PopAndSonGrows
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All of my seed grown plants have had noticeably thicker main stems than my clones.
How do I get them thick stems?
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rockethoe
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we get 70-90% humidity over the year. 265 rainy days a year.
rockethoe
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Yeah Im all seed grown here. I haven't any experience with clones so I can't say.
I had several plants get well over 10 feet that year and very wide. I was not prepared. I thought since they were indica crosses they wouldn't get that big. This one I started tying down in August. I never top outdoor plants.
HydroKid239
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Top.. & top some more.
Rookieoftheyr
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I had way to many indoor plants my first grow and gave some away to a friend that put them outdoor and they got huge like that. He was also a way more experienced grower so I can’t say what his method was after that. I do know if you veg through winter you can make beautiful monster!
VincenzioVonHook
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Thicc stems? Get her doing some squats in yoga pants brother. Seem to work on social media..
Horselover fat
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Veg long. My biggest trunk as of yet. Look at the root in bottom right corner 
Killaki
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Veg long. My biggest trunk as of yet. Look at the root in bottom right corner
Cannabinoid Froyd
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You can always get fatter stems by bending, twisting & pruning. On young veg plants I give them "Indian Burns". I twist the crap out of them. They get limp for a bit afterward. By days end they are usually back to an upright position.
Beyond that, growing outside & in ground will ALWAYS produce fatter stemmed plants. I like starting indoors and then transferring outside when the weather breaks in the spring. Get some massive girls that way.
Beer, manure, other fermented waters is all my uncle would use and he'd grow beasts. Like that dudes grow above with the budweiser can next to it. Which is super funny since I mentioned feeding beer to plants.
Beyond that, growing outside & in ground will ALWAYS produce fatter stemmed plants. I like starting indoors and then transferring outside when the weather breaks in the spring. Get some massive girls that way.
Beer, manure, other fermented waters is all my uncle would use and he'd grow beasts. Like that dudes grow above with the budweiser can next to it. Which is super funny since I mentioned feeding beer to plants.
rockethoe
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Not sure im generous enough to share my beer with em
hotrodharley
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Dude, earth is abundant in silica. If you're growing in the ground they'll get all the silica they can use.
bam0813
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I understand hotrod. I stated it was the most abundant mineral . I’m in pots w soil. I guess what I was questioning was based on the fact I was only aware that silica thickened cell walls and helped fend off fungus.i honestly didn’t know it increased the plants ability to uptake more of everything else like someone stated. I was basically thrown off by a one word answer, silica. Guess I took it too literal and couldn’t understand why we weren’t growing in a pot of sand if silica was THE way to get fat stems.
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mudballs
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it doesn't, who said that?
https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/71/21/6818/5802480
The silicic acid moves with water in the plant to target locations, mostly in the shoot epidermis. There, the acid deposits as solid hydrated silica (SiO2·nH2O), also called biogenic opal or silica (herein referred to as silica). The current paradigm is that the solid biomineral has little interaction with plant biochemistry because it is insoluble after deposition (Yoshida et al., 1962)