Train your plants to be lower-growing plants. In doing so you will end up with more main colas, and if done right, more bud. Research Topping, LST, SuperCropping, FIM, etc. All these techniques will give you an idea of why it is more efficient. What wattage is your HPS?
Good advice, but it doesn't sound like the tops are ripe... more like a height issue
250 watts
and every grow after it will be a learning experience too! You will always be picking up new ideas, techniques. Best of luck with growing mate.
How can i train them to be lower growing? it looks like they grow at will
you gently tie the branches down, and keep doing so as the plant grows, so effectively training the plant to grow horizontally rather than vertically. In turn this opens up more bud sites and means your plant tops will be getting more or less equal light.
and you would recommend rubber bands? rope? wire ties? I can't imagine where i would tie down a rope to
try pruning your fan leaves a couple weeks after they start to flower. Works for me, may work for you to.
in the past i used solid core copper wire. Put a loop in one end put the loop round the branch you want to tie down then put other end into soil. You can drill small holes round the lip of your pot and attach branches with garden twine.
Another easy way to LST train your plants is to get some fishing weights like egg sinkers or carolina rig weights at Walmart (1/2 oz and 1 oz) Pull your plant over to the side and hang them on the main stem till you find the point where the plant stays sideways. After a few days just move the weight down as the plant starts to grow upward on the end or just add another weight.
