other branches. Once i find out who is female i plan to just keep one and grow the shit out of it. Is there a way i can induce flowering to sex the plants and then go back to veg and grow them some more?

You can also supercrop a plant. Then you don't need any kind of anchoring system. On my last grow I anchored the plant to itself, I grew it in a circle tying the tip of the stems back to the main stem using bread ties. It worked pretty well once I got used to playing with the ties.