Plant is Growing to Tall. What do you do? +rep

Humboldt14

Humboldt14

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i have a bunch of plants in a 4x4 tent that is 7 feet tall.

the plants since switch to flower have tripled in size and are now 5 feet tall.

i could only move the light so high and don't know how much more these girls are gona stretch.

my question is what do i do?
can you cut the top of the plants off? i thought i read that someware, but What will happen to the main colas?

i am at the end of week 2 of Flower.

any realistic help +rep​
 
I depends on where you are at with the growth cycle

If you are in flowering the 1st few weeks I would break / bend it -the plant's stem in a couple spots 6 - 8 inches away from each other and fold the branch back on itself down and zip tie it together

I have done this a few times and the plant will heal in a couple days
 
Holy cow 5 feet!! A bit long on the veg but here is my two cents, trellis or tie them back and divert the light to middle branches, the tops will do fine with ambient light, breaking the stems is another choice but will stunt your grow a week or more to recover depending on how it heals.
 
TCurtiss said:
I depends on where you are at with the growth cycle

If you are in flowering the 1st few weeks I would break / bend it -the plant's stem in a couple spots 6 - 8 inches away from each other and fold the branch back on itself down and zip tie it together

I have done this a few times and the plant will heal in a couple days
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i am at the end of week 2 of flowering

so i start at the top of the plant and go down 6 - 8 inchs and bend it in half ?

here is a pic, they are the plants in the back, there are 16 of them, the plants in the front are a differnt strain and much shorter.
 
Caregivin said:
Holy cow 5 feet!! A bit long on the veg but here is my two cents, trellis or tie them back and divert the light to middle branches, the tops will do fine with ambient light, breaking the stems is another choice but will stunt your grow a week or more to recover depending on how it heals.
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I only vegged them for a week, thats whats so crazy, they tripled in size when i switch the light to 12/12, the strain is known for it i guess. I read it some ware

you guys said i can bend it in half?
 
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get a trellis and bend the tops under the next few area between the string.
 
Humboldt14 said:
i am at the end of week 2 of flowering

so i start at the top of the plant and go down 6 - 8 inchs and bend it in half ?

here is a pic, they are the plants in the back, there are 16 of them, the plants in the front are a differnt strain and much shorter.
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Here is my quick draw up of where to bend

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And Zip tie at the bottom end of the stem to the main stem snug but not tight
 
TCurtiss said:
Here is my quick draw up of where to bend

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And Zip tie at the bottom end of the stem to the main stem snug but not tight
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so basically bending the plant in half and zip tie together. ( the diagram is a little confusing)

on the diagram, at the bottom point is were i zip tie basically the top of the plant to the stock?

and what happens to the main cola?




+rep thanks for the help
 
Humboldt14 said:
so basically bending the plant in half and zip tie together. ( the diagram is a little confusing)

on the diagram, at the bottom point is were i zip tie basically the top of the plant to the stock?

and what happens to the main cola?


+rep thanks for the help
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The main cola does just fine

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You made me work a little but I hope this clears things up on the process

And in step 1 you bend the plant down and snap the stem while bending sorry for the sloppy typing
 
TCurtiss said:
The main cola does just fine

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You made me work a little but I hope this clears things up on the process
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I get it! man i was way off of what i thought you meant . haha

and this wont kill the plant? are mess with the yield?

actually it would prob help because the bottom branches would get light better right?
 
I have done it 2 times in the last 2 grows and yield has yet to be an issue

Edit this is the Cola that has a stem bent in 2 spots and she is sooooooooo f-a-t

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I wouldn't stress the plant like that this close to flowering. I'm in the same situation and I'm tying down the tops with weights to bend the top parrellel with the ground. When you stress the plant by breaking the stem at this point in the game you are taking away hormones that are supposed to be directed into flowering but now they are going to repair that stem. I'll get some pics up of what I'm doing in a little bit.
 
So ended up bending the plants over into a L shape.

i snapped the main stem by first sqeezing the main stem with my fingers about half way down the 5 FOOT plants were the tressling starts, (a supercrop bend) on all the plants.

The plant was bent into a L shape.

They have already recoverd and all the bottom branches are now pushing there way up to the light.

a success........

here are some pics 1 day after
 

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