Help! My plants are doing too well!

BlueFish

BlueFish

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All joking aside, my plants are growing too fast. My light is as high as it will go (reflector is hitting the top of the box), and my plants are still growing 2-3 inches a day and are only 6 inches from my light. The plants have been in 12/12 for about a week. Is there anything I can do to keep them from getting too close to the light?

The strain is White Widow, is exactly one month old from seed and are 30" tall. I can build an extension for my box, but it would be a giant pain in the ass and I don't want to do that if there's some other way I can keep my plants from burning.
 
Masswhole

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BlueFish said:
All joking aside, my plants are growing too fast. My light is as high as it will go (reflector is hitting the top of the box), and my plants are still growing 2-3 inches a day and are only 6 inches from my light. The plants have been in 12/12 for about a week. Is there anything I can do to keep them from getting too close to the light?

The strain is White Widow, is exactly one month old from seed and are 30" tall. I can build an extension for my box, but it would be a giant pain in the ass and I don't want to do that if there's some other way I can keep my plants from burning.
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You will need to bend it and tie it down. Others have actually broken the stem and let it heal but I've never tried that. Bend your plant BEFORE you water it, it makes it more flexible.
 
doogleef

doogleef

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Supercrop is your friend. Pick the spot you want the bend to be in the main stem and pinch it between your thumb and forefinger until it pops, then bend it over 90 degrees. Most of the time it will stay there and a knuckle will form at the bend as it heals. You may have to support the top of the plant from above for a day or 2 if you crop low and put some weight on the bend. If it breaks on you (rare) then just put a piece of masking tape on it at the break and it will heal just fine. Like this:





Here are the rest of the pix from that run if interested:

http://s851.photobucket.com/albums/ab78/ruidoogleef/Coco/?start=all
 
dr.skunkfunk

dr.skunkfunk

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super crop or you can trellis train them for screen of green .......... basically hang a piece of wire fence( the livestock kind with the big squares) .

cut a section of the fence to the size of your box. hang this "screen" from the ceiling of your box between the light and your plants.

then gently bend the plants over and weave them into the fence..... works great and as your bottom colas grow they pop through the screen(fence) and become top colas...

good luck
 
BlueFish

BlueFish

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Lots of good advice all around. I think I'm going to try supercropping. Night ends at 5:00 PM CST so I'll give it a whack then and post some pictures of the results.
 
BlueFish

BlueFish

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Unfortunately, it looks like my largest plant is a male. This is my first grow so I could be wrong (and I really hope I am).

Confirmation?
 

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BlueFish

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My camera won't focus properly that close in. I've identified 5 females for comparison though, and those are definitely male. So far out of 12 plants I have 5 females, 3 males and 4 that haven't shown yet.
 
doogleef

doogleef

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It's a boy! :bigjoint: Anything over 50/50 female is a bonus so if you already have 5 confirmed females you are doing good.
 
BlueFish

BlueFish

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4 males so far, all of which I've killed. There's a fifth that looks like it's probably a male but it wasn't developed enough to be certain. Luckily my biggest and bushiest plant was a female, and she should be more than happy to stretch out with her brothers all gone now. Three plants were being shaded by the larger plants (most of which turned out to be male, damnit), so they are pretty small and immature right now, and aren't showing any signs of flowering yet. They look like hell, but I think they'll probably recover now that they're getting some light.
 
growman09

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if you r still newish to this i would save 1 male in a different room and pratice super cropping and topping and what not that way you dont kill any ladies while your still learning about it
 
CLOSETGROWTH

CLOSETGROWTH

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Tip for your next grow :) >> Make sure your light is fairly close to your plants top during vegging and flowering. Do not have the lights too low or else leaf burn will occur. It seems as if your plants "stretched out" way too much because your lights distance was too far away. Thats why they are too tall, and unmanageable. Good luck to you in 2010 :) One more thing,... When you germinate seeds>> The taller plants outta the bunch are usually the males.
 
BlueFish

BlueFish

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Nah, they weren't not stretchy, they just put on a huge growth spurt. The light was about 6" away from them the whole time (400 watt HPS). I just vegged them too long.
 
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