Running out of height in my stealth box. Need advice!

SmokeyMcPotJK

SmokeyMcPotJK

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Ok so this gal is just over a week into flowering. It was a bag seed but it must be a sativa or a sativa dominate blend. It is tall and skinny leaves. Growing like crazy. The thing is going to outgrow my box. It has at least 4 weeks to go, what do I do? Also I didn't remove the bottom branches.

I just discovered it was a girl yesterday.

Is it to late to:
LST
Scrog
Prune
???
Help Please
 
racerboy71

racerboy71

bud bootlegger
i ran into this same problem a few grows ago on my dna sour cream. and again now on my dr greenthumbs og kush.. i did what you are doing and turned to the boards for help.. the answer that i got was to supercrop her.. i had never performed this before, so i went on youtube and found a few videos of it and got a feel for what i was doing.. i was super nervous at first and surely thought that i would kill my baby, but i did it right when the lights came on and when i woke up the next morning, the buds that had been laying at a 90 degree angle were now sitting straight up looking at the light.. it worked out great and didn't seem to stress my plant out very much at all.. the nice thing about supercropping is that it can be done in veg or late flowering and won't have a negative effect on your plants.. and you can do it as often and to as many branches as you like.. check it out, i am sure it will benefit you and you will be more than happy with the results..
 
SmokeyMcPotJK

SmokeyMcPotJK

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racerboy71 said:
i ran into this same problem a few grows ago on my dna sour cream. and again now on my dr greenthumbs og kush.. i did what you are doing and turned to the boards for help.. the answer that i got was to supercrop her.. i had never performed this before, so i went on youtube and found a few videos of it and got a feel for what i was doing.. i was super nervous at first and surely thought that i would kill my baby, but i did it right when the lights came on and when i woke up the next morning, the buds that had been laying at a 90 degree angle were now sitting straight up looking at the light.. it worked out great and didn't seem to stress my plant out very much at all.. the nice thing about supercropping is that it can be done in veg or late flowering and won't have a negative effect on your plants.. and you can do it as often and to as many branches as you like.. check it out, i am sure it will benefit you and you will be more than happy with the results..
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Thanks alot man. I know of super cropping but I am no expert. I have read about it before but never seen it in practice. I will have to check out some videos.
 
racerboy71

racerboy71

bud bootlegger
yah, i was the same as you.. i had heard of it, but wasn't exactly sure how to go about doing it for myself.. after watching a few videos, it looked like i just took a branch between my two fingers, and gently squezzed the branch between them till it felt like it was ready to fall over, than i just gently pushed her over in the direction she wanted to go.. with a lil practice, you can get them to go in which ever direction you want, like if you have a lil more room in one area, you can supercrop a branch in that direction..
gl with the grow, and let me know how it turns out for yah..
 
SmokeyMcPotJK

SmokeyMcPotJK

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I still need to know what I should do about the lower branches. Prune em? or if I supercrop good it will be fine? Or figure out how to get some CFL's down there?
 
Bauks

Bauks

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How long into flowering? LST or suppercropping should work if ya got a lil side room...I LST'ed when My plants started touching my lights it works fantastic :)
 
SmokeyMcPotJK

SmokeyMcPotJK

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Bauks said:
How long into flowering? LST or suppercropping should work if ya got a lil side room...I LST'ed when My plants started touching my lights it works fantastic :)
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8-9 days into 12/12
Just showed it was female, just has its little while pistols or whatever showing
 
strictly seedleSs

strictly seedleSs

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look into Bush Master made by Humboldt's Own. You can use it up to 2 weeks after 12/12. It will stop the vertical growth and kick start the flowering.
 
SmokeyMcPotJK

SmokeyMcPotJK

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Ok so I attempted to super crop to solve the height issue. I watched a bunch of vid's on it and I think the plant should respond fine. Except for one of the little branches I should not have messed with. You will notice in the picture of the top of the plant the little ones broke. Im going to try to tape it.
 
ElectricPineapple

ElectricPineapple

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IMO i woulda LSTed it. super cropping this late will not do much and will not help your height issues. its like topping the plant without taking the main cola off. the main stem will rise again and will be just as tall as it was.
 
SmokeyMcPotJK

SmokeyMcPotJK

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ElectricPineapple said:
IMO i woulda LSTed it. super cropping this late will not do much and will not help your height issues. its like topping the plant without taking the main cola off. the main stem will rise again and will be just as tall as it was.
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headbangaboogy said:
couldnt you just bend her over? i found it helps with height but it produces more tops, or kola-ish product
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I will probably LST it once it recovers. I thought super cropping makes it grow a little sideways and then back up. Either way it should still help with nutrient flow to bud sites, it just showed its sex a couple days ago.
 
ElectricPineapple

ElectricPineapple

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ya it makes the periostem ( dont flame me if i got that wrong) bigger. which transports water throughout the plant. also while it is bent over it acts like it has been topped and redistributes the auxins in the plant to create more tops.
 
SmokeyMcPotJK

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Updated Pics:
I super cropped the main stem again because I need to tie it down but don't know to what. I didn't drill holes in my pot but I will in the future so I have somewhere to tie to.I guess I will put something heavy on the floor and tie it to that...
 
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